Friday 26th July 2024

Blithfield Resv

Whimbrel south over the deep end, 31x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, (GJM)  -  Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 5x Great Egret, (CMa, RF)  -  also a Ruff reported

Middleton Lakes

Fem Marsh Harrier, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 

Lightwood

2x Grasshopper Warbler Florence Park, (LDa)

Doxey Marsh

 Marsh Harrier (cream crown) 15:00 to 17:00 at least ranging widely, (RRa)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Dunlin still this am, (RGi)

Stanley Pool

Greenshank, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 26x Little Egret, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 14x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 145x Lapwing, 94x Pochard, 49x Little Grebe, 32x Common Tern, 5x YL Gull (3ad+2x2s), 2x Hobby, (JWo, DSc, George), 

Thursday 25th July 2024

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Snipe, 26x Lapwing, (RGi)

Blithfield Resv

Ruff, 6x LRP, 150x Lapwing, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Red Kite, 5x Little Egret, Great Egret, (MJa)  -  16:00 from causeway 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, c50x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, Egyptian Goose, (DSc)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Little Gull (1s), 19x Curlew, 10x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover (1juv), 106x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, Shelduck, 39x Little Grebe, 29x Common Tern (8 juvs), 5x YL Gull (3 ads, 2x2s), (JWo, DSc)

Wednesday 24th July 2024

Doxey Marsh - Please note that the main hide is locked until further notice due to continued vandalism.

Tucklesholme

3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern (+2 juvs), 4x Little Egret, 18x Pochard, 3x Mandarin, 17x Egyptian Geese, 14x GC Grebe (+1 juv), Grasshopper Warbler, (JWo)

Lightwood

Grasshopper Warbler Florence Park, (LDa)

Belvide Resv

Juv Med Gull, Garganey, Goshawk, 

Gailey Resv

Shoveler, 6x Common Tern (4 ads + 2 juvs), 3x Oystercatcher + chick, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Tuesday 23rd July 2024

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling on the causeway, (MDJ, GJM)  -  2x YL Gull, 2x Dunlin at the causeway.

Branston GPs

20x Curlew, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 146x Lapwing, 17x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 38x Little Grebe, 41x Common Tern (7 juvs), 5x YL Gull, (JWo)

Monday 22nd July 2024

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit,  2x Dunlin, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 9x Common Tern, (SPA)

Endon 

Red Kite at 13:20, (KBr)

Belvide Resv

Arctic Tern thru east, Garganey, 

Branston GPs

18x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 88x Lapwing, 15x Little Egret, 23x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 36x Little Grebe, 28x Common + 6 juvs, 5x YL Gull (3ad+two 2s), 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Rocester JCB

North Lake - 5x Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Blithfield Resv

Arctic Tern, 70x Common Tern, Great Egret, 8x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese + 4 young, (SRi)

Sunday 21st July 2024

Blithfield Resv

Drake Common Scoter, (GJM)  -  Arctic Tern, 40x Common Tern, Peregrine, (SCa)  -  3x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Red Kite, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, (MJa)

Radford Meadows Stafford

15x Black-tailed Godwit, 104x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, (CDa).

Doxey Marsh

4x Whinchat, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Red Kite, 5x Little Egret, Great Egret, (MBo, PDy, GPr).

Uttoxeter Quarry

Ruff, Redshank, Little Egret, (RPo)

Branston GPs

10x Little Egret, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 100x Lapwing, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 28x Common Tern, 29x Pochard, Shelduck, 3x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 10x Egyptian Geese,  (DSc)

Seisdon

Osprey over SW at 18:43, (GCl, KCl)

Stafford

Ring-necked Parakeet over Sandon Road this evening, (RSt)

Saturday 20th July 2024

Stanley Pool

Hobby, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Common Tern, YL Gull, 4x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, Red Kite, 4x Mandarin, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

Marsh Harrier at 10:45, Black Tern at 11:00, 3x Great Egret, Curlew, 2x LRP, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

3x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 3x Little Egret, (MBo),

Tittesworth Water

3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 31x Lapwing, Great Egret, Little Egret, Peregrine, 5x Common Tern, Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, 46x Lapwing, 4x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 33x Egyptian Geese (inc 4 juvs), 2x Common Tern, 4x GC Grebe, 2x Little Grebe, 8x Pochard, (SCo, WeBS)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 85x Lapwing, 7x Curlew, Snipe, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 1s Little Gull, 3x YL Gull, 20x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, Mandarin, 24x Pochard, (DSc)

Catholme (footpath)

