Sunday 31st July 2022

Botteslow Flash

Redshank 08:35 to 08:45 at least. (RTo)

                                                         Record shot by Russell Toon

Whitemoor Haye

12x Redshank, Dunlin, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 126x Lapwing, 10x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, Goldeneye, 5x Tree Sparrow (inc 3 juvs), 4x Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  Wood Sandpiper on Bewicks Pit, (TPe)

Chasewater

2x drake Common Scoter,

Doxey Marsh

5x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, (DM)

Blithfield Resv

17x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 4x Greenshank, 2x Curlew, 10x Common Sandpiper, juv Med Gull, Hobby, Little Egret, (RPo)  -  20x Black-tailed Godwit this afternoon, (AMa)  -  additional 2x Knot, LRP, Juv Med Gull, 6x YL Gull, Black-tailed Godwit up to 22, 10x Little Egret, Peregrine, (RSw)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

58x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 14x Common Sandpiper, 3x Med Gull, 

Rudyard Lake

9x Little Egret, Dunlin, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, (JOa, LH)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern, 16x Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 2x Redstart,  (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

13x Avocet, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 17x Little Egret, (MSc)

Branston GPs

10x Black-necked Grebe, 9x Avocet, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 11x Curlew, 7x Snipe, 120x Pochard, 3x Mandarin, 6x ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 15x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, 5x Barnacle Geese, (DSc)

Chatterley Whitfield

Barn Owl this evening, (PMo)

Saturday 30th July 2022

Uttoxeter Quarry

Cuckoo, Great Egret, Little Egret, Redshank, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, (PJo)

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, 2x LRP, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 3x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

4x LRP, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2x Ruff, 4x Little Egret, Hobby, 3x ad YL Gull, c55 Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (SRi)

Berryhill

Juv Redstart by the stone bridge, (BMo)  -  Redstart by the second stone bridge this evening, (IBu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

9x Whimbrel thru south at 13:05, fem Garganey still, 

Aqualate 

Juv Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 2x Egyptian Geese, (RPo)

BranstonGPs

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 6x ad YL Gull, 3x ad Common Gull, 12x Common Tern, Little Egret, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Friday 29th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Dunlin, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 3x Greenshank, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit,15x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Curlew, 15x Common Sandpiper, 16x Oystercatcher, 7x Little Egret, (SE,HF)

                                                      Sanderling by Steve Edwards

Alvecote

Redstart, Common Tern, Little Egrets, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSc)

Yoxall

Little Egret over at 16:05, (BCG)

Branston GPs

10x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, Pochard, 2x Garden Warbler, (MKe, JKe)  -  10x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, 3x LRP, 5x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, 20x Gadwall, Mandarin, 6x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean, JAl, APa)  -  also fem Pintail, 115x Pochard, 6x Snipe, 6x ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 20x Common Tern, (DSc)

Stanley Pool

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (SGi)

Rudyard Lake

Redshank, 5x Little Egret, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water 

Barn Owl, (SGi)

Branston Water Park

Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, Wigeon, (DSc)

Froghall

Red Kite, (JMi)

Thursday 28th July 2022

Stanley Pool

LRP, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Pochard, (ALa)

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

5x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, LRP, (JOa, LH)

Alrewas 

Grasshopper Warbler reeling near Alrewas Lock, (SCo)

Berryhill

Juv Redstart near the Viewpoint, (MKe, JKe)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 16x Curlew, 114x Lapwing, 3x Water Rail, 9x Little Egret, 139x Pochard, 6x YL Gull, 4x Common Gull, 30x Common Tern, Peregrine, 5x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                            YL Gull by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 27th July 2022

Stanley Pool

4x Redshank, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

Knot, 4x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew,  (MJa)  -  also 9x Common Sandpiper, 11x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Snipe, 3x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x YL Gull, Hobby, 2x Little Egret,  (DBa, SE, HF)  -  also 8x YL Gull, 45+ Common Tern, (SRi)

                                                            Knot by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 3x LRP inc juv, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 8x Water Rail with young,  Mandarin, (MBo)

Alvecote

5x Little Egret, Common Tern, (MSc)

Brankley Pastures

2x Hobby, 8x Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tuesday 26th July 2022

Rudyard lake

Whimbrel briefly  at 06:45, 4x Little Egret, 2x Willow Tit, (EWi)

