Thursday 2nd July 2026

Belvide Resv

4x Black-necked Grebe still,

Tittesworth Water

4x Goosander, Mandarin, 15x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 47x Lapwing, Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Aqualate

Adult Black Tern this am, (PJor)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite, 12x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 28x Lapwing, 5x Great Egret, 24x Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, 7x Shelduck, 14x Teal, 16x Gadwall, 44x Pochard, 27x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, 8x Common Tern, Common Tern, YL Gull, 30x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                      Rust Pine Borer by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 1st July 2026

Belvide Resv

4x Black-necked Grebe in SE bay, 2x Black-tailed Godwit

Stone

Oystercatcher over Aston Lodge estate at 08:15, (DGl)

Branston GPs

3x Hobby, 2x Redshank, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 57x Lapwing, 22x Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, 8x Shelduck, 14x Teal, 3x Shoveler, 81x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 29x Egyptian Geese, 19x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 32x Linnet, (JWo)

Burntwood (Loggerheads)

Redstart, Garden Warbler, Bullfinch, 10x Blackcap, Treecreeper, (JSt)

Tuesday 30th June 2026

Middleton Lakes

Ruff and 2x Green Sandpiper on JW north, (MSm)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 33x Lapwing, 21x Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, 9x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 35x Gadwall, 59x Pochard, 23x Egyptian Geese, 14x Little Grebe, 5x Common Tern, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 25+ Linnet, (JWo)

Monday 29th June 2026

Stanley Pool

Juv Redstart, 2x Common Tern, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Lapwing, 4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2nd summer Kittiwake, Common Tern, Spotted Flycatcher, RL Partridge, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

3x Gadwall, 4x Swift, 5x Lapwing, Redshank, 3x Common Tern, 7x GC Grebe, 2x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, 4x Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 9x Oystercatcher, 36x Lapwing, Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, Wigeon, 12x Teal, 68x Pochard, 39x Gadwall, 7x Shelduck, 17x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Common Gull, YL Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 32x Linnet, (JWo)

Sunday 28th June 2026

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Lapwing, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Avocet, 3x LRP, 3x Redshank (2juv), (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 2x Common Tern, 5x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 62x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Grey Wagtail, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, 20x Swift, (JOa, LH, TE)

Branston GPs

7x Little Egret, 15x Egyptian Geese (+3juvs), 3x Shelduck (+5 juvs), 30x Gadwall, 8x Teal, 40x Pochard, 40x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 10x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Additional Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, 4x Little Grebe, Red Kite. Peregrine, 2x RL Partridge, (JWo)

Alvecote

2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (MSc)

Saturday 27th June 2026

Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe at west end, 2x juv Great Egret, 

Botteslow Flash

4x Little Egret, (RTo)

Stanley Pool

Yellow Wagtail, 5x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 6x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Hamstall Ridware

Red Kite over (AGP)

Rudyard Lake

2x Little Egret flying south at 20:00, (Laxmi)

Catholme

Cuckoo, Great Egret, 12x Common Tern, 6x Gadwall, 4x Shelduck, 100x Cormorant, 12x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

Red Kite, (JWo)

Branston GPs

11x Little Egret, Peregrine, 3x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shelduck, 4x Teal, 30x Gadwall, 65x Pochard, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Lichfield 

2x Raven in Darnford Park, (SGr)

Friday 26th June 2026

Stanley Pool

Green Sandpiper, 17x Lapwing, 4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Cheddleton - Consall

Canal towpath  - 2x Red Kite, 3x Grey Wagtail, Redstart, Willow Tit, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Mistle Thrush, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Branston GPs

8x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 54x Lapwing, 9x Little Egret, 33x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 14x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck, 14x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Common Gull, YL Gull, Peregrine, 12x Linnet, (JWo)  -  Additional Mandarin + 4 juvs, 40x Pochard, (DSc)

Thursday 25th June 2026

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 57x Lapwing, Snipe, 2x Garden Warbler, no sign of the Spoonbill, (JWo, TE)

Cheddleton - Consall

Canal towpath 08:00 - 3x Red Kite, Mandarin + 4 ducklings, 4x Swift, Grey Wagtail, 2x Mistle Thrush, 6x Sedge Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Wednesday 24th June 2026

