Wednesday 31st October 2018

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on Ashy Pit, 2x Pintail, Peregrine, 3x Dunlin, 11x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 2x Redshank, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 75x Golden Plover, Little Egret, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry
8x Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper, 14x Goosander, Little Egret (EFo)

Dimmingsdale
18x Redpoll (TEy)

Trentham Gardens
2x Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, Grey Wagtail (MPa)

Gailey Resv
19x Little Grebe, 10x Red-legged Partridge (IMo)

Brankley Pastures
25x Yellowhammer and a Peacock Butterfly (JWo)

Tuesday 30th October 2018

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on Ashy Pit, (TJa)  -  Also 3x Ruff, 2x Redshank, 5x Dunlin, 9x Curlew, 19x Golden Plover, 220x Lapwing, 11x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 3x Shelduck, 2x Goldeneye, 64x Pochard, 22x Gadwall, 9x Wigeon, 21x Shoveler, 130x Teal, 233x Greylag Geese, Little Egret, 27x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 20x GBBG, Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, 30x Linnet, 250x Pied Wagtail,  Barn Owl, (JWo, DSc,)

Cannock Chase (Strawberry Hill - Abrahams Valley)
100x Brambling, 40x Crossbill, 50x Redpoll, 100x Siskin (ABl)

Middleton Lakes
At least 7x possibly 8x Great White Egret roosted in riverside Willows this evening along with 61x Little Egret also 4x Goldeneye (SAt)

Chasewater
Ad Caspian Gull in the roost also Little Egret, 11x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander 

Essington - Northycote Farm
A single Waxwing flew from the Essington direction and landed in a tree at Northycote Farm -West Mids- (ILy)

Monday 29th October 2018

Westport Lake
Arctic Tern thru (CWa)

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret still, Jack Snipe, 4x Stonechat (NGr)

By Craig Bailey

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 2x Goldeneye on JW, (GAWi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe still on south west shore

Sunday 28th October 2018

Berryhill
7x Whooper Swan over SE at 08:08, 16x Brambling, 7x Crossbill, Redpoll, 3x Golden Plover, 18x Lapwing, 5x Snipe (RTo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
7x Whooper Swan dropped in Blithe Bay at 08:45 (GJM)

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, 3x Little Egret, Water Pipit (GPr)

Gailey Resv
Cetti's Warbler, 3x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, Redpoll over (SRi)

Knypersley Resv
Crossbill at Lodge Barn Road and a Woodcock flushed (GBr)

Audley Meadows
Long-eared Owl (PDo)

Alvecote
Whooper Swan still on Pretty Pigs (TPe)

Middleton Lakes
5x Whooper Swan -3ad, 2juvs on North pit to 07:54 only, (CLe, MRo, BRi), 2x Great White Egret still (DCo)  - 6x Great White Egret roosted in the riverside willows (Mercian Birding)  -  Goshawk reported North Pit at 11:00 (SCl)

Tittesworth Water
Drake Common Scoter still, 3x Mandarin, 37x Lapwing (per JOa)

Whitemoor Haye
51x Little Egret on main lake, also Ruff with 90x Lapwing near quarry entrance, (alrewas birder)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x  Pintail, 50x Wigeon, 32x Shoveler, 3x Goldeneye, 38x Gadwall, Shelduck, 40x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 4x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 11x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 4x Golden Plover, c220 Lapwing, 3x YL Gull, pr Stonechat, 6x Redpoll, 2x Siskin. 7x adult Whooper Swan flew in at 17:02 from the west (from Blithfield) and landed on the lake next to Ashy Pit (DSc)

Cheddleton
2x Crossbill over (DSc)

Ipstones Edge
34x Lapwing (TEy)

Chasewater
2w YL Gull in the roost

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Adult Caspian Gull in the roost also 40x Goldeneye

Saturday 27th October 2018

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Lapland Bunting flushed from Admaston Reach then flew towards Blithe Bay,  2x Whooper Swan, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water
3x Whooper Swan, 2x Common Scoter, (WLH, SGi)

Middleton Lakes 
2x Whooper Swan

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Merlin, Crossbill over

Uttoxeter Quarry
4x Goldeneye, 43x Shoveler, 3x Goosander, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Little Egret (RPo)

Hulme-Parkhall CP
82x Golden Plover (RTo, DWa)

