Friday 30th September 2022

Whitemoor Haye

Juv Marsh Harrier again flying low over fields towards the river from rough track, 28x Little Egret, 24x Egyptian Geese, 160x Lapwing, Snipe over, 7x Wigeon, Grey Partridge, Peregrine, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

5x Grey Plover Blithe Bay, 3x Ruff, 27x Dunlin, 17x Ringed Plover, Little Stint, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Golden Plover, (MJa)  -  Grey Plovers flew off NW at 11:55, (GJM)

                                                          Grey Plovers by GJ Mant

Branston GPs

Little Stint still Ashy pit, Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, (CEc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

6x Whooper Swan, fem Marsh Harrier thru, 2x Garganey, 

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Cattle Egret still, 2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (BHa)  -  now 4x Little Egret, (RBe)

Middleton Lakes

3x Great Egret, Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, Goldeneye, 3x Redwing, 2x Pintail, Pochard, 

Thursday 29th September 2022

Rudyard Lake

2x Ruff, 9x Snipe, Dunlin, (SSe)

                                                                Ruff by Steve Seal

Branston GPs

2x Little Stint, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Dunlin, Golden Plover, 6x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 11x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 22x Wigeon, 32x Gadwall, 132x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, Snow Goose, 53x Little Grebe, 6x YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Stonechat, 2x Greenfinch, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Barton under Needwood

Red Kite over SE at 12:10, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Great Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, Stonechat, Peregrine, (CMa, RFe)  -  additional Cattle Egret, 16x Ringed Plover, 22x Dunlin, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, (GWi)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (RBe)

                                                        Cattle Egret by Rob Bendelow

Wednesday 28th September 2022

Westport Lake

Juv Kittiwake, 16x Pink-footed Geese over, (NJS

                                                            Kittiwake by Steve Seal

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, Bar-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 8x Pink-footed Geese in Blithe Bay, 31x Dunlin, 34x Ringed Plover, 6x Ruff, Great Egret, Red Kite, Stonechat, Goosander, 5x Egyptian Geese, (SE, HF)

                                                      Pink-footed Goose by Steve Edwards

Kings Bromley

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese from the River Trent A515 layby, (BHa)

Bramshall

Red Kite circled over at 11:30, (JTu)

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, Goosander, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (MSc)

Forsbrook

2x Redwing over, (AR)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret to 17:00 only, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, (DB)

Fradley Junction

13x Grey Partridge still, viewed from Fradley - Alrewas canal towpath also 2x Yellowhammer, (BHa)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, 6x Golden Plover, 10x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

Osprey over south at 10:50, (TWy), - Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, Pintail, 6x Goosander, 77x Wigeon, 12x Pochard, Stonechat, (JWo)

Tuesday 27th September 2022

Doxey Marsh

Curlew Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (RRa)

Alrewas - Fradley

13x Grey Partridge in field viewed from the Trent and Mersey canal, (SCo)

Monday 26th September 2022

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret Creswell Flash, (HKi)

Tucklesholme

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Peregrine, (BGe

Branston GPs

Golden Plover, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 15x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 12x Little Egret, 302x Pochard, 3x Pintail, 94x Shoveler, 74x Little Grebe, 5x YL Gull, 2x Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                              Linnets by Jon Woodcock

                                                      Golden Plover by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 5x Ruff, 3x Curlew, 26x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 22x Ringed Plover, 2x Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, Shag, Stonechat, Goosander, (SE,HF)

                                                           Ruff by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Juv Little Gull, 

Sunday 25th September 2022

Westport Lake

3x Pintail before flying off SW at 07:45, (TMK)

Blithfield Resv

6x Curlew Sandpiper in Stephens Bay at 09:30 also 10x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, (PBe)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, 6x Ruff, 13x Ringed Plover, 14x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Shelduck, Great Egret, 2x YL Gull, Wheatear, Ruddy Shelduck, (ARa)  -  updated counts 24x Dunlin, 3x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, (CVa)

                                                    Curlew Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

Rudyard Lake

2x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, Snipe, (GBr, JOa)

Aqualate

Female Marsh Harrier at 09:30, Peregrine, Marsh Tit, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, 8x Wigeon, 3x Snipe, (RSw)  -  Barn Owl, 18:50 to 19:15, (PBe)

Doxey Marsh

2x Curlew Sandpiper still, (NGr)

