Sunday 26th October 2025

Gailey Resv

12x Whooper Swan over north at 07:32, 3x Egyptian Geese, Wigeon, 24x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 7x Goosander, 1w Common Gull, 14x Fieldfare, Cetti's Warbler, (SRi)

Stafford

2x Ring-necked Parakeet over Rising Brook going towards Rickerscote, (MBo)

Stanley Pool

Great Egret at 08:30, fem Pintail, 4x Wigeon, one PFG and 8x Skylark west, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

29x Wigeon, 73x Teal, 15x Mandarin, 29x Snipe, 40x Linnet, 32x Redwing, 63x Fieldfare, Common Gull, Red Kite, (JOa, TE, KH)

Dilhorne area

7x Red Kite, 20x Raven, 60x Lapwing, (DSc)

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, Shelduck, Pintail, 40x Shoveler, 4x Wigeon, 100x Teal, 40x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 30x Lapwing, 22x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper,  7x GBB Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, 6x Common Gull, 10x Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, 65x Mipit, Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 40x Linnet, 8x Siskin, 12x Redpoll, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Fem Marsh Harrier, Great Egret at 14:30, MWa)

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper, still, 2x Curlew, Great Egret, 2x Common Gull, YL Gull, Caspian Gull, Stonechat, Goosander, Merlin, c150x Linnet, 4x Mipit, (DBr)

Belvide Resv

2w Caspian Gull, 

Saturday 25th October 2025

Uttoxeter Quarry

Juv Marsh Harrier at 10:15 with yellow tags on both wings, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Snipe, 23x Goosander, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper still at Admaston Reach, (MJo)  -  10:00 to 15:00 Juv WR Sandpiper, still,  5x Whooper Swan, Great Egret, 2x YL Gull, 6x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 2x Stonechat, (SRi)

Belvide Resv

6x Whooper Swan 10:28 to 11:34 only. Another 10x Whooper Swan dropped in at 12:22, Goshawk, Med Gull, Common Gull, 8x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, PFG, Shelduck, 

Cannock Chase

8x Crossbill at Haywood Warren, c10x Redpoll at Brocton Hill, (IWi)

Stanley Pool

70x PFG flew east, fem Pintail, 3x Wigeon, Pochard, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Goldeneye, 55x Teal, 49x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 135x Wigeon, 200x Lapwing, Golden Plover, Green Sandpiper, 7x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 8x GC Grebe, 5x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 48x Egyptian Geese, Blackcap, 4x GBB Gull, 5x Redpoll, Yellowhammer, Grey Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, (SCo)

 

                                                         Yellowhammer by Stu Collins

Tittesworth Water

41x Whooper San, 28x PFG, Common Sandpiper, 37x Wigeon, 8x Mandarin, 85x Teal, 2x Goosander, 45x Linnet, 9x Redwing, (SGi, IB, AP)

Doxey Marsh

2x Whooper Swan on Creswell Flash at 15:04, (AHa)  -  Still at 16:30 at least.  AHa, GPr, RRa)

Calwich

Red Kite over at 10:40, (JDr)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Little Grebe, 5x Pochard, 50+Lapwing, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2+ Stonechat, (MSc)

Cheddleton - Caverswall

Flock of PFG east at 09:00 (heard only), 4x Red Kite, 60x Lapwing, Grey Wagtail, 10x Redwing, 14x Raven, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, 2x Great Egret, 3x Great Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 3x Pintail, 3x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 20x Pochard, 4x Goosander, Peregrine, 8x Curlew, 56x Lapwing, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 2x ad YL Gull, 5x Stonechat, 25x Linnet, 4x Siskin, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

9x Little Grebe, 2x Little Egret, 100x Wigeon, 22x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 12x Pochard, Goldeneye, Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Friday 24th October 2025

River Sow Meadows Stafford

Vis mig - 38x Skylark, 18x Linnet, c30 Mipit. On site 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, 26x Teal, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

2x Marsh Harrier, Great Egret (DCo)

Rising Brook

Red Kite over heading towards Rickerscote, (MBo)

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper still, Great Egrets, Curlews, Dunlin, Great Egrets, Scaup, Pintail, Wigeon,  Shelduck, 2x Peregrine, Stonechat, Egyptian Geese, (RBe) 