Blithfield Resv

Short-eared Owl perched on a post at Admaston Reach at 10:00, (DRo)  -  2x juv Med Gull this am, (GJM)  -  Knot, (MJa)  -  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, 6x Snipe, 

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, 2x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 2x Ringed Plover, Hobby, (MSm)

Endon

2x Willow Tit, (DCo)

Stanley Pool

2x Redshank, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (DCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Turnstone thru, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, Med Gull, 7x YL Gull, Hobby, Peregrine, 

Kings Bromley

Little Egret in River Trent from the layby and a Great Egret further downstream, (BCG)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 1s Common Gull, 3x Common Tern, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Partridge, 19x Little Egret, 31x Common Tern, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x LRP, Green Sandpiper, (SCo)

Branston GPs

13x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, 6x Common Tern, 3x Water Rail, (BPu)

Westport

100x Swift, (AR)

Monday 25th July 2022

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (ALa)

Chasewater

2x Black-necked Grebe off south shore at 08:30, 

                                                                  By Derek Lees

Blithfield Resv

3x Cattle Egret south of Dairy House plantation but flighty, (GJM)

                                                                    By GJ Mant

Bramshall

4x Red Kite off the road to Stone

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Fem Garganey still, 2x juv Med Gull, 4x YL Gull, Redshank, 13x Common Sandpiper, 16x LRP, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 

Rudyard Lake

2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Redstart, (SSe)

High Carr

Peregrine, (CBa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 8x Green Sandpiper, Redshank (juv), 6x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 123x Lapwing, 9x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, 137x Pochard, 37x Shelduck, 12x Common Tern, Common Gull, 5x YL Gull, Hobby, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, (MKe, JKe)

Sunday 24th July 2022

Stanley Pool

2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 6x Goosander, 3x Shelduck, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Bittern briefly in the Staffs  corner of FM, (MSm)

Botteslow Flash

Redstart, (BMo)  -  nearby a Redstart still in paddock east of the end of Spedding Road, (BMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Avocet, 2x Whimbrel thru south at 10:00,  fem Garganey still, juv Med Gull, 

Enville

2x Red Kite, 2x Egyptian Geese, Peregrine The Mere, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

2x Sanderling, 3x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 2x Snipe, 7x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 50x Common Tern, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

14x Little Egret, 5x Great Egret, 6x LRP, 46x Lapwing, Grey Partridge, several Tree Sparrow, Goldeneye, Peregrine, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 85x Lapwing, 4x Common Tern, 9x Mandarin, Redstart, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

3x Little Egret, LRP, (JOa, LH)

Cuckoo Bank

Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x juv Stonechat, Hobby, 

Alvecote 

Green Sandpiper, Little Egrets, (MSc)

Saturday 23rd July 2022

Middleton Lakes

Female Goldeneye on reedbed pool, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x juv LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Avocet, 2x Snipe, Dunlin, 2x Wigeon, Barn Owl, Yellow Wagtail,  (SPA)

Coven 

Whinchat, Green Woodpecker, (JDu)

Rudyard Lake

Great Egret, LRP, 4x Goosander, (SGi)

                                                         Great Egret by Steve Gibson

Blithfield Resv

Juv Marsh Harrier over Duckley plantation, (MPR, GJM)  -  3x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 6x Black-trailed Godwit, Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP,  (GWi)

Gailey Resv

3x Common Tern, (IMo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, (DB)

Berryhill

Whinchat near barn on south side of Palletstacks track, Redstart in paddock east of the end of Spedding Road, (RTo)

Yoxall

Fem Redstart, (BCG)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Fem Garganey, 2x Dunlin, 12x Common Sandpiper, 4x juv LRP, 4x Snipe, 2x Tree Sparrow, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, 

Friday 22nd July 2022

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper and a Red Kite over Drayton Bassett at 09:05, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

First returning Arctic Tern off Beech Tree Point, (GJM)  -  also 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 19x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 11x Dunlin, 21x LRP, 20x Oystercatcher, 2x Redshank, 3x Greenshank, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, 2x Sanderling, juv Wheatear, 6x Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                         Wheatear by Steve Edwards

                                                        Sanderling by Steve Edwards

Tucklesholme

10x Goosander, 4x Little Egret, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Black Tern, Arctic Tern 13x Common Tern, Turnstone, 2x Sanderling, 5x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Snipe, fem Garganey, 2x Hobby, Little Egret, 