Whitemoor Haye

Female Marsh Harrier thru west at 11:20, (SCo)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2cy Common Gull, Little Egret, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Kings Bromley

3x Little Egret, Egyptian Goose from the layby, (BGe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Ruff, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Garganey, 4x Pintail,

Cuckoo Bank

4x Redstart, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Stonechat, Jack Snipe, 3x Snipe, Golden Plover, 43x Redpoll, 

Alvecote

5x Goosander, 42x Wigeon, 2x Stonechat, Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (MSc)

Swallow Moss

12x Stonechat, (DPo)

Ipstones Edge

Red Kite, 4x Stonechat, (DPo)

Branston GPs (BGPs)

Green Sandpiper, 5x YL Gull, (JWo)

Dunstall (Mill Pond)

Green Sandpiper, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Imm Whooper Swan, (JOa)

Saturday 24th September 2022

Doxey Marsh

6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 50x Snipe, (BGo)  -  2x Curlew Sandpiper still, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (MBo)

                                                 Black-tailed Godwits by Bill Goldstraw

                                                    Curlew Sandpiper by Bill Goldstraw

Tucklesholme

Little Stint still, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, (TPe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Dunlin, Ruff, 2x Bittern, Goldeneye, 2x Pintail, 3x Great Egret, 3x Stonechat, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Cattle Egret flew north and landed north end of the A5 at 07:30 before returning at 14:50, 2x Garganey, 2x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Ringed Plover, 12x Dunlin, Redshank, 6x Stonechat, YL Gull, Red Kite thru, 

Blithfield Resv

c80 probable Pink-footed Geese high east at 08:20, 4x Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, Bar-tailed Godwit, 23x Ringed Plover, 22x Dunlin, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 3x Ruff, Shag, Wheatear, 6x Stonechat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, (SRi)

Enville

2x Red Kite, Peregrine, (IWh)

Cuckoo Bank

Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatcher, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 2x Redpoll, 4x Gropper, 3x Stonechat, 8x Golden Plover, 140x Linnet, 90x Skylark, 20x Yellowhammer, 

Trentham

Spotted Flycatcher, 14x Mandarin, 4x Little Egret, 6x Gadwall, (RGi)

Sheen

Red Kite at 10:30 and another at 12:45 both on the Staffs side of the Dove, (PAn)

Friday 23rd September 2022

Middleton Lakes

7x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Pintail, Goldeneye, 4x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (SPA)

Rudyard

4x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, LRP, Yellow Wagtail, (GBr)

Cheslyn Hay

Yellow-browed Warbler trapped and ringed at a private location this morning, (JB)

                                                        Yellow-browed Warbler by JB

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 5x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, 3x Pintail, 5x Stonechat, Whinchat, 2x Tree Sparrow. 

Berryhill

A Golden Plover thru, 2x Stonechat and down at Botteslow Flash, Common Sandpiper and a Stonechat, (RTo)

Chase Terrace

Red Kite north at 12:05

Branston GPs

12x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, Common Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, (CM, DG)  -  Ruff, 18x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 19x Little Egret, 247x Pochard, 2x Pintail, 48x Gadwall, 76x Shoveler, 15x Wigeon, 67x Little Grebe, 4x GBB Gull, 5x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 50x Snipe, Marsh Harrier over, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 5x Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 22x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 20x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, Snipe, Shag still, 2x Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Wheatear, Whinchat, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                    Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Staffs

Thursday 22nd September 2022

Middleton Lakes

7x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, 13x Snipe, Goldeneye, (SPA)

Tucklesholme

Little Stint still present also 3x Dunlin before flying off towards Branston GPs late afternoon,  Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                         Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

Rudyard Lake

4x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, LRP, Snipe, 5x Wigeon, (JOa, DCo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 11x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, (JOa, DCo)

Hixon

Wheatear, 140x Linnet, (RCB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 12x Ringed Plover, 

Doxey Marsh

Common Sandpiper, 50x Snipe, Water Rail, (BGo)

Branston GPs

Little Stint on BM Pit from 16:20 (probably the Tucklesholme bird), 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 12x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, Golden Plover, 4x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x Pintail, Black-necked Grebe, 11x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, CEc)

Stoke on Trent

8x Ring-necked Parakeet in trees behind Milton junior academy at 15:00. (KKi)

Alvecote

Yellowhammer, 10x Wigeon, (MSc)

Ramshaw Rocks

4x Red Kite above the A523 at 17:00, (LRa)