                                                White-rumped Sandpiper by Rob Bendelow

Hanchurch Woods

20x Crossbill, (SE, HF)

                                                                  By Steve Edwards

Chasewater

5x Whooper Swan (inc 2 juvs) took off at 13:00, (KPo)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, Little Egret, 8x Pochard and the Australian Shelduck, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, GBB Gull, 9x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 78x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 3x Goldeneye, 7x Goosander, 95x Pochard, Pintail, 7x Wigeon, 26x Gadwall, 79x Shoveler, 180x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 62x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Peregrine, 4x Stonechat, 23x Redpoll, 6x Siskin, 120x Linnet, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Chiffchaff, (JWo)

Endon - Denford

2x Jack Snipe, 13x Snipe, c120 Fieldfare, 50x Redwing, (DCo)

Thursday 23rd October 2025

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

120x PFG over SE this am,  30x Fieldfare, (TEy)

Belvide Resv

Female Common Scoter, 11x Whooper Swan dropped in this afternoon, 

Cellarhead to Dilhorne

4x Red Kite, 60x Lapwing, Stonechat, 20x Redwing, 10x Raven, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Immature Scaup (different bird to yesterday), 3x adult Whooper Swan, 4x Pintail, Wheatear,  White- rumped Sandpiper, (GJM)  -  4x Dunlin, Golden Plover thru, White-rumped Sandpiper still, Common Gull, Stonechat, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Black-necked Grebe, 14x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 69x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 5x Water Rail, 2x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 6x Goosander, 115x Pochard, 72x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 150x Teal, Black Swan, 57x Little Grebe, 3x Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 5x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 3x Stonechat, 4x Chiffchaff, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Siskin, 100+ Linnet, 6x Redpoll, 5000+ Starling, (JWo)

Barton Marina

Great Egret, 15x Pochard, 12x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

19x Wigeon, 2x Mandarin, 42x Teal, 4x Snipe, 21x Redwing, (JOa)

Wednesday 22nd October 2025

Doxey Marsh

56x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 32x Teal, 104x Lapwing, 47x Snipe, 3x Cattle Egret, 2x Little Egret, 7x Great Egret, 8x Stonechat, 3x Redpoll, 7x Mipit, Siskin, Water Rail, 9x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Radford Meadows Stafford

41x Wigeon, 44x Teal, 64x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 53x Dunlin, (CAFH)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, Marsh Harrier, 11x Golden Plover over, 9x Pochard, 2x Stonechat, (SPA)

Lichfield

2x Black Redstart at Osprey Street and mobile amongst gardens, (SCo)

                                                                  By Stu Collins

Blithfield Resv

2x Scaup this evening, White-rumped Sandpiper still, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Ruff, 4x Curlew, 3x Pintail, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Wheatear, 5x Stonechat, 4x Common Gull, 3x Goosander, (SE, HF)  -  2x Scaup in Blithe Bay (MPR)

Gailey Resv

3x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, Australian Shelduck, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Spoonbill (ASt, BSt, CEc, Dean). - 3x Whooper Swan (LWo, TWo). - Merlin (fem), Marsh Harrier (fem), Peregrine, 20x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 82x Lapwing, 7x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6+ Water Rail, 2x Pintail, Caspian Gull (ad), 3x YL Gull, 6x Common Gull, 4x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Swallow, 4x Chifchaff, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, 15+ Redpoll, 5x Siskin, 50+ Linnet, 50+ Redwing, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, George). - Additional Wigeon, 30x Gadwall, 80x Shoveler, 85x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Grey Wagtail, 3x Stonechat, 80x Linnet, (DSc)

Brankley Pastures

Snipe, 2x Green Woodpecker, 16x Siskin, 25x Redpoll, 12x Skylark, (JWo)

Eccleshall Tennis club

Clifden Nonpareil moth tonight at 20:00, (RGa)

Tuesday 21st October 2025

Lichfield

2x Black Redstart at Streethay in garden,  (JHi)

Whitemoor Haye

Cream Crown Marsh Harrier over two gates pit at 12:45, 11x Great Egret roadside earlier, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Spoonbill on Ashy pit, Marsh Harrier, 15x Curlew, 128x Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Shelduck, 2x Pintail, Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 102x Pochard, 4x Wigeon, 88x Shoveler, 26x Gadwall, 180x Teal, 63x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Stonechat, Chiffchaff, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5000+ Starling, 50x Redwing, 12x Redpoll, 8x Greenfinch, 15x Skylark, (JWo, SCo)