Westport Lake
Whooper Swan, 19x Pink-footed Geese over, Brambling, Goldeneye (CWa)

Alvecote
2x Great White Egret on Pretty Pigs Pool (TPe)

Whitemoor Haye
Ruff with Lapwing (TPe)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on Ashy Pit (TPe)  -  Also Little Egret, 4x Shelduck, 4x Pintail, 45x Wigeon, 32x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 110x Teal, Peregrine, 30x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 4x YL Gull, 60x GBB Gull, Brambling over (DSc)

Cannock

Adult Caspian Gull at Poplars Landfill -  2x Woodlark on tip mound

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret, 2x Great White Egret, Little Egret (BCa)

Rocester JCB
4x Goldeneye on south lake (EFo)

Chasewater
Adult Caspian Gull, ad Med Gull and probable 3w Caspian Gull in the roost

Friday 26th October 2018

Bobbington/Highgate
2x Egyptian Geese, Stonechat, Peregrine (DBa)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 2x Pintail, (SAt)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Whooper Swan at west end

Chasewater
3x Caspian Gull (ad,1w,2w)

Branston GPs

Long-tailed Duck, 120x Golden Plover, 4x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, 11x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 220x Lapwing, 4x Pintail, 62x Pochard, Shelduck, 41x Wigeon, 28x Shoveler, 65x Gadwall, 110x Teal, 46x Little Grebe, Little Egret, 4x Common Gull, 3x Yellow-legged Gull, c30x GBB Gull, 2x Tawny Owl, 25x Linnet (JWo, DSc.)

Stoke on Trent
5x Whooper Swan calling over Hilton Road past Royal Stoke Hospital at 21:07 heading NNW (RGi)

Thursday 25th October 2018

Cannock Chase
18x Crossbill by the Shooting Butts (PFo)  -  25x Crossbill Abrahams Valley (DBa)

Alvecote
2x Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 30x Wigeon (MSc)

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret still, 2x Great White Egret, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, Common Gull (REy)

Middleton Lakes
6x Great White Egret roosted in the riverside Willows along with 46x Little Egret, also 2x Pintail, 7x Egyptian Geese (Mercian Birding)

Wednesday 24th October 2018

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret and 2x Great White Egret still, also 2x Water Pipit (HFo,SEd,)  -  also 17x Shoveler, 10x Teal (MPa)

Middleton Lakes
4x Great White Egret on Dosthill NR at 12:45  (AndyR)

Cannock Chase
12x Crossbill, Bramblings, Siskins (ABl)

Dimmingsdale
2x Brambling (TEy)

Tuesday 23rd October 2018

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret still still by cattle near M6, also 2x Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 2x Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)  -  late afternoon Cattle Egret on Creswell Flash also 4x Water Pipit, (RCB)

Cannock Chase
20x Brambling, 8x Crossbill, 40x Siskin  between Rifle Range corner and Beggars Hill (GLy)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck still on Ashy Pit, 8x Ruff, Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 10x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 334x Lapwing, Little Egret, 81x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, 118x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 18x Wigeon, 100x Teal, 58x Little Grebe, 5x YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 24x GBB Gull, 20x Linnet, 3x Tawny Owl, (JWo)  -  Great White Egret over Small Meadows

Long-tailed Duck by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret Dosthill NR and North Pit, 4x Pintail Reedbed Pool, 2x Stonechat, 5x Snipe North Pit, Common Gull, Shelduck on JW, Peregrine thru (SAt)  -  Whooper Swan flew into JW at 11:20 (JWi)   -  5x Great White Egret on JW tonight (Mercian Birding)

Knypersley Resv
12x Brambling (SSe)

Monday 22nd October 2018

Tittesworth Water
2x Whooper Swan flew in this morning (SGi)  -  Imm/Fem Bearded Tit from the west hide (DCo per SSe)

By David Collis

By David Collis

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret from main hide at 11:05 (APr per MBo)  -  Still at 11:25 in tree (ASt)  -  then flew to cattle by Octagonal hide at 12:20 and returned to main hide roost at 18:26  (MBo, APr) - 2x Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, Water Pipit near the Octagonal hide ( MBo, APr, DoxeyBirder)

Blackbank
Vis Mig included 26.000x Wood Pigeon over SE, 50x Pink-foots over east at 09:15 and 45x over east at 09:45 also 5x Crossbill over (NDP)

