Wednesday 31 August 2022

Wednesday 31st August 2022

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier thru at 08:20, 4x Garganey, 10x Wigeon,  Goldeneye, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 3x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4x Great Egret, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

4x Dunlin, 2x Curlew, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 21x Little Egret, Great Egret, 30x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (DBa, KM, PB)

Berryhill

5x Whinchat, 6x Redstart, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Willow Tit, (NDP)

North Staffs Moors

Marsh Harrier at Middle Hills, (TMe)

                                                     Marsh Harrier by Tammy Mellor

Tucklesholme - Branston Leas

Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 12x Gadwall, 6x Teal, (JWo)

Ebstree

12x Yellow Wagtail in far paddock, Wheatear, (CVa, IMo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Ruff, 4x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 

Tuesday 30 August 2022

Tuesday 30th August 2022

Stanley Pool

Osprey over at 06:50, also Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 23x Teal, (SSe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 5x Great Egret, Dunlin, 5x Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  also Hobby, 6x Little Egret, (MSc)  -  at least 3x Garganey this afternoon, Greenshank, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Peregrine, 6x Goosander, 14x Teal, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

c50 Yellow Wagtail, (GJM)  -  juv Black Tern near causeway from Beech Tree point, 11x Dunlin, Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Wigeon,  (SCa)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher,  (AWa)

Alvecote

5x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (TPe)

Berryhill

5x Whinchat and 3x Wheatear from the Palletstacks this evening, (IBu)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 13x Yellow Wagtail, Curlew over, 4x Swift, poss YL Gull, Teal, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 16x Snipe, Ruff, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret,, 4x Water Rail, 3x Black-necked Grebe, 84x Little Grebe, Pintail, 125x Pochard, 4x Wigeon, 53x Shoveler, 37x Gadwall, 2x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                          Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Monday 29 August 2022

Monday 29th August 2022

Blithfield Resv

Merlin on causeway wall, (GJM)

Berryhill

9x Wheatear, 3x Whinchat, 3x Redstart, (RTo)

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey still, 3x Great Egret, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, (MBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper still, juv Goshawk, 11x Ringed Plover, 4x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtails, 

Stafford

Red Kite over Beacon Hill this morning, (IW)

Tucklesholme

Arctic Tern briefly at 11:00 also 2x Egyptian Geese, (BGe)

Cuckoo Bank

3x Whinchat, 5x Redstart, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 3x Black-ailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 21x Snipe, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Water Rail (inc 2 young), (MBo)

Loynton Moss

5x Spotted Flycatcher, (ALo)

Branston GPs

14x Curlew, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Ruff, 7x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 10x Snipe, 3x Black-necked Grebe, 12x Little Egret, Pintail, Wigeon, 120x Pochard, Peregrine, 4x Water Rail, 2x ad YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

                                                          Ruff by Dave Scattergood

Alvecote

Garganey, Stonechat, (MSc)

Sunday 28 August 2022

Sunday 28th August 2022

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Yellow Wagtail, fem Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (GBr)

Cuckoo Bank

Marsh Harrier over at 17:05, 5x Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Tree Pipit, 8x Wheatear, 3x Redstart, 3x Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, 

Whitemoor Haye

3x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Snipe over, 5x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 20-30x Greenfinch, 3x Tree Sparrow, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Redstart behind dam, Whinchat, 3x Wheatear by boat paddock at deep end, (AMa)  -  Male Osprey this afternoon with a blue 2AM ring hatched Manton Bay Rutland in 2017, (SSe) also Marsh Harrier over, 3x Greenshank, Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 13x Little Egret. Peregrine, (SSe)  -  3x Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 6x LRP, 22x Ringed Plover, Ruff, 3x Egyptian Geese, Great Egret, 24x Little Egret, Mandarin, Marsh Harrier, 4x Red Kite, Peregrine, 25x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)  -  32x juv Goosander dropped into Admaston Reach at 18:20 and flew off south at 19:30, also juv Merlin, (PWa)                            

