Wednesday 30th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

4x Golden Plover briefly, Ruff, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 2x Great Egret and a brief possible Marsh Harrier, Jack Snipe on new reedbed pool, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Peregrine, 2x Goosander, (NDP)

Branston GPs

2x Rock Pipit on Ashy Pit late morning,  (CEc)  -  7x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 50x Lapwing, Goldeneye, Pintail, 38x Wigeon, 6x Pochard, 24x Gadwall, 68x Teal, 38x Shoveler, Shelduck, 54x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Merlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 7x Curlew, 5x Wheatear, (SE, HF)

                                                           Merlin by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret and Little Egret from Octagonal hide, (MJL)

Tuesday 29th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, Ruff, 9x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 3x Stonechat, (MSm)

Rudyard Lake

Pectoral Sandpiper still at north end, (LH,JOa)

Shugborough

3x Redwing, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, (PCo)

Trentham Gardens

48x Redwing, 12x Mandarin, 5x Gadwall, 2x Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, (RTo)

Berryhill

10x Redwing, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water

7x Mandarin, 23x Lapwing, 30x Swallow, (JOa)

Boarsgrove

3x Ring Ouzel late afternoon, (JOa)

Stone

Dipper on the Trent

Whittington Farm

Ringtail Hen Harrier flew south this afternoon also Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 11x Swallow, Little Owl, Peregrine, 4x Greenfinch, (JLi)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ruff, Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 6x Snipe, 28x Lapwing, Pintail, 22x Wigeon, 20x Gadwall, 36x Shoveler, 4x Pochard, 62x Teal, Shelduck, 61x Little Grebe, 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 2x juv Common Gull, 3x Stonechat, 2x Peregrine, (JWo, DSc)

Monday 28th September 2020

Blackbank

4x Fieldfare, 114x Redwing and 9x Swallow thru also a Peregrine, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 3x Stonechat, (MSm)  -  Marsh Harrier Dosthill NR, (MercianBirding)

Lichfield

7x Fieldfare over Darnfield Brook, (ARu)

Blithfield Resv

2x Pink-footed Geese, Great Egret, Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, 10x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 7x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Stonechat, Peregrine, (HF,SE)

                                                    Pink-foots by Steve Edwards

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 3x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Stonechat, 41x Teal, 26x Shoveler, 9x Goosander, (ABa)

Cheadle

4x Redwing over this afternoon, (JBr)

Branston WP

56x Wigeon, 16x Gadwall, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Cuckoo Bank

5x Yellowhammer, 4x Stonechat, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 

Sunday 27th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 6x Snipe, 3x Stonechat, Goosander, (MSm, SPA)  -  ad YL Gull, and a Hobby this afternoon, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Black Tern 

i54

Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 7x Siskin, (JDu)

Rudyard Lake

Pectoral Sandpiper still at north end, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 64x Lapwing, Peregrine, (LH, JOa)

Blackbank

2x Redwing over, (NDP)

Little Aston

Short-eared Owl over field NW of the STW, (SWa),  -  2x Grey Partridge, 4x Stonechat, (PAn)

Endon STW

5x Swallow over south, (GBr)

Cuckoo Bank

Wheatear, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, 11x Stonechat, 2x Swallow, Jack Snipe, Snipe, 

Blithfield Resv

3x Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, Dunlin, Peregrine, Little Egret, (MJa)  -  also Whinchat, 6x Wheatear, Stonechat, (SE,HF)

                                                          Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Draycott in the Moors

Yellowhammer, (AR)

Branston GPs

Pintail, 15x Wigeon Peregrine, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 7x Snipe, juv Med Gull, ad + juv Common Gull, ad + juv YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Swallow, 3x Stonechat, Swallow, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Ilam

4x Fieldfare

Saturday 26th September 2020

Rudyard Lake

Pectoral Sandpiper still at north end at 07:30, (ES)

Blithfield Resv

5x Whooper Swan, (GJM)

                                                          Record shot by GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 3x Ruff, (SPA,MSm)  -  Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Garganey, 2x Goosander, Hobby, Peregrine, 3x Stonechat, 

Blackbank

20x Pink-foots over south at 07:25

Berryhill

20x Pink-foots over SE at 07:27, Wheatear, Stonechat, Little Egret, (DWa, RTo)

Cuckoo Bank

3x Hawfinch over south, 13x Crossbill over SW, 100x Redpoll, Whinchat, Stonechat,

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (DM)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 8x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 25x Shoveler, 40x Teal, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

