Sunday 31st October 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck, Imm Scaup, 4x Redshank, 4x Dunlin, 4x YL Gull, 

Baldwins Gate 

10x Brambling, (CPe)

Aqualate

2x imm Scaup, Ruddy Shelduck, (IGr)

Whitemoor Haye

16x Golden Plover, Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Pochard, 71x Wigeon, (SCo)

Gailey 

Juv Scaup still on fishing pool, (SRi)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

8x Goosander on first lake, (TDu)

Trescott Ford area

Brambling flew SE, ad Common Gull flew SW, 3x Stonechat, 2x Little Egret, (IMo)

Rudyard Lake

Great Egret, briefly mid morning, (SSe)

Saturday 30th October 2021

Brookleys Lake

106x Mandarin, Goosander, (RPo)  -  Dimmingsdale - 2x Goosander, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

1w Scaup, 2x Dunlin, 

Middleton Lakes

5x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Ruff, 23x Snipe, 2x Pintail, Goldeneye, 

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank (day 54), 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, Ruff, 13x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

Common Gull, Willow Tit, 13x Mandarin, 40x Wigeon, (SGi, IB)

Doxey Marsh

2x Castle Egret, (DEm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Black-tailed Godwit, Little Egret, 30x Pochard, (RPo)

Burston Marsh

Green Sandpiper, (AEa)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 6x Goosander, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

7x Goosander, 2x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Friday 29th October 2021

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, (CDa)

Belvide Resv

Ferruginous Duck and Imm Scaup still, 10x Brambling, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Ruff, Stonechat, Peregrine,

Trescott Ford

3-4 Stonechat, 20x Skylark (CVa)

Branston GPs

12x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, Ruff, 15x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 3x Water Rail, 4x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 12x Mandarin, 137x Pochard, 4x YL Gull, 6x GBB Gull, Common Gull, Barn Owl, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                           Pintails by Jon Woodcock

Thursday 28th October 2021

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 2x  Great Egret, 2x Snipe, Stonechat, (MSm)

                                                           Stonechat by Rob Bendelow

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck and Scaup still, 

Ford Green NR

Black- necked Grebe still, 2x RN Parakeet, (NDP)

Trentham Gardens

10x Little Egret, - site record count, (HF)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank (52nd day), 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 5x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 158x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, 2x Mandarin, 58x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, 220x Linnet, (JWo)

Dimmingsdale

3x Brambling, (TEy)

Wednesday 27th October

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, imm Scaup, 

Ford Green NR

Black-necked Grebe still, 

Fenton

Brambling and Goosander off Lordship Lane, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh  Creswell Flash

2x Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Barnacle Goose, 3x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, (SE,HF)

                                                        Ruddy Shelduck by Steve Edwards

Staffs

Probable Siberian Chiffchaff (tristis) trapped and ringed, (WMRG)

Tuesday 26th October 2021

Blithfield Resv

2x Whooper Swan in Blithe Bay, (KMa)  -  also 3x Dunlin, Curlew, Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 8x Goosander, 2x Stonechat, 2x Common Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, (DBa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck, 1w Scaup

Middleton Lakes

5x Pintail, Goldeneye, 3x Pochard, 5x Goosander over, 4x Water Rail, 4x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, 30x Redpoll, (MSm)

Keele

1w Med Gull, ad YL Gull, (MSu)

Ford Green NR

Black-necked Grebe still, 

Tittesworth Water

Female Merlin, 37x Wigeon, (SGi)

Ingestre

80x Pink-footed Geese over SE at 16:00, (RCB)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Goosander, (RBe)

Winkhill

Red Kite over the Peak wildlife park, (KKi)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank (50th day), 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Curlew, 2x Ruff, 5x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 10x Snipe, Water Rail, 2x Pintail, 111x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, 53x Little Grebe, 3x Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 230x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, (JW)

Monday 25th October 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 1w Scaup

Middleton Lakes

4x Pintail, Goldeneye, Redshank, 2x Great Egret, 4x Stonechat, Peregrine, (MSm)

Ford Green NR

Black-necked Grebe still, 

                                                                  By Steve Gibson

                                                                By Steve Seal

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 14x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Pintail, (CPr)  -  additional counts 6x Ruff, 3x Little Egret, 2x Pintail. 5x Goldeneye, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, (CEc)  -  Great Egret, 