 
                                                        Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Warbler in Tit flock, Osprey thru south at 09:10, Wood Sandpiper still, 36x Goosander, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Tree Pipit, Whinchat, 5x Greenshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 3x Pochard, Shelduck, 30x Teal, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Mandarin, Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Furnace Grange Farm Trescott

Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, 9x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, juv Hobby, (IMo, CVa, GCl, ADe)

Doxey Marsh

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, (DM)

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, Pintail, Peregrine, 2x YL Gull, (JWo)  -  also 3x Black-necked Grebe, 66x Little Grebe, 14x Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, 7x Wigeon, 150x Pochard, 3x Water Rail, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Greenshank, 8x Green Sandpiper, 2x Com

Alvecote

Wheatear, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Snipe, Great Egret, (MSc)

Saturday 27 August 2022

Saturday 27th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

5x Great Egret on JW north, 4x Garganey still, 5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Goldeneye, (SPA, MSm)

Berryhill

Marsh Harrier at the viewpoint 08:39 to 08:43 then drifted off west, (PBi)  -  4x Red Kites around Tiddlers pool and mown grass at 14:30, (Ed, CPi)  -  6x Whinchat still, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Wood Sandpiper still, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 7x Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, YL Gull, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Stonechat, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Doxey Marsh

8x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Whinchat, (RRa, MBo)

Cuckoo Bank

Marsh Harrier NE at 13:20, 200x Willow Warbler, 11x Garden Warbler, 6x Redstart, 3x Whinchat, Wheatear, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, 2x Stonechat, Gropper, 

Pool Hall area

Whinchat, 3x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 10x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (GCl, CVa, IMo)

Croxden Quarry

47x Barnacle Geese, 89x Greylag Geese, 2x Pintail, 14x Gadwall, (ALa)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 13x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (SGi)

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, (SGi)

Wombourne Pickerells Hill

Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, (AMP)

Blithfield Resv

Marsh Harrier, Merlin, (NJS)

Branston GPs

5x Black-necked Grebe, 12x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, 12x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Wigeon, (DSc)

Radial Park to Hanford

Willow Tit near Sideway from path, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

7x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Catholme

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Sheen - Longnore

Red Kite along the ridge at 11:45, (PAn)

Friday 26 August 2022

Friday 26th August 2022

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 10x fem Goosander, (GBr)

Cannock Chase

Whinchat on main path by Glacial boulder, (CDa)

Middleton Lakes

Whinchat in the middle of JW, 3x Garganey still, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 6x Water Rail, (MSm)  -  Osprey heading north towards North pit, 2x Hobby, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, (SB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Whimbrel on Chappell bund, Wood Sandpiper on north shore, 9x Greenshank, 8x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, YL Gull, Whinchat, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, 

Endon to Denford

3x Whinchat, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Willow Tit, 8x Snipe, Water Rail, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Yoxall

8x Barnacle Geese over at 13:15, (BGe)

Blithfield Resv

8x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, Greenshank, 16x LRP, 24x Ringed Plover, Ruff, Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Pochard, Red Kite, 21x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)  -  2x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, 6x Wheatear, 45x Yellow Wagtail, 24x Little Egret. (MDJ)

                                                    Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

4 to 6 Snipe, (JTu)

Chatterley Whitfield

Barn Owl at 20:15, (PMo)

Thursday 25 August 2022

Thursday 25th August 2022

Berryhill

Pied Flycatcher in bushes at east end of "Lap Bunt paddock", 12x Whinchat - 8 from Palletstacks and a further 4 at "Lapbunt paddock", 10x Redstart, 7x Wheatear, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Tree Pipit, Stonechat, Little Egret, GBB Gull over, Swift, (RTo, NDP)  -  Botteslow Flash - Greenshank heard calling at 19:15, (RTo)

                                         Whinchats at "Lapbunt" paddock  by Russell Toon


                                                       Spotted Flycatcher by Phil Jones

Blithfield Resv

Turnstone briefly, Whinchat, (MPR, GJM)