Berryhill
29x Brambling and 7x Crossbill over south this am, also 2x Whooper Swan over SE early afternoon, 4x Stonechat, (RTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great White Egret, 14x Whooper Swan, 3x Goosander (EFo)

Hanchurch Woods
30x Brambling from bottom car park (HFo, SEd)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
1w Caspian Gull, Jack Snipe

Manifold Valley
12x Common Scoter NE along the valley at 18:15 (DGH)

Dimmingsdale
2x Brambling (TEy)

Middleton Lakes
4x Great White Egret North Pit, Stonechat, 4x Snipe on JW, 3x Pintail reedbed pool (JKe)

Sunday 21st October 2018

Aqualate
Black-necked Grebe still (IGr)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, drake Pintail, 10x Shoveler, 4x Golden Plover (RPo)

Branston GPs
Long-tailed Duck on Ashy Pit, (for its third winter), Black-necked Grebe still, 4x Little Egret, 6x Pintail, 2x Stonechat, 3x Egyptian Geese,  2x Shelduck, 90x Shoveler, c100 Golden Plover, 200x Lapwing, 2x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, Snipe, 6x Curlew, c40 GBB Gull,  3x Y.leg Gull, (DSc)

Stoke
Little Egret on the Trent at Boothen (ASt)

Whittington
Grey Partridge, 6x Brambling, 2x Stonechat (DCo)

i54
78x Skylark, 80x Lapwing, 6x Yellowhammer, (MFo)

Brookleys Lake
44x Mandarin, fem Pintail (RPo)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 2x Stonechat, Jack Snipe (JMa)  -  Also 4x Great White Egret roosted, 4x Pintail (Mercian Birding)

Shareshill - Calf Heath
Yellow-browed Warbler by the Staffs and Worc canal between Moat Lane bridge and Deepmore bridge where the pylon wires cross

Hulme 
35x Golden Plover between Hulme and Parkhall CP (RTo, DWa)

Saturday 20th October 2018

Branston GPs

Long-tailed Duck on Ashy Pit this evening, Black-necked Grebe (juv) still,  c87x Shoveler, 6x Pintail, x 2x Shelduck, 57x Wigeon, 36x Gadwall, 54x Pochard, Grey Plover heard, 210x Golden Plover, c200 Lapwing, 3x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin,  2x Redshank, 7x Curlew, 8x Ruff, 10x Snipe, Stonechat, 9x Redpoll, Siskin, Brambling over, 74x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 50x GBB Gull, 3x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, Common Tern - long staying bird with broken primary (DSc)

Berryhill
Short-eared Owl at 10:15, 12x Brambling, Golden Plover,  (NDP, RTo,)

River Sow Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Little Grebe, 56x Wigeon (RSw)

Radford Meadows
Little Egret, 76x Wigeon, 175x Teal, 3x Shoveler (RSw)

i54
Ring-necked Parakeet (MFo)

Doxey Marsh
2x Great White Egret, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 3x Snipe (JJH,SJH)

Kidsgrove
Ring-necked Parakeet (ALo)

Friday 19th October 2018

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, Jack Snipe, 23x Snipe, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 90x Lapwing, 

Berryhill
Red Kite over east at 08:50 (RTo, DWa)

Knypersley Resv
Tree Pipit over south, 21x Wigeon, Brambling by Lodge Farm Road (GBr)

Branston GPs
Black-necked Grebe on Ashy Pit, 60x Golden Plover, Redshank, 8x Ruff, 4x Curlew, 10x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 250x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 5x Pintail, 3x Shelduck, 53x Pochard, 17x Wigeon, 20x Gadwall, 79x Shoveler, 180x Teal, 3x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, 3x Yellow-legged Gull, 2x Common Gull, 30x GBBG, Stonechat (DSc, JWo)

Black-necked Grebe by Jon Woodcock

Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh
2x Great White Egret, Water Pipit, 4x Stonechat, 10x Wigeon, 14x Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, (CVa, MPa)

Alvecote
Whooper Swan still, Stonechat, Little Egret, 15x Little Grebe (MSc)

Upper Longdon
2x Hawfinch over, 5x Brambling amongst 25x Chaffinch (SWe)

