Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank, 14x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 21x Snipe, 7x Ruff, 135x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 4x Pintail, 9x Pochard, 43x Wigeon, Caspian Gull, 3x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Blithfield Resv
Little Stint, Ringed Plover, (PCo)
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe still, Stonechat, (SPA)
Blithfield Resv
2x Ruddy Shelduck top end of Blithe Bay, 2x Little Stint still, 11x Dunlin, Curlew, Ruff, Greenshank, 20x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Great Egret, 5x YL Gull, Pintail, 2x Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, (PAn) - also 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MJa)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Osprey thru south at 12:10, 19x Black-tailed Godwit briefly,
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 8x Ruff, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, 6x Curlew, 9x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x YL Gull, 3x Pintail, 4x Mandarin, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (CEc, Dean)
Whitemoor Haye
Great Egret, Peregrine, (RBe)
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe, 3x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (MSm)
Stafford
Peregrine, (BGo)
Middleton Lakes
2x Great Egret, Black-necked Grebe, 8x Snipe, Dunlin, 4x Goosander, (MSm)
Blithfield Resv
2x Little Stint Admaston Reach, (GJM) - also 13x Ringed Plover, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 2x Curlew, Dunlin, Greenshank, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Mandarin, (DBa)
Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 95x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, Mandarin, 3x Stonechat, (DM) - 2x Great Egret, (DEm)
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe, 3x Pintail, 3x Great Egret, Hobby, 9x Snipe, 2x Ringed Plover, (MSm) - also a Bittern Dosthill NR, (JAl)
Blythe Bridge
2x Hobby over Cheadle Road at 11:15, (IBr)
Whitemoor Haye
6x Little Egret, 11x Wigeon, 150x Lapwing, (SCo)
Burston Marsh
Greenshank, Ruff, Snipe, (AEa)
Blithfield Resv
3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, 16x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 81x Wigeon, 3x Goosander, Red Kite, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)
Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 97x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, 4x Barnacle Geese, (JOa, RJH)
Alvecote
2x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (MSc)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 6x Curlew, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x 4x Ruff, 5x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 50x Snipe, 4x ad YL Gull, 70x Little Grebe, 4x Pintail, 27x Mandarin, 13x Wigeon, 40x Pochard, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Water, (DSc)
New Landywood pool
Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, (JJO)
Stafford
Ring-necked Parakeet near St Pauls's church, (JHu)
Gailey Resv
4x Pochard, 24x Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, (SRi)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 10x Pochard, 9x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)
Middleton Lakes
Marsh Harrier, Black-necked Grebe, 3x Pintail, Pochard, Hobby, 4x Great Egret, Ringed Plover, 7x Snipe, (MSm)
Cuckoo Bank
Wheatear, Hobby, 4x Golden Plover, Little Egret,
Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, Stonechat, (RRa)
Hixon airfield
2x Wheatear, 18x Golden Plover, 60x Linnet, 56x Skylark, (RSw)
Alrewas NMA
2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 6x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Wychnor Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Whitemoor Haye
Peregrine, 2x Little Egret, (RBe)
Middleton Lakes
6x Great Egret, 2x Goldeneye, Black-necked Grebe, Ringed Plover, Hobby, (SPA)
Enville
Hawfinch in trees near Temple pool, Red Kite over No Man's Green this morning, (IWh)
Burston Marsh
Greenshank and Ruff still, Little Egret, (AEa)
Blithfield Resv
3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 7x Dunlin, Greenshank, 34x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 70x Wigeon, 2x Peregrine, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 4x Ringed Plover, 8x Ruff, 13x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 3x Dunlin, 13x Curlew, 27x Snipe, 4x Pintail, Water Rail, 5x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, 45x Linnet, (CEc) - additional this evening 15x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, 15x Curlew, 50x Snipe, ad YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, 7x Mandarin, 11x Wigeon, (DSc)
Aqualate
Marsh Harrier at 15:00, also a Hobby, (JML)
Middleton Lakes
Little Stint, Marsh Harrier, 2x Hobby, (SPA) - Black-necked Grebe, (MSm)
Croxden Quarry
Pintail, 16x Shoveler, (RPo)
Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 25x Mandarin, 97x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 5x Ringed Plover, 6x Ruff, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 5x Dunlin, 12x Curlew, 31x Snipe, 5x Pintail, 2x Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (CEc)
Tucklesholme
