Friday, 14 August 2026

Friday 14th August 2026

Aqualate

2x Turtle Doves flew out of Staffs and then low over the golf course at 06:55, (KHa)

Gailey Resv

4x Little Egret, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

5x Crossbill 07:40 to 08:00 in trees near the bench at Creswell flash,  Gadwall, Teal, 12x Swift, 9x Lapwing, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Wychnor

Male Redstart in scrub north of white footbridges along Trent and Mersey canal about 200 yards west of Cow bridge, (MBr)

Stafford

Red Kite at 07:45 over fields between the crematorium and Tixall, (GHa)

Croxall

Wood Sandpiper, 9+ Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, Ruff, 2x LRP, 10+ Snipe, (TPe)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 2x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Curlew, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

Branston GPs

2x Golden Plover, Ruff (juv), Greenshank, 9x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 44x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, 5x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 53x Teal, 105x Pochard, 38x Gadwall, 17x Egyptian Geese, 34x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 5x YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 36x Linnet, 2x Clouded Yellow, (JWo, CEc, Dean)  -  This evening 2x Whinchat, 4x Stonechat, 2x Common Tern, (DSc)

                                                          Whinchat by Dave Scattergood

Knypersley

Hobby, (ALo)