YL Gull, 5x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Radford Meadows

50x Lapwing, Little Egret, 6x Shoveler, (IWi)

Tutbury

2x Swallow along the River Dove, (ARa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

3x Redshank, 8x Dunlin, 2x Golden Plover, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Wheatear, 6x Stonechat, 

Whitemoor Haye

12x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Tree Sparrow, 40x Skylark, (SCo)

Alrewas Arboretum

Green Sandpiper Junction Pit, (JWo)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, (JWo)

Ipstones

2x Swallow, (SCh)

Friday 25th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier over before drifting south, Greenshank, Ruff, 3x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint still, 6x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 

Radford Meadows

14x Shoveler, 52x Teal, 7x Wigeon, Little Egret, Snipe and at Rickerscote 52x Lapwing, Snipe, (CDa)

Rudyard Lake

Pectoral Sandpiper still at north end,

Smestow

Wheatear, Whinchat, 5x Stonechat at Ebstree farm, Stonechat at Trescott and near sewage works, (CVa)

Alvecote

2x Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 30x Shoveler, 10x Wigeon, (MSc)

Branston GPs

3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 50x Lapwing, 10x Wigeon, 94x Gadwall, 46x Teal, 17x Shoveler, Shelduck, 52x Little Grebe, Little Egret, Common Gull, YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Thursday 24th September 2020

Halfpenny Green

Wheatear this morning, (MMo)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, Garganey. Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)

Rudyard Lake

Pectoral Sandpiper still at north end, also Dunlin, 17x Snipe, 40x Lapwing, Red Kite, Grey Wagtail, (LH, JOa)  -  Pec Sandpiper still at 16:20, (DJa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Arctic Skua present from 13:17 at least but flew off at 13:27

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper,  3x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, (NDP)

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover still, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 3x Wheatear, (BPu)

Tittesworth Water

2x Great Egret, 13x Mandarin, 73x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

11x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 94x Lapwing, 30x Shoveler, 72x Teal, 74x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, Shelduck, 4x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 84x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, (JWo)

Trescott Farm Ford

Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Little Egret, (CVa)

Wednesday 23 September 2020

Middleton Lakes

Bittern on New Reed Pool, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, (MSm)  -  also 4x Ruff, 3x Great Egret, Hobby, Pochard, 

Rudyard Lake

Pectoral Sandpiper  still at north end, (SFe)

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover still Admaston Reach, (MSm)  - also Osprey, 3x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew,  Common Sandpiper, (HF, SE)

                                                    Grey Plover by Steve Edwards

Alvecote

Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Dunlin, 30x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, 8x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, 30x Gadwall, 40x Teal, Shelduck, juv Common Gull, 4x Little Egret, Peregrine, (JWo)

Tuesday 22nd September 2020

Rudyard Lake  -  For North end car park head north on the A523, turn left into Beat Lane and then first left along track to the car park

Pectoral Sandpiper still at the north end, (LH, JOa)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 2x Ruff, 12x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Stonechat, 4x Grey Wagtail, 2x Pochard, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

6x Goosander, 5x Mandarin, 23x Lapwing, Hobby. Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 31x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, (NDP)

Whitemoor Haye

12x Yellowhammer, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)

Pool Dam marsh

Med Gull flew over, also a Snipe and Willow Tit, (SJT)

Doxey Marsh

3x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 

Monday 21st September 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Ruff, 8x Snipe, 200x Wigeon, 3x Pochard, (MSm)  -  Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, (SPA)

Ingestre

Redwing this am, (RCB)

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover at Admaston Reach, Osprey, 5x Curlew, (DFr, DM)

                                                           Grey Plover by GJ Mant

Berryhill

Redwing, Wheatear, Redstart, (NDP)

Rudyard Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper at north end at 16:13 and still showing well at 17:29

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint still

Ipstones Edge

2x Wheatear, 4x Tree Sparrow, 125x Meadow Pipit, (SCh)

Sunday 20th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, 2x Ruff, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Snipe, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

27x Little Egret and a Great Egret, 5x Grey Partridge, 2x Golden Plover, Snipe, 100x Lapwing, 19x Pochard, Goldeneye, 5x Goosander, (SCo)

Cuckoo Bank

Ring Ouzel in hedge on north side of top fields, 17x Stonechat, 6x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 

Doxey Marsh

312x Snipe, 2x Jack Snipe, 130x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Stonechat, Hobby, 4x Water Rail, Pochard, (DM, MBo, RRa, WeBS Team)