Thursday 18th October 2018

Berryhill
Ring-necked Parakeet over North at 09:20 (RTo, DWa)

Ford Green-Whitfield Valley
30x Golden Plover over south (JJo)

Hanchurch Woods 
15x Crossbill over (NDP)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret still (Dosthill NR and on JW),  4x Pintail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 4x Goosander, Pochard, Egyptian Goose, 3x Snipe, (SAt) - Also Merlin reported

Chartley
Red Kite on the Stafford Road (EFo)

Tucklesholme
Stonechat by the north lake, 2x Cetti's Warbler along river bank (SGa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Water Pipit, 2x Great White Egret, Little Egret, 9x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Water Rail, Redpolls, Siskins, No sign of the Cattle Egret (MBo, PDy, DTo)

Wednesday 17th October 2018

Hatherton Resv
Willow Tit, Cetti's Warbler (SB)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret one north end of Dosthill NR, and the second on JW,  Golden Plover, Pochard and 170x Lapwing  JW and a Green Sandpiper on East scrape, 4x Pintail new reed pool, Redshank Canal Scape, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Goosander,  (SAt)

Trentham Gardens
8x 1w Goosander still on the Trent, 4x Mandarin, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Little Grebe (PFo)

Berryhill
Wheatear at the mast, 6x Brambling, 2x Golden Plover, 2x Stonechat (RTo, DWa)

Doxey Marsh
Cattle Egret on Tillington Flash (Doxey Birder)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Black Tern and drake Common Scoter still

Audley Meadows
180x Linnet, 40x Skylark, 11x Tree Sparrow (PDo)

Tuesday 16th October 2018

Whitemoor Haye
Merlin high over main lake also Short eared Owl before heading off to Elford, 4x Egyptian Geese, 250x Lapwing, 171x Cormorant, (alrewas birder)

Radford Meadows
Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, c100 Teal, 24x Wigeon, 8x Shoveler, 84x Lapwing (CDa)

Middleton Lakes
55x Golden Plover over at 11:45 (MPi)  -  2x Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Stonechat, 100x Wigeon, 2x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler (MSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Black Tern, drake Common Scoter

Croxall GPs
2x Egyptian Geese and 3x Goosander on river (alrewas birder)

Doxey Marsh
2x Water Pipit, Great White Egret, Little Egret, Wheatear, 5x Stonechat, 2x Snipe, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Mandarin, 10x Water Rail, 2x Swallow (MBo, DTo, DBa)

Branston WP
50x Gadwall, 10x Wigeon (JWo)

Burston
2x Stonechat, Kingfisher, 2x Teal (MPa)

Silverdale CP
Jack Snipe, 29x Snipe (PJo)

Cannock Chase   Pepper Slade - Parrs Warren
Hawfinch, 30x Brambling, Siskins, Redpoll, (ABl)

Branston GPs  (Ashy Pit)

Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, 6x Pintail,  50x Shoveler, c200 Lapwing, 5x Curlew, 2x Ruff, c70 GBB Gull,  2x Stonechat on sheep fence, 

distant view of c600 Starlings murmurating over Sandy Pit (DSc)

Monday 15th October 2018

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black Tern this am (per DCa)  -  Common Scoter still (DBa)

Hulme - Werrington
c500x Pink-footed Geese over NW in 4 skeins (DWa)

Westport Lake
9x Whooper Swan over SE at 10:05 (DKe)

Trentham Gardens
8x 1w Goosander on the Trent, Little Egret (PFo)  -  3w YL Gull, 3x Little Egret (DKe)

Sunday 14th October 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret present to 09:45 only, Spotted Redshank on north shore, drake Common Scoter still

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Stint still Admaston Reach with 9x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Tad Bay 2x Pintail, 2x Goosander (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye
Great White Egret on main lake with 14x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 250x Lapwing, Golden Plover, 80x Linnet (alrewas birder)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great White Egret still, 7x Pintail, Little Egret (RPo)

Doxey Marsh
2x Great White Egret, Jack Snipe (RRa)

Branston GPs
Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 65x Shoveler, 40x Gadwall, 26x Wigeon, 86x Pochard, 2x Ruff, 6x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Yellow leg Gull, c80 GBB Gull, Chiffchaff, (DSc)

Trentham Gardens
Ring necked Parakeet again near the bridge also 14x Mandarin (PJS)