Whitmore Bent Lane

5x Snipe, 4x Stonechat, 2x Brambling, Fieldfare, 250x Redwing, 14x Raven, (NDP)

Gailey 

Scaup still on the fishing pool, (HKi)

Cannock Chase

3x Brambling, 5x Fieldfare, 5x Crossbill, (ABl)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, 16x Snipe, Rock Pipit over, 2x Brambling, 250x Redwing, 13x Mandarin, 15x Wigeon,  Common Gull, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

3x Dunlin, (one with yellow ring 9EH on right leg and a red ring on left leg), Ringed Plover, Ruddy Shelduck, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, Wheatear, Peregrine, 3x Stonechat, Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                               Dunlin and Ringed Plover by Steve Edwards

Staffs

Sunday 24th October 2021

Whitemoor Haye

9x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Cetti's Warbler, 23x Wigeon, Stonechat, (SCo)

Ford Green NR

Black-necked Grebe still, (per SGi)

                                                               By Steve Gibson

                                                                    By Steve Seal

Silverdale CP

Merlin, 40x Golden Plover, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 1w drake Scaup, 

                                                   Ferruginous Duck by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret still, 8x Snipe, 68x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Greenfinch, (DM)

Aqualate

Female Scaup, (IGr)  -  2x Whooper Swan low over south at 15:30, TMG)

Pool Hall area

Stonechat, 80x Stock Dove, 9x Greenfinch, (IMo)

Gailey Resv

Female type Scaup on fishing lake, (MYa)

Wolfscote Dale

Dippers, Goosanders, (RBe)

                                                       Dipper by Rob Bendelow

Manifold Valley

Small flock of Common Scoter over NE at sundown, (DGH) 

Branston GPs

Rock Pipit flew thru to west calling at 16:44, Spotted Redshank, 7x Curlew, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, 8x Snipe, 80x Lapwing, 2x Pintail, 98x Pochard, 7x ad YL Gull, 12x GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 160x Linnet, 2x Little Egret,  (DSc)

Cuckoo Bank

300x Redwing, 8x Fieldfare, 2000 Jackdaw, 13x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, Woodcock, 

Tittesworth Water

12x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Curlew, (JOa)

Saturday 23rd October 2021

Knypersley Resv

21x Raven over north at 07:30, (GBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

160x Pink-footed Geese over, Ferruginous Duck still, 1w drake Scaup, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Pintail, 3x Pochard, Goldeneye, 6x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, Water Rail, Stonechat, 3x Redpoll, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

5x Golden Plover, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Goldeneye. 27x Pochard, 6x Wigeon, 11x Shoveler, YL Gull, 16x Redpoll, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Blackbank

Vis mig - 52x Brambling, 165x Chaffinch, 380x Redwing, Peregrine, (NDP)

Baldwins Gate

Brambling, (CPe)

Tittesworth Water

34x Wigeon, 10x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 4x Barnacle Geese, 11x Snipe, 59x Lapwing, 2x Common Gull, (SGi, IB)

Catholme

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 3x Redpoll, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 10x Goosander, 12x Redpoll, (JWo)

Barton

3x Yellowhammer, 20x Redwing, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 2x Pintail, 40x Shoveler, Common Gull, ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 100x Linnet, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

250x Wigeon, 40x Gadwall, 8x Fieldfare roosted, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Cuckoo Bank

100x Skylark, 50x Redpoll,

Friday 22nd October 2021

Whitemoor Haye

4x Whooper Swan thru, (SCo)

Radford Meadows

Whooper Swan on scrape Rickerscote side of the river, (CDa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck at west end, 2x Whooper Swan, 1w drake Scaup, 11x YL Gull, 1w Med Gull, Little Egret, 

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank (46th day), Common Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, 15x Curlew, 5x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Stafford 

Red Kite over Littleworth, (IWi)

Blithfield Resv

Whooper Swan, 3x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 4x Goldeneye, 6x Goosander, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, Wheatear, (SE, HF)

                                                       Whooper Swan by Steve Edwards

                                                             Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Hanbury

Marsh Tit heard and seen briefly Greave's Wood, (JWo)

Thursday 21st October 2021

Blithfield Resv

9x Whooper Swan including 3 juveniles, (GJM)  -  Drake Garganey, Goldeneye, Green Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck, Barnacle Goose, (GWi

                                                         Whooper Swans By GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

2x Whooper Swan on JW to 08:35 only, (MSm)  

