Wednesday 31st July 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
25x Common Scoter and a Whimbrel thru, (GJM)  -  Sanderling briefly on the causeway, (HF,SE)

Chasewater
Common Scoter at 12:00, (GE)  -  Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (CMa)

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x drake Common Scoter, Little Egret, wellies essential, (NDP)

Westport Lake
Drake Common Scoter this afternoon, (DKe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
14x Arctic Tern flew thru,  Garganey still, 3x Crossbill flew south.

Branston GPs
Great White Egret, 20x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, 32x Gadwall, 28x Teal, 12x Shoveler, 5x Mandarin, 3x Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Gailey Resv
Redshank, 2x Little Egret, Pochard, 2x Common Tern, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes
2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 2x Hobby (MJa)

Tuesday 30th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Wood Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, LRP on North  Pit, Great White Egret, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Garganey, 3x Common Sandpiper on JW, (CWa)

Ingestre
c40 Black-tailed Godwit flew south down the Trent Valley floods at 09:35, (RCB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Sandwich Tern briefly 09:25 to 09:30 only, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Garganey

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Black Tern this morning, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water
5x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 48x Lapwing, (JOa)

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 88x Lapwing, 2x Great White Egret, 20x Little Egret, 30x Common Tern, 55x Little Grebe + 12 juvs, 31x Pochard, 35x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 2x Water Rail, Peregrine, 5x Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat,(JWo)

Great White Egrets by Jon Woodcock

Berryhill
Wheatear still, 6x Redstart, Curlew, 2x juv Lesser Whitethroat, (RTo, NDP)

Monday 29th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 40x Lapwing, Ringed Plover,  juv Mandarin, 2x Egyptian + 3 juvs, (MSm, MSc)

Chasewater
Wood Sandpiper, 9x Common Sandpiper

Enville
Sanderling at The Mere, Green Sandpiper, also Redstart on Staffs Way, (DJa, DBa)

Radford Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 30x Lapwing, 3x Peregrine, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
One Common Scoter still, (MPR)

Berryhill
Wheatear at the ouzel paddock also 5x Redstart, (RTRo, DWa)

Branston GPs
5x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 18x Common Tern, Pochard, 15x Mandarin, 9x Little Egret, (CEc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Garganey still, 2x Little Egret

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, 5x Common Sandpiper, (RRa)

Aqualate
Female Marsh Harrier, drake Common Scoter, (PJo)

Sunday 28th July 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
108x Common Scoter this morning in four flocks of 27, 25, 39 and 17 also 17x Arctic Tern, (GJM, MPR)  -  Whimbrel flew up Blithe Bay at 14:33 (RPo)  -  Osprey (RPo, SWe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
89x Arctic Tern, 2x Garganey, 3x Common Scoter, 5x Dunlin, 2x Little Egret, Bar-tailed Godwit thru

Gailey Resv
4x Common Scoter to 09:45 only, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, Arctic Tern at 20:30 (SRi)

Westport Lake
18x Common Scoter, (PJo)

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey 7x Dunlin, 5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, (MSm, MercianBirding)

Tucklesholme
Common Scoter, (Kay)

Branston GPs
Common Scoter, 2x Arctic Tern, Whimbrel thru south, 36x Common Tern, 7x Dunlin, 10x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 20x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Cetti's Warbler with juvs, 11x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Yellow Wagtail with juvs, 7x Mandarin, Little Egret, 2x Goosander, (ABa)

Tittesworth Water
9x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Goosander, (JOa)

Whitemoor Haye
6x Arctic Tern with 4x Common Tern on New  also a Dunlin, (BirderAlrewas)

Saturday 27th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
7x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 6x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper , Ringed Plover,  3x LRP, Barn Owl, (SAt)  -  Ad Med Gull on JW

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Sandwich Tern thru at 07:55, Garganey, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 6x LRP, Black Tern 09:15 to 09:32 only, Turnstone thru at 10:57 and another on north shore at 12:28, Whimbrel thru at 11:15

Burston
10x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, (AEa)

Radford Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 27x Lapwing, (CDa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Knot briefly Ten Acre Bay, Black Tern, (GJM)  -  also 6x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, Ringed Plover, (GWi)