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey still, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, Great Egret, 4x Wigeon, (SPA, MSm)  -  4x Hobby this evening, 3x Water Rail, Goosander, 5x Green Sandpiper, (MSm)

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (ALa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Wood Sandpiper on north shore, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x YL Gull, juv Cuckoo,  2x Common Tern, Goldeneye, 6x Greenshank, 11x Common Sandpiper, 11x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Great Egret, 

Furnace Grange Road

2x Whinchat and 2x Redstart this afternoon in paddock west of road between old Holybush pub  and farm access road, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Green Sandpiper, (IMo)

Tunstall

Peregrine over, (ALo)

Rudyard Lake

3x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 6x Little Egret, 6x Goosander, Yellow Wagtail, (JOa, LH, DC)

Tittesworth Water

3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Snipe, Oystercatcher, 22x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 87x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Alvecote

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egrets, (MSc)

Branston GPs

3x Greenshank, Redshank, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Common Sandpiper, 13x Green Sandpiper, 13x Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, 17x Snipe, 14x Little Egret, Pintail, 6x Wigeon, 122x Pochard, Goosander, 12x Black-necked Grebe, 59x Little Grebe, 5x Water Rail, 6x YL Gull, Redstart, Wheatear, 22x Yellow Wagtail, Barn Owl, Hobby, Peregrine, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, DSc)

                                                        Redstart by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 24 August 2022

Wednesday 24th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey still on Canal Pool, 3x Black-railed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper 5x Snipe, Great Egret, Goldeneye, Wigeon, Water Rail, Hobby, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Marsh Harrier through west at 11:05, juv Cuckoo still, 10x Ringed Plover, 15x Common Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Greenshank, LRP, Common Tern, 

Berryhill

Stonechat, 3x Whinchat, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Redstart, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Wheatear, (RTo)

                                                            Wheatear by Clive Wood

                                                         Tree Pipit by Russell Toon

Ford Green

2x Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher on Hawthorn Hill, (JJo)

Swineholes Wood

Spotted Flycatcher, (PBe)

Blithfield Resv

6x Black Tern, Little Gull, 13x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 3x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 7x LRP, 2x Redshank, 19x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 5x Barnacle Geese, Common Gull, Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, 2x Wheatear, 35x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                            Ruff by Steve Edwards

Tuckleshome and Branston Leas

Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 40x Chiffchaff, 4x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (JWo)

                                                  Lesser Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock

Tuesday 23 August 2022

Tuesday 23rd August 2022

Middleton Lakes

4x Garganey  on canal pool headland, Red Kite, Hobby, Ringed Plover thru, Dunlin, 4x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 2x Wigeon, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Berryhill

8x Redstart, 2x Whinchat, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Cuckoo still, 15x Common Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Hobby

Blithfield Resv

24x Ringed Plover, Sanderling, Dunlin, Great Egret Tad Bay, (SCa)

Sideway

Tree Pipit over bridge to Bet 365 stadium, (RGi)

Tittesworth Water

4x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, 27x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 72x Lapwing, (PBe, SGi) 

Rudyard Lake

7x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SGi, EW)

Branston GPs

12x Black-necked Grebe, 5x Avocet, Greenshank, Redshank, Dunlin, 15x Curlew, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Common Sandpiper, 9x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 18x Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 14x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Wigeon, Pintail, 158x Pochard, 70x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, 5x YL Gull, Wheatear, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Green Woodpecker, Hobby, Peregrine, (JWo)

Monday 22 August 2022

Monday 22nd August 2022

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, Great Egret, also a Hobby over Drayton Bassett, (MSm)

Tucklesholme

5x Goosander, Little Egret, Stonechat, (BGe)

Barton Marina

3x Common Tern at 11:45, (BGe)

Ford Green

Spotted Flycatcher, c400m north of the lake on hawthorn hill, (JJo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Osprey thru at 09:25, juv Cuckoo, Hobby, Redstart, Whinchat, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Common Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 

Sandon 

Red Kite over at 13:00, (NMK)

Rudyard Lake

7x Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (SGi, DC)

Tittesworth Water

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 62x Lapwing, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