Silverdale CP

4x Whooper Swan on The Void also 2x Whooper Swan over NE, vis mig - 326x Redwing, 2x Fieldfare, 5x Brambling, 5x Golden Plover, 30,330 Wood Pigeon, also 2x Stonechat, (NDP)

                                                       Whooper Swans by Phil Jones

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

9x Whooper Swan to 10:02 only,  1w drake Scaup off the dam, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Water Pipit, 2x Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Tittesworth Water

2x Swallow, 2x Common Gull, 12x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 33x Wigeon, 30x Redwing, Peregrine, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 7x Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 8x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 92x Pochard, 48x Wigeon, 136x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 253x Teal, 7x Shelduck, 57x Little Grebe, Caspian Gull, YL Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, Swallow, Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo, DSc)

Alrewas NMA

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (RBe)

Wednesday 20th October 2021

Barton under Needwood

Golden Plover over, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv 

100x Golden Plover, (MJL)

Tuesday 19th October 2021

Branston GPs

Ruddy Shelduck, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 8x Dunlin, 6x Ruff, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 28x Mandarin, 3x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 142x Pochard, 2x Common Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Green Woodpecker, 250x Linnet, Stonechat, (JWo)

                                                    Ruddy Shelduck by Jon Woodcock

Ipstones

Brambling, (SCh)

Trentham Gardens

7x Little Egret, 14x Mandarin, 7x Goosander, 8x Shoveler, (HF)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 2x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Peregrine,

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, (MSc)

Monday 18th October 2021

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret still on Creswell Flash, (DM)  -  also 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 12x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, 13x Snipe, Goosander, (DBa)

                                                       Cattle Egret by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

4x Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Pintail, 5x Shelduck, Goldeneye, YL Gull, (PAn)  -  25x Golden Plover, (CEc, Dean)  -  additional counts 15x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 39x Snipe, 139x Pochard, 7x Goldeneye, 8x Mandarin, 53x Wigeon, 76x Shoveler, 311x Teal, 12x Gadwall, 5x Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 67x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, 1500x Starling, 180x Linnet, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

35x Wigeon, 12x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 2x Snipe, (SGi)

Cannock Chase

Brambling, Siskins, (ABl)

Sunday 17th October 2021

Blithfield Resv

2x Rock Pipit on the causeway, (GJM)  -  Barnacle Goose, 5x Dunlin, 26x Golden Plover, Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Ruddy Shelduck, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 200x Linnet, 2x Stonechat, Swallow, (SE, HF)

                                                   Barnacle Goose by Steve Edwards

i54

4x Snipe, Peregrine, (JDu)

Trentham Gardens

6x Little Egret, (PBi)

Kings Bromley

4x Little Egret at the A515 lay by, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

16x Snipe, 2x Mandarin, (JOa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, Great Egret, (RRa)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 7x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, 14x Snipe, 2x Pintail, 8x Mandarin, 102x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, 2x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, (DSc)

                                                          Pintails by Dave Scattergood

Burston Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, (AEa)

Saturday 16th October 2021

Blithfield Resv

Rock Pipit briefly on the causeway, (GJM)  -  Ruddy Shelduck still, 30x Golden Plover, Barnacle Goose, (SMG)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Whooper Swan thru low SE, 2x Great Egret, 300x Lapwing, Golden Plover, 26x Wigeon, 150x Skylark, 8x Yellowhammer, 79x Linnet, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Whooper Swan heading NW at 09:55, 14x Mandarin, 22x Wigeon, (SGi, IB)

Belvide Resv

Vis mig - Rock Pipit, 2x Brambling, 475x Redwing, 100x Golden Plover, 76x Skylark, 207x Chaffinch, 2175x Wood Pigeon,  -  also Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Jack Snipe, 

Gailey Resv

27x Shoveler, Pochard, 80x Redwing, Fieldfare, Cetti's Warbler, 

Blackbank

Corn Bunting, 23x Brambling, 1175x Redwing, 705x Starling, 5900x Wood Pigeon, also a Peregrine present, (NDP)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 6x Stonechat, (RRa)

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Dunlin, Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 2x Stonechat, 

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Redshank, 14x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Snipe, 100x Lapwing, ad YL Gull, 3x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret,  200x Wigeon, 20x Gadwall, Goldeneye, ad YL Gull 6x Common Gull, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

2x Stonechat, Great Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Wigeon, also at Wychnor - Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Friday 15th October 2021