11x Goosander, 62x Wigeon, 29x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, Little Egret, (JWo)
Burston Marsh
Ruff, Greenshank, 25x Snipe, 90x Lapwing, (AEa)
Middleton Lakes
Marsh Harrier, Black-necked Grebe, Little Stint, 4x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 13x Snipe, 4x Pintail, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)
Blithfield Resv
Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, (PFo) - also 3x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, Greenshank, 34x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, 11x Egret, 2x Wheatear, 80x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Peregrine, (SE,HF)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Ruff, 12x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Greenshank, 14x Curlew, 82x Snipe, 159x Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 5x Pintail, 39x Mandarin, 47x Pochard, 69x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo),
Middleton Lakes
Little Stint, 20x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, Black-necked Grebe, 2x Pintail (9 reported earlier), Stonechat, (MSm)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Black-necked Grebe, 23x Pintail,
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 2x Green Sandpiper, 9x Ruff, 15x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 20x Snipe, 3x Ringed Plover, 4x Pintail, 6x Mandarin, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv White-winged Black Tern off the dam
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe still, Bittern, Little Stint, Ringed Plover, Ruff, 10x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 3x Pintail, (MSm) - 2x Little Stint on JW,
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 6x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 14x Curlew, 6x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 2x Pintail, Wheatear, YL Gull, Peregrine, (PAn) - updated counts 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Ruff, 5x Ringed Plover, 79x Snipe, 128x Lapwing, 4x Pintail, 20x Pochard, 34x Gadwall, 131x Shoveller, 12x Wigeon, 384x Teal, 63x Little Grebe, Water Rail, 9x Little Grebe, 5x YL Gull, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo, CEc, Dean, Stu)
Burston
Greenshank, (DEm)
Doxey Marsh
Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, (JWi)
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe still on Dosthill NR, 2x Pintail, Pochard, 2x Ringed Plover, Ruff, 20x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, (MSm)
Cuckoo Bank
2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, 2x Stonechat, 2x Wheatear,
Berryhill
Wheatear, Redstart, Stonechat, (ALa), - also Whinchat,
Whitmore Bent Lane
Whinchat, (AMa)
Doxey Marsh
2x Great Egret, Hobby, Wigeon,
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, Ringed Plover, 6x Ruff, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 9x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 2x Water Rail, 5x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (CEc) - additional juv Black Tern 17:25 to 17:38 only, 2x Garganey, 18x Mandarin, 4x Pintail, 15x Wigeon, 2x Dunlin, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 40x Snipe, 3x Ringed Plover, (DSc)
Alvecote
Osprey over Pretty Pigs pool, also 2x Great Egret, (ARa)
Blithfield Resv
Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 31x Ringed Plover, 9x Ruff, 2x Snipe, Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 6x Wheatear, Whinchat, 70x Wigeon, 17x Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, (SE, HF)
Wolvescote Dale
Peregrine, Little Owl, Dipper, 25x Raven, (RBe)
Little Owl by Rob Bendelow
Staffs
Blithfield Resv
44x Ringed Plover, 11x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, Curlew, 2x Wheatear, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail. (BAS, AMS)
Cuckoo Bank
3x Redstart, Woodlark, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Curlew,
Knypersley Resv
Spotted Flycatcher, Willow Tit, (GBr)
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe still , Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Pintail, Pochard, Little Stint, Curlew thru, 16x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Ruff,
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank, 7x Ruff, 8x Curlew, 2x Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Snipe, 2x Garganey, 4x Pintail, 80x Shoveler, 2x Water Rail, Peregrine, 3x Little Egret, (DSc)
Tucklesholme
2x Pintail to 16:15 only, 36x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, Little Egret, (DSc)
Catholme (footpath)
Hobby, 3x Little Egret, (JWo)
Alrewas NMA
5x Green Sandpiper, 6x Wigeon, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)
Middleton Lakes
Little Stint, Ringed Plover, 7x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, Black-necked Grebe, Hobby, (MSm) - 3x Hobby this afternoon, (DSh)
Berryhill
2x Wheatear, Redstart, 6x Goosander over, 450x Meadow Pipits thru SW, (NDP)
Stone
Ring-necked Parakeet north over the railway station, (DGl)
Aqualate
Hen Harrier over the hide, (MJL)
Blithfield Resv