Tittesworth Water 
Merlin (JOa)

Saturday 13th October 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still, Rock Pipit late morning before flying towards the dam

Radford Meadows
2x Greenshank, 109x Teal, 21x Wigeon, 4x Shoverler, Peregrine (RSw)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Stint in Blithe Bay but very elusive in windy conditions (GJM)

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank thru, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper East Scrape, 4x Pintail Reedbed Pool, Great White Egret, Greenshank JW  (Mercian Birding)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great White Egret, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 16x Goosander, (EFo)

Himley Great Pool
Feral Red-breasted Goose, (SEd)

Branston GPs

4x Little, Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese, 6x Pintail, 60x Shoveler, 40x Gadwall, 26x Wigeon, 70x Pochard, (f) Goldeneye, 7x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, Curlew, Snipe, 20x  GBB Gull, Common Tern, House Martin thru, 8x Redwing. (DSc)

Friday 12th October 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still

Middleton Lakes
2x Dunlin, 2x Golden Plover, 3x Great White Egret (Mercian Birding)

Thursday 11th October 2018

Radford Meadows
102x Teal, 24x Wigeon, 3x Shoveler (CDa)

Hanley
2x Whooper Swan low over Commercial Road heading east (STu)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Rock Pipit briefly (GJM)

Branston GPs
8x Red-crested Pochard (4m, 1mm male, 3x fem inc a fem leucistic) on South Pit,
71x Pochard, 21x Wigeon, 4x Pintail, 50x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 100x Teal, 3x Shelduck, 3x Egyptian Geese, 6x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 200x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 2x Water rail,  60x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, 20x GBBG, 2x Common Gull (ad). (JWo)

Red-crested Pochards by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Little Egret, 30x Lapwing, 16x Wigeon (RRa)

Silverdale CP
Fem Mandarin and a Stonechat (TRo)

Wednesday 10th October 2018

Berryhill
15x Crossbill over south during vis mig (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still

Doxey Marsh
2x Great White Egret, Hobby thru, Common Gull, 4x Redpoll (DBi)

Cannock Chase
3x Brambling (Pepper Slade), c100x Siskin, c15x Redpoll, 1000's of Harlequin Ladybirds, Also a good crop of Beech Nuts this year. (JWo)

Brambling by Jon Woodcock

Croxden Quarry
2x ad YL Gull this evening (ABa)

Middleton Lakes
4x Great White Egret and 49x Little Egret roosted,  2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, c50x Golden Plover, 3x Stonechat (Mercian Birding)

Branston GPs
2x Little Egret, 112x Little Grebe, 4x Pintail, 49x Shoveler, 24x Wigeon, 37x Gadwall, 67x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 150x  Lapwing,  4x Ruff, 3x YL Gull, 40x GBB Gull (DSc)

Tuesday 9th October 2018

Dimmingsdale
c200 mixed flock of Siskins, Linnets, Goldfinch (TEy)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Common Scoter still, Pintail, Goldeneye

Parkhall Lake
Great White Egret briefly at 11:00 before being moved on by Gulls (MKe)

By Martin Kessel

Stafford
Hobby over Lodgefield Park at 10:15 (ABa)

Trentham Gardens
5x Little Egret (record count) 10x Little Grebe, 4x Mandarin (HFo)

Iverley
Merlin at Sugar Loaf Farm (SBi)

Newcastle
2x Kingfisher at Lyme Valley Park (MPa)

Silverdale CP
Jack Snipe at The Void (PJo)

Branston GPs

7x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Snipe, 227x Lapwing, 6x Pintail, 32x Wigeon, 60x Pochard, 46x Shoveler, 114x Teal, 51x Gadwall, 3x Egyptian Geese, Shelduck, Little Egret, Water Rail, Common Tern, 83x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 2x Common Gull (juv), 75x GBB Gull, (JWo)

Penkridge
Barn Owl hunting in large field between Moor Hall Lane and Otherton Airfield at 18:30 (JSm)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper

Monday 8th October 2018

Berryhill
Vis mig 07:30 to 10:30 included 2830x Redwing over east to west, Ring Ouzel, 253x Fieldfare, 2x Golden Plover (RTo)

Ford Green
14x Teal, 8x Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, Little Grebes, Kingfisher (JJo)

Dimmingsdale
50x Redwing, 10x Linnet. 6x Siskin (TEy)