Blithfield Resv

Juv Whooper Swan over Watery Lane car par, (GJM), 2x Whooper Swan in Tad Bay, (GJM, MDJ)  -  later 5x Whooper Swan in Tad Bay, 2x Curlew, 9x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Goldeneye, Ruddy Shelduck, Goosander, 9x Little Egret, 6x Stonechat, (HF, SE)  - Swallow around the causeway, (PDo)

                                                       Whooper Swans by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

Ring tailed Hen Harrier over far side of North pit, White-fronted Goose, 3x Great Egret,2x Pintail, Black-tailed Godwit, 

Burston Marsh

Green Sandpiper, Stonechat, Wigeon, (AEa)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, (MSc)

Silverdale CP

Several Wigeon at 15:30, (PCa)

Flash - Longnor

Wheatear, 2x Curlew, 8x Lapwing, (PAn)

Branston GPs

5x Whooper Swan dropped in to roost (Ashy pit) at 18:45 probably from Blithfield, Spotted Redshank, 14x Curlew, Redshank, 4x Ruff, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 2x ad YL Gull, 5x GBB Gull, Common Gull, 30x Mandarin, Pintail, 50x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, 80x Pochard, 34x Gadwall, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Water Rail, Peregrine, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Golden Plover, (JWo)

                                                     Common Darter by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Thursday 14th October 2021

Wombourne

2700x Redwing over 07:30 to 08:30 heading west, 

Middleton Lakes

5x Pintail, 2x Great Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Stonechat, (SPA)

Trentham Gardens

1120x Redwing over west this am, 5x Little Egret, Dipper, 6x Mandarin, (RTo)  -  Female Common Scoter at 13:30,  (CBo)

Cannock Chase

Hawfinch in Abrahams Valley this am, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, (ABl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Jack Snipe from Hawkshutt's hide, adult Med Gull, 

Rudyard Lake

Rock Pipit north end, (LH)

Stafford 

12x Raven over Park Ave at 13:08, (AHa)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, Little Egret, 50x Redwing, (RBe)

                                                      Great Egret by Rob Bendelow

Tamworth Tameside NR

4x Little Egret, (MSc)

North Staffs Moors

Wheatear, 20x Redwing, (TEy)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, Redshank, Greenshank, 4x Ruff, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Dunlin, 24x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 112x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Pintail, 22x Mandarin, 2x Common Gull, YL Gull, GBB Gull, 9x Swallow, 1000x Starling, 150x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

Tittesworth Water

22x Mandarin, 40x Redwing, ((JOa, LH)

Ellastone

Red Kite west side of the River Dove, (TJe)

Wednesday 13th October 2021

Rudyard Lake

3x Dunlin thru. 700-800x Redwing over in two hours, Brambling, 14x Siskin, 2x Snipe. 17x Jay, (SSe)

Tittesworth Water

6x Common Scoter, Redshank, 14x Snipe, 4x Common Gull, 700x Redwings over, (SGi)

Enville

200 Redwings Mere Lane, (DBa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Great Egret, 

Cuckoo Bank

200x Redwing, Fieldfare, Yellowhammer,

Brankley Pastures

300x Redwing over, 20x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Redwing, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 

Tuesday 12th October 2021

Blythe Bridge

80x Pink-footed Geese over SW at 11:00, (IBr)

Audley Meadows

3x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, (PDo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Jack Snipe, 

Branston GPs

9x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 4x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 200x Lapwing, 2x Green Woodpecker, (EWi)  -  additional counts - Knot, Spotted Redshank, 3x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 14x Snipe,  212x Lapwing, 2x Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 6x Mandarin, 8x Pochard, 57x Little Grebe, 6x Redwing, Cetti's Warbler,  (JWo)

                                                           Knot by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret still, also Peregrine nearby, (BGo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x Snipe, (MSc)

Burston Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, Stonechat, (AEa)

Barton under Needwood

10x Redwing, (JWo)

Monday 11th October 2021

Newcastle

40x Pink-footed Geese flew west over Basford at 09:34, (SJT)  -  160x Pink-footed Geese west over Basford in three skeins at 09:35, (BCa, LCa)  -  70x Pink-footed Geese west over Seabridge this am, (RPl

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Adult Little Gull, 4x Pintail, 6x Goldeneye, 2x YL Gull, Ringed Plover, Peregrine, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Creswell Flash, (PAn)