Knypersley Resv

1w male Redstart back of old hatchery, 8x Siskin, (GBr)

Blackbank

18x Snipe, 10x Golden Plover, also 1840x Meadow Pipit and 120 Siskin over to the south, (NDP)

Tittesworth Water

7x Dunlin, LRP, 2x Snipe, 8x Mandarin, 49x Lapwing, (LH, JOa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Redshank, 2x Pochard, (RPo)

Bagnall

Barn Owl at 06:45, (TBr)

Trescott

Whinchat and 6x Stonechat along Furnace Grange Road, (IMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Arctic Tern this afternoon

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat, SE,HF)

                                                      Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

60x Little Grebe, 4x Little Egret, 40x Shoveler, 50x Gadwall, 2x Wigeon, 12x Pochard, Peregrine, Water Rail, 30x Lapwing, 8x Curlew, 5x Snipe, 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 19th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ruff,  Garganey, 2x Pochard, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)  - Marsh Harrier over north end, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint still, 20x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, Great Egret, Crossbill over, 

Blithfield Resv

Knot in St Stephens appoach, (GJM, TJH)

                                                               Knot by GJ Mant

Berryhill

16x Stonechat, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, (RTo, RGi, DWa)

Cuckoo Bank

31x Stonechat, Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, 8x Crossbill over, 2x Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, 5x Golden Plover, 3x Hobby

Knypersley Resv

Hobby over also a Wheatear, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Red Kite thru over the Rail line, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Snipe, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Grey Wagtail, Redpoll over, (AHa)

Tittesworth Water

3x Dunlin, LRP, 42x Lapwing, 7x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Common Gull, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Wigeon, (JOa, LH)

North Staffs Moors

15x Stonechat, (RPo)

Friday 18th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on east scrape, 4x Ruff, 6x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Gull, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

16x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, Little Egret, 26x Wigeon,   -  4x Stonechat, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Goldeneye, (JJH, SJH)

Knypersley Resv

1w male Redstart, Stonechat, Willow Tit, 11x Siskin, Mandarin also 818x Meadow Pipit going south, (GBr)

Kidsgrove

Red Kite over this afternoon, (DVe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 13x Shoveler, 77x Teal, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 88x Lapwing, 14x Mandarin, 6x Goosander, 33x Teal, (SGi)

Burston

20x Teal, Grey Wagtail, (SMG)

Cranberry

23x Buzzard on newly cultivated field, (MHu)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 4x Green Sandpiper, 68x Lapwing, Snipe, 4x Wigeon, 18x Pochard, 33x Shoveler, 58x Gadwall 112x Teal, 86x Little Grebe, 8x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Brown Argus, 4x Migrant Hawker, 70x Common Darter, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

5x Ruff briefly on Creswell flash also 4x Little Egret,

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Little Stint

Thursday 17th September 2020

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, Ruff, 11x Snipe, 2x Hobby, 2x Grey Wagtail, (MSm, SPA)      

Blackbank

Visible migration 06:45 - 11:15 included 2027x Meadow Pipit and 129x Siskin, (NDP)    

Tittesworth Water

17x Mandarin, 48x Lapwing, Grey Wagtail, (JOa)     

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 10x Dunlin, 3x Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (DBa), -  Osprey, Red Kite, Little Egret, (BRo)      

Branston GPs

60x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Curlew, Pintail, 2x Wigeon, 9x Shelduck, 40x Shoveler, 30x Gadwall, 90x Teal, 10x Pochard, 60x Little Grebe, 6x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Peregrine, Water Rail, (DSc)

                                                                                                          

Wednesday 16th September 2020

Blithfield Resv 

3x Crossbill NW over Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  2x Little Stint still, 13x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, (AWa)

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, 98x Wigeon, Pochard, Goosander, Ruff, 7x Snipe, 5x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, 2x Whinchat, (MSm, SPA)

Berryhill

2x Great Egret over south at 09:45. 6x Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, also 727 Meadow Pipit over south during a vis mig session, (NDP, DWa)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 98x Lapwing, Wheatear, Pochard, 3x Goosander, 13x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (SGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

3x Great Egret still

Threapwood

Red Kite circling over Counslow Road at 10:30, (FCa)

Churnet Valley

64x Red-legged Partridge, (SCh)

Tuesday 15th September 2020

Blithfield Resv
2x Black Tern, (MPR, GJM)  -  also 2x Little Stint still, 5x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 2x Great Egret, Wheatear, (TJa, DRo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Great Egret at west end, 2x juv Black Tern