Silverdale

Honey Buzzard dark morph  over Silverdale allotment at 08:35 heading towards Keele, (PJo)

Tittesworth Water

Spoonbill still this morning, (SGi)  -  Spoonbill still this afternoon, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatchers, Lapwings, (NCo)

Middleton Lakes

Sandwich Tern JW south also Green Sandpiper, (JKl)

Tuesday 23rd June 2026

Rudyard Lake

Little Egret over south at 20:47, (Laxmi)

Monday 22nd June 2026

Stanley Pool

2x Red Kite, LRP, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

5x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

5x Curlew, 94x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, 7x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 76x Pochard, 78x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern, Red Kite, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday 21st June 2026

Cheddleton Heath

Osprey over north at 09:29, (PCa)

Stanley Pool

5x LRP this am, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

Spoonbill still, Mandarin, 6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 4x Lapwing, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, 2x Swift, Red Kite, (JOa, TE, KH)

Stafford

Red Kite over, (MPa)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, 7x Little Egret, 5x Shelduck, 40x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 60x Pochard, 3x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 34x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, 3x Cetti's, Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Black-necked Grebe ads ( + possibly imm bird), (TPe)

Cannock Chase

Tree Pipits, Linnets, Stonechats, 2x Hobby, Cuckoos, 3x Woodcock, Raven, (KJo, APl, AMa)

Saturday 20th June 2026

Tittesworth Water

Spoonbill still, Green Sandpiper, (SGi)

                                                   Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, 2x Red Kite, 2x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Reed Warblers, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

An early returning juv Wheatear, (GJM)

Alvecote

3x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 16x Swift, (MSc)

Alrewas NMA

2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, 16x Gadwall, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Catholme

Hobby, 8x Linnet, Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 14x Common Tern, 6x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

5x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, Mandarin, 2x Shoveler, 50x Gadwall, 34x Pochard, 2x Red Kite, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Friday 19th June 2026

Tittesworth Water

Spoonbill still this am, (CWo)  -  This evening Spoonbill on main resv, (RWi)

                                                                    By Clive Wood

Leek

Peregrine and nearby a Red Kite at Cheddleton Heath, (PCa)

Whiston

The Leys - Red Kite, 2x Green Woodpecker, (GSt)

Thursday 18th June 2026

Tittesworth Water

Spoonbill still on the conservation pool, 6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing, Garden Warbler,  (JOa)

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Common Tern, (GBr)

Bottleslow Flash

Oystercatcher, LRP, Little Egret, Red Kite, (RTo)

Branston GPs

Redshank, Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing, 6x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 26x Pochard, 3x Teal, 55x Gadwall, 19x Shelduck, 20x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Red Kite, Hobby, RL Partridge, 50x Linnet, Garden Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday 17th June 2026

Tittesworth Water

Spoonbill on the conservation area early am, Hobby, Peregrine, Red Kite, (SGi)

                                                           Spoonbill by Steve Gibson

Belvide Resv

Green Sandpiper on the north shore, 

Bottleslow Flash

2x LRP, 2x Little Egret, (RTo)

Dimmingsdale

Cuckoo, 3x Garden Warbler, Redstart, (TEy)

Kings Bromley

Osprey successfully flying off with a fish at 12:30, (SCo)

Trentham

Hobby over the lake at 12:00, (AR)

Branston GPs

8x Curlew, 9x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 4x Shoveler, 54x Pochard, 64x Gadwall, 19x Shelduck, 15x Egyptian Geese, 15x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, Red Kite, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 60x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                             YL Gull by Jon Woodcock

Tuesday 16th June 2026

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 3x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Rudyard

Female Mandarin with 3 chicks, (Laxmi)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, Curlew, Ringed Plover, 21x Lapwing, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 5x Teal, 3x Shoveler, 74x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 16x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 30x Linnet, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Whiston

The Leys - Green Woodpecker, Raven, (GSt)

Monday 15th June 2026

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite circling over at 05:20, (PCa)

Kings Bromley

Osprey successfully fishing on Manor Park lakes, (AGP)