Knot by Steve Edwards

Uttoxeter Quarry
Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
4x Sanderling dropped in at 13:20, (SGi)

Catholme
5x Little Egret, (JWo)

Alrewas Arboretum
Great White Egret, Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, Goosander -  Junction Pit, Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, (JWo)

Branston GPs
Fem/imm Marsh Harrier Ashy Pit 16:00 to 16:25 only, 38x Common Tern, 20x Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Mandarin, 23x Gadwall, 21x Pochard, Peregrine, Water Rail, 6x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Friday 26th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Garganey on JW, 3x Black-tailed Godwit briefly North Pit also 3x Dunlin, 7x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x LRP, (MSm)  -  also Red Kite, (SNi)

Tittesworth Water
2x Little Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 70x Lapwing, LRP, 5x Common Tern 3x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Enville
3x Black-tailed Godwit on Mere Lane Pools, (DJa, DBa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Wood Sandpiper and Great White Egret still, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (JBa)  -  White-letter Hairsteak, Purple Hairstreak, (BRe)

Burston
12x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 5x Snipe, 10x Tree Sparrow (DCo)

Branston GPs
3x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 68x Lapwing, 15x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail + 3 juvs, 28x Little Grebe + 8 juvs, 42x Common Tern, 15x Gadwall, 16x Teal, 3x Pochard, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, White-letter Hairstreak, Common Footman, (JWo)

Black-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 25th July 2019

Knypersley Resv
2nd sum Med Gull in fields with BH Gulls between the tower and Lodge Barn road, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes
9x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Redshank, 4x Snipe, 2x Dunlin, Barn Owl, (MSm)

Enville
Redstart from The Mere along Staffs Way, (DBa)

Wednesday 24th July 2019

Radford Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper still, 22x Lapwing, Teal, (CDa)

River Sow Meadows
2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Mandarin, 2x Stonechat, (RSw)

Berryhill
9x Shelduck over north, 5x Redstart, 2x Juv Lesser Whitethroat, (NDP, DWa)

Middleton Lakes
Fem Marsh Harrier, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 5x Snipe, (TBa, Mercian Birding)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
16x Black-tailed Godwit dropped into Dimsdale Shallows at 11:30, (GJM)  -  also Great White Egret and Wood Sandpiper still, 2x Dunlin, Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, (GWi)

Tittesworth Water
Black-tailed Godwit this evening (SGi)

Whiston
Red Kite circling over Whiston Leys and Gimmershill for about 15 mins at 19:00, (GSt)

Brankley Pastures
100's of Roesel's Bush-crickets, Essex Skipper, Map-winged Swift, (JWo)

Map-winged Swift By Jon Woodcock

Branston GPs
12x Little Egret, 7x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 8x Curlew, 2x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 32x Common Tern, 2x Marsh Tit, 3x Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Radford Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper, (CDa)

Berryhill
Tree Pipit, Willow Tit, 6 to 8x Redstart, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes
3x Snipe, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 22x Common Tern inc 7 juvs, 3x Egyptian Geese, (SAt)

Manifold Valley
Red Kite over this morning, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water
6x Common Tern, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Snipe, 3x Goosander, (JOa)

Trentham
Female Marsh Harrier over the crop field just off the path to Kingswood, (PJo)

By Phil Jones

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, Wood Sandpiper, Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, (GWi)

Branston WP
Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (JWo)

Oakamoor
2x Peregrine (CHu)

Monday 22nd July 2019

Enville
Small Red-eyed Damselfly at Mere Lane Pools. First Staffs record, (DJa)

Tittesworth Water
Dunlin, 11x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, 6x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 55x Lapwing, Teal, (SGi)

Ford Green
Hobby feeding over meadow at 10:30 also Peregrine over lake, (JJo)

Gothersley
Red Kite over south at 11:50, (AHa)

Botteslow Flash
Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Redstart, Teal, (RTo)

Branston GPs
11x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 37x Lapwing, 47x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, 6x Little Egret, Peregrine, 2x Marsh Tit, 36x Little Gebe +6 juvs, 14x Pochard, 14x Teal, 9x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 7x Green Woodpecker, 12x White-Letter Hairstreak, (JWo, CEc)

Marsh Tit by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 21st July 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
9x Common Sandpiper

