Sunday 30th June 2019

Middleton Lakes
5x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (DCo)

Doxey Marsh
3x Wigeon, Little Egret, LRP, (RRa)

Branston GPs
Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 7x Little Egret, Common Tern, 5x Egyptian Geese, Lesser Whitethroat, (CEc)

Saturday 29th June 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
7x Black-tailed Godwit

Middleton Lakes
3x LRP,  2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, (SAt)

Trentham Gardens
Peregrine over south, Dipper on the Trent (Kev)

Branston GPs
Ad Med Gull, 13x Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, Curlew, Water Rail, 5x Egyptian Geese, (CWa)

Friday 28th June 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Redshank, Common Tern, (MSc)

Audley
Hobby over bowling green at 15:20, (MJW)

Thursday 27th June 2019

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (HKi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Garganey, 2x Common Scoter still, 15x Black-tailed Godwit, Goshawk

Berryhill
2x Redstart including adult male from the Palletstacks, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Green Sandpiper, 42x Common Tern, 2x Egyptian Geese, (PMo)

Branston GPs
3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 5x LRP, Ringed Plover, 26x GC Grebe, 20x Little Grebe, 5x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 5x Little Egret, 17x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (JWo, DSc)

Cramp-Ball Fungus Weevil by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 26th June 2019

Enville
Green Sandpiper still at Mere Lane pools (DJa)

Baswich
Hobby over at 10:25, (ABa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Garganey north shore, 11x Black-tailed Godwit thru at 11:40, 2x Common Scoter still,

Ellastone
Red Kite over at 16:00, (TEy)

Gentleshaw Common
Red Kite over at 11:00, (SCa)

Branston GPs
7x Little Egret, 4x Redshank, 2x ad Med Gull, 12x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tuesday 25th June 2019

Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, 2x Little Egret, (SAt)

Rocester
Hobby over JCB main lake. (IBr)

Monday 24th June 2019

Tittesworth Water
Woodcock, Dipper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, (SGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Scoter still

River Sow Meadows
2x Little Egret, 3x drake Wigeon, (RSw)

Doxey Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, (RRa)

Branston WP
4x Common Tern, 200+ juv BH Gull, (JWo)

Sunday 23rd June 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Scoter still

Doxey Marsh
Black-tailed Godwit, Great White Egret, Little Egret, (RRa)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Corn Bunting, LRP, 2x Common Tern, (BirderAlrewas)

Knypersley Resv
Spotted Flycatcher still, (PMo)

Branston GPs
5x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Mandarin, 9x Pochard, Hobby, 2x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x ad Med Gull flew thru SW, 6x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler (DSc)

Saturday 22nd June 2019

Tittesworth Water
3x Little Egret, 8x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Common Tern, 4x Willow Tit, (SGi, CT)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Scoter still from Scott Hide

Aston by Stone
2x Common Tern over, (DEm)

Pattington
2x Red Kite

Hanchurch
2x Cuckoo, (RWh)

Catholme
Cuckoo, (JWo)

Emperor Dragonfly by Jon Woodcock

Croxall
2x Little Egret, 2x Gadwall, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate
Red Kite over at 18:00, (RWh)

Branston WP
25x Common Tern, (FGo, NPe)

Friday 21st June 2019

Whitemoor Haye#
Quail still

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Little Egret, Gropper, (DBa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Scoter still

Branston WP
Cetti's Warbler, 238x juv BH Gull, (JWo)

Cannock Chase
2x Cuckoo, Redstart, Spotted Flycatchers, (CVa)

Thursday 20th June 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Common Scoter still, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 

Branston GPs
8x Redshank, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, 3x Pochard, 19x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck plus 10 juvs, 4x Egyptian Geese, 19x Little Grebe plus 3 juvs,  Little Egret, Water Rail, 8x Common Tern, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 60x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Wednesday 19th June 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Common Scoter best from Gazebo hide

Trentham Gardens
Spotted Flycatcher, 8x Reed Warbler, 4x Oystercatcher with 2 juvs, Barnacle Goose, (Kev)

Norton Bridge
Barn Owl on post by the B5026, (PMo)