Berryhill

Little Egret on "20 foot pool" (IBu)

Thursday 21st July 2022

Blithfield Resv

Knot Tad Bay, (GJM)  - also 3x Sanderling, Turnstone, 17x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, LRP, 4x Snipe, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 4x Redshank, 3x Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper,  (GWi)

Middleton Lakes

4x Avocet, Oystercatcher, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, c15 Common Tern, 6x Little Egret, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm, SPA)

                                                     Common Tern by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

7x Redshank. 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Redstart, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

2x Dunlin, LRP, Common Sandpiper, (JOa, LH)

Tuckleshome and Branston Leas

Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  - 2x Ruddy Shelduck on the spit at Tucklesholme, (ADe)

Silverdale CP

2x Redstart (male and juv) this evening, (PCa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

8x Common Sandpiper, 5x Redshank, 10x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 2x Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 5x juv Stonechat, 

Wednesday 20th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 4x Avocet, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

3x Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DBa)  -  4x Great Egret, (GSa)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank on Bewicks Pit also Great Egret, (TPe)

Blithfield Resv

10x Black-tailed Godwit, 21x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 15x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 27x LRP, 21x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Snipe, Common Scoter, Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, (SE, HF)

Branston GPs

4x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 31x Shelduck, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

13x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 16x LRP, Dunlin, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 5 juv Stonechat, juv Redstart, fem Garganey, YL Gull, 2x Hobby, 

Tuesday 19th July 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Female Garganey still 

Botteslow Flash

4x Little Egret early am also 3x LRP, (RTo)

                                                              By Russell Toon

Axe Edge

2x Red Kite, (JGr)

Sneyd Green

Red Kite at 11:30, (EB)

Monday 18th July 2022

The juvenile Med Gull pictured on the blog by Steve Edwards on 15 July had travelled 613 miles in 32 days from Saxony in Germany. When tagged on the 13 June, it was a chick and unable to fly.

Stanley Pool

4x Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 200+ Swallows/Martins mainly Swallows, (GBr)  -  additionally 2x Common Sandpiper later, (DCo)

                                                          Tawny Owl by Dominic Collins

Yoxall

Red Kite over at 12:10, (BCG)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite over fields to the NE of Resv, (JTu)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, 10x Common Sandpiper, 105x Lapwing, Peregrine, 4x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Whiston

2x Red Kite circling around at 14:30, (GSt)

Belvide Resv WMBC members only)

Fem Garganey still, Green Sandpiper, 

Sunday 17th July 2022

Stanley Pool

3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Norbury

Red Kite over A519, (RPl)

Ipstones

Red Kite circling at 10:00, (SCh)

Whiston

Red Kite over at 12:55, (GSt)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Fem Garganey still, Whinchat, 2x juv Stonechat, juv Redstart, 

Tittesworth Water

18x LRP, 12x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, Goosander, Green Woodpecker, (JOa, LH)  -  Red Kite at 16:15,  (KBr)

Rudyard

3x Common Tern, (JOa, LH)

Morridge Top

4x Red Kite over recently mown field, (CBe)

Sideway

Common Sandpiper on fishing pool near Bet 365 stadium, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Avocet, Common Sandpiper,  Hobby, 12x Common Tern, 

Berryhill

Barn Owl by the scrape at 20:45 quartering the fields, (AJo)

Saturday 16th July 2022

Blithfield Resv

Female Common Scoter in Tad Bay, (MPR, GJM)

Tittesworth Water

Peregrine, 2x Little Egret, 72x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi, IB)

Knypersley Resv

Juv Shelduck, Hobby, (GBr)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (DCo)

Doxey Marsh

5x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, 5x Common Tern, (DEm)  -  3x Great Egret this am, (JTu)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Barn Owl this evening, (PMo)

Friday 15th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

5x Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Avocet, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 12x Common Tern, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat in Blithe Bay along with the first Common Gull of the Autumn, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Sanderling, 23x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 22x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x juv Med Gull with yellow leg rings, Common Gull, 8x YL Gull, Hobby, Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                     Juv Med Gull by Steve Edwards

                                                         Sanderling by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

2x Hobby and a juv Whinchat this am, (RTo)

Chasewater

Drake Common Scoter, 4x Common Tern, 

Bramshall

Red Kite over west at 15:15, (JTu)