Sunday 7th October 2018

Whitemoor Haye
150x Linnet along rough track, Dunlin on new workings, Goldeneye, (ABi)

Blackbank
Vis mig included 125x Siskin and 2x Brambling over (NDP)

Gailey Resv
Cetti's Warbler still (IMo)

i54
Little Egret, Peregrine, 2x Snipe, 35x Skylark, 80x Linnet, 8x Yellowhammer (MFo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Whooper Swan at west end to 17:00 only, drake Common Scoter still off the dam

Branston GPs
3x Little Egret, 4x Ruff, 6x Pintail, 24x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, 39x Gadwall, 8x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, c100 GBB Gull, 2x Stonechat (DSc)  -  Gannet over Small Meadows towards Barton at 16:11 (JWo) Also a Redwing over Barton (JWo)

Gannet by Jon Woodcock

Parkhall CP
14x Golden Plover (DWa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great White Egret, 5x Little Egret (ABa) - in addition drake Pintail, Green Sandpiper, 9x Goosander, 12x Barnacle Goose (PJo)

Westport Lake
Little Egret thru (CWa)

Trentham Gardens
2x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin (PBi)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Common Gull, Cetti's Warbler (RRa)

Saturday 6th October 2018

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe on north shore, Black-tailed Godwit, 1w Med Gull

Tucklesholme
Greenshank, LR Plover (MYa)

Bignall  End
Wheatear in a Boon Hill garden this afternoon before moving to adjacent field (MJW)

Silverdale CP
2x Stonechat, Snipe, 75x Lapwing (PJo)

Trentham Gardens
Ring-necked Parakeet in trees on west shoreline, Little Egret, Goosander (JBr)

Branston GPs
124 Little Grebe, 4x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 30x Wigeon, 49x Gadwall, 72x Shoveler, 62x Pochard, Water Rail, 200x Lapwing, 3x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 3x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 60x GBB Gull, Stonechat (DSc)

Friday 5th October 2018

Keele
5x Golden Plover in field between the Uni and Lymes Lane (ALa)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, (RSPB)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Greenshank, 2x YL Gull, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Goosander, Shoveler, 5x Shelduck (RBe)

Ford Green
8x Wigeon, 6x Teal, 2x Shoveler (DVi)

Doxey Marsh
2x Great White Egret, 1-2w Caspian Gull on Boundary Flash, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 6x Stonechat, 8x Water Rail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Pintail (MBo, APr)

Thursday 4th October 2018

Knypersley Resv
Black Tern over main lake, 2x Willow Tit, Siskin (GBr)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret on North Pit, Redshank on JW, Green Sandpiper and Shelduck still, 4x Pintail on reedbed pool, Peregrine over Dosthill NR (SAt)

Radford Meadows
55x Lapwing, Shoveler, 12x Wigeon, 34x Teal (CDa)

Chasewater
Juv Scaup Slurry Pool, 2x Stonechat, Ringed Plover

Branston GPs

7x Ruff, 10x Green Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 140x Lapwing, 6x Pintail, 20x Wigeon, 41x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, 77x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 170x Teal, Egyptian Goose, 6x Little Egret, 121x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 54x GBB Gull, (JWo)  -  Also Stonechat along Ashy Pit fence (DSc)

Wednesday 3rd October 2018

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Red Kite over Duckley Plantation (GJM)

Knypersley Resv
Hobby over 16:30 - 17:15 (JGr)

Brankley Pastures
15x Yellowhammer (JWo)

Tuesday 2nd October 2018

Trentham Gardens
1w Med Gull, 2x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin (RTo)

Branston GPs

2x Redshank, 4x Ruff, 12x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 186x Lapwing, 6x Pintail, 58x Pochard, 30x Wigeon, 3x Shelduck, 39x Gadwall, 75x Shoveler, 244x Teal, Egyptian Goose, 5x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 89x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x GBBG, (JWo)

Monday 1st October 2018

Middleton Lakes
10x Golden Plover, 3x Dunlin on JW (RBa)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret still, 4x Snipe, Cetti'sWarbler, Water Rail (DBa)

Cheadle
Barn Owl over rough grassland 21:10 to 21:20 behind MOT centre Brookhouse industrial estate (JBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 10x Goosander, 15x Wigeon (EFo)