Sunday 20th September 2026

Belvide Resv

Juv Knot in SE Bay, 3x Cattle Egret, 

Rudyard

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Little Egret, 139x Teal, 2x Common Gull, Peregrine, (SSe)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Swallow, Clouded Yellow, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

06:30 to 13:50 - Glossy Ibis in Blithe Bay then flew up to top end, Turnstone, 7x Ruff, 3x Curlew,  17x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, Goosander,  Peregrine, 2x Red Kite, 65x Egyptian Geese, 150x Linnet, (MJa)

Ruddy Shelduck, 8x Pink-footed Geese, Curlew, 15x Dunlin, 29x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, Turnstone, Common Sandpiper, Common Gull, 11x Goosander, 11x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 3x Red Kite, 7x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, (SE, HF)

This evening - 12x Great Egret, Pintail, 5x Goosander, 6x YL Gull, 15x Ringed Plover, 13x Dunlin, 5x Curlew, 4x Ruff, Snipe, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, (SRi)

                                               Pink-footed Geese by Steve Edwards

Uttoxeter Quarry

Ruff, Ringed Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 16x RL Partridge, Clouded Yellow, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 3x Hobby, Little Stint, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 2x Pintail, Scaup, 2x Clouded Yellow, Willow Emerald, (BSt, ASt)

Tittesworth Water

12x Mandarin, 10x Teal, 7x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Willow Tit, (JOa, TE)

Trentham Gardens

14x Gadwall, GBB Gull, 5x Little Grebe, 4x Little Egret, Kingfisher, 6x Chiffchaff, Blackcap,  Clouded Yellow, 15+ Willow Emerald Damselfly, 25+ Migrant Hawker,  (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

2x Cattle Egret, JW north,  2x Garganey, 3x Ruff, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 27x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Cattle Egret roosted riverside,  (MB)

Doxey Marsh

11x Shoveler, 21x Gadwall, 11x Teal, c110 Lapwing, 2x GC Grebe 7x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Saturday 19th September 2026

Belvide Resv

7x Knot thru south at 09:20, Cattle Egret, juv Black Tern, 

Blithfield Resv

06:30 to 12:00 - 8x Great Egret, 7x Wigeon, 2x Red Kite, 2x Peregrine, Hobby, Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull, 17x Ringed Plover, 16x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, 5x Curlew, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Wheatear, Whinchat, (SRi)

Barton-under-Needwood

Red Kite, (JWo)

Catholme

Red Kite, 2x Raven, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, (JWo)

Friday 18th September 2026

Branston GPs

Little Stint, 2x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 14x Curlew, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, 163x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 152x Gadwall, 168x Shoveler, 138x Teal, Shelduck, 55x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 2x Marsh Harrier, 3x Hobby, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 100x House Martin, 40x Linnet, (JWo)

Sandon - Burston

2x Red Kite along the canal, 2x Raven, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

2x Ruff (Ruff & Reeve), Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 21x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, Hobby, (MB)

Thursday 17th September 2026

 Doxey Marsh please note hides are closed until further notice for repairs.

Tittesworth Water

27x Mandarin, 10x Teal, 2x Wigeon, Goosander, Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, Willow Warbler, (JOa)

Branston GPs

2x Marsh Harrier (ad fem + juv), 3x Hobby, Peregrine, Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 14x Curlew, Common Sandpiper 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Scaup (juv), Pintail, Shelduck, 161x Pochard, 186x Shoveler, 183x Gadwall, 10x Wigeon, 146x Teal, 52x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Skylark, 50+ Linnet, Clouded Yellow, (JWo, CEc Dean, BSt)

Blithfield Resv

11x Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JHi)

Doxey Marsh

This pm - 5x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, c100x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, GC Grebe, 3x Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, (CAFH)

Wednesday 16th September 2026

Chasewater

2x Curlew Sandpiper thru N shore at 10:55, also 4x Ringed Plover, (ICW)