Wednesday 21st September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint on east scrape, 6x Dunlin, 5x Ruff, 16x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Goldeneye, (SPA)

                                                   Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Atkinson

                                                         Little Stint by Steve Atkinson

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

Little Stint on second pool, 4x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 52x Wigeon, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

Knypersley

2x Tree Sparrow in Lotus Avenue, (JTy)

Alvecote

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

Doxey Marsh

Green Sandpiper, 40x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, Great Egret, (BGo)

                                                     Green Sandpiper by Bill Goldstraw

Blithfield Resv

Cattle Egret in flight to the north of Blithe Bay, (JAl)  -  Little Stint, 2x Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 22x Dunlin, 28x Ringed Plover, 3x Snipe, 4x Ruff, 2x Pintail, 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, (SE, HF)

                                                        Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, drake Garganey, 

Kings Bromley (Trent layby)

Great Egret, Little Egrets, (RBe)

Tuesday 20th September 2022

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint and 2x Curlew Sandpiper in with mobile wader flock, (GJM)  -  also 2x Grey Plover briefly, 12x Dunlin, 2x Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, YL Gull, Yellow Wagtail, (TJa, DRo, GBo)  -  3x Common Sandpiper, ad Med Gull, GBB Gull, Little Egret, (BGe)  -  2x Cattle Egret, (NJS)

Middleton Lakes

4x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, Dunlin, 5x Pintail, Goosander, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Wombourne

Greenshank on stream in horse field 300 yards from Wombourne Walk rail station, (DBa)

Alvecote

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

Oakamoor

Dipper on the Churnet, (JDr)

Ramshorne

Red Kite over at 16:45, (JDr)

Barton Marina

5x Pochard, (JWo)

Monday 19th September 2022

Doxey Marsh

3x Avocet from main hide, 24x Snipe, (DBa, CE, KM)  -  also 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, (NGR)  -  Spotted Flycatcher, Swift, Water Rail, (RSt)

                                                         Avocets by Bill Goldstraw

Middleton Lakes

Ringed Plover, 4x Ruff, 8x Dunlin, 12x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  later counts 16x Snipe, Water Rail, 3x Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Goldeneye, (SB)

Blithfield Resv

2x Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, 7x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Wheatear, 3x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi, PAn)  -  7x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, (SCa)  -  3x Curlew Sandpiper, 20x Dunlin in Blithe Bay this afternoon, (TPe)  -  4x Curlew Sandpiper this evening, (SE, HF)

                                          Dunlin and a Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Westport Lake

Scaup this morning, (NJS)

Radford Meadows

150x Lapwing, (IWi)

Furnace Grange Farm Trescott

Male Redstart, 3x Stonechat, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (IMo, CVa, ADe)

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher by Osier bed also Willow Tit, 4x Mandarin, (GBr)

Alvecote

Pied Flycatcher and 3x Spotted Flycatcher in the Orchard, (SRo)  -  Osprey over Pretty Pigs at 15:45, Redstart, (ARa)

Tittesworth Water

Hobby and nearby 2x Whinchat near The Roaches, (NMK)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, 3x Ruff, 8x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Garganey, 

Branston GPs SMP

2x Green Sandpiper, 6x YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, (JWo)

Sunday 18th September 2022

Stoke

50x Pink-footed Geese east over Fletcher Road at 07:41, (RGi)

Rudyard Lake

70x Pink-footed Geese over at 07:25, 2x Ruff, LRP, (GBr)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe and 3x Ruff, (JOa, LH)

Berryhill

c40x Pink-footed Geese over east at 08:32, and 12 over at 08:58, Redstart, Snipe, (RGi)

Blithfield Resv

3x Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 18x Dunlin, 17x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, Sipe, 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, Hobby, Peregrine, Red Kite, 2x Stonechat, 2x Wheatear, 3x Whinchat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                           Wheatear by GJ Mant

                                                  Curlew Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 13x Mandarin, 3x Wigeon, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 10x Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Sandon

Red Kite over this am, (JTu)

Middleton Lakes

4x Ruff, 5x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Bittern, Great Egret, 5x Pintail, 3x Water Rail, (MSm)  -  2x Curlew Sandpiper,

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, 2x Black-railed Godwit, 11x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 4x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Redshank, 6x Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Garganey, 

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, (PCa)

Branston GPs (SMP)

2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 5x YL Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 

Whitemoor Haye

17x Egyptian Geese, 9x Gadwall, Wigeon, 150x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 18x Greenfinch, (SCo)

