Thursday, 7 May 2026

Thursday 7th May 2026

Stanley Pool

Hobby, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x Sanderling this am, (GJM)

Trentham Gardens

Cattle Egret still, Hobby, (HFo)

Aqualate

05:30 to 08:15 - 2x Common Tern, 2x Hobby, male Marsh Harrier, Gropper, Cuckoo, Swift, (KHa)

Stafford

Greenshank over Rising Brook at 13:40 flying towards Radford, (MBo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Mandarin, Goosander, Barnacle Goose, 2x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, 7x Lapwing, 9x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Willow Tit, 4x Garden Warbler, House Martins, Swifts, (JOa, LH)

Wetley Rocks

2x Red Kite over Mill Lane at 16:30 and nearby a Red Kite over Cheddleton Heath at 06:50, (PCa)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 9x Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 12x Shelduck, 4x Teal, 14x Pochard, 26x Gadwall, 12x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Stonechat, Red-legged Partridge, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 7x Reed Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler, (JWo, George, BSt)

North Staffs Moors

3x Cuckoo, 2x Hobby, 2x Stonechat, (TMe)


                                                           Cuckoo by Tammy Mellor    

                                                            Hobby by Tammy Mellor
                          

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