6x Black Tern, Little Gull, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 8x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 10x LRP, Redshank, 26x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, 35x Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite, 20x Barnacle Geese, (SE, HF)

                                                    Yellow Wagtail by Steve Edwards

                                                      Ringed Plovers by Steve Edwards


                                                         Greenshank by Rob Bendelow

Alvecote

Osprey over at 14:45, (LSm)

Berryhill

3x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, (RTo)  -  3x Redstart, Whinchat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (NDP)

Cannock Chase

3x Nightjar still this evening, (BCh)

Sunday 21 August 2022

Sunday 21st August 2022

Rudyard Lake

11x Shelduck, Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH, GBr)  

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, Ruff, 7x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern still Blithe Bay juv Little Gull , 3x Ruff, 4x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, Hobby, 5x YL Gull, (PAn)   -  6x Black Tern this afternoon, (@Ochruros, MYa)  -  also 34x Ringed Plover in Tad Bay tonight, (SE,HF)

                                                        Greenshank by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

4x Whinchat still south side of the Palletstacks track behind the sheds, also 5x Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (IBu)

Hixon Airfield

2x Whinchat mid day, (RSw)

Baddeley Green

Osprey over west at 15:20, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Oystercatcher, 15x Mandarin, Goosander, Yellowhammer, 128x Lapwing, (JOa, LH, KH)

Cuckoo Bank

4x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, Corn Bunting, Lesser Whitethroat, Hobby, Peregrine, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

20x Common Sandpiper, 7x Greenshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Whinchat, Hobby, Arctic Tern thru, Tree Pipit, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 

Alvecote

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Yellowhammer, 2x Common Tern, Hobby, (MSc)

Barton under Needwood

Yellow Wagtail over, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

Hobby, 1s YL Gull, and 3x Yellow Wagtail at Otherton, (SRi)

Branston GPs

10x Black-necked Grebe, 4x Avocet, 14x Curlew, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Redshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 12x Snipe, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 9x Little Egret, Peregrine, 3x Water Rail, (DSc)

Branston WP

6x Little Egret, Greenshank, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, (DSc)

Saturday 20 August 2022

Saturday 20th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

Garganey on Canal pool, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Little Gull, 2x Black Tern, 40x Common Tern, Ringed Plover, Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, 3x Ruf

Knypersley Resv

Willow Tit, (GBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

18x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, juv Cuckoo, Whinchat, Hobby, Peregrine, 

Sandon

Red Kite over the A51, (SBe)

Rudyard Lake

5x Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (SGi,IB)  -  also Hobby and Redshank up to 6, (SMC)

Tittesworth Water

2x Green Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 56x Lapwing, 7x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

12x Black-necked Grebe, 4x Avocet, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 12x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 9x Snipe, 4x ad YL Gull, 2x Common Tern, 8x Little Egret, Pintail, 135x Pochard, 2x Water Rail, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

2x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Friday 19 August 2022

Friday 19th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Ruff, 6x Snipe, (MSm)  -  2x Green Sandpiper, 

Berryhill

6x Whinchat in paddocks near the top end of the  Palletstacks track on the south side near the sheds, 2x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, (RTo)  -  8x Whinchat, 4x Redstart, 3x Tree Pipit,  (NDP)  -  Barn Owl again this evening, (IBu)

Blithfield Resv

Marsh Harrier over Duckley plantation at 11:15, (GJM, MDJ)  -  3x Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Little Gull, 3x Black Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Hobby, Peregrine, (GWi).  -  Great Egret, (CTa)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

5x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 3x Mandarin, (PBe)

Enville

3x Red Kite, Goshawk, 14x Buzzard, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, Yellow Wagtail, (IWh)

Tucklesholme

2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 8x Goosander, Little Egrets, (RSi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

12x Common Sandpiper, 6x Ringed Plover, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Redshank, 7x Snipe, 2x Greenshank, 2x Whinchat, 

Baggeridge Park

Dipper over Island pool at 16:30  (GCl)