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Dunlin, 

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Wood Sandpiper and Great White Egret still, (MWh)

Chasewater
Common Sandpiper, 4 to 6 x Common Tern (CMa)

Berryhill
8x Redstart in Ouzel paddocks to Viewpoint (RTo, DWa)

Saturday 20th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Curlew and 3x Green Sandpiper flew south from JW at 06:35, Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, another 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, Dunlin,  on JW, Green Sandpiper North pit, 3x Egyptian Geese, 45x Lapwing,  (SAt)  -  a second Greenshank briefly on JW, (TPe)

Tittesworth Water
2x ad Common Tern + 3 juvs, 3x Common Tern, (SGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black-necked Grebe off the dam, Redshank, 4x LRP, 2x Common Tern

Whitemoor Haye
4x Common Tern inc 2 juvs, Pochard, Corn Bunting, Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer, (BirderAlrewas)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Turnstone on the causeway this morning, (GJM)

Branston GPs
Spoonbill on Ashy Pi, (Kay, MYa)  -  still to 18:45 at least also Great White Egret on BM Pit, 18x Little Egret, 40x Common Tern, 7x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, (DSc)

By Jon Woodcock

By Jon Woodcock

GWE by Dave Scattergood

Berryhill
Whinchat and 5x Redstart still

Catholme
2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Alrewas Arboretum
Green Sandpiper, 21x Lapwing on Jnc Pit, Goosander on the river, (JWo)

Barton
2x Yellow Wagtail on Green Lane, (JWo)

Friday 19th July 2019

Trentham Gardens
2x Great White Egret in the heronry, (HFo, SEd)

Thursday 18th July 2019

Burston
4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Little Owl, (AEa)

Berryhill
Whinchat at paddock just west of the Viewpoint, 5x Redstart, Peregrine, (RTo, NDP, DWa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Wood Sandpiper still in Blithe Bay best viewed from Newton shallows, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail,  (CVa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Common Scoter still

Branston GPs
50x Common Tern, 12x Little Egret, Egyptian Geese, 6x Pochard, 10x Gadwall, imm Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 30x Lapwing, Marsh Tit, 22x Little Grebe, 3x Green Woodpecker, (DSc, CEc, Dean, )

Wednesday 17th July 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black-necked Grebe also Fem Common Scoter still

Middleton Lakes
10x Little Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x LRP, 5x Snipe, 10x Common Tern, Barn Owl, YL Gull, (MSm)  -  Hobby over east scrape, 8x Green Sandpiper, (SAt)

Berryhill
5x Redstart still, (DWa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Wood Sandpiper, (SEd, HFo)  -  Juv Med Gull, Whimbrel thru, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, Wigeon, (MRa)

Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Chasewater
Hobby, 2x Common Tern, 3x Keeled Skimmer, (JWo)

Keeled Skimmer by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Tuesday 16th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Little Tern on JW to 09:15 only, ad YL Gull, 2x Green Sandpiper, (CWa)  -  Dunlin, 3x LRP, 4x Green Sandpiper,  3x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, 22x Common Tern, 6x Little Egret, Peregrine, (SAt)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Common Scoter still, 2x Common Sandpiper, (BirderGaz)

Stoke on Trent
Willow Tit calling from derelict WTW at Newstead, (STu)

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

Upper Elkstone
Corn Bunting, 6x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Curlew, 2x Garden Warbler, (DGH)

Gailey Resv
4x Common Tern inc juv,  (HKi)

Branston GPs
3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 10x LRP + 8 juvs, Ringed Plover, 14x Curlew, 54x Lapwing, 36x Common Tern, 25x Little Grebe + 7 juvs, 20x Little Egret, Water Rail (juv), Pochard, Egyptian Goose + juv, Cetti's Warbler, ad Peregrine, 5x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Monday 15th July 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Fem Common Scoter still but no sign so far of the probable Little Bittern

Middleton Lakes
Avocet, Ruff, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper

Branston GPs
6x Little Egret, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Egyptian Geese, 21x Common Tern, Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, (CEc)

Chatterley Whitfield
Peregrine on pylon behind electric sub station this evening, (PMo)

Sunday 14th July 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Probable Little Bittern heard calling 4 times between 07:00 - 07:20 from Scott Hide but no further sight or sound by 13:50. Called again several times from 19:45  also female Common Scoter