Mere Farm
Little Egret, 36x Mistle Thrush and a Curlew on the airport, (MMo)

Berryhill
Visible migration 06:40 - 12:00, overhead passage this am included 1724x  Meadow Pipit, 575x Swallow, 76x Siskin, 5x Redpoll, Tree Pipit, Little Egret, 6x Snipe, 4x Linnet, 29x House Martin and present a Wheatear and Stonechat, (NDP, RTo, DWa)

Knypersley Resv
389x Swallow, 351x Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit, 6x Siskin all over south, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (TJa, DRo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Snipe, 92x Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, 8x Mandarin, (LH, RJH)

Rudyard Lake

Osprey over east at 15:12,  also Red Kite over south, (LRa)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Snipe, (IMC)

Bolehall Moors-River Anker

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 8x Snipe, 56x Lapwing, Pintail, 10x Wigeon, 62x Shoveler, 18x Pochard, 94x Teal, 57x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 82x Little Grebe, 5x YL Gull, 9x Little Egret, 2x Peregrine, (JWo)

Monday 14th September 2020

Tittesworth Water
Great Egret at 08:20, Common Sandpiper, 105x Lapwing, Snipe, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv
2x Little Stint in Blithe Bay, (MPR, GJM)  -  Osprey at 12:30, (BRo)  -  also Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Ringed Plovers, Dunlin, 5x Curlew, Common Terns, 2x Wheatear, (DBa)  -  2x Little Gull and a Marsh Harrier over west, (HF,SE)

                                                     Little Gulls by Steve Edwards

                                                                         

                                                      Little Stints by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Spoonbill north shore to 18:15 then flew south, Goshawk, 

Middleton Lakes
3x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, 65x Wigeon, 5x Goosander, Ruff, 6x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, (MSm)

Berryhill
Short-eared Owl drifted over at 08:55 also 407x Mipits over south, (RTo, DWa,)  -  Red Kite over east towards Sandford Hill at 13:25, (CSi)

Holden Lane

2x Willow Tit, 2x Grey Wagtail, along the old Foxley canal, (AR)

Wombourne

Hobby

North Staffs Moors

2x Short-eared Owl, (SDu)

Sunday 13th September 2020

Blithfield Resv
2x Whinchat in Blithe Bay, Curlew Sandpiper,  2x ad YL Gull, 9x Ringed Plover, 12x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 20x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Osprey, (SRi)  -  also Great Egret, (ARa)

                                           Possible Greenland Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, Pintail, 86x Wigeon, Ruff, 8x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Radford Meadows
Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 13x Shoveler, 49x Lapwing, 2x Grey Wagtail, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water
Common Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 92x Lapwing, 8x Mandarin, 2x Siskin, (JOa)

Cannock Chase
45x Siskin, 58x Redpoll, 73x Chiffchaff, Spotted Flycatcher, (WMRG)

Cuckoo Bank

9x Stonechat, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, Hobby

Ipstones

Red Kite, (SCh)

Burston Marsh

Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 10x Lapwing, 8x Gadwall, 32x Teal, (AEa)

Branston GPs

90x Lapwing, 3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, 50x Shoveler, 7x Wigeon, 50x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, 70x Teal, 2x Shelduck, Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Barton under Needwood

200x Meadow Pipit on ploughed field off Bar Lane, (JWo)

The Roaches

Barn Owl, (LRa)

Saturday 12th September 2020

Whitmore Bent Lane
Green Sandpiper, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Tree Sparrow, 

Middleton Lakes
3x Garganey, 66x Wigeon, 8x Goosander, Great Egret, Ruff, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Hobby, Peregrine, Stonechat, (MSm)

Belvide Res (WMBC members only)
Juv Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier, Greenshank, 11x Dunlin, 14x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 1w Med Gull, 2x Hobby, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 

Uttoxeter Quarry
3x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Wigeon, 7x Wigeon, 26x Teal, (RPo)

Berryhill
2x Green Sandpiper flying around early am, 3x Snipe, 2x Swift, (RTo)  -  Redstart, Wheatear still, Peregrine, (IBu)

Baldwins Gate
Hobby, (RWh)

Cuckoo Bank

Marsh Harrier over woodland at southern end, (SMG)  -  Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, 

Tittesworth Water
Barn Owl, Common Sandpiper, 80x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi, CT)

Knypersley Resv

Wheatear, (GBr)

Croxden Quarry

Crossbill over this morning, (ABa)

