Wednesday 31st December 2025

213 species were reported in Staffs during 2025 including the exceptional  record of eight White-rumped Sandpipers at Belvide on the 11th October.

Whitemoor Haye

Now 3x Slavonian Grebe, also 2x Red-crested Pochard still, (TPe)  -  also 2x Merlin, Common Sandpiper, Stonechat, (RBe)

                                                         Slav Grebes by Rob Bendelow

Radford Meadows Stafford

c400x Wigeon, c400x Teal, Black-tailed Godwit, c50x Golden Plover, c100x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, (CDa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Whooper Swan, Great Egret, Little Egret, Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 3x Shoveler, Snipe, Grey Wagtail, (AMa)

Elford - Fisherwick

3x Whooper Swan still, (TPe)

Westport Lake

Yellow-browed Warbler still, 19x Pochard, 9x Goosander, Blackcap, (SGi)

                                                            YBW by Steve Gibson

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Stonechat, 5x Water Rail, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 100s Lapwing, 3x Greenfinch, 3x Goosander, 2x Pochard, Grey Wagtail, (DBa, IGr)

Tucklesholme

18x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 8x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 126x Wigeon, 30x Gadwall, 150x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 12x Little Grebe, 10x GC Grebe, 4x Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff, Cetti's Warbler, Siskin, 14x Redpoll, (JWo)

Baggeridge

Firecrest still in Whites Wood, 

Clay Mills

Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 30x Lapwing, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Branston GPs

3x Shelduck, 12x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 50x Lapwing, 5x Green Sandpiper, 4x GBB Gull, Grey Wagtail, Chiffchaff, (DSc)