Branston GPs

2x Whinchat, Wheatear, Redstart, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, 2x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 13x Green Sandpiper, 18x Snipe, 12x Curlew, 109x Lapwing, 152x Pochard, 7x Little Egret, Water Rail, 13x Black-necked Grebe, 5x Common Tern, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  -  also Peregrine, 2x ad YL Gull, 3x Mandarin, 2x Water Rail, (DSc)

Thursday 18 August 2022

Thursday 18th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey on Canal pool, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Goldeneye, Wigeon, (MSm)

Berryhill

4x Whinchat in paddocks mast side towards top end the Palletstacks track,  also  4-5 Wheatear nearby,  Spotted Flycatcher in copse c75 m south of the standing stone circle also 3x Lesser Whitethroat (2 juvs) and 2x Willow Tit, (RTo)  -  Barn Owl again hunting from the Viewpoint at 20:00, (MKe, JKe)

Blithfield Resv

2x Black Tern and Little Gull off Beech Tree point, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Sanderling, 5x Dunlin, Redshank, Ringed Plover, Hobby, (MCh)  -  3x Turnstone to 11:00, (MPi)  -  Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, (CTa)  -  also 5x Black Tern, 12x Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Peregrine, 2x Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (CMa, RFe)

                                                   Spotted Flycatcher by Chris Taylor

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 6x LRP, Oystercatcher, 10x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, Egyptian Goose, (JOa, LH, DC)

Rudyard Lake

7x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Little Egret, (JOa, LH DC)  -  Redstart on Rudyard Road, (LRa)

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Water Rail, (DB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

18x Common Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 4x LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, 6x Snipe, 2x Ruff, 2x Whinchat, juv Cuckoo, YL Gull, 

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper Bewicks pit, (TPe)


Wednesday 17 August 2022

Wednesday 17th August 2022

Cheddleton

Whimbrel over south calling at 10:10, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Little Gull, Black Tern, Great Egret, (GWi)  -  also 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, (NDP)  -  Marsh Harrier Tad Bay this afternoon, 2x Black Tern feeding off Beech Tree point, (SCa)  -  additionally 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, 11x Little Egret, 9x LRP, 30x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (SE, HF)  -  also 6x YL Gull, c50 Common Tern, Hobby this evening (SRi)

                                                         Sanderling by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sanderling, 13x Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 3x Arctic Tern thru, juv Black Tern, juv Cuckoo still, 2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Hobby, 

Alvecote

Snipe, Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (MSc)

Branston GPs (Ashy pit)

13x Black-necked Grebe, 6x Little Egret, (DSc)

Berryhill

Barn Owl hunting east of Tiddlers pool at 18:30, (IBu)  -  female Wheatear south side of Palletstacks,

i54 -  Pendeford Mill

4x Little Egret over, 

Leek - Rudyard

Red Kite over, (CAl)

Tuesday 16 August 2022

Tuesday 16th August 2022

Alrewas

2x Spotted Flycatcher near River Swarbourne edge of Potters Meadow, (SCo)

Codsall

Juv Cuckoo still at Waterey Lane allotments, (PCo)

Blithfield Resv

Little Gull, Black Tern, 2x Ruff, Great Egret, (GWi),  -  also 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Oystercatchers, 20x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa) 

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Pochard, 53x Barnacle Geese, (NDP)

Doxey Marsh

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (GSa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Common Gull, (SGi)

                                                     Green Sandpipers by Steve Gibson

Rudyard Lake

2x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (SGi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Cuckoo still, Greenshank, 9x Dunlin, 8x Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Snipe, 2x Whinchat, YL Gull.

