Returning Staffs 2026 Arrivals - 4 migrants reported today including Pied Flycatcher.
Consall area
Male Redstart seen and singing at 08:36 in the woods, also nearby 2x Willow Tit, Willow Warbler, 3x Grey Wagtail, 2x Dipper, 3x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, 20x Fieldfare thru north, 4x Siskin, 2x RL Partridge, (DSc)
Oakley's Farm pond (between Consall and Cellarhead)
2x Oystercatcher, (DSc)
Blithfield Resv
Common Tern at 10:18, (RBr) - Mandarin, Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Blackcap, 2x Sand Martin, (CMs, RF) - Additional 2cy Kittiwake still over causeway, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (JKl)
Tucklesholme
Willow Warbler, 2x Great Egret, Swallow, Sand Martins, Shelduck, (TWy)
Trentham Gardens
White Stork of unknown origin south over lake 10:31 to 10:39 and lost to view over monkey forest car park end, (RGi)
Middleton Lakes
Whitethroat, 2x Willow Warbler, 2x White Wagtail, Dunlin, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Avocet, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 6+ Redshank, 3x Bittern, (SPA)
Endon - Denford
3x LRP, 5x Snipe, 5x Lapwing, Willow Warbler, Red Kite, Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Mandarin, (DCo)
Doxey Marsh
6x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 29x Teal, 5x Lapwing, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 5x Skylark, Sand Martin, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, (CAFH)
Berryhill
Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 2x Bullfinch, Greenfinch, (JKe) - Swallow by the mast, (CWo)
Botteslow Flash
Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, (CWo) - Little Egret
Freehay
4x Mandarin, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, (FCa)
Branston GPs
Marsh Harrier (f), 4x Red Kite, Willow Warbler, 6x White Wagtail, 6x Swallow, 40x Sand Martin, 12x Curlew, 2x Avocet, 5x Ringed Plover, 14x Lapwing, 3x Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Snipe, 2x Water Rail, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 7x Goldeneye, 20x Shelduck, 6x Pochard, 46x Gadwall, 114x Shoveler, 60x Teal, 25x Little Grebe, Caspian Gull (1w), 2x YL Gull, 60x Linnet, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George, MCa)