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret this morning, (MYa)

Middleton Lakes
Ruff, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, Green Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  also Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Little Egret, Hobby,  (MPo)

Elford - Fisherwick
2x Corn Bunting, (BirderAlrewas)

Rocester JCB
7x Common Tern, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh
2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret, Curlew, Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 12x Common Sandpiper, 12x Yellow Wagtail, (SEd, HFo)

Branston GPs
16x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 7x Pochard, imm Peregrine, 8x Curlew, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 32x Common Tern, 2x Marsh Tit, (DSc)

Saturday 13th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x juv Common Tern, 5x Wigeon, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 4x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (SAt)  -  Curlew on North Pit to 10:30 only  also 4x Green Sandpiper, (ARa)

Kingstone Golf Course
Red Kite over at 07:00, (PBe)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Greenshank at the deep end, (PBe)  -  Tad Bay Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, causeway 2x LRP, (DOu, LOu)

Tittesworth Water
2x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern + 2 juvs, 2x Mandarin, Grey Wagtail, (SG, IB, CT)

Juvenile Common Terns

Berryhill
4x Redstart, (PMo, DWa)

Alrewas Arboretum
Junction Pit -7x Green Sandpiper, 14x Lapwing  - along the river 2x Little Egret, 8x Goosander, Common Tern, (JWo)

Branston GPs
Imm Peregrine, 8x Little Egret, 11x LRP, Ringed Plover, 16x Common Tern, 4x Green Woodpecker, 4x Gadwall, (DSc)

Tucklesholme
Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 7x Shelduck, (DSc)

Friday 12th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey still North Pit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (MSm)

Burston
6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Snipe, Little Owl, (AEa)

Berryhill
6x Redstart, Hobby, (DWa, NDP)  -  Botteslow Flash 7x LRP still, Oystercatcher (DWa)

Branston GPs
Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover +2 juvs, 5x LRP + juv, 26x Lapwing, Common Gull, 36x Common Tern 11x Little Egret, Pochard + juv, 6x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, 24x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Greenshank by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 11th July 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Great White Egret Tad Bay also drake Scaup still (GJM)

Berryhill
8x Redstart (6 juvs) from the Ouzel paddocks to the Viewpoint, juv Willow Tit, (DWa, NDP, RTo)  -  7x LRPs on Bottleslow this evening, (RTo)

Branston GPs
Peregrine, Marsh Tit, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, 4x Mandarin, Lesser Whitethroat, (CEc)

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, Common Sandpiper,  on North Pit, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Little Egret, 9x Common Tern, Hobby,  4x Egyptian Geese + 3 chicks, on JW, (MSm, MercianBirding)

Wednesday 10th July 2019

Radford Meadows
2x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes
Sum plum Knot on river scrape, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, Snipe on JW, Great White Egret, Little Egret North Pit, (KSa)

Knot by Karl Sargent

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Scaup still Tad Bay


Uttoxeter
Red Kite over Kingstone golf course, (PBe)

Audley Meadows
Hobby, Grasshopper Warbler, (PDo)

Branston GPs
10x Little Egret, 14x Pochard, imm Peregrine, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 16x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tuesday 9th July 2019

Knypersley Resv
13x Common Scoter present to 07:25 when they flew off SE at 07:25, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Ad Med Gull at top of Blithe Bay, drake Scaup still Tad Bay, 20x Common Sandpiper, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover (MRa)  - Spotted Flycatcher, (RPu)

Branston GPs
Marsh Tit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 12x Little Egret, 19x Common Tern, 3x Lesser Whitethroat,  Curlew, 82x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Pochard + juv, 5x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, 24x Little Grebe + 5 juvs,  Water Rail, (CEc, JWo)

Radford Meadows
8x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes
5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x LRP, Ringed Plover, 12x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 3x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, Gropper, 2x Hobby, (SAt)

Gailey Resv
11x Common Tern inc 3 juvs, (SRi)

Monday 8th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe, 5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Redshank, 3x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, x Common Tern, (SAt, DCo)  -  also Garganey, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Drake Scaup Tad Bay, (GJM)  -  4x Little Egret, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 7x Common Tern, Ruddy Shelduck, (CMa)