Consall - Cheddleton

Brambling with Chaffinches and 60x Lapwing again in field SE of Cellarhead, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper still, Great Egrets, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Merlin, Wheatear, Stonechat, (RBe)

                                                 White-rumped Sandpiper by Rob Bendelow

Trent Washlands

75x Teal, 8x Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (AJa)

Monday 20th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

Woodlark over Admaston Reach this am, appeared to land but no further sign, White-rumped Sandpiper still, (GJM)  -  White-rumped Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 4x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 5x Common Gull, Wheatear, 5x Stonechat, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (SE, HF)

Newcastle

Great Egret over Basford Park Road at 09:50, (SJT)

Middleton Lakes

Jack Snipe, Ruff, Redshank, 19x Snipe, Marsh Harrier, Shelduck, (SPA)

Stafford Common4x GBB Gull, 

Ring-necked Parakeet, (RSt)

Whitemoor Haye

13x Great Egret, 32x Little Egret, Merlin, 2x Snipe, 40x Wigeon, YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, (SCo)

Branston GPs

16x Curlew, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 46x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 5x Water Rail, 3x Pintail, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 93x Pochard, 9x Wigeon, 98x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 236x Teal, 13x Egyptian Geese, 51x Little Grebe, ad Caspian Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, Peregrine, 150x Lapwing, 70x Fieldfare, 120x Linnet, 8x Greenfinch, 29x Redpoll, 12x Siskin, 70x Mipit, 44x Skylark, 2x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Chiffchaff, 72x Collared Dove, (JWo)

Sunday 19th October 2025

Chasewater

3x Red-crested Pochard still on Swag pool, (TPe)  -  Drake Common Scoter off the dam , 3x RC Pochard still, (RSo).

Blithfield Resv

07:30 to 11:30 - White-rumped Sandpiper along Admaston Reach still, 8x Golden Plover, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, Snipe, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 20x Fieldfare, Rock Pipit, 3x Stonechat, (SRi)  -  Also 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, Wheatear, (HF, SE)

                                               White-rumped Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

Goosander, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

274x Wigeon, 7x Shoveler, 61x Pochard, 10x Teal, 23x Gadwall, Swallow thru south at 08:35, 130x Lapwing, 3x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 11x Great Egret, 13x Little Egret, 8x GC Grebe, 5x Little Grebe, 12x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, c60 Fieldfare thru, Grey Wagtail, 3x Siskin, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

Pintail, 5x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 74x Teal, 2x Red Kite, Common Gull, 50+ Fieldfare, 17x Redwing, 3x Redpoll, (JOa, TE, KH)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 4x Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, 3x Chiffchaff, (RSt)

Branston GPs

5x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 45x Little Grebe, 2x Pintail, 11x Wigeon, 100x Shoveler, 70x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 8x Goosander, Peregrine, 33x Lapwing, 16x Curlew, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 4x GBB Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 45x Skylark thru, 80x Fieldfare thru, 100x Redwing, Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, 150x Linnet, 6x Redpoll, 5x Siskin, c500 Starlings roosted Sandy pit,  (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 3x Snipe, 48x Golden Plover, 4x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Rock Pipit, 6x Pintail, juv PFG, 2x Mandarin, 

Coven

400+ Redwing, 2x Fieldfare, 60+ Mipit, 8x Mistle Thrush, 5x Skylark, (JDu)

Consal - Dilhorne

7x Red Kite, 10x Raven, 50x Lapwing, (DSc)

Saturday 18th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

White-rumped Sandpiper, Spoonbill Blithe Bay, Knot, 7x Ruff, Black-necked Grebe, (MPR, GJM)  Also - 2x Crossbill over, 3x Curlew, (TPe)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Ruff, 102x Lapwing, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Siskin, 44x Wigeon, Goosander, 4x Ring-necked Parakeet, 30x Fieldfare, 9x Redwing, 12x Skylark, Chiffchaff, (RSw)

Consall - Dilhorne

4x Red Kite, 20x Raven, 60x Lapwing, 20x Fieldfare, 15x Redwing, (DSc)