Saturday 17th September 2022

Uttoxeter Quarry

200x Pink-footed Geese heading east at 08:45, 2x Greenshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Wigeon, Ruddy Shelduck, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

Shag still at deep end but mobile, Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 3x Ruff, 3x Great Egret, 11x Goosander, 8x YL Gull, 3x Wheatear, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (MBo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

17x Pink-footed Geese thru north also one still on north shore, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 9x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3x Ruff, 3x Snipe, 9x Dunlin, Garganey, 

Whitemoor Haye

Ruff, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 198x Lapwing, 140x Linnet, 2x Tree Sparrow, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Branston GPs

2x Avocet, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 4x Dunlin, 8x Snipe, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 3x ad YL Gull, 6x Wigeon, 4x Barnacle Geese, Water Rail, Noctule Bat, (DSc)

Milford

Cetti's Warbler by the aqueduct this am, (IWi)

Enville

8x Goosander, 2x Egyptian Geese at The Mere, (DBa)

Ford Green

3x Ring-necked Parakeet and a Cetti's Warbler at the lake, (JJo)

Alrewas NMA

Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Snipe this afternoon, (PCa)

Friday 16th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, 3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, (SPA, MSm)

Rudyard Lake

54x Pink-footed Geese over, 4x Ruff, LRP, 4x Snipe, 52x Lapwing, Little Egret, (SGi, PBe)

Blithfield Resv

Spotted Redshank at the deep end, (GJM, MDJ).  -  Bar- tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 9x Ringed Plover, 6x Ruff, 6x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 3x Wheatear, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                       Great Egret by Steve Edwards

Basford

Pink-footed Geese over low heading towards Keele, (BCa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 8x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Goshawk, Red Kite, Whinchat, 12x Egyptian Geese, 

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret at Creswell Flash, (JJH, SJH, DR)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, Ruff, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, 17x Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Snipe, 93x Lapwing, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 233x Pochard, 67x Gadwall, 72x Shoveler, 8x Wigeon, 87x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Mere Farm

2x Golden Plover, (MMo)

Thursday 15th September 2022

Baddeley Green 

74x Pink-footed Geese south over Leek New Road at 08:58, (GBr)

Branston GPs

8x Curlew Sandpiper, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 2x LRP, Pintail, 4x Pochard, 4x Barnacle Geese, 3x Shelduck, 4x Little Egret, (PBe)  -  Evening update only 3x Curlew Sandpiper at dusk, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 10x Snipe, 6x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 8x Wigeon, Water Rail, 3x ad YL Gull roosted (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

4x Ruff, 7x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Green Egret, 3x Water Rail, 3x Pintail, Goldeneye, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)  -  also 3x Great Egret, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, (SPA)

Knotbury

Black Redstart at Green farm Readyleech to 11:00 at least, (DR)

Blithfield Resv

6x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 7x Ringed Plover, Whinchat, (BGe)  -  also Wheatear, Peregrine, 3x Curlew, 3x Egyptian Geese, (Mark)

Rudyard Lake

5x Ruff, 6x Snipe, Dunlin, (JOa, LH, DH,)

Tittesworth Water

2x Goosander, 2x Snipe, Curlew, 17x Mandarin, Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (RRa)  -  2x Cattle Egret, (DB)

Berryhill

110x Pink-footed Geese east over Hanley, Whinchat, 2x Redstart, Tree Pipit, (NDP)

                                                    Common Sandpiper by Russell Toon

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Egyptian Geese, (MSc)

Wednesday 14th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis still Canal pool also 2x Bittern flew off towards Fishers Mill, 3x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 2x Hobby, 

Blithfield Resv

6x Great Egret which is a site record count, (GJM)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 6x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 10x Dunlin, Redshank, 18x Ringed Plover, Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, 21x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                         Ruffs by Steve Edwards

                                                    Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Endon

Redshank over calling at 10:45, (DCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper and Little Stint still, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-railed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Snipe, 11x Goosander, 42x Wigeon, 4x Little Egret, Hobby, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Spotted Redshank, 8x Curlew Sandpiper, 11x Dunlin, 11x Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, Snipe, 3x Pintail, 6x Wigeon, 5x Barnacle Geese, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tittensor Chase

3x Yellowhammer, (AR)

Rudyard Lake

Little Stint, (DCo)

                                                           Little Stint by Dave Collis

Tuesday 13 September 2022

Stanley Pool

11x Redshank, 5x Wigeon, 2x Teal, (ALa)

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis still on Canal pool, Ruff, 7x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 3x Great Egret. (MSm) - Marsh Harrier heading north at 12:45, (RBe)

                                                            Glossy Ibis by Rob Bendelow

Rudyard Lake

11x Ruff still, 7x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SSe)

                                                                 Ruffs by Steve Seal                                    

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 7x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, Imm Marsh Harrier NE at 15:00.