Rudyard Lake

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ringed Plover, 4x Snipe, Peregrine, Little Egret, (SSe)

Blithfield Resv

Black-necked Grebe, Ruddy Shelduck, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Curlew, 13x Dunlin, LRP, 27x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, Common Gull, 14x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, Peregrine, Hobby, Red Kite, 2x Wheatear, (SE, HF)

                                                 Black-necked Grebe by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

15x Curlew, 3x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 195x Pochard, 115x Shoveler, 155x Gadwall, 142x Teal, Shelduck, 54x Little Grebe, Caspian Gull (ad), 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Hobby, 68x Linnet, 6x Skylark, 2x Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Clouded Yellow, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

Tree Pipit over south this am, (JWo)

Tuesday 15th September 2026

Rudyard

Baird's Sandpiper at north end to 12:25 at least, (CL)  -  Still at 16:30 at least also 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, (SSe). Baird's Sand still at 17:55, also 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (RPo),  -  35x Pink-footed Geese over at 16:40, (SNu)

The Baird's Sand is the 3rd Staffs record with the previous one in September 2005 at Chasewater. 

                                                      Baird's Sandpiper by GJ Mant

                                                     Baird's Sand by Steve Gibson

                                                  Baird's Sandpiper by Richard Powell

Alton

40x Pink-footed Geese over SE at 17:30, (TEy)

Monday 14th September 2026

River Sow Meadows Stafford

Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, Mandarin (f), Whitethroat, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Goosander (f), 14x Dunlin, 16x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, Ruff, 2x Great Egret, YL Gull, Common Tern, (CMa, RF)

Chasewater

2x Gadwall, Stonechat, Raven, Treecreeper, (CMa, RF)

Tittesworth Water

Med Gull, Barn Owl, Little Egret, Snipe, 4x Goosander, 2x Wigeon, 79x Mandarin, 4x Grey Wagtail, Common Gull, 2x Raven, (SGi)

                                                          Med Gull by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

4x Pintail, Scaup (juv), 16x Curlew, Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 56x Lapwing, Snipe, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, Mandarin, Shelduck, 137x Pochard, 144x Shoveler, 99x Gadwall, 95x Teal, 4x Wigeon, 10x Egyptian Geese, 52x Little Grebe, GBB Gull (ad), YL Gull, Red Kite, 2x Peregrine, 4x Hobby, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, 15x Clouded Yellow, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Belvide Resv

3w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, 

Sunday 13th September 2026

Stanley Pool

Redstart, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Little Stint Tillington Flash at 10:46, (RSt) -  Little Stint still old scrape at 11:10, ( PDy ) -  Still at 12:05 from main hide then flew off NE at 12:16,  (GPr)

Tittesworth Water

43x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, Goosander, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Gull, 30+ Siskin, House Martins, (JOa, TE)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Little Egret, 7x Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 114x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 4x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 4x Pochard, 9x Wigeon, 54x Egyptian Geese, 14x GC Grebe, 9x Little Grebe, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, RL Partridge, 224x Cormorant, (SCo WeBS)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 22x Dunlin, 35x Ringed Plover. 7x Ruff, 18x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Short-eared Owl, Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 2x Wheatear, 17x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                     Ruddy Shelduck by Steve Edwards

Fisherwick - Elford

Barn Owl along 'mile walk' at 20:30, (MBr)

Branston GPs

Juv Scaup, c145x Pochard, c500x Tufted Duck, Shelduck, 5x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, 25x Little Grebe, 12x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, (DSc)  -  Ringtail Harrier thru west at 11:40, (BSt)

Saturday 12th September 2026

Uttoxeter Quarry

Juv Marsh Harrier with yellow wing tags, 2x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, 50x Teal, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 60x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 5x Goosander, 3x Common Gull, 4x Redpoll, (SGi, PS, IB)

