Some of the UKs large influx of Russian WFG have reached Staffs recently and today has so far produced the best counts.
Belvide Resv
77x White-fronted Geese over SSE at 09:32,
Uttoxeter Quarry
120x PF Geese flew east at 10:20 also a Red Kite, (RPo)
Amerton flood meadows
38x White-fronted Geese still this am, (RBr) - 40x WF Geese at 14:22, (RPo)
Wombourne
77x Russian White-fronted Geese SSE at 10:30, (GCl per MMo)
Stanley Pool
Woodcock, 5x Goosander, Teal, (GBr)
Leek
50x PF Geese flying SE over Stile House Lane this am, (BBo)
Blithfield Resv
2x Scaup, c175 Pochard, Goosander, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Oystercatcher, c40 Common Gull, 6x Stonechat, Ring-necked Parakeet, (PAn)
Clay Mills
2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Gull, (RPo)
Weston Coyney
34x White-fronted Geese and 2x Barnacle Geese heading SE at 10:58, (SFe)
Radford Meadows
102x Russian White-fronted Geese at 12:00, one PFG, 69x Pintail, 2x Stonechat, c200 Lapwing with Golden Plovers, (CDa)
Tittesworth Water
60x PF Geese over at 10:00, 108x Common Gull, 9x Wigeon, 7x Mandarin, 42x Pochard, 9x Teal, 2x Goosander, Great Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Tit, 9x Siskin, (JOa, KH, LH, TE)
Gailey Resv
Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Egyptian Goose, 29x Pochard, 7x Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, 26x Snipe, (SRi)
Outwoods flood meadows
62x Russian White-fronted Geese circling, (RSw)
Burntwood (Loggerheads)
2x Red Kite, 8x Buzzard, 22x Fieldfare, 40+ Chaffinch, 3x Brambling 50+ Linnet, 8x Crossbill, (RGi)
Mill Meece
6x Russian White-fronted Geese, 2x PF Geese, (AMa)
Whitmore Bent Lane
2x Tree Sparrow,
Chasewater
1w Caspian Gull, 13x Goosander, (SRi)
Whitemoor Haye
20x Russian White-fronted Geese over NE, 2x Slavonian Grebe, Merlin, 5x Grey Partridge, 8x Goldeneye, (JKl)
Barton-under-Needwood
Murmuration of 800x Starlings also 2x Blackcap, (JWo)
Branston GPs
102x Common Gull (record roost count here), 3x GBB Gull, 4x YL Gull, 3x Oystercatcher, 7x Green Sandpiper, 20x Snipe, c800 Lapwing, Golden Plover, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, Mandarin, 26x Wigeon, 34x Shoveler, c300 Teal, 44x Pochard, 20x Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, Barn Owl at dusk, 10x Skylark, Stonechat, Chiffchaff, 15x Linnet, (DSc)