Brankley Pastures

45x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 7x Linnet, 57x Redwing, Green Woodpecker, 8x Yellowhammer, 30x Mipit, (MKe, PKe, JKe)

Branston GPs

10x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, 10x Wigeon, 90x Shoveler, 80x Teal, 16x Pochard, Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Peregrine, 38x Golden Plover, 100x Lapwing, Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Snipe, 19x Curlew,  8x GBB Gull, 3x ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 8x Skylark, Stonechat, 20x Linnet, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 200x Cormorant thru north, 7x Curlew flew NW, Snipe, Common Gull, 90x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, c250 Starling, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale

70x Redwing, (TEy)

Friday 17th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

Pair of Common Scoter this am, (GJM)  -  2x Common Scoter, Caspian Gull, 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Snipe, 3x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 4x Stonechat, 3x Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, 30x Redwing, 2x Pochard, (SE, HF)

Dilhorne area

4x Red Kite, 20x Redwing, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 3x Shelduck, Dunlin, 10x Snipe, Stonechat, 7x Mipit, 4x Siskin, (MSm)  -  Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Water Rails, 20x Redwing, 12x Skylark, 6x Redpoll, 3x Great Egret, 

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier, 20x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 64x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 10x Goosander, 63x Pochard, 117x Shoveler, 31x Gadwall, 115x Teal, 63x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 4x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Chiffchaff, 7x Stonechat, 16x Redpoll, 30x Linnet, 35x Redwing, 32x Skylark, 115x Mipit, (JWo)

                                                            Curlew by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 171x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 53x Pochard, 6x Shoveler, 19x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 153x Wigeon, GBB Gull,  11x GC Grebe, 5x Little Grebe, Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, 4x Egyptian Geese, 4x Stonechat, (SCo)

Thursday 16th October 2025

Middleton Lakes

Jack Snipe, c70 Golden Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Snipe, 4x Little Grebe, 8x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, Barn Owl, (SPA)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 3x Wigeon, Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (JIs)

Tittesworth Water

3x Mandarin, 31x Teal, 21x Redwing, Grey Wagtail, (JOa)

Blackbank

Vismig - 55x PFG, 2x Brambling, (NPo)

Tittensor Chase

70x PFG over west at 13:25, 25x Redwing, 29x Skylark, 125x Linnet (AR)

Ranton

Marsh Harrier at 12:04, (AHa)

Cannock Chase

12x Crossbill at the Whitehouse, (AHa)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 

Branston GPs

Rock Pipit over Ashy pit, 10x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 64x Lapwing, 4x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 12x Goosander, 78x Pochard, Pintail, 9x Wigeon, 24x Gadwall, 152x Teal, 112x Shoveler, 58x Little Grebe, 2x Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull, 8x Common Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 5x Fieldfare, 42x Redwing, 14x Skylark, 3x Grey Wagtail, 5x Siskin, 10x Redpoll, 3x Greenfinch, 150x Linnet, 30+ Mipit, 72x Collared Dove, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

Wednesday15th October 2025

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis dropped into JW north at 13:10, (JKl)

Belvide Resv

Drake Common Scoter

Alton

9x Redwing, (TEy)

Walton on the Hill

Red Kite over Brocton Golf club at 12:35, (TEv)

Branston GPs

Ashy pit/BMPit  2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 6x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, 30x Teal, 10x Pochard, Goldeneye, Snipe, Green Woodpecker, Skylark, Grey Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 2x Linnet, Siskin, (DSc)  -  North pit Great Egret, 3x Dunlin, Curlew, Ringed Plover, (SCa)

Blithfield Resv

Female Common Scoter this am, 7x Ruff, (GJM)  -  Black-necked Grebe, Common Scoter, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Stonechat, 5x Swallow, 2x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, c950x Linnet, 4x Common Gull, Red Kite, (SE, HF)

                                                    Common Scoter by Steve Edwards

Tucklesholme

12x Snipe, 3x Water Rail, 6x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 6x Goosander, 8x Pochard, 159x Wigeon, 41x Gadwall, 79x Shoveler, 65x Teal, 12x Little Grebe, 17x GC Grebe, 6x Stonechat, 11x Cetti's Warbler, 14x Chiffchaff, 6x Redpoll, 6x Greenfinch, 25x Linnet, 20+ Mipit, 5x Skylark, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