Newcastle
Ring-necked Parakeet in a Cheston garden, (CBa)

Branston GPs
Mandarin, 2x Egyptian Geese, Redshank, 3x Common Tern, Willow Tit, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tuesday 18th June 2019

Berryhill
Fem Redstart at the Viewpoint this morning (DWa)

Middleton Lakes
3x Redshank, LRP, 3x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (SAt)

Hanchurch
Cuckoo still, (CPe)

Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern, 2x Common Tern, 30x Lapwing, 3x Goosander, Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa)

Branston GPs
8x Redshank, LRP, Ringed Plover plus 2 juvs,  3x Pochard, 12x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 4x Egyptian geese  plus 2 juvs, 22x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean)

Monday 17th June 2019

Enville
Green Sandpiper over Mere Farm Pools, (DJa)

Cannock Chase
3x Redstart, 2x Cuckoo, 11x Tree Pipit, Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, (DBa)  -  4x Spotted Flycatcher (SCa)

Baswich
Red Kite drifted over, (RSw)

Sunday 16th June 2019

Elford-Fisherwick
3x Corn Bunting, (BirderAlrewas)

River Sow Meadows
Common Tern, Hobby (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye
Hobby, Corn Bunting, Grey Wagtail (CEc)

Gailey Resv
Peregrine, Hobby, Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Knypersley Resv
2x Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher. (PMo)

Saturday 15th June 2019

Amerton (flooded meadows)
3x Curlew, 10x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, 6x Oystercatcher (RSw)

Knypersley
Spotted Flycatcher (PMo)

Middleton Lakes
Redshank (MSc)

Alrewas Arboretum
Cuckoo near the viaduct (JWo)

Friday 14th June 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Tern in Blithe Bay at mid day (GJM) -  still at 15:38 (RCB)

Middleton Lakes
4x Avocet, 2x Pochard, Little Egret, (SAt)  -  Green Sandpiper, Common Terns

Branston GPs
Common Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, 8x Lapwing, Little Egret, 31x Little Grebe, 31x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, Egyptian Geese. (JWo)

Thursday 13th June 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Red-necked Phalarope this afternoon

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
11x Dunlin flew off north at 11:50, 29x Common Tern, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x LRP, 2x Egyptian Geese, (PMo, DWa)

Whitemoor Haye
3x Ringed Plover, Peregrine, (PMo, DWa)

Branston GPs
2x Hobby, Ringed Plover, Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, (PMo. DWa)  -  Also 2x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, Curlew,  21x Shelduck, 51x Gadwall, 3x Mandarin, 7x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 300x Swift, 100x House Martin, 100x Sand Martin, Barn Owl, (JWo, CEc, Dean,)

Norton Bridge
Barn Owl at 18:50, (PMo, DWa)

Wednesday 12th June 2019

Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper North Scrape, 8x Avocet, 7x Redshank, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Gropper, Cuckoo (SAt)

Trentham Gardens
2x Oystercatcher with 2x Juvs on the Island (MJW)

Gailey Resv
6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, (CVa)

Tuesday 11th June 2019

Aqualate
Cuckoo, Shelduck, 100x Swift, 200x Swallow, 150x House Martin, 50x Sand Martin (PMo)

Monday 10th June 2019

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still also 2x Corn Bunting, Little Egret, (BPu)

i54
Hobby (MFo)

Dimmingsdale
Hobby this morning (TEy)

Bobbington
Spotted Flycatcher Mere Lane (DBa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Common Tern, (GHa)  -  male Brambling reported at St Stephens Bay

Cuckoo Bank
2x Cuckoo, (GHa)

Cannock Chase
5x Redstart, 2x Cuckoo, 2x Yellowhammer, 7x Tree Pipit, (DBa)

Sunday 9th June 2019

Aqualate Mere
Great White Egret, 2x Cuckoo, (RPo)

Gailey Resv
Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes
Black-tailed Godwit still (MSm, DCo)

Audley Meadows
Red Kite over (PDo)