Alton

Red Kite, (TEy)

                                                                    By Terry Eyre

Burton

Ring necked Parakeet on Belvedere Road in Leylandii trees by old sports club, (SGa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only

Juv Wheatear, 14x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 14x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 7x Black-tailed Godwit at dusk,  3x Hobby, 3x Common Tern, Little Egret, fem Garganey, 

Ipstones

Red Kite, (SCh)

Grindley

Red Kite floating low over fields off the A518 at 18:30, (RSw)

Branston GPs

2x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 16x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 7x Water Rail, 3x Little Egret, 96x Pochard, 28x Shelduck (23 juvs), 5x Common Tern, YL Gull, 5x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, JAl)

Thursday 14th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 12x juv Avocet, 2x juv Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Great Wyrley

Red Kite over south at 10:45, (IGr)

Tittesworth Water

17x LRP, 12x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 100x Lapwing, 4x Common Tern, 23x Goosander, Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Red Kite, (LH, JOa, DCo)

Blithfield Resv

10x YL Gull, Ruff, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Blithe Bay (JAl)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Arctic Tern, 

Knypersley Resv

2x Oystercatcher, Green Woodpecker, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (PMo)

Three Lows

Red Kite over the B5417, (GSt)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 63x Lapwing, 5x Water Rail, 7x Little Egret, 99x Pochard, 6x Mandarin, Snow Goose, 2x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Hobby, 5x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, LRP, Oystercatcher, Common Tern, (DB)

Wednesday 13th July 2022

Leek

2x Peregrine over Park Road at 08:45, (EWi)  -  also two Peregrines over John Street at 19:10, (RWi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Little Egret, 62x Lapwing, (SGi)

Knypersley Resv

2x Spotted Flycatcher, 6x Grey Wagtail, (PMo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Wood Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Common Sandpiper, 26x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 50x Common Tern, 15x Oystercatcher, 9x Goosander, 9x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, (SE, HF)

                                                 Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

11x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 15x LRP, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 

Weaver Hills

Red Kite at 13:15, (TJe)

Tuesday 12th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

Curlew thru, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 14x Avocet inc 9x juvs, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank mid afternoon but no further sign later, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 7x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Water Rail, 5x Little Egret, 24x Shelduck inc 16 juvs, 4x Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, Garden Warbler, (DBa, JWo, CEc, Dean, etal),

                                                     Common Gull by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (GSa)

Monday 11th July 2022

Endon

Willow Tit, (DCo)

Alvecote

Hobby, 2x Little Egret, Common Tern, (MSc)

Blithfield Resv

3x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit thru, 4x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, (BCG)

Stafford

2x Hobby over Park Av at 17:05, (AHa)

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Great  Egret on Doxey pool, (AR)

Sunday 10th July 2022

Blithfield Resv

2x Wood Sandpiper in Tad Bay, (MPR, GJM)  -  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Redshank, 2x LRP, 12x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, (MJa)

Chasewater

6x Common Scoter half way along dam, (RSo)

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher plus juv, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Rudyard Lake

7x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, Little Egret, Redstart, (JOa, LH, DC)

Tittesworth Water

18x LRP, 14x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Common Tern, Mandarin, Goosander, (JOa, LH, KH)  -  2x Green Sandpiper, (KKe, JKe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

16x Common Sandpiper, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, 6x LRP, Curlew, 2x Hobby, Little Egret, 

Bradley in the Moors

4x Red Kite over mown fields, (TEy)

Dunstall

4x Green Woodpecker near Smiths Hill cottages, (JWo)

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher by Gawtons stone, (GBr)

Branston GPs

3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 4x YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, 6x Barnacle Geese + 4x hybrid juvs, 25x juv Shelduck, 5x juv Mandarin, 90x Pochard, 3x Little Egret, (DSc)

Saturday 9th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

13x Avocet, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, Wigeon, (MSc)

Westport Lake

2x drake Common Scoter, (NJS)

Tittesworth Water

6x Shelduck, 4x Common Tern, 6x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (SGi, IB, TJ, GB)

Church Leigh

Red Kite this am, (CTa)

                                                                  By Chris Taylor

Blithfield Resv

12x Black-tailed Godwit Tad Bay late afternoon also 2x Curlew, (JBa)