49x Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, 15x Teal, 90x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, 3x Stonechat, Water Rail, 2x YL Gull, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Gailey Resv

Drake Common Scoter, Rock Pipit briefly on c'way, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 8x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, (SRi)

Chasewater

Drake Common Scoter still at 16:00, 4x fem Goosander, (CMa)

Tuesday 14th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

7x Common Scoter (4 drakes) this am, 7x Ruff, (GJM)

Enville

Brambling, 82x Fieldfare, 144x Redwing over this am, (ICW)

Branston GPs

19x Common Scoter (6 drakes) on Ashy pit present to after dusk, 8x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Pintail, 7x Goosander, 112x Pochard, 45x Wigeon, 27x Gadwall, 98x Shoveler, 116x Teal, 11x Egyptian Geese, 71x Little Grebe, 1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, 8x Common Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 8x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Chiffchaff, 17x Redwing, 15x Skylark, 100x Linnet, 6x Greenfinch, 120x Mipit, (JWo)

                                                     Common Scoters by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Pair of Common Scoter, 

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 43x Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 2x Pochard, 15x Snipe, 111x Lapwing, 3x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 7x Wigeon, 8x Teal, Common Gull, (SRi)

Monday 13th October 2025

Doxey Marsh

16x PFG on the marsh at 08:59, (RBr)  -  14:00 - 16:00 3x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, Lapwing, Wigeon, Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal, GC Grebe, Little Grebe, (KLe)

Astonfields Balancing Resv

Fieldfare, 7x Redwing, 4x Skylark, (RSt)

Cheddleton

10x Fieldfare at 10:40, Redwing, 3x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, Grey Wagtail, (DSc)

Hanchurch Woods

35+ Crossbill, (HFo)

Croxall

3x Great Egret, Red Kite, 70x Redwing and 15x Fieldfare over, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin, (ICW)  -  5x Fieldfare, 2x Redwing, (SCo)

Chasewater

3x Red-crested Pochard (2 male 1 fem), 2x Ring-necked Parakeet flew out, Peregrine, 25x Wigeon, 5x Teal, 2x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 3x Little Egret, 5x Siskin, 2x Chiffchaff, (CMa)

Maer

Red Kite at 14:00, (CPe)

Belvide Resv

3x Rock Pipit

Branston GPs

17x Curlew, Golden Plover, 10x Snipe, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 7x Green Sandpiper, 25x Lapwing, 8x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, Pintail, 75x Pochard, 22x Wigeon, 102x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, 156x Teal, 58x Little Grebe, Med Gull, (ad), Caspian Gull (ad), 2x YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Barn Owl, Peregrine, 2x Fieldfare, 9x Redwing, 5x Stonechat, 12x Skylark, 2x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 30x Linnet, 7x Chiffchaff, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Mipit, 36x Collared Dove, (JWo)

Sunday 12th October 2025

Gailey Resv

Whooper Swan still, 7x Pochard, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Bittern still, Marsh Harrier, 4x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, 2x Crossbill, 3x Stonechat, 21x Cetti's Warbler, 60x Lapwing, 37x Snipe, 6x Water Rail, 3x Swallow, 2x House Martin, 54x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 10x Wigeon, (MBo, PDy, RSt, DTo, WeBS team)

Whitemoor Haye

Marsh Harrier (cream crowned) at 13:30 and again at 14:40,  Green Sandpiper, 4x Pochard, 3x Chiffchaff, (TCo)

Tittesworth Water

7x Whooper Swan, 53x Teal, 4x Snipe, Grey Wagtail, 20x Linnet, Red Kite, RLP, (JOa, TE)

Blithfield Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 7x Ruff, 3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 4x Common Gull, (SE, HF)

                                                    Black-necked Grebe by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

1w Caspian Gull, 4x Common Gull, ad/w Med Gull, ad YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 5x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 16x Curlew, 7x Lapwing, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 6x Wigeon, Pintail, c120 Shoveler, 100x Teal, 75x Pochard, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Stonechat, 2x Redwing, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Chiffchaff, 20x Linnet, 2x Siskin, Redpoll, (DSc)

                                                     Caspian Gull by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Saturday 11th October 2025

Belvide Resv

An incredible count of 8x (eight) White-rumped Sandpipers this afternoon. They were present to 17:30 then flew towards the dam and not seen since,