Blithfield Resv

2x Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, 6x Stonechat, 3x Goosander, (SE, HF)

                                                       Ringed Plovers by Steve Edwards

Dimmingsdale

8x Redwing, 2x Tree Sparrow, (TEy)

                                                    Tree Sparrows by Terry Eyre

Middleton Lakes

77x Golden Plover, 3x Pintail, (SPA)

Sunday 10th October 2021

Blithfield Resv

80x Pink-footed Geese going east 2 miles north of Blithe Bay, 2x Whooper Swan Tad Bay, (GJM, MPR)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wheatear, Little Stint, Black-necked Grebe, Goosander, 1w Med Gull, 

Enville

3x Brambling, c100x Chaffinch, 3x Redwing, (IWh)

Chasewater

Wheatear on north heath hill,  (IWh)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, Redshank, 8x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 15x Curlew, 7x Dunlin, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 3x Pintail, Green Woodpecker, Water Rail, 5x Stonechat, (CEc, Dean)  -  2x Peregrine, (JWo)

Alvecote

Red Kite thru NE at 08:20, Great Egret, Little Egret, (MSc)

Trentham Gardens

4x Little Egret, 7x Mandarin, 5x Wigeon, (PBi)

Tittesworth Water

21x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, Common Gull, 2x Wigeon, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

Merlin, (JOa)

Ford Green

2 to 4x Ring-necked Parakeet, (SGi)

                                                         By Steve Gibson

Berryhill

10x Stonechat still, Wheatear, (PDo)

Burston Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, Stonechat, Wigeon, 2x Swallow, (AEa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Dunlin, 18x Stonechat, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Swallow, (MBo and WeBS team)

Saturday 9th October 2021

Whitemoor Haye

3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Greenshank over, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x Curlew, 375x Lapwing, 192x Wigeon, Goldeneye, 13x Pochard, (SCo)  -  2x Red Kite, Stonechat, (RBe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Ruff, 28x Snipe, 3x Pintail, Goosander, 2x Great Egret, 3x Stonechat, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

First winter drake Red-breasted Merganser in Blithe Bay, (GJM)

                                                          Record shot by GJ Mant

Tittesworth Water

250x Pink-footed Geese over also Great Egret, (SGi, IB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, 9x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Pintail, 

Cannock Chase

Ring-necked Parakeet over Marquis Drive, (SWa)

Branston GPs

Grey Plover thru at 07:40, Spotted Redshank still, 2x Redshank, 8x Ruff, Greenshank, 12x Curlew, 7x Dunlin, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 23x Snipe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Water Rail, 13x Mandarin, Little Egret, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 4x Redwing, (CEc)

Friday 8th October 2021

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover top of Blithe Bay at 08:30, Whinchat,2x Stonechat, fem Scaup still, Ruddy Shelduck, 6x Goosander, 3x ad YL Gull, 6x Ringed Plover, 10x Dunlin, Curlew, 258x Linnet, Peregrine,  (SRi)

                                                         Grey Plover by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

2x Ruff, Great Egret, 3x Pintail, (SPA)

Berryhill

12x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, (NDP)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Pectoral Sandpiper briefly at 14:00 also Little Stint, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret still also Red Kite, (GSa)

Axe Edge

30x Golden Plover, (JGr)

Thursday 7th October 2021

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, 6x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Arctic Tern, 42x Redwing, 

Berryhill

16x Redwing over, 8x Stonechat, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes

3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 

Tittesworth Water)

22x Mandarin, 6x Goosander, 18x Pink-footed Geese, (JOa, LH)

Cannock Chase

3x Crossbill, 5x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker,

Chasewater

11x Goosander, 8x Wigeon, (CMa, RFe)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank (for its 31st day),  Redshank, 4x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Ruff, 12x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 23x Snipe, 108x Lapwing, 5x Pintail, 47x Pochard, 28x Wigeon, 32x Gadwall, 98x Shoveler, 61x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, Caspian Gull, YL Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, 60x Linnet, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat,  (JWo, CEc,) 

                                         Spotted Redshank and Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Dimmingsdale

6x Redwing, 26x Mandarin, (TEy)

Wednesday 6th October 2021

Blackbank

1125x Pink-footed Geese over north this morning, 8x Redwing, (NDP)

Berryhill

470x Pink-footed Geese over east 09:10 to 09:30, (RTo)

Stafford

 Peregrine this morning, (BGo)