Blithfield Resv

06:15 to 13:30 - 19x Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, 25x Goosander, Red Kite, Peregrine. 2x Caspian Gull (1st w + 2w), 6x YL Gull, 18x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, 26x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Ruff, 5x Curlew, (SRi)

Catholme

2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 8x Lapwing, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 3x Mistle Thrush, (JWo)

Alrewas Canal

3x Little Egret, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood (Green Lane)

80x Linnet, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Juv Scaup, c800x Tufted Duck, c90x Pochard, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Shelduck, 3x Wigeon, 95x Shoveler, 5x Curlew, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 30x Sand Martin, Cetti's Warbler, 20x Linnet, (DSc)

Friday 11th September 2026

Middleton Lakes

This morning - 2x Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Bittern, 10x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  This evening - Bittern, Ruff, 10x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Hobby (MB)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 24x Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, 42x Ringed Plover, 8x Ruff, Snipe, Common Gull, 35x Common Tern, 24x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Hobby, 3x Pintail, Stonechat, 3x Wheatear, 6x Clouded Yellow, (SE, HF)

Branston GPs

4x Pintail, Scaup, 12x Curlew, 3x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 112x Pochard, 208x Shoveler, 158x Gadwall, 3x Wigeon, 94x Teal, Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese, 72x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, Red-legged Partridge, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 5x Hobby, 14x Skylark, 3x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, 3x Clouded Yellow, (JWo)

                                                           Pintails by Jon Woodcock

Thursday 10th September 2026

Middleton Lakes

2x Marsh Harrier and a Hobby over North pit, (GG)  -  2x Ruff, Ringed Plover, 12x Snipe, Hobby, Stonechat, (SPA) - Osprey reported, 

Branston GPs

11:30 - Juv Scaup still, 3x Hobby, 8x Curlew, Ruff, Ringed Plover, Great Egret, Little Egret, Shelduck, 3x Wigeon, (DSc)

Scaup (juv), 5x Hobby, Whinchat (juv), 3x Stonechat, Ruff (juv), 9x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 11x Curlew, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 5x Wigeon, 82x Shoveler, 147x Gadwall, 115x Teal, 96x Pochard, 14x Egyptian Geese, 53x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, 3x YL Gull, 40x Linnet, 40+ Sand Martin, 30+ House Martin, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, RCB)

                                                         Hobby by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

28x Mandarin, Goosander, Little Egret, Peregrine, (JOa, LH, TE)

Wednesday 9th September 2026

Tittesworth Water 

Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 12x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, also at Leek 2x Peregrine, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

Mandarin, 30x Shoveler, 40x Gadwall, c100 Lapwing, 3x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Great Egret, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Ruff, 2x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 13x Great Egret, Mandarin, (JHi)

Berryhill

This evening - 6x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 3x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, (SE, HF)

                                                               By Steve Edwards

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 5x Teal, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Tuesday 8th September 2026

Belvide Resv

4x Turnstone, 3x Black-necked Grebe still, 5x Common Sandpiper, Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, LRP, Pintail, 

Radford Meadows

08:30 to 11:30 - Wood Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, 105x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, (CDa)

Branston GPs

Scaup (juv), 14x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 8x Ringed Plover, 7x Green Sandpiper, Ruff (juv),  4x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Shelduck, 6x Wigeon, 102x Gadwall, 117x Shoveler, 205x Pochard, 35x Teal, 8x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 50x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 5x Raven, Whinchat (juv), 3x Stonechat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 60+ Linnet, (JWo, CEc, Dean, BSt)

Doxey Marsh

Mandarin, 26x Shoveler, 41x Gadwall, 110x Lapwing, 13x Snipe, Little Egret, Great Egret, Hobby, (CAFH)

Monday 7th September 2026

Belvide Resv

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 3x LRP, 6x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Ruff, winter plum Sanderling, 15x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)  -  3x Black-necked Grebe still, 