Blithfield Resv

Leach's Petrol this am, Black-necked Grebe, Rock Pipit, (MPR, GJM)  -  additionally fem Merlin, Red Kite, 2x Stonechat, 2x Great Egret, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Wetley Rocks - Consall

10x Red Kite at 09:15,  (DSc)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Wigeon, 80x Shoveler, 22x Pochard, 16x Lapwing, 5x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 16x Curlew, 2x GBB Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 44x Skylark thru south, 2x Grey Wagtail, 5x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Chiffchaff, 4x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 25x Linnet,  (DSc)

Brankley Pastures

90+ Redpoll, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellowhammer, 9x Mipit, (MKe, LDa)

Tucklesholme

80x Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 15x Gadwall, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 2x Lapwing, (MSc)

Friday 10th October 2025

Branston GPs

Spoonbill still still on the shingle island at Ashy pit, 9x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Green Sandpiper, 14x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 7x Goosander, 98x Pochard, 25x Gadwall, 65x Shoveler, Wigeon, 192x Teal, 82x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 4x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Chiffchaff, 80x Linnet, 5x Siskin, 3x Redpoll, 14x Skylark, 130x Mipit, 3x Stonechat, 3x Grey Wagtail, 38x Collard Dove, (JWo)

Thursday 9th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

7x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, (MJ)  -  28x Egyptian Geese, 4x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, Common Gull, Stonechat, 2x Wheatear, (CMa, RF)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Curlew, 100x Lapwing, 2x Wheatear, 4x Stonechat, 80x Wigeon, 60x Linnet, 12x Mipit, 29x Egyptian Geese, Common Gull, (DBr)

Stafford

Green Sandpiper over Rising Brook heading towards Rickerscote, (MBo)

Colwich

2x House Martin south near Bishton, (DGl)

Cheadle

3x Red Kite heading east at 13:55, (TDu)

Branston GPs

Spoonbill (subadult) on Island on Ashy pit and roosted this pm, 7x Dunlin, 10x Green Sandpiper, 8x Lapwing, 15x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 14x Goosander, 2x Pintail, 83x Pochard, 76x Shoveler, 54x Gadwall, 118x Teal, 73x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Red Kite, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Blackcap, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 19x Skylark, 5x Redpoll, 100x Linnet, 120x Mipit, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 35x Collared Dove, 500+ Starling, (JWo, CEc, Dean, DSc, George), 

                                                         Spoonbill by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

2x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 21x Teal, Red Kite, (JOa)

Doxey Marsh

Bittern this evening at 18:36, 6x Great Egret, (AHa)

Wednesday 8th October 2025

Branston GPs

4x Dunlin, ad YL Gull, Wigeon, 40x Shoveler, Green Woodpecker, 10x Skylark, 30x Mipits, 3x Chiffchaff, 8x Redpoll, 5x Siskin, 4x Greenfinch, 3x Linnet, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 2x Whooper Swan, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Peregrine, 6x Stonechat, 

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill this am, (KayD)  -  Spoonbill, Little Stint, 14x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 7x Ruff, Greenshank, 3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Common Gull, 3x Stonechat, (HF, SE)

                                                           Spoonbill by Steve Edwards

Stone

Great Egret over Swan pub heading north, (MJa)

Brankley Pastures

4x Yellowhammer, 86x Redpoll, 14x Siskin, 15x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, 4x Raven, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern also partial riverside roost of 4x Great Egret and 15x Little Egret, (MM)

Tuesday 7th October 2025

Belvide Resv

Rock Pipit SW, Black-necked Grebe still, Swallow thru, 

Trentham Gardens

2x Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 2x Water Rail, 5x Little Egret, Chiffchaff, Dipper, (RGi)

Stanley Pool

No sign of the drake Scaup this am, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Female Merlin, Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, 4x Golden Plover, 26x Lapwing, 9x Green Sandpiper, 18x Curlew, Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 153x Pochard, 29x Gadwall, 80x Shoveler, 3x Wigeon, 194x Teal, 13x Egyptian Geese, 64x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, 6x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, 3x Redpoll, 32x Linnet, 4x Greenfinch, 12x Skylark, 170x Mipit, 2x Grey Wagtail, 42x Collared Dove, (JWo)