Tuckleshome

Juv Black Tern thru at 18:14, (DSc)

Mere Farm

Dunlin, (MMo)

Friday 11th September 2020

Cuckoo Bank
4x Crossbill over, 2x Stonechat, 

Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, 5x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, 2x Pintail, 7x Snipe, Yellow Wagtail, 

Blithfield Resv
2x Curlew Sandpiper in Blithe Bay, (GJM,HF,SE)  -  also Great Egret, Osprey, 2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 9x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 22x Wigeon, 5x Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, (SE,HF)

                                                    Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards
                                                   
Brewood Cana
Whinchat along the canal near Shutt Green Lane, (JDu)

Branston GPs

Ruff, 7x Ringed Plover, 95x Lapwing, 4x Snipe, Curlew, 2x Little Egret, Pintail, Shelduck, 10x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 45x Gadwall, 60x Teal, 2x Peregrine, GBB Gull, Water Rail, 5x Swift, (DSc)

Thursday 10th September 2020

Middleton Lakes
Golden Plover briefly, Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, 40x Siskin, (MSm)  - also c120x Lapwing, Goosander, (SPA)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Purple Sandpiper still on dam wall, Greenshank, 12x Ringed Plover, 10x Dunlin

Berryhill
Visible migration, 946x Meadow Pipit over south 06:40 to 10:50 also 8x Redpoll, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Siskin  and present 5x Wheatear, Redstart, Peregrine, (NDP)

Blithfield Resv
2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Wheatear, Little Egret, Common Tern, (BPu)

Tittesworth Water
Common Sandpiper, 52x Lapwing, 14x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (JOa)

Alrewas GPs

Spotted Flycatcher, Willow Warblers, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Little Egret, Red Underwing, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 40x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 7x Wigeon, 45x Shoveler, 8x Pochard, 2x Swift, Yellow Wagtail thru, Peregrine, Water Rail, (DSc)

Wednesday 9th September 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Purple Sandpiper still on the dam

Middleton Lakes
3x Great Egret, Garganey, Ruff, Ringed Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 50x Wigeon, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water
Great Egret, 18x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, 48x Lapwing, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Berryhill
Wheatear, Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Siskin, (RTo, NDP)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DM)  

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 11x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Ringed Plover, 120x Lapwing, 11x Snipe, Pintail, 3x Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker. Hobby, 2x Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                               Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Tuesday 8th September 2020

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Purple Sandpiper still on the dam, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Osprey thru, Garganey, 

Cuckoo Bank
14x Wheatear, 100x Greenfinch, 3x Tree Pipit, Whinchat, Stonechat, 2x Willow Tit,  20x Siskin, 

Middleton Lakes
3x Great Egret, 2x Garganey, Ruff, Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, (MSm)  -  11x Snipe this pm, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv
Whinchat, Wheatear, 12x Little Egret, Ringed Plover, (DBa)  -  Osprey, Peregrine, (Jls)

Tittesworth Water. 
Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 6x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, 102x Lapwing, 2x Barnacle Geese, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, RJH)

Bobbington

Wheatear, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, 

Dimmingsdale

Hobby, (TEy)

Shugborough
Great Egret on the Trent, (AAy)

Monday 7th September 2020

Tittesworth Water
34x Pink-footed Geese over south at 08:55, Common Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, 15x Mandarin, 62x Lapwing,(SGi)

Middleton Lakes
Bittern in flight over JW, Ruff, Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, Garganey, 2x Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

New Landywood pool
Redstart, Wigeon, 28x Lapwing, (JJO)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Wigeon, 9x Gadwall, (NDP)

Cuckoo Bank
Whinchat, Redstart, Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat Ten Acre bay, (HF,SE)

                                                                  By Steve Edwards

Dimmingsdale

50x Siskin, 3x Green Woodpecker, (TEy)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Purple Sandpiper on the dam to 18:40 at least

Sunday 6th September 2020

Drayton Bassett
3x Whinchat still, (MSm)

Cuckoo Bank
3x Crossbill over, 2x Redstart, Hobby,

Blithfield Resv
2x Curlew Sandpiper, (HF,SE)  -  also Great Egret, Little Egret, Osprey, Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, (IBu)

                                                      Curlew Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water
Common Sandpiper, 102x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, (JOa, et.al)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 2x Garganey

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Black Tern still

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Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 50x Chiffchaff, 4x Siskin, (JDu)

Weaver Hills

Red Kite, (TEy)

                                                                 By Terry Eyre

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 6x Gadwall, (KLe)