Branston GPs

Cuckoo (juv), Scaup (juv), Ruff (juv), 2x Dunlin (juv), 6x Ringed Plover (juv), LRP (juv), 15x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 6x Wigeon, 56x Shoveler, 264x Pochard (site record), 58x Gadwall, 85x Teal, 964x Tufted Duck, 2x Shelduck, 8x Egyptian Geese, Black-necked Grebe (juv), 58x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 2x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 50+ Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Cuckoo by Jon Woodcock

Sunday 6th September 2026

Croxall

Night Heron flew over East pool and into cover at 08:40. No further sign since, (ICW)  -  Night Heron flew towards Catholme at 09:40, (ICW, SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, also 4x Golden Plover flew south at 07:46, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail,  (SCo)

Belvide Resv

Knot thru at 07:12, 3x Black-necked Grebe still, 2x Osprey thru south, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, 

Blithfield Resv

2x Turnstone Blithe Bay, (MPR, GJM)  -  07:50 - 11:30 18x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 16x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ruff, 11x Great Egret, (MBr)  

Tittesworth Water

79x Mandarin, Goosander, Snipe, Little Egret, 2x Willow Tit, 15x Siskin, 100+ House Martin, 18x Common Gull, (JOa, LH, TE)

Doxey Marsh

17x Shoveler, 27x Gadwall, 18x Lapwing, 13x Snipe, Ruff, Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

Ashy pit/Small Meadows only - Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Shelduck, 4x Wigeon, 100x Pochard, 15x Curlew, Greenshank, Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x ad YL Gull, Grey Wagtail, also today a  Black-necked Grebe and  RL Partridge not present on Saturday's alldayer (DSc)

Saturday 5th September 2026

 Uttoxeter Quarry

Hobby, 5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, 5x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, 8x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv  (All Dayer Total 111)

Juv Arctic Tern, 24x Great Egret, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Osprey, Red Kite, Goshawk, Turnstone, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper,  Whinchat, Redstart, Wheatear, Caspian Gull, Cuckoo, Mandarin, Gadwall, 

Branston GPs (All Dayer Total 106)

7x Sanderling, Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 24x Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 20x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, Mandarin, 228x Pochard (site record), 1008x Tufted Duck, (site record), 4x Wigeon, 88x Gadwall, 105x Shoveler, 56x Little Grebe, Common Tern, Common Gull, YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Goshawk, Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Barn Owl, 6+ Tawny Owl, Wheatear, 5x Whinchat, 8x Stonechat, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Grey Wagtail, 16x Skylark, 10x Meadow Pipit, 5x Swift, 50x Linnet, Kingfisher, 15x Clouded Yellow (site record), (JWo, DSc, PFo, CEc, Dean, BSt, ASt, Bob)

Middleton Lakes (All Dayer Total 93 Staffs/Warks)

Wheatear, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Red Kite, Redshank, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Egyptian Goose, Ring-necked Parakeet, Great Egret, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Spotted Flycatcher, Stonechat,

Stanley Pool

2x Redstart, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, (GBr)

Radford Meadows Stafford

6x Ruff, Snipe, 139x Lapwing, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, (CDa)

Eccleshall

Red Kite over the tennis club at 10:00, (RGa)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 2x Common Gull, 88x Mandarin, (SGi, IB,PS)

Aqualate (All Dayer Total 70)

3x Hobby, 2x Red Kite, Little Grebe, (JAt)

Belvide Resv (All Dayer Total 85)

2x Osprey, 3x Black-necked Grebe, Whinchat, 

Doxey Marsh (All Dayer Total 70)

06:30 to 14:00 - Whinchat, Hobby, 2x Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 10x House Martin, (GPr, RRa, AHa, KLe, DEg)

Friday 4th September 2026

Tittesworth Water

Peregrine, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 15x Mandarin, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Great Egret, YL Gull, 3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Curlew, 3x Dunlin, 16x Common Tern, 150-200x Sand Martin and Swallow, 2x Swift, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