32x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, Curlew, 2x Greenshank, YL Gull, 4x Wheatear, 100+ Grey Wagtail, (CDa) - updated counts 63x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 12x Little Egret, Hobby, Peregrine, Great Egret, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 21x Wigeon, Tree Sparrow, 2x Common Tern, (SE,HF) - additions 2x Redstart, 37x Wigeon, 17x Raven, (MDJ)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, Garganey, Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Hobby, Peregrine, YL Gull, 5x Tree Sparrow,
Tucklesholme
38x Wigeon, 32x Gadwall, 3x Goosander, 10x Little Grebe, 3x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)
Chatterley Whitfield
Barn Owl at 19:40, (PMo)
Branston GPs
Greenshank, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, 30x Snipe, 4x Ringed Plover, 80x Lapwing, Pintail, 12x Pochard, 30x Gadwall, 70x Shoveler, 6x Mandarin, 60x Little Grebe, 2x ad YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Water Rail, (DSc)
Middleton Lakes
Little Stint, 17x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Ruff, 4x Great Egret, Pintail, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, (SPA, MSm)
Berryhill
Ring Ouzel flushed off mound SE of the Viewpoint, 2x Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat, (NDP)
Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, Goosander, 108x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)
Alvecote
Great Egret, (MSc)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still Sandy pit, 3x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Ruff, Ringed Plover, 15x Snipe, 2x Garganey, 4x Pintail, 4x Water Rail, (JWo, CEc, Dean)
Middleton Lakes
2x Little Stint, Ruff, 16x Snipe, 2x Golden Plover, 2x Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 3x Great Egret, (MSm) - Hobby, (RBe) - Dunlin, Ringed Plover, (MSc) - Black-necked Grebe still,
Blithfield Resv
73x Ringed Plover, 10x Ruff, 23x Yellow Wagtail, (GJM) - also Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 13x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 5x Wheatear, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, updated counts of 78x Ringed Plover, 33x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)
Penkhull
Wheatear on fence between Thistley Hough academy and the croft, (RGi)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Osprey thru at 14:10,
Cuckoo Bank
3x Redstart, 2x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat,
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 21x Snipe, 4x Pintail, Mandarin, 3x Water Rail, 6x Little Egret, 3x Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (CEc) - additional 2x Garganey, 14x Mandarin, 30x Snipe, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)
Middleton Lakes
2x Little Stint briefly, 9x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, juv Marsh Harrier over, Pintail, (MSm)
Branston GPs
4x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 9x Curlew, 15x Snipe, 3x YL Gull, 4x Pintail, 2x Wheatear, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)
Himley Great pool
Eclipse drake Red-crested Pochard, (DBa)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Greenshank, 2x Ruff, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Pintail, Common Tern,
Doxey Marsh
2x Wheatear, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Great Egret, (ABl)
Tittesworth Water
Pale phase Arctic Skua, high over north end circled then flew east, (DGo)
Tittesworth Water
Little Gull briefly before flying NW, Common Gull, Little Egret, 4x Barnacle Geese, 30x Mandarin, 125x Lapwing, (SGi)
Rudyard Lake
2x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, (SGi)
Middleton Lakes
Black-necked Grebe on JW, 2x Marsh Harrier over north pit, Ruff, 6x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 4x Pintail, 70x Wigeon, Hobby, (MSm)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Pectoral Sandpiper to 11:43 only, 4x Redshank, Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Stonechat, 2x Hobby, 2x Yellowhammer,
Berryhill
7x Whinchat, 10x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, Willow Tit, (NDP)
Ingestre
Wood Sandpiper on flash south of canal bridge also Little Egret, Amerton brook, 2x Green Sandpiper, (RCB)
Branston GPs
6x Ruff, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 12x Curlew, 26x Snipe, 6x Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (CEc) - also Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, (JWo)
Blithfield Resv
2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 63x Ringed Plover, 10x Ruff, Common Tern, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 6x Wheatear, 16x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Peregrine, (SE, HF)
Staffs
Whitemoor Haye
5x Grey Partridge, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 4x Tree Sparrow, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)
Middleton Lakes
Marsh Harrier on Dosthill NR, Bittern briefly Dosthill NR, 47x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 7x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, (MSm)
Aqualate
2x Garganey, (IGr)
Alrewas NMA
Great Egret and Common Sandpiper over, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, - Junction pit Green Sandpiper, (SCo)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Red-crested Pochard, 11x Pochard, 6x Wigeon, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, (RPo)