Burntwood

2x Crossbill, (HLl)

Tittesworth Water

8x Mandarin, 9x Goosander, Swallow, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 15x Dunlin, Greenshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Great Egret, Scaup, 3x Stonechat, 10x Swallow, Whinchat, 250x Linnet, 5x Little Egret, (SE,HF)

                                                      Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Wheatear, Stonechat, Red Kite, 4x Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 12x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 10x Mandarin, 67x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 60x Linnet, (JWo, CEc, Dean, Stu)

Wheatear by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Tuesday 5th October 2021

Halfpenny Green

Merlin, also a Fieldfare, (MMo)

Middleton Lakes

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

Burston Marsh

Green Sandpiper, 4x Swallow, (AEa)

Branston GPs

6x Ruff, 16x Curlew, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 8x Snipe, 4x Pintail, 17x Pochard, 3x Common Gull, YL Gull, Water Rail, Hobby, c100 Pied Wagtail, 60x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Woodpecker. (JWo)

                                                          Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Monday 4th October 2021

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret still on Creswell Flash, also 3x Great Egret, (GSa)

Boundary near Cheadle

Greenland Wheatear in field near farm, (WWa)

Blithfield Resv

Female type Scaup still in mouth of Blithe Bay, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (PFo)

Whitemoor Haye

Peregrine, Hobby, 10x Snipe, (RBe)

Sunday 3rd October 2021

Whitemoor Haye

9x Grey Partridge, 7x Dunlin, 175x Lapwing, c200x Skylark, 28x Wigeon, Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

4x Great Egret, Black-necked Grebe, 4x Pintail, Goosander, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Fem type Scaup in Blithe Bay, 2x Great Egret, Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 2x Little Stint, 9x Dunlin, 14x Ringed Plover, 5x ad YL Gull, (SRi)  -  additionally 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Greenshank, 2x Little Stint, 9x Little Egret, 5x Pintail, 4x Goosander, (SE, HF)

                                                Black-tailed Godwits by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Creswell Flash, 2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Stonechat, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (GRu)  -  later 2x Cattle Egret, (RRa)

Burston Marsh

Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (AEa)

Trescott Ford

3x Stonechat, 20x Skylark, (IMo)

Wolfscote Dale

Dipper, Peregrine, (RBe)

                                                          Dipper by Rob Bendelow

Branston GPs

15x Curlew, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, 16x Snipe, 4x Pintail, 22x Mandarin, 60x Pochard, 70x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, Little Egret, (DSc)

Saturday 2nd October 2021

Stoke on Trent

30x Pink-footed Geese over south as viewed from Berryhill, 417x Meadow Pipits thru south over Berryhill, (NDP)

Gailey Resv

5x Pochard, 16x Shoveler, 181x Lapwing, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

Black-necked Grebe still, 4x Pintail, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x Great Egret, Stonechat, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Rock Pipit flew east towards the dam, Hobby, 372x Meadow Pipit thru, 

Ford Green

Ring-necked Parakeet feeding on Sunflowers in allotments on south side of Ford Green Road, (JJo)

Branston GPs

The long staying Spotted Redshank still, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ruff, 15x Dunlin, 14x Snipe, Curlew, 3x Pintail, (CEc)  -  imm Marsh Harrier briefly between 16:25 and 17:15, also 15x Curlew, Little Egret, 10x Wigeon, 50x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

9x Dunlin, 300x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 6x Wigeon, 4x Tree Sparrow, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 5x Snipe, (MSc)

Friday 1st October 2021

Middleton Lakes

Black-necked Grebe, Bittern, (SPA)  -  Peregrine, 

Blithfield Resv

Female Merlin south thru Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  2x Little Stint, 8x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Greenshank, (GWi)  additionally 3x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 5x Pintail,  Hobby, 82x Wigeon, (SE, HF)

                                                            Great Egret by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ruddy Shelduck, 

Enville

Hobby, 5x Goosander, (IWh)

Tittesworth Water

11x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 4x Barnacle Geese, (JOa)

Burston Marsh

Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, Stonechat, (AEa)

Cannock Chase

6x Crossbill, 7x Stonechat, (ABl)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 3x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 8x Dunlin, 7x Ruff, 15x Curlew, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 32x Snipe, 206x Lapwing, 5x Little Egret, 4x Pintail, 8x Mandarin, 69x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 120x Linnet, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                  Spotted Redshank by Jon Woodcock

Staffs