This am - 4x 3x Little Stint still, 4x LRP, 3x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Little Egret, 30+ Sand Martin thru, (CMa, RF)

3x Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Greenshank, Ruff, 5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Curlew, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, Shelduck, 2x Wigeon, 188x Pochard, 909x Tufted Duck (probable site record), 66x Teal, 54x Shoveler, 45x Gadwall, 41x Little Grebe, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 50+ Linnet, Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Bee-Wolf, Giant Willow Aphid, Oak Bracket Fungi, (JWo, DSc)

Chasewater

Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (ICW)

Himley Great Pool

2nd winter Med Gull at 16:00, 2x Swift thru at 11:30, (CTi)

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6x Stonechat, Whinchat (juv), 3x Snipe, 38x Lapwing, 250+ House Martin, (JDu)

Thursday 3rd September 2026

Gailey Resv

3x Little Egret, 9x Shoveler, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, Swift, (SRi)

Branston GPs

10:30 - 3x Little Stint still, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, (DSc)

3x Little Stint, Ruff, Greenshank, 3x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Snipe, 5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 17x Lapwing, 10x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, Shelduck, Wigeon, 216x Pochard, 87x Shoveler, 146x Gadwall, 66x Teal, 46x Little Grebe, Common Tern (juv), Common Gull, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, Whinchat, 40x Linnet, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Clouded Yellow, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Tittesworth Water

33x Mandarin, Goosander, Little Egret, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 300+ House Martin thru, (JOa, TE, TM)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 19x Dunlin, 5x LRP, Oystercatcher, 4x Redshank, 35x Ringed Plover, 13x Ruff, 20x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, Wheatear, 2x Clouded Yellow, (SE, HF)

Cannock Chase

Juv Redstart, Willow Tit, (RSt)

Wednesday 2nd September 2026

Belvide Resv

3x juv Black-necked Grebe, Osprey, 

Branston GPs

3x Little Stint to 19:00 at least on Ashy pit, 4x Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Lapwing, Dunlin, Greenshank, 8x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Whinchat, 6x Stonechat, 4x Swift, 150x House Martin, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 3x Wigeon, 2x Shelduck, 211x Pochard, 83x Shoveler, 107x Gadwall, 79x Teal, 61x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Marsh Harrier(f), Peregrine, Hobby, 40x Linnet, Skylark, 4x Greenfinch, JWo)  -   2x Little Stint still at 16:15 north end of Ashy pit  (RPo)

                                                     Little Stints by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

08:20 to 10:30 - 5x Pintail, 3x Wigeon, 9x Snipe, 88x Lapwing, Greenshank, 3x Little Egret, (CDa)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Goosander, 71x Mandarin, 4x Common Gull, (SGi)

Croxall

6x Cattle Egret, (JHi)

Tuesday 1st September 2026

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 25x Shoveler, 3x Swift, (JIs)

Chasewater

Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP (juv), Hobby, White Wagtail, 3x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, (CMa)

Essington Quarry pool area

Redstart, (DBa)

Alrewas - Wychnor

Barn Owl along the Trent and Mersey, (SCo)

Monday 31st August 2026

Blithfield Resv

06:50 to 08:30 - Tad Bay Wood Sandpiper, 10x Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, Redshank, Curlew, Snipe, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 9x Great Egret, Red Kite, Blithe Bay 09:45 to 11:15 - 4x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 24x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 3x Common Sandpiper, 5+ Great Egret, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Swift, Sand Martin, Ruddy Shelduck, 21x Goosander, 2x Painted Lady, (PAn)

Belvide Resv

2x Osprey thru SE of the dam at 09:40, Little Stint, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 3x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, Black-necked Grebe, 3x Great Egret, 

Doxey Marsh

08:15 to 10:20 - 4x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 50+ Lapwing, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail over, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Sedge Warbler, Water Rail, (RGi)  -  Osprey over Creswell Flash at 11:15. No sign of the Spotted Redshank at Tillington Flash,  (RPo)