Blithfield Resv
Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 12x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Curlew, 15x Little Egret, Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa) - updated counts 3x Common Sandpiper, 51x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 18x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 4x Wheatear, 10x Wigeon, 9x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (SE,HF)
Berryhill
Redstart, Wheatear, (IBu)
Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, 120x Lapwing, 8x Mandarin, (JOa, RJH)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 6x Little Egret, Garganey, Pintail, 2x Spotted Flycatcher,
Croxall
Female Marsh Harrier flew over west at 13:30, (SWe)
Branston GPs (evening visit)
37x Mandarin, 30x Pochard, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Ruff, 12x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 35x Snipe, Ringed Plover, 3x Water Rail, YL Gull, (DSc) - Spotted Redshank still earlier today, (CEc)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, Garganey, 3x Wigeon, 2x Pochard, 21x Shoveler, (RPo)
Middleton Lakes
Little Stint, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 6x Snipe, 5x Green Sandpiper, 35x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 4x Pintail, 54x Wigeon, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)
Cuckoo Bank
5x Tree Pipit, 4x Redstart, Curlew, Woodlark, 4x Whinchat, Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat,
Blithfield Resv
Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Knot, 9x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 25x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, Osprey, 9x Wigeon, Wheatear, (RPo)
Whitemoor Haye
Greenshank, 3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Golden Plover, 22x Wigeon, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (IWh)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 3x Greenshank, 5x Ruff, 6x Snipe, 2x Garganey, (RPo) - Ashy pit only - Dunlin, 4x Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Ruff, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Golden Plover, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Pintail,
Wheaton Aston
Osprey over south, (TMG)
Huntington
Hobby over, (SRi)
Burston
Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 92x Lapwing, (AEa)
Tucklesholme
Willow Tit near rail line at south end of main lake, 25x Wigeon, (DSc)
Alrewas NMA
Great Egret, (Junction pit), Little Egret, (JWo)
Middleton Lakes
43x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 11x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Pintail, 61x Wigeon, Hobby, (MSm) - 2x Little Stint,
Cuckoo Bank
Spotted Redshank flew in, 3x Redstart, Pied Flycatcher, 2x Woodlark, Whinchat, 3x Spotted Flycatcher,
Berryhill,
3x Whinchat, 3x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, (NDP)
Blithfield Resv
Knot at Pastry point, Wood Sandpiper Blithe Bay also Little Stint, (HF,SE) - Quail flushed (MDJ) - Curlew Sandpiper Tad Bay, 3x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 13x Little Egret, 12x Wigeon, Osprey, (CVa) - updated counts - Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, 41x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 3x Wheatear, Whinchat, 11x Yellow Wagtail, 14x Wigeon, (HF,SE)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank, 4x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, Dunlin, 13x Curlew, 15x Snipe, 9x Little Egret, Pintail, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (CEc) - updated counts - 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Ruff, 63x Snipe, 100x Lapwing, 2x Garganey, 71x Little Grebe, 12x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, 12x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Reed Warbler, (JWo)
Enville
Red Kite, (IWi)
Kings Bromley
2x Little Egret, (BRo)
Rudyard Resv
Little Egret, 30x Teal, - and a Little Egret at Tittesworth, (SGi)
Hixon Airfield
4x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 40x Linnet, (RSw)
Middleton Lakes
55x Little Egret, 6x Great Egret, Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 16x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 58x Wigeon, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)
Berryhill
13x Whinchat, (5 south side of the Palletstacks track and a further 8 east of Tiddlers), Wheatear, Redstart, (RTo) - also 2x Tree Pipit, (NDP)
Blackbank
Blithfield Resv
Corn Bunting, Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 7x Ruff, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, Pochard, 8x Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, (SCa)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 6x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, , 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 342x Lapwing, 79x Snipe, 8x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 2x Garganey, Pintail, 5x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Common Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, (JWo)
Tittesworth Water
Little Egret, Dunlin, 14x Mandarin, 43x Lapwing, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, RJH)
Alvecote