Berryhill
5x Redstart  -  4 at the Ouzel paddock,  and a further one 200m SE of the Viewpoint, (RTo. DWa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Marsh Harrier thru west at 14:40

Sunday 7th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Garganey, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, (MSm)

Ford Green
Common Tern fishing then flew south at 09:20, (JJo)

By Alan Rowley

Berryhill
A early returning Whinchat at the Viewpoint paddocks also at least 3x Redstart nearby and at Botteslow 3x LRP and a Oystercatcher, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Ruddy Shelduck still

Hill Ridware
Hobby hawking over the lake this morning, (SCa)

Doxey Marsh
2x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Common Tern, Gropper, (RRa)

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

Branston GPs
12x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, 14x Gadwall, imm Peregrine, Water Rail, Redshank, 10x Curlew, 14x Common Tern, Marsh Tit, (DSc)

Saturday 6th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
4x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Common Tern, Gropper, Little Egret, 3x Egyptian Geese + 3juvs, (SAt)  -  also Garganey, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Little Egret, (MSm)

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

Tittesworth Resv
Little Egret, 3x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern + 2 juvs, (SG, WLH, IB, CT)

Uttoxeter Quarry
Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 2x Common Tern Willow Tit, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
4x Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, (RPo)

Branston GPs
Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 9x Little Egret, 12x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Mandarin, (CEc)

Alrewas  Arboretum
4x Green Sandpiper and Cetti's Warbler on Junction Pit, 9x Goosander, Little Egret on the river (JWo)

Friday 5th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, 4x Little Egret, Gropper, (MSm) - also Barn Owl, 3x Egyptian Geese (MSc)

Bilbrook
Ring-necked Parakeet over SW (PCo)

Stoke
Hummingbird Hawk Moth Campbell Road, (ASt)

Doxey Marsh
2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (RRa)

Branston GPs
2x Marsh Tit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x LRP, 43x Lapwing, 2x Egyptian Geese + 3juvs, 23x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, Hobby, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash
Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (RTo)

Thursday 4th July 2019

Middleton Lakes
10x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, Snipe, 2x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, Common Tern, 

Branston GPs
2x Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, Redshank, 10x Common Tern, 2x Mandarin, 5x Egyptian Geese, Peregrine, Marsh Tit, (CEc)

Wednesday 3rd July 2019

Middleton Lakes
27x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, (DCo, MSm)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 11x Common Sandpiper, (SEd, HFo)

Doxey Marsh
7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Little Egret, LRP  Creswell Flash, 2x Common Tern Boundary Flash, (RRa)  -  also Gropper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JIs)

Branston GPs
2s Med Gull, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, LRP, 8x Curlew, 45x Lapwing, 16x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, 27x Little Grebe + 3juvs, 5x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, 17x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 5x Green Woodpecker, 2x Tawny Owl, 264x BH Gull + 170 juvs, (JWo)

Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Tuesday 2nd July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Wood Sandpiper, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 3x Green Sandpiper, Gropper, Barn Owl, (MSm)  -  29x Black-tailed Godwit in front of the second screen this afternoon, (CMa)

Tittesworth Water
6x Black-tailed Godwit, (JOa)

Branston GPs
15x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, Redshank, 20x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 11x Common Tern, 6x Egyptian Geese + 3 juvs, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, Dean)

Branston WP
293x juv BH Gull, (JWo)

Cannock Chase
2x Redstart, 6x Stonechat, Cuckoo, 3x Grey Wagtail, (DBa)

Rocester
Common Terns feeding two chicks at RCB lake on flag pole island in front of main building, (TDu)

Monday 1st July 2019

Middleton Lakes
Spotted Redshank on west scrape, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Garganey (RSPB)  -  36x Blackwits this evening also Green Sandpiper, (TPe)

Berryhill Botteslow Flash
Green Sandpiper early morning, (RTo)

Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 8x Common Sandpiper, 49x Lapwing, (SGi)

Enville
7x Common Sandpiper at Mere Lane pools, (DJa)

Doxey Marsh
2x Gropper, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)

Trent Washlands
6x Little Egret, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese + 4y, (CEc)

Branston GPs
8x Black-tailed Godwit  on Sandy Pit this evening, (Dean)