Cannock Chase

6x Cuckoo, Redstart, Tree Pipits, 15x Stonechat, Small Blue butterfly,.(CMa, RF)

Trentham Gardens

6x adult Cattle Egret, 3 nests, 5x chicks seen, (SE, HF)

                                                                 By Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

6x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, 2x Teal, 38x Pochard, 46x Gadwall, 13x Shelduck, 10x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 2x Red Kite, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday 14th June 2026

Doxey Marsh

13x Cetti's Warbler, 19x Whitethroat, 26x Reed Warbler, 83x Sedge Warbler, 5x Gropper, Curlew, Snipe, Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 52x Swift, 2x Common Tern, 4x Water Rail, Little Egret, 40x Gadwall, (MBo, PDy, WBe, DTo, BLo, RSt, RRa, PGl)

Whitemoor Haye

Corn Bunting, 5x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, LRP, 60x Swift, 3x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 8x Common Tern, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

Osprey thru west at 13:10, 

Tittesworth Water

Possible Caspian Gull, 3x Mandarin, Teal, Common Tern, 7x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Lapwing, 9x Oystercatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 6x Little Grebe (4 juvs), 6x Shelduck, Mandarin, 50x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 34x Pochard, 3x Oystercatcher, Curlew, Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 13th June 2026

Gailey Resv

2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Red Kite, Peregrine, 6x Oystercatcher, (SRi) 

Whiston

Green Woodpecker 'anting' on drive at The Leys, (GSt

Hilderstone

Red Kite circling over the church at 11:00, (DGl)

Tucklesholme

2x Avocet flew in at 16:35, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 10x Swift, (DSc)

Friday 12th June 2026

Gnosall

Red Kite circling the sports and social club at 08:40, (GCa)

Trentham Gardens

The Cattle Egrets now have chicks, (HFo)

Branston GPs

Knot, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, 8x Pochard, 16x Gadwall, 8x Mandarin, 6x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 8x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, RL Partridge, Yellow Wagtail, 20x Linnet, 150x Sand Martin, (JWo, MCa, CEc)  -  Adult Spoonbill at 20:34 to 20:44 then flew south also Knot still to 21:00 at least, Ringed Plover, 50x Swift, (DSc)

Biddulph Moor

12+ Tree Sparrow, (ALo)

Barton-under Needwood

Spoonbill  over the garden at 20:50, (JWo)

Thursday 11th June 2026

Blithfield Resv

Caspian Tern at top of Blithe Bay at 07:30,  (GJM)  -  still to 16:00 at least (MCh)  -  Caspian Tern to 18:00 at least also 2x Pintail, Spotted Flycatcher, (JKl)  -  Caspian Tern until 20:00 at least, Caspian Gull, 45+ Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 9x Ringed Plover, Little Egret, 2x Pintail, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, 39x Shelduck, Red Kite, (JWo, CEc, RPo, SEd, HFo et al)

                                                        Caspian Tern by Steve Edwards

                                                     Caspian Tern by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

2x Mandarin, Teal, Common Tern, 8x LRP, 10x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Lapwing, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Wednesday 10th June 2026

Whitemoor Haye

Curlew, Ringed Plover, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 6x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, 22x Pochard, 46x Gadwall, 20x Egyptian Geese, 14x Little Grebe, Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, RL Partridge, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, 8x Linnet, 100x House Martin, 300x Sand Martin, 50x Swift, (JWo)

Tuesday 9th June 2026

Gnosall

Red Kite over the Acorn pub at 15:35, (GCa)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 5x Pochard, 72x Gadwall, 22x Shelduck, 20x Egyptian Geese, 12x Little Grebe, Cuckoo, Hobby, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 20x Linnet, 50+ Swift, (JWo)

Monday 8th June 2026

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

This afternoon, 2x Little Stint, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 26x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 7x Little Egret, 8x Reed Bunting, Red Kite, (DBr)

Branston GPs

Cuckoo, Red Kite, Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, Water Rail, 8x Mandarin, 2x Shoveler, 24x Pochard, 66x Gadwall, 21x Shelduck, 14x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, RL Partridge, 3x Stonechat, 50x Linnet, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, 10+ Reed Warbler, (JWo)