2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Hobby, (MSc)
Middleton Lakes
47x Little Egret and 4x Great Egret on east scrape at first light, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 17x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Pintail, 32x Wigeon, (MSm) - Hobby, (RBe)
Ipstones Edge
Dunlin, 2x Wheatear, (SCh)
Berryhill
3x Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, (PSa)
Blithfield Resv
Curlew Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Ringed Plover, 3x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 7x Ruff, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 22x Little Egret, Peregrine, (DBa), - also 2x Little Stint, (HF,SE)
Branston GPs
Spotted Redshank still, 5x Greenshank, Dunlin, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 13x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 55x Snipe, Pintail, 10x Mandarin, 2x Garganey, 2x Wigeon, 2x Water Rail, 5x YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)
Rudyard Lake
7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, 4x Snipe, (GBr, SGi) - Waders flushed by a Peregrine,
Titteswater Water
Arctic Tern, (SGi)
Middleton Lakes
2x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)
Branston GPs
Juv Spotted Redshank on Ashy sheep field, 5x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Greenshank, 11x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 70x Snipe, 74x Lapwing, 4x Water Rail, 2x Garganey, 67x Pochard, 94x Shoveler, 364x Teal, 72x Little Grebe, 8x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black Tern still,
Berryhill
Whinchat, 2x Tree Pipit, (NDP) - Wheatear, (PSa)
Weaver Hills
Whinchat, (TEy)
Blithfield Resv
Curlew Sandpiper still, 4x LRP, 8x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 6x Ruff, 2x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Goosander, (GWi)
Whitemoor Haye
Short-eared Owl this morning,
Whitemoor Haye
Stonechat, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 75x Lapwing, 9x Little Egret, Grey Partridge, 6x Goosander, Goldeneye, 4x Tree Sparrow, Peregrine, (SCo)
Middleton Lakes
2x Little Stint, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, LRP, 16x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 4x Pintail, 26x Wigeon, Pied Flycatcher briefly along bridleway west of Fishers Mill on Staffs/Warks border, (MSm)
Blithfield Resv
Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Little Stint, 12x Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 10x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 25x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 15x Little Egret, 6x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Common Tern, (SE,HF)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black Tern, 6x Pintail,
River Sow Meadows
60x Lapwing, (IWi)
Gailey Resv
Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 7x Shoveler, (SRi)
Berryhill
4x Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, (RTo)
Blithfield Resv
Curlew Sandpiper Tad Bay, 2x Little Stint, 24x Dunlin, 31x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 9x Ruff, LRP, Osprey, (TPe, JAl) - Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler in hedge back of Mickledale Bay, (JAl) - also Red Kite, 3x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Wigeon, 12x Little Egret, (SE,HF), - Wood Sandpiper in Tad Bay this evening, (MPR)
Berryhill
7x Whinchat, 10x Wheatear, (RTo, PBi, NDP) , - 2x Redstart, (IBu) - Botteslow Flash Golden Plover, 2x Snipe, (RTo), - 2x Green Sandpiper, (IBu)
Wetley Moor
2x Whinchat, east side lowland, (ALa)
Tittesworth Water
Arctic Tern, 21x Mandarin, Snipe, 87x Lapwing, Wigeon, (SGi, TJ)
Rudyard Lake
2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, Little Egret, (SGi, JOa)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Arctic Tern,
Otherton
3x Whinchat in thistle field east of disused rail line, (SRi)
Cuckoo Bank
Osprey west at 13:10, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, Lesser Whitethroat, Hobby,
Wychnor
2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Yellowhammer, (JWo)
Catholme
8x Little Egret, (JWo)
Branston GPs
Garganey, Spotted Flycatcher, 15x Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 4x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 47x Snipe, 2x Mandarin, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, ad YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)
Whitemoor Haye (70 species)
Marsh Harrier, Goldeneye, 6x Little Egret, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Greenshank, Dunlin, Snipe, Spotted Flycatcher, 20x Tree Sparrow, 2x Grey Partridge, Wheatear, Grey Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)
Tittesworth Water
Arctic Tern, 2x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 35x Mandarin, 95x Lapwing, (SGi, IB)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only) (100 species)
Little Stint, LRP, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ruff, Red Kite, 7x Whinchat, Wheatear, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Swift, Stonechat, Goshawk, Garganey,
Berryhill (64 species)
8x Wheatear, 3x Whinchat, Redstart, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Snipe, Grey Wagtail, Peregrine, (RTo, NDP)
Blithfield Resv (99 species)