Tucklesholme
Fem Long-tailed Duck half way along the pit on the A38 side viewable from the path on the opposite side, also LRP, (DOu, LOu)  -  LTD still at 15:55 (JWo)  -  but no sign from 18:30 to 19:25, also Hobby, Cetti's Warbler (DSc)

By John Woodcock

Audley
Red Kite over the bowling green at 14:25 (MJW)

Branston GPs
Peregrine, Mandarin, Egyptian Geese, 10x Pochard, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Tern (DSs)

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still, Corn Bunting, 2x Peregrine, Goldeneye, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, (BirderAlrewas)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x LRP, Yellow Wagtails, (SCa)

Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Goosander (JOa)

Coombes Valley RSPB
Pied Flycatchers, Spotted Flycatchers

Saturday 8th June 2019

Middleton Lakes
8x Redshank, 7x Avocet, Dunlin, Pochard, (MSm, SAt)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Arctic Tern, 

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Stint at Admaston Reach, (GJM, MWh) - also 5x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover

Alrewas Arboretum
Cuckoo, Goosander, 56x Mute Swan (JWo)

Friday 7th June 2019

Coven Heath
Red Kite over the A449 at 08:30 (TWo)

Cannock Chase
2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Tree Pipit, Woodcock, Tawny Owl (ABl)

Thursday 6th June 2019

Middleton Lakes
6x Redshank, 5x LRP, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 9x Avocet, Snipe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Cuckoo, Common Tern, (KSa, MSc)

Manifold Valley
Red Kite over SSE at 12:30, (DGH)

Wednesday 5th June 2019

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still from the corner of the bumpy track also 2x Corn Bunting still (KSa)  -  2x Quail this afternoon, 15x Yellowhammer, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Quail by Jon Woodcock

Corn Bunting by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes
Wood Sandpiper on east scrape, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover (MSm)

Codsall
Red Kite over the station pub at 14:50, (Ba)

Hanchurch Village
6x Yellowhammer (PSw)

Branston GPs
Redshank, Wheatear, Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, Pochard, (CEc)

Tucklesholme
LRP, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler (CEc)

Tuesday 4th June 2019

Bar Hill
Red Kite over at 10:33 (PMo)

Middleton Lakes
6x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, Redshank, 7x Cuckoo (SAt)

Branston GPs
2x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 12x Lapwing, 14x Shelduck, 21x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 2x Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, 20x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 2x Common Tern, c400x Swift, (JWo)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash
3x LRP, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (RTo)

Monday 3rd June 2019

Middleton Lakes
3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, (KSa)

Hanchurch
Quail still (BCa, LCa)

Yoxall
Red Kite over this morning, (MPa)

Audley Meadows
Red Kite (PDo)

Alvecote
Hobby, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Sunday 2nd June 2019

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still, 2x Corn Bunting, (BirderAlrewas)

Knypersley Resv
Red Kite over, 3x Pied Flycatcher, Spotted Flycatcher (GBr)

Middleton Lakes
3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, (MSm)

Alrewas Arboretum
Cuckoo, 2x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler (JWo)

Saturday 1st June 2019

Whitemoor Haye
Quail still, Corn Bunting, Redshank, LRP, Goldeneye, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, (BirderAlrewas)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
1s Little Gull still, Sanderling, 4x Ringed Plover

Middleton Lakes
2x Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Egyptian Geese, Cuckoo (SAt)

Kidsgrove
Red Kite at the Rookery at 09:20 and still lingering in the area to 11:15 (MFo)  -  still at 12:30 (CFe)

Berryhill
Hobby over at 09:20 (PBi, DWa)

Knypersley Resv
Hobby over, Cuckoo, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Pied Flycatcher, Gropper (GBr)

GratwichIB, CT,)
2x Red Kite over at 16:00 (AGo)

Hanchurch Village
Quail early evening (PJo)

Tittesworth Water
2x Common Tern, Pied Flycatcher, 7x Mandarin, 4x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SG, WLH, IB, CT)

Tucklesholme
4x Sanderling, Peregrine, (DSc)

By Dave Scattergood

Stoke on Trent
Red Kite soaring over Blurton for 15 mins, (MJM)