42x Little Egret, 20x Common Tern, (JWo)

                                                                By Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Green Woodpecker, Oystercatcher, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

2s Med Gull, Red Kites, 

Friday 19th July 2024

Middleton Lakes

2x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 7x Common Tern (3 juvs), (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Ruff, Turnstone, 25x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, Grasshopper Warbler, (MDJ, GJM)

                                                              Turnstone by GJ Mant

Whiston

Red Kite at The Leys at 11:30, (GSt)

Mermaid Inn

Hobby at 12:45, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Turnstone briefly this evening, 14x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 30x Lapwing, 10x Common Tern, 11x Little Egret, 20x Pochard, 50x Sand Martin, (DSc)

                                                         Turnstone by Dave Scattergood

Claymills

2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 6x Goosander, 70x Sand Martin, (DSc)

Thursday 18th July 2024

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 16x Curlew, Redshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 112x Lapwing, 9x Little Egret, 46x Pochard, 6x Mandarin, Shelduck, 48x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull (2ad+2s), Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                         Curlew by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

5x Common Tern, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Redstart, (JOa)

Baldwins Gate

Grasshopper Warbler this am, (RWh)

Wednesday 17th July 2024

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 31x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, 6x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, (SGi, IF)

Tucklesholme

1s Little Gull, 2x LRP, Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 11x Egyptian Geese, 16x GC Grebe, Grasshopper Warbler, (JWo)

Alvecote

Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Ashy and BMP only - 20x Little Grebe, 13x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 40x Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, 14x Pochard, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tuesday 16th July 2024

Branston GPs

Little Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 6x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 76x Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 18x Pochard, Shelduck, 33x Little Grebe, 29x Common Tern, Common Gull, 4x YL Gull (2ad+2 sec sum), 3x Green Woodpecker (2 juvs),  Hobby, (JWo)

                                                             Curlews by Jon Woodcock

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (RGi)

Croxden Quarry

3s Caspian Gull at 20:30, (RPo)

                                                                   By Richard Powell

Monday 15th July 2024

Tittesworth Water

3x Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 9x Mandarin, (SGi)

Berryhill

Red Kite over Mossfield Road, (CSi)

Branston GPs

Little Gull, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 44x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 26x Pochard, 40x Little Grebe, 26x Common Tern (5 juvs), 3x YL Gull (2ad + 2s), (JWo)

                                                           YL Gull  by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

Juvenile Marsh Harrier early afternoon, 

Sunday 14th July 2024

Doxey Marsh

3x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 2x LRP, Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MBo, PDy, GPr)

Belvide Resv

2x Common Scoter still, Red Kite, Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 5x Common Sandpiper, c200 Swift, 4x Common Tern, (RSw)

Alrewas

Red Kite circling mid afternoon, (SCo)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 4x GC Grebe, 2x YL Gull (ad+2s), 18x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Saturday 13th July 2024

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Common Tern, (SPA) 

Tittesworth Water

Juvenile Pied Flycatcher, Dipper, 5x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, 5x Common Tern, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (SGi)

Belvide Resv

2x Common Scoter still, 

Cheadle

Red Kite drifting west at 11:00, (TD)

Blithfield Resv

85x Common Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Wigeon, (RPo)

Gailey Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Catholme (footpath)

3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

3x Great Egret, Oystercatcher, Mandarin, 6x Goosander, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Barton-under Needwood

2x Curlew and 4x Oystercatcher over, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Red Kite, 2x Common Sandpiper, 11x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Hobby, 1s Little Gull, Redshank, 14x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 80x Lapwing, 34x Pochard, 20x Common Tern, 60x Swift, (DSc)

Friday 12th July 2024

Blithfield Resv

7x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 19x Common Sandpiper, 27x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Gull, Barn Owl, (MDJ)

Radford Meadows Stafford

8x Snipe, LRP, Redshank, Greenshank thru, Green Sandpiper, 75x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, (RSw, CDa). 