Osprey from main hide to 14:20, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, (KLe)

                                                          Osprey by Kath Leigh

Croxall

Black Tern still, (TPe)  -  Also this am Cattle Egret, 3x Greenshank south, 6x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 87x Shoveler, Yellow Wagtail, (ICW)

Stanley Pool

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

Osprey heading east at 09:44, family group of 4 calling Hobby, 4x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 5x Shoveler, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Swift, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Whinchat, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, c320x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper,  Ringed Plover 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 4x Gadwall, 21x Teal, 9x Egyptian Geese, 6x GC Grebe, 9x Little Grebe, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Hobby, YL Gull, (SCo)

                                                        Whinchat by Stu Collins

Chasewater

2x Little Stint this morning, (CW)  -  3x Spotted Flycatcher, Common Sandpiper, 18x Swift, (JHi)

                                                  Spotted Flycatcher by Jamie Hicken

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 9x Whinchat, 6x Stonechat, Swift, Sedge Warbler, 8x Skylark, 18x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Grey Wagtail, 28x Linnet, 3x Greenshank, 8x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, LRP, 3x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, Wigeon, 200x Pochard, 56x Gadwall, 146x Teal, 83x Shoveler, Shelduck, 500x Tufted Duck, Common Gull, YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, DSc)

                                                  Spotted Flycatcher by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

Med Gull, 3x Common Gull, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Shoveler, 53x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, (SGi)

Tean

Wryneck in a garden (TMo per MEd)

Sunday 30th August 2026

Berryhill

08:00 - 10:30, 4x Whinchat inc one at Botteslow, Wheatear, 12x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher in copse up from the standing stone circle, Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Kestrel, (RTo)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

11x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 10x Pochard, 14x Shoveler, Peregrine, 6x Little Egret, 2x Clouded Yellow, (RPo)

Cheddleton Heath

3x Red Kites circling at 11:15, (PCa)

Radford Meadow Stafford

Whinchat, 4x Ruff, c80 Lapwing, 3x Stonechat, Wigeon, Mandarin, Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Swift,  (CDa)

Croxall

Black Tern (juv) still, (TPe)  -  Black Tern still to 17:00 at least with 12x Common Terns, Little Egret, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

06:30 to 11:15 - 13x Great Egret, Red Kite, Peregrine, 4x YL Gull, 13x Common Tern, 20x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 6x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Curlew, 9x Ruff, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, (SRi) 

2x Wood Sandpiper Tad Bay, Ruddy Shelduck, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 19x Dunlin, 10x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 34x Ringed Plover, 12x Ruff, 10x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Peregrine, Red Kite, 2x Pintail, 3x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Clouded Yellow, (SE, HF)

                                                    Wood Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

Greenshank, 5x Common Sandpiper, 22x Swift, Snipe, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

9x Turnstone flew out at 09:23, Hobby, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

38x Mandarin, 8x Goosander, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Gull, 50+ House Martin, Red Kite, (JOa, LH, TE,)  -  Osprey at 17:00, (KBr)

Rudyard

4x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 27x Lapwing, 50+ Teal, 2x Raven, (SSe)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey still, Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpipers, Common Sandpiper, Great Egrets, Little Egrets, (MGG)

Branston GPs

Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Whinchat, 6x Stonechat, Garden Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, c150+ Pochard, 9x Collared Dove, Clouded Yellow, (JWo, DSc, BSt, ASt, CEc)  -  Additional Juv Goshawk thru south. 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, also Volucella zonaria, (JWo)  -  Additional 4x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, Peregrine, Shelduck, 200x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 20x Linnet, (DSc)

                                                    Spotted Flycatcher by Jon Woodcock

i54

4x Stonechat, Snipe, (JDu)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey this afternoon, (DHa)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, Wheatear,

