Thursday 30 September 2021

Thursday 30th September 2021

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)

Wednesday 29 September 2021

Wednesday 29th September 2021

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 CurlewGreat Egret, 5x YL Gull, Pintail, 2x Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)  -  also 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MJa)

                                                           Little Stints by Steve Edwards

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)

Tuesday 28 September 2021

Tuesday 28th September 2021

Middleton Lakes

Black-necked Grebe, 3x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (MSm)

Stafford

Peregrine, (BGo)

Monday 27 September 2021

Monday 27th September 2021

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)

                                                          Little Stint by GJ Mant

                                                                Ruff by GJ Mant

Staffs



Sunday 26 September 2021

Sunday 26th September 2021

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)

Saturday 25 September 2021

Saturday 25th September 2021

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)

Friday 24 September 2021

Friday 24th September 2021

Middleton Lakes

6x Great Egret, 2x Goldeneye, Black-necked Grebe, Ringed Plover, Hobby, (SPA)

                                                         Great Egret by Rob Bendelow

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)

                                                        Greenshank by Steve Edwards

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)

Thursday 23 September 2021

Thursday 23rd September 2021

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)

                                                         Goosanders by Jon Woodcock

Burston Marsh

Ruff, Greenshank, 25x Snipe, 90x Lapwing, (AEa)

Wednesday 22 September 2021

Wednesday 22nd September 2021

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)

                                                             Dunlin by Steve Edwards

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), 

Tuesday 21 September 2021

Tuesday 21st September 2021

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)

Monday 20 September 2021

Monday 20th September 2021

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, 

                                                    Black-necked Grebe by Rob Bendelow

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)

Sunday 19 September 2021

Sunday 19th September 2021

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)

                                                         Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Wolvescote Dale

Peregrine, Little Owl, Dipper, 25x Raven, (RBe)

                                                    Little Owl by Rob Bendelow

Staffs

Saturday 18 September 2021

Saturday 18th September 2021

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)


Friday 17 September 2021

Friday 17th September 2021

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)

                                                            Ruff by Steve Edwards

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)

Thursday 16 September 2021

Thursday 16th September 2021

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)

Wednesday 15 September 2021

Wednesday 15th September 2021

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)

                                                           Whinchat by Steve Edwards

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)

Tuesday 14 September 2021

Tuesday 14th September 2021

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)

Monday 13 September 2021

Monday 13th September 2021

Tittesworth Water

Little Gull briefly before flying NW, Common Gull, Little Egret, 4x Barnacle Geese, 30x Mandarin, 125x Lapwing, (SGi)

                                                          Little Gull by Steve Gibson

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)

                                               South African Shelduck by Steve Edwards

Staffs

Sunday 12 September 2021

Sunday 12th September 2021

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)

                                                          Wheatear by Steve Edwards

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)


Saturday 11 September 2021

Saturday 11th September 2021

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)

Friday 10 September 2021

Friday 10th September 2021

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)

                                                               Knot by Steve Edwards

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)

Thursday 9 September 2021

Thursday 9th September 2021

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

                                                   Two of 15 Whinchats by Phil Jones

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)

Wednesday 8 September 2021

Wednesday 8th September 2021

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)

 
                                                        Spotted Flycatcher by Patrick Salt

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)

Tuesday 7 September 2021

Tuesday 7th September 2021

Rudyard Lake

7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, 4x Snipe, (GBr, SGi)  -  Waders flushed by a Peregrine,

                                                  Black-tailed Godwits by Steve Gibson

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)

                                                      Spotted Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Black Tern still, 

Berryhill

Whinchat, 2x Tree Pipit, (NDP)  -  Wheatear, (PSa)

                                                           Wheatear by Patrick Salt

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, 

Monday 6 September 2021

Monday 6th September 2021

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)

                                                               By Steve Edwards

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)

Sunday 5 September 2021

Sunday 5th September 2021

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)

                                                         Red Kite by Steve Edwards

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)

Saturday 4 September 2021

Saturday 4th September 2021

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, 


Friday 3 September 2021

Friday 3rd September 2021

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)

                                                          Redstart by Steve Edwards

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)

                                              Red-necked Phalarope by Jon Woodcock


Berryhill

5x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Wheatear, (RTo, NDP)

Enville

9x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Tree Pipit, (IWh)

Thursday 2 September 2021

Thursday 2nd September 2021

Berryhill

6x Whinchat, 8x Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, (NDP)  -  Redstart, Snipe, 

                                                      Whinchat by Nick Pomiankowski

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)

Wednesday 1 September 2021

Wednesday 1st September 2021

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)

                                                         Little Stints by Steve Edwards

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)