Alvecote

Whinchat, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Branston GPs

14x Black-necked Grebe, Golden Plover, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Avocet, 13x Curlew, 11x Green Sandpiper, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 132x Lapwing, 18x Snipe, Water Rail, 7x Little Egret, Pintail, 192x Pochard, 54x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                        Golden Plover by Jon Woodcock

Trentham

Hobby hawking over Kingswood this evening, (NMK)

Upper Hulme Ranges

Marsh Harrier at 09:45, (PBe)

Monday 15 August 2022

Monday 15th August 2022

Blithfield Resv

6x Black Tern, (GJM)  -  also Little Gull, Great Egret, 13x Common Sandpiper, 11x Dunlin, 14x LRP, 2x Curlew, Greenshank, Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 4x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, 2x Whinchat, 35x Yellow Wagtail,  (HF, SE)  -  Ruff, 2x Curlew, 11x Dunlin, 2x Wheatear, (SCa)  -  Wood Sandpiper in Tad Bay this evening, (MPR) 

                                                      Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

                                                           Black Tern by Steve Edwards

Codsall

Juv Cuckoo at Watery Lane allotments, (PCo)

Rudyard Lake

2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, (SSe)

Cannock Chase

7x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (ABl)

Tittesworth Water

Juv Scaup, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, Common Gull, (SGi, MW, JW)

Kings Bromley

10x Little Egret, Great Egret in meadow from the layby, (BGe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ad Med Gull, Cuckoo, 5x Dunlin, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Hobby, Greenshank,

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey on east scrape, Ruff, (TPe)

Berryhill

Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, (NDP)

Gailey Resv

Shoveler, Common Gull, 3x Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Whittington farm

c2000 Swallows this evening, (Jon)

Sunday 14 August 2022

Sunday 14th August 2022

Rudyard Lake

5x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, (GBr, JOa)

Blithfield Resv

3x juv Little Gull, (NJS)  -  Also Whinchat, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, Greenshank, 3x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, Wheatear, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 4x Little Egret, (SE,HF)

                                                        Little Gulls by Steve Edwards

                                                       Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Endon STW

Barn Owl, (GBr)

Bobbington

2x Red Kite and at The Mere, Green Sandpiper, (DBa)

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, Oystercatcher, 16x Mandarin, (JOa)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, c30 Greenfinch, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Peregrine, Common Tern, Swifts, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP (inc 2 juvs), Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Golden Plover, Dunlin, 4x Great EgretLittle Egret 3x Spotted Flycatcher,  (RRa, MBo,WeBS team, )

Belvide Resv (WMBC memebers only)

5x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Greenshank, 5x YL Gull, ad Med Gull, 

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egrets, Snipe, (MSc)

Barton under Needwood

Peregrine over, (JWo)

Branston GPs

10x Black-necked Grebe, 4x Avocet, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, 11x Green Sandpiper, 2x ad YL Gull, 26x Mandarin, 132x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, Water Rail, 3x Common Tern, 7x Little Egret, (DSc) -  Greenshank, 3x Dunlin, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (R)

Chase Terrace

Goshawk, Osprey, Red Kite Hobby, (CWG)

Saturday 13 August 2022

Saturday 13th August 2022

Blithfield Resv

Marsh Harrier over Blithe Bay at 10:15, (JAl)  -  Golden Plover, Greenshank, Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 2x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, (GWi)

Knypersley Resv

Grasshopper Warbler in bushes west side of Lodge Barn road, Spotted Flycatcher same area also 5x Daubentons Bats, (GBr)

Stanley Pool

Wheatear on a paddock post, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 88x Lapwing, 11x LRP, YL Gull, 48x Mandarin, Red Kite, (SGi, IB)

Rudyard Lake

2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x LRP, (SGi, IB)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, 9x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Goldeneye, Tree Sparrow, Alrewas Spotted Flycatcher, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

2x ad YL Gull, (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Green Sandpiper. 4x Common Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 12x Grey Wagtail, 

Alrewas NMA

2x Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Goosander, 2x Common Tern, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Branston GPs

10x Black-necked Grebe still, 5x Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Curlew, 8x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 4x ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, Common Tern, 5x Barnacle Geese, 4x Little Egret, (DSc)

Enville

Green Sandpiper at Mere Hall pools, (DJa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Marsh Harrier at 07:30, (GWo)

Friday 12 August 2022

Friday 12th August 2022

Church Leigh

Red Kite this morning, (CTa)

Tucklesholme

3x Common Tern, 4x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, (MKe, JKe)