Saturday 29th August 2026

Radford Meadows

08:30 - 10:15 4x Pintail, 12x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 26x Teal, 2x Ruff briefly, 49x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (CDa)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey again Creswell Flash at 12:45, (JPe)

Tittesworth Water

2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 35x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 5x Common Gull, 12x House Martin, (SG, IB, PS)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Turnstone thru at 15:15, Greenshank, (TPe)  -  120x Lapwing, 15+ Yellow Wagtail, 3x Little Egret, Sedge Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, (SCo)

Croxall

Juv Black Tern at 16:00, (TPe)  -  2x Cattle Egret and Black Tern still, (SCo)

Rudyard Lake

North end - 4x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 22x Lapwing, Little Egret, 24x Teal, (RGi)

Catholme

Common Sandpiper, 10x Great Egret, 39x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, 12x Common Tern, 25x Gadwall, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Greenshank, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Alrewas canal Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

3x Turnstone thru north at 15:37, 7x Curlew, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Shelduck, 6x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 130x Pochard, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 10x Swift, 300x House Martin, 16x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 2x Willow Warbler, Spotted Flycatcher, 15x Linnet, (DSc, CEc, SCo)

Friday 28th August 2026

Gailey Resv

Early morning - Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, 7x Shoveler, 3x Pochard, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Swift, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Juv Purple Heron River Sow behind Tenpin at 10:00, (MBo)

This am - Osprey briefly circled Creswell and flew towards M6, 2x Mandarin, 10x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 10x Teal, c60 Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Snipe, 3x Ruff, Great Egret, (CAFH)  -  Osprey again fishing over Creswell at 15:39, (GPr)  -  Osprey at Creswell Flash to 17:45, (CAFH)

Middleton Lakes

Tree Sparrow at east scrape, (GG)

Berryhill

Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Whinchat, Wheatear, 13+ Stonechat, Ringed Plover over, Yellow Wagtail over, Lesser Whitethroat, 3+ Redstart, 2x Swift, 2x Willow Warbler, (RG,NP)

Aqualate

07:40 to 11:00  - 2x Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Hobby, Bittern, Hazel Dormouse, (KHa)

Chasewater

2x Pintail, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, LRP, (ICW)

Croxall

2x Cattle Egret, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 16x Common Tern, (ICW)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 7x Curlew, Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Shelduck, 6x Wigeon, 46x Shoveler, 36x Pochard, 7x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, (DSc)

5x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, 12x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 5x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, Shelduck, 8x Wigeon, 192x Pochard, 83x Shoveler, 179x Teal, 64x Gadwall, 58x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 5x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 30+ Chiffchaff, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 35x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                         Mandarins by Jon Woodcock

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Goosander, 9x Shoveler, 2x Swift, (RPo)

Thursday 27th August 2026

Gailey Resv

5x Great Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, 12x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 3x Pochard, juv Ringed Plover, Snipe, (SRi)

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit thru west at 09:30, 

Branston GPs

Juv Curlew Sandpiper north end of Ashy pit to 12:40 at least, Ruff, Greenshank, 12x Egyptian Geese, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, (DSc)  

Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 25x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 204x Pochard, 88x Gadwall, 39x Shoveler, 177x Teal, Shelduck, 47x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, RL Partridge, Peregrine, Hobby, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, 2x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 14x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                Curlew Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, 4x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Great Egrets, Little Egrets, (ABe) 

This pm - 4x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper. Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Redshank, 6x Wigeon, Hobby, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (JKl)

Tittesworth Water

14x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Gull, (LH, JOa)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey hunting and catching a fish  Creswell Flash at 17:15, (JPe)  -  This evening the Osprey from the main hide perched in a dead tree, also 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (BGo)

This evening 14x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Osprey till 19:00 then flew off, (CAFH)

                                                         Osprey by Bill Goldstraw

Blithfield Resv

19x Ruff, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Snipe, c15 Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 6x Great Egret, YL Gull, 2x Common Sandpiper, (PAn)