Whitemoor Haye

17x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Tree Sparrow, Goldeneye, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA

6x Goosander, 4x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Woodpecker, Alrewas to Barton 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Branston GPs

19x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 13x Curlew, 2x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, (DSc)

Friday 8th July 2022

Blithfield Resv

2x drake Common Scoter in Tad Bay, (RPo)  -  3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Little Egret, YL Gull, 3x Common Tern, (BCG)

                                                        Common Scoters by GJ Mant

Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Peregrine, (RTo)

Middleton Lakes

Green Sandpiper, (DCo)   -  6x Avocet, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 

Bucknall

2x Ringed-necked Parakeet, (BLa)

Stone

2x Red Kite over at 13:40, 

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Cuckoo, Peregrine, 4x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Thursday 7th July 2022

Tittesworth Water

Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Redstart, Goosander, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

 

                                                  Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

Rocester JCB

6x Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, 10x Egyptian Geese, (AR)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

15x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 8x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern,

Wolseley NR

Osprey over at 11:30 being harassed by 2 Common Terns, (SRi)

Branston GPs

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 10x Curlew, 12x Oystercatcher, Water Rail, 2x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Barnacle Geese, (JWo)

Wednesday 6th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, (SPA)

Doxey Marsh

3x Black-tailed Godwit on Tillington flash, (RRa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 14x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (NDP)

Cheddleton

2x Red Kite over 07:45 and one over Leekbrook at 15:15, (MKe)  -  Cheddleton Heath Red Kite circling at 17:00, (PCa)

Branston GPs

Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 2x Common Tern, ad Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean, Bob, TWy)

Tuesday 5th July 2022

Middleton Lakes

23x Avocet inc 14 juvs, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Dunlin, Great Egret, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Hobby, Oystercatcher, (DB)

Branston GPs

Wood Sandpiper at Ashy pit, Wood Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 83x Pochard, 43x Shelduck (inc 26 juvs), 4x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 4x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                   Wood Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Church Leigh

Little Owl this am, (CTa)

                                                                By Chris Taylor

Blithfield Resv

18x LRP, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Redshank, 2x Little Egret, 3x Tree Sparrow, 2x Garden Warbler, (DBa)

Bucknall

Willow Tit, (DLe)

                                                                 By Dean Leese

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 

Monday 4th July 2022

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret on Creswell Flash, (RRa)

Tucklesholme

3x Common Tern, (BGe)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Common Tern, Garden Warbler, (BGe)

Barton Marina

Common Tern, (BGe)

Branston GPs

12x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, 9x Egyptian Geese, 12x Shelduck +15 Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, (JWo, CEc, Dean, JAl)

Leekbrook

Red Kite over the A520, (PCa)

Ipstones

Red Kite at 16:15, (SCh)

Sunday 3rd July 2022

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Snipe, 21x Avocet, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Halfpenny Green

Red Kite over the airport, Wheatear Leaton Lane, Spotted Flycatcher, Mill Lane Enville, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank, Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, (RPo)

Cannock

Red Kite over Huntington at 11:33, (AHa)

Littleton

Great Egret by old quarry pool at 12:20, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 18x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 10x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

Sub ad Med Gull, ad YL Gull, (NJS)  -  Turnstone, c70x Black-tailed Godwit in Blithe Bay, (GJM, NJS)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 5x LRP, 11x Little Egret, Great Egret, Goldeneye, Tree Sparrows, 7x Common Tern, Corn Bunting, Lesser Whitethroat, (SCo)

Cuckoo Bank

Ad Med Gull, Hobby, confirmed Yellow Wagtail, bred, 

Saturday 2nd July 2022

Tittesworth Water

Little Tern, Hobby, 8x Redstart, 11x Curlew, 13x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 7x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi, IB, KH, SS)

                                                         Little Tern by Steve Gibson

Doxey Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (DM)

Rudyard Lake

5x Little Egret, 5x Redstart, (SSe)

Catholme

5x Green Sandpiper, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler and 2x Common Tern Alrewas to Wychnor, (JWo)

Green Lane to Barton

3x Common Tern, 6x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Ipstones

Red Kite at 14:15, (TJe)

Totmonslow

2x Red Kite, (per GSt)

Friday 1st July 2022

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 24x Avocet, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, Pochard, (NDP)

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP,

Cheadle

2x Red Kite over, (per GSt)