Cheddleton Heath

4x Red Kite circling over, (PCa)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, Wheatear, Redstart, Yellow Wagtail over, 2x Tree Pipit, (NDP)

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 4x Great Egret, Hobby, 

                                                        Great Egret by Rob Bendelow

Keele

Red Kite over the Christmas Tree farm at 12:58, (STh)

Radford Meadows

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (RSw)

Branston GPs

10x Black-necked Grebe still, 7x Little Egret, 5x Barnacle Geese, 4x Avocet (3 juvs), 10x Curlew, 9x Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, juv Water Rail, (DSc)

Thursday 11 August 2022

Thursday 11th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Whinchat at 08:00, (AP)  -  3x Great Egret, (MSc)

Blithfield Resv

30x Yellow Wagtail this am, (GJM)

Keele Hall 

Tree Pipit over, (MSu)

Tittesworth Water

4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 10x LRP, Oystercatcher, 33x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

5x Little Egret, 4x LRP, Snipe, (JO, LH, EW)

Berryhill

2x Redstart bottom end of Palletstacks, 2x Garden Warbler, (MKe, JKe)

Branston GPs

7x Black-necked Grebe, 5x Barnacle Geese, 4x Little Egret, (CMa, RFe)

Huntington

Tree Pipit over this evening, (SRi)

Whittington Farm

900x Swallows roosted in maize fields this evening also a Little Owl, (Jon)

Wednesday 10 August 2022

Wednesday 10th August 2022

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern Blithe Bay, (GJM, NJS), juv Marsh Harrier, (NJS)

                                                           Black Tern by GJ Mant

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (JWo)

Alvecote

Whinchat, 8x Little Egret, (MSc)

Berryhill

Barn Owl from the viewpoint this evening, (MKe, LDa)

Branston GPs

10+ Black-necked Grebe, 6x Avocet, 10x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 6x Snipe, 6x Little Egret, juv Common Gull, 5x Barnacle Geese, (DSc)

Tuesday 9 August 2022

Tuesday 9th August 2022

Tamworth

Hooded Crow reported over Belgrave at 06:55, (SCl)

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper still, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 4x Dunlin, 8x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

12x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 88x Lapwing, 3x Common Tern, 32x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (SGi)

Rudyard Lake

2x LRP, 7x Little Egret, (SGi)

Hoar Cross

2x Red Kite, (JWo)

Monday 8 August 2022

Monday 8th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier thru south at 09:10, 2x Wood Sandpiper still, 9x Snipe, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Water Rail, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, (GCl)

Berryhill

Whinchat on fence line c150m south of the Palletstacks shed, Redstart bottom end of Palletstacks, (RTo)

Sandon - Salt

Red Kite above A51 this am, (SBe)

Branston GPs

11x Black-necked Grebe, 8x Avocet, 8x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 5x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (DBa)  -  evening counts 12x Black-necked Grebe, 74x Little Grebe, 8x Avocet (6 juvs), Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Redshank, 12x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 134x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, 146x Pochard, 4x Common Tern, 7x YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 5x Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday 7 August 2022

Sunday 7th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper still on JW south, (MSm)

Bobbington 

Juv Marsh Harrier at The Mere, (DBa)

Rudyard Lake

5x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, Peregrine, also 10x Grey Wagtail by the dam, (SSe, GBr)

Berryhill

Wheatear on the north side of the Palletstacks track, Redstart in paddock east of the end of Spedding Road, (RTo)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe over, 15x LRP (inc 3 chicks), 16x Little Egret, Great Egret, Goldeneye, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2x Common Tern, 150x Linnet, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Sandpiper, 11x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 9x Mandarin, Common Gull, Peregrine, (JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

Knot, Turnstone, 4x Sanderling, 8x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP (inc 3 juvs), 6x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (ISS)

Branston GPs

9x Black-necked Grebe, 4x Avocet (3 juvs), Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Redshank, 8x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, 6x Little Egret, ad YL Gull, 3x Common Tern, 3x Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, (DSc)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Barn Owl this evening, (PMo)