Burton

9x Goosander, 3x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler on River Trent between Drakelow viaduct and Sunken gardens, (JDr)

Tucklesholme

5x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 5x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 68x Wigeon, 38x Shoveler, 35x Gadwall, 8x Little Grebe, 5x Stonechat, 5x Skylark, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 6th Oct 2025

Stanley Pool

Drake Scaup, 2x Redwing, 5x Swallow, 5x Chiffchaff, Red Kite, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

Cetti's Warbler, Pochard, Shoveler, (JIs)

Kings Bromley lay-by 

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (RBe)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, Peregrine, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 15x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 10x Stonechat, 

Branston GPs

18x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Goosander, 191x Pochard, 76x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 4x Wigeon, 183x Teal, 3x Egyptian Geese, 76x Little Grebe, 6x Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Peregrine (ad+juv), Red Kite, 31x Skylark, 40x Mipit, 4x Stonechat, 12x Siskin, 66x Linnet, 4x Chiffchaff, 3x Cetti;s Warbler, (JWo, George).

Sunday 5th October 2025

Blithfield Resv

4x Knot, Little Stint, Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 13x Ruff, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull, Common Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Goosander, 2x Stonechat, 12x Swallow, (HF, SE)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 5x Ringed Plover, 12x Great Egret, Pintail, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Goshawk, 14x Stonechat, 2x Yellowhammer, 

Gailey Resv

07:00 - 10:00, 12x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Gadwall, 9x Pochard, 2x Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

Fem Wigeon, Little Grebe, 4x Chiffchaff, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

15x Mandarin, Goosander, 11x Wigeon, 42x Teal, Common Gull, Grey Wagtail, 40x Linnet, (JOa, TE)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite thru west at 14:28, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, 50x Shoveler, 100x Teal, 30x Gadwall, Goosander, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, GBB Gull 4x Common Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 4x Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff, 20x Linnet, Redpoll, (DSc)  -  Additional SMP2 - 2x Red Kite still at 15:30 heading east, House Martin, 40x Linnet, 3x Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, Little Egret, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 66x Wigeon, 12x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 6x Pochard, 5x Curlew, one Swallow thru west, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

16:30 to 18:30 5x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 9x Pochard, 13x Shoveler, 9x Wigeon, Green Sandpiper, 38x Stock Dove, Stonechat, GBB Gull, (SCo)

Saturday 4th October 2025

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, Grey Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Golden Plover, Goldeneye, 10x Great Egret, Peregrine, 

Stanley Pool

Red Kite, 4x Chiffchaff, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Green Sandpiper 4x Pochard, 7x Goosander, 10x Wigeon, 32x Shoveler, 38x Teal, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 3x House Martin, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 7x Wigeon, 45x Shoveler, 150x Teal, Goosander, 28x Pochard, Peregrine, 5x Dunlin, 3x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 2x ad YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 40x Mipit, Stonechat, 12x Linnet, 4x Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, 170x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 59x Egyptian Geese, 22x Pochard, 51x Shoveler, 10x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 19x Teal, 7x Little Grebe, 5x GG Grebe, c40 Skylark, 3x Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 2x Chiffchaff, 3x Goldcrest, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, 3x Pochard, Shoveler, (SRi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 53x Wigeon, (MSc

Friday 3rd October 2025

Whitemoor Haye

18x Golden Plover thru SW at 08:20, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 12x Pochard, Shoveler, Teal, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe still, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 14x Great Egret, Goldeneye, 

Thursday 2nd October 2025

Leek

Red Kite circling over John St at 09:45 then headed north, (RWi)

Tittesworth Water

12x Mandarin, 47x Teal, Little Grebe, Little Egret, 5x Snipe, skein of PFG over SW at 07:45, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 13x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 8x Ringed Plover, 7x Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Peregrine, 3x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Common Gull, Stonechat, (SE, HF)

                                                        Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

5x Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Shoveler, 12x Teal, 12x Gadwall, 4x Wigeon, 18x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, 6x GC Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

Ad Med Gull, 18x Curlew, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Water Rail, Pintail, 2x Goosander, 199x Pochard, 16x Wigeon, 122x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, 196x Teal, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 77x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Red Kite, 6x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Redpoll, Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, 22x Linnet, 90x Mipit, (JWo)