Belvide Resv

2x Common Scoter still, 

Branston GPs

Little Gull, 9x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 7x Oystercatcher, 13x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 6x Egyptian Geese, 15x GC Grebe, 26x Little Grebe, 31x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull (ad+2s), Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 18x Swift, (MSc)

Thursday 11th July 2024

Belvide Resv

2x Common Scoter off the dam, 

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Dunlin still, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, 4x Common Tern, 12x Egyptian Geese, Pochard, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Great Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Mandarin, 5x Common Tern, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

Little Gull, 2x Redshank (one juv), 5x Curlew, 8x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 70x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 39x Pochard, 38x Little Grebe, 27x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull (ad+2s), 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Wednesday 10th July 2024

Tittesworth Water

2x Great Egret, 4x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Mandarin, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Branston GPs

6x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 10x Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, (DBa, CE, KM, PB),  - Evening update 1s Little Gull, 2s YL Gull, Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, 20x Common Tern, 10x Pochard, 5x Teal, 70x Swift, (DSc)

Hammerwich

Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Lower Tean

Red Kite drifted south late morning close to Checkley cricket ground, (DSc)

Tuesday 9th July 2024

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Redshank, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, Hobby, LRP, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Little Gull, Greenshank, Redshank, 8x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 80x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 10x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, 35x Little Grebe, 23x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 50x Swift, (JWo)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Monday 8th July 2024

Tittesworth Water

23x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 5x Goosander, 4x Common Tern, (SGi)

                                          17 of the 23 Common Sandpipers by Steve Gibson

Belvide Resv

Quail still, 5x Little Egret, 3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Little Gull still, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 11x Oystercatcher, 112x Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 52x Little Grebe (2 juvs), 31x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, Hobby, 4x Green Woodpecker (one juv), (JWo)

                                                             Hobby by Jon Woodcock

Stanley Pool

LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Sunday 7th July 2024

Stanley Pool

Cuckoo flew east at 05:40, adult LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, Black-tailed Godwit, 

Blithfield Resv

4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 40+ Common Tern, Wigeon, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Red Kite, Common Gull, (RPo)  -  2x Little Tern at 15:45, 34x Black-tailed Godwit, (MPR, GJM)

Tittesworth Water

2x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 5x Common Tern, Mandarin, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

31x Black-tailed Godwit (27 thru east at 16:14), Greenshank, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 74x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, 8x Teal, 7x Pochard, 28x Common Tern,  Hobby, 2x Green Woodpecker, 50x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

                                                            Hobby by Dave Scattergood

Belvide Resv

Quail, Goshawk, 5x Redshank, 7x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 

Saturday 6th July 2024

Uttoxeter Quarry

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 4x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, (SGi).

Botteslow Flash

Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 10x Swift, (RTo)

Stanley Pool

LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Onecote

2x Red Kite, (KBr)

Catholme

Red Kite, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

6x Goosander, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Red Kite, (Kay, MYa, JWo)

Belvide Resv

7x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, juv Redstart, 3x Little Egret, Red Kite, 3x Common Tern,

Friday 5th July 2024

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank(j), Green Sandpiper, (MSm)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 11x Curlew, 2x Redshank, Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 46x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 32x Pochard, Wigeon, 12x Teal, 6x Shoveler, 35x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck, 32x Little Grebe, 27x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, Hobby, (JWo)

Thursday 4th July 2024

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Greenshank, 3x Shelduck still, (RGi)

Moddershall

Red Kite, (J)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 2x YL Gull, 5x YL Gull, Shelducks, 19x Teal, (MBo, RRa)  -  4x Peregrine inc 2 juvs, (AHa)

1s Little Gull, 9x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 72x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 11x Little Egret, 8x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, Wigeon (m), 13x Teal, 8x Shoveler, 5x Shelduck, 6x Mandarin, 8x Egyptian Geese, 28x Little Grebe, 31x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Osprey 14:08 to 14:20 before heading east.

Wednesday 3rd July 2024

Tittesworth Water

Juv Redstart, 4x Common Tern, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, (SGi).

Radford Meadows Stafford

A rather unseasonable Tundra Bean Goose of unknown origin, 5x Teal, Wigeon, 43x Lapwing, (CDa)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shelduck, 26x Egyptian Geese, 7x GC Grebe, Gropper, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

8x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, Wigeon, 8x Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 14x Teal, 26x Pochard, Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 6x Common Tern, 50x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tuesday 2nd July 2024

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, juv Redshank, (MSm)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - 3x Shelduck, Common Sandpiper, (RGi)

Endon - Denford

3x Green Woodpecker, Willow Tit, 3x Mandarin over, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatchers, (DCo)

Handsacre

Red Kite, (GSt)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, (IWi)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite over east at 08:45, (JTu)  -  2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Wigeon, 20x Common Tern, (RCB)

Alvecote

Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 20x Swift, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, Hobby, 1s Little Gull, Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 38x Lapwing, 18x Little Egret, 67x Pochard, Wigeon (m), 31x Gadwall, 18x Teal, 6x Mandarin, 7x Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese, 42x Little Grebe, 36x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, Water Rail, (JWo, CEc, Dean George)