Saturday 6 August 2022

Saturday 6th August 2022

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

White-rumped Sandpiper on north shore 08:12 to 08:35 only, -  fem Garganey, Red Kite over at 11:10, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Tern, Redshank, 

Middleton Lakes

Cattle Egret flew south from JW south at 07:40, 2x Wood Sandpiper still on east scrape, Dunlin, LRP, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)

Drayton Bassett

Redstart in hedge along footpath between end of Portleys Lane and canal, (MSm)

Branston GPs

11x Black-necked Grebe, 7x Avocet, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Redshank, 5x Snipe, 7x ad YL Gull, 100x Pochard, 5x Little Egret, Water Rail, 10x Common Tern, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

5x Dunlin, 10x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 88x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 3x Goosander, (SGi, IB)

Rudyard Lake

4x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (SGi, IB)

Acreswood

3x Swift over, (SGi)

Betley

Green Sandpiper at Shraley Brook, (JMa,PJo)

                                                     Green Sandpiper by Phil Jones

Branston WP

Hobby, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

Juv Redstart, 3x Little Egret, Lesser Whitethroat, (RSt)

Alrewas NMA

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker,  -  Canal to Wychnor 2x Common Tern and Green Lane to Barton 3x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Friday 5 August 2022

Friday 5th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper still on JW south, 2x Dunlin, LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Snipe, eclipse Wigeon still, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

135x Common Tern this am, (GJM,MDJ)

Enville

Red Kite, Wheatear, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, this am, (IWh)

Wetley Rocks

Red Kite over fields at the back of the Powys Arms. (TJe)

Thursday 4 August 2022

Thursday 4th August 2022

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on JW south, 4x Avocet, 2x LRP, 4x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Wigeon, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

4x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 9x Mandarin, Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

4x Little Egret, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (JOa, LH)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Avocet, 

Froghall Wharf

Dipper on the Churnet, (TDu)

Branston GPs

10x Black-necked Grebe, 9x Avocet (6 juvs), 4x Black-railed Godwit, 14x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 7x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 9x Common Tern, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Wednesday 3 August 2022

Wednesday 3rd August 2022

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper flew off south this am, 4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet, 3x Snipe, Wigeon, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Enville

3x Red Kite (inc 2 juvs), Goshawk mobbed by Kestrel, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (IWh)

Chasewater

Hobby over Norton Bog, (JDa)

Blithfield Resv

11x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Ruff,, 5x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, 5x Little Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa)  -  additional this evening, juv Med Gull, 6x YL Gull (5 ad and a 1st S), 8x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Goosander, 80x Common Tern,  (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Sanderling, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, Red Kite, 

Tucklesholme / Branston Leas

Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tuesday 2 August 2022

Tuesday 2nd August 2022

Middleton Lakes

5x Green Sandpiper, 4x Avocet, 3x Snipe, Dunlin, Marsh Tit, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Whimbrel, 3x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, (NDP)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, (DB)

Audley

Green Sandpiper and Common Sandpiper at Shraleybrook, (JMa)

Branston GPs

8x Green Sandpiper, 4x Avocet, Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 10x Black-necked Grebe, 3x juv Water Rail, c10 YL Gull, (TJa)  -  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Avocet (6juvs), 11x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 6x Oystercatcher, 111x Lapwing, 10x Black-necked Grebe, 4x Water Rail, 157x Pochard, 5x Little Egret, 17x Common Tern, 7x YL Gull, Common Gull, 5x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                                 By Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Knot briefly, 

Monday 1 August 2022

Monday 1st August 2022

Stanley Pool

2x Redshank at 06:20 but flushed by a Peregrine, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 6x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 14x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit, (SGi)

Rudyard Lake

Dunlin, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, (SGi)

Whitemoor Haye

Wood Sandpiper still on Bewicks Pit, (TPe)

Branston GPs

10x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Snipe, 8x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Avocet, 10x Black-necked Grebe, 3x Water Rail, 5x Little Egret, 4x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)