6x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Osprey, (MJa) - also 2x Little Stint, 4x Greenshank, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Common Tern, 6x Wigeon, Green Woodpecker, (RPo) - Turnstone between Concrete and Mickledale bays, (JAl) - updated counts 4x Little Stint,7x Ruff, 9x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 35x Ringed Plover, 4x YL Gull, Hobby, GBB Gull, (PAn) - 2x LRP, 2x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, (SCa)
Uttoxeter Quarry
7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Little Egret, 5x Wigeon, 13x Pochard, (RPo)
Smestow Valley
Green Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, (IMo)
Trentham Gardens
3x Little Egret, (PBi)
Rudyard Lake
Little Egret, 4x Snipe, (SGi)
Doxey Marsh (67 species)
Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, Snipe, Common Gull, Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat,
Barton under Needwood
Hobby over, Red Kite over north at 17:20, (JWo)
Alvecote
Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Whinchat, (MSc)
Chasewater (84 species)
Med Gull, YL Gull, Common Gull,
Branston GPs (92 species)
3x Ruff, 14x Curlew, 5x Greenshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 40x Snipe, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 60x Little Grebe, Pintail, 20x Mandarin, 10x Shelduck, 50x Shoveler, 80x Pochard, 2x Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 3x Water Rail, 4x YL Gull, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, 3x Grey Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)
Cuckoo Bank
6x Tree Pipit, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Garden Warbler, Hobby,
Middleton Lakes
4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 13x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 3x Pintail, 20x Wigeon, (MSm)
Blithfield Resv
Little Stint, 11x Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, Curlew, 2x Dunlin, Osprey, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Pochard, (SCa) - Updated counts - 4x Little Stint, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 18x Dunlin, Greenshank, LRP, 23x Ringed Plover, 9x Ruff, 40x Barnacle Geese, 15x Little Egret, 2x Redstart, 4x Wheatear, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Common Tern, 9x Wigeon, Peregrine, (SE, HF) - also 2x Whinchat, 2x Osprey, (MDJ)
Branston GPs
Red-necked Phalarope on Black Meadows pit, (Branston site first), 7x Greenshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 7x Dunlin, 44x Snipe, 5x Green Sandpiper, 130x Lapwing, 5x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Pintail, 29x Pochard, 4x Water Rail, 6x YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, Peregrine, 100x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean)
Berryhill
5x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Wheatear, (RTo, NDP)
Enville
9x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Tree Pipit, (IWh)
Berryhill
6x Whinchat, 8x Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, (NDP) - Redstart, Snipe,
Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 5x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 3 to 5x Pintail, 32x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Hobby, (MSm)
Bobbington
2x Redstart along Staffs Way, 3x Wheatear, (WN)
Cannock Chase
Pied Flycatcher along Marquis Drive also Marsh Tit, (SCa)
Branston GPs
Jack Snipe on Sandy pit, 3x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, Redshank, Whimbrel, 5x Dunlin, Sanderling, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, (CMa, DGl) - updated count - 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, 20x Snipe, 13x Curlew, 6x Dunlin, Hobby, 10x Little Egret, 3x Wigeon, (DSc)
Tucklesholme
8x Wigeon, 34x Gadwall, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cape Shelduck, (JWo)
Tittesworth Water
2x LRP, Dunlin, 6x Goosander, 11x Mandarin, 111x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa, LH, RJH)
Rudyard Lake
5x Snipe, 3x LRP, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH)
Alvecote
6x Spotted Flycatcher, Great Egret, (ARa, MSc) - 2x Swift,
Blithfield Resv
4x Little Stint still, 19x Ringed Plover, 15x Dunlin, 7x Ruff, Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Pochard, 12x Barnacle Geese, (RCB)
Aqualate
Marsh Harrier, Garganey, 2x Hobby, (CDa)
Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Stint still,
Middleton Lakes
Spoonbill to 11:30 only, Ringed Plover, Ruff, 25x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 20x Wigeon, (MSm)
Cuckoo Bank
2x Wheatear, Redstart, Yellowhammer,
Blithfield Resv
5x Little Stint, Black Tern, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 16x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, LRP, 27x Ringed Plover, 7x Ruff, 5x Snipe, 16x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 9x Wigeon, (SE, HF)
Branston GPs
3x Ruff, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Green Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, 55x Snipe, Redshank, 9x Greenshank, 151x Lapwing, 4x Water Rail, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 3x Wigeon, 21x Pochard, 74x Shoveler, Pintail, 8x Mandarin, 72x Little Grebe, 6x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, TWy)