Catholme
Redstart, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 6x Siskin, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA
6x Goosander, Little Egret, (JWo)

Saturday 5th September 2020

Middleton Lakes
Bittern on new reedbed pool, 4x Great Egret, 2x Ruff, 7x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, 8x Goosander, 40x Wigeon, 2x Hobby, 6x Siskin, (MSm)  -  Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 4x Garganey this pm,

Whitemoor Haye - 70 species All-Dayer count
3x Golden Plover, Greenshank, 68x Shoveler, 6x Grey Partridge, Corn Bunting, Great Egret, Hobby, GBB Gull, ( SCo)

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2x Whinchat, Green Woodpecker, Water Rail, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JDu)

Belvide Resv, (WMBC members only) - 104 species All-Dayer count
Marsh Harrier thru, Goshawk, Juv Little Stint, Red Kite, Black Tern, Garganey, Goldeneye, Gropper, Common Tern, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper,  YL Gull, 

Ingestre
Great Egret on flash south of canal bridge, (RCB)

Gailey Resv
Whinchat, Hobby, juv YL Gull, Swifts, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)  -  Otherton 29x Raven flock, (SRi)

Little Aston STW

11x Grey Partridge, Green Woodpecker, (PAn)

Chasewater  -  81 species AllDayer count
Black Tern, Green Sandpiper, 

Blithfield Resv

6x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 4x Pochard,  -  Osprey (SMG)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 90x Lapwing, 15x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SGi)

Branston GPs  -  97 species All-Dayer count

8x Curlew, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 8x Little Egret, Pintail, 26x Pochard, 45x Shoveler, 40x Gadwall, 7x Wigeon, Mandarin, 4x Shelduck, 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, Water Rail, ad YL Gull, GBB Gull, Common Tern, 30x Swift, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Grey Wagtail, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Reed Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 4x Siskin, (DSc, CEc, Dean)

North Staffs Moors
Red Kite at the Mermaid, (JOa)

Friday 4th September 2020

Middleton Lakes
Garganey, 3x Great Egret, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Siskin over, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
6x Knot, juv Black Tern

Alrewas NMA
Great Egret, Little Egret, Hobby, (RBe)

Branston GPs

4x Little Egret, Pintail, 4x Wigeon, 2x Pochard, 5x Ruff, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Peregrine, 50x Swift, (DSc)

Thursday 3rd September 2020

Middleton Lakes
2x Garganey, 2x Great Egret, Ruff, Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 7x Snipe, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

2x Little Stint still, 26x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 6x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, 6x Little Egret, (DBa)  -  Osprey Tad Bay 17:30, (ARu)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 62x Lapwing, 7x Wigeon, 20x Pochard, 60x Shoveler, 93x Teal, 69x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck, 10x Little Egret, 64x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, (JWo)

Wednesday 2nd September 2020

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, 27x Snipe, Ringed Plover, 2x Great Egret, Garganey, Pintail, Wigeon, (MSm)  -  8x Wigeon this evening, Ruff, Green Sandpiper and 4x Great Egret roosted riverside, (MercianBirding)

Doxey Marsh
2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 70x Snipe, 70x Lapwing, 10x Wigeon, 24x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (DM, MBo, RRa)

Dunston Heath Penkridge
Red Kite near rail line, (CWi)

Burslem Park
Spotted Flycatcher, (PMo)

Great Bridgeford
Hobby from the canal, (SMN)

Blithfield Res
Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Little Stint, Great Egret, 2x Osprey, (SE, HF)  -  also 6x Curlew, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, (JWo)

                                                  Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Staffs

Tuesday 1st September 2020

Blithfield Resv
Little Tern, 2x Little Stint still, 2x Dunlin, (BPu)

Knypersley Resv
2x Little Egret, Barn Owl, 2x Willow Tit, Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x juv Curlew Sandpiper,  4x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP,

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 5x Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Swift, Spotted Flycatcher, (RTo, NDP)

Tittesworth Resv
Common Sandpiper, 11x Goosander, Mandarin, 2x Barnacle Geese, 23x Lapwing, (JOa)

Kingstone
Red Kite at 10:00, (PBe)

Doxey Marsh
Great Egret from main hide, (GRa)

Westport Lake
Spotted Flycatcher, 20x Swift, (PWa)

Middleton Lakes
Bittern on North pit, (RSPB)

Branston WP
30x Gadwall, Wigeon, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye
Hobby, 22x Shoveler, Goldeneye, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (SCo)

Gailey Resv
Mandarin, (SRi)