Doxey Marsh

Ruff on Tillington Flash from main hide, (RRa)

Branston GPs

8x Curlew Sandpiper still, Greenshank, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 11x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, 6x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, (JAl)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, (MSc)

Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, (CWo, RTo)

                                                        By Clive Wood

Monday 12th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis still on Canal pool, Ruff, 5x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier over Ashy pit at 11:20, Little Stint at 11:15, 8x Curlew Sandpiper still on Sandy pit 12:30, Greenshank, Ruff, Redshank, 3x Green Sandpiper, 15x Curlew, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, (PAn)  -  additionally Sanderling, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 6x Common Sandpiper, 8x Green Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, 21x Snipe, 93x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 3x Pintail, 242x Pochard, 14x Wigeon, 74x Gadwall, 78x Shoveler, 69x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 5x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                     YL Gull by Jon Woodcock

                                                 Curlew Sandpipers by Jon Woodcock

Rudyard Lake

11x Ruff still, 2x Dunlin, LRP, (SSe)

                                                               Ruff by Steve Seal

Blithfield Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, (RGo)  -  4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Shag, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 2x Wheatear, 15x Yellow Wagtail, 6x Egyptian Geese, (SE, HF)  -  additional 5x YL Gull, Osprey, (PAn)  -  4x Great Egret this evening which is a new site record. (MPR, GJM)

                                              Black-tailed Godwit by Rosemary Godwin

                                                   Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret still, (JTu)  -  also 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, (RRa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint, Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 9x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Garganey, 

Enville

Red Kite, Peregrine at The Mere, (DBa)

Sunday 11th September 2022

Rudyard Lake

11x Ruff, also a Dunlin, (SGi)

Stanley pool

Juv Hobby, Wheatear, 5x Wigeon, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis still on Canal pool, 4x Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 5x Water Rail, Goldeneye, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh (WeBS)

2x Cattle Egret, 42x Snipe, 11x Water Rail, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Great Egret, 2x Whinchat, Hobby, (MBo, RRa, PDy, DCo, RSt, BLo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Bar-tailed Godwit Tad Bay, 25x Dunlin north, (GJM)  -  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 5x Goosander, Great Egret, (MBr)

Branston GPs

8x Curlew Sandpiper still on Sandy pit at 12:30, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, (TWy)  -  19:30 update 8x Curlew Sandpiper still, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 15x Curlew, 12x Snipe, Peregrine, 5x Water Rail, 10x Little Egret, 4x Wigeon, 194x Pochard, Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

                                                       

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Wigeon, (JOa, LH, KH)

Whitemoor Haye

Marsh Harrier at 13:17, Hobby, Peregrine, (RBe)  -  Marsh Harrier flew off south this evening, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Wigeon, (SCo)

Marsh Harrier by Rob Bendelow

Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Berryhill

2x Stonechat still this evening near twenty foot pool, (IBu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Golden Plover, 4x Common Sandpiper, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Greenshank, 3x Ruff, 1w Med Gull, YL Gull, Great Egret, Garganey, Whinchat, 6x Stonechat, Hobby, Peregrine, 

Saturday 10th September 2022

Rudyard Lake

10x Ruff early morning showing well but mobile, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 4x Snipe, (SGi)

                                                          Ruffs by Steve Gibson

Middleton Lakes

Glossy Ibis still on North pit, 3x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (SPA)  -  Fem Marsh Harrier late morning over JW, (SWa)

Branston GPs

Juv PALLID HARRIER over Sandy pit at 10:28 heading SW, (JWo, BSt, ASt), Little Stint and 4x Curlew Sandpiper still on North pit 06:45 to 07:15, (CEc), later 8x Curlew Sandpiper on Sandy pit, Dunlin, 12x Curlew, Greenshank, Ruff, 8x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 12x Snipe, 2x Pintail, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  -  additional the 8 Curlew Sandpiper still at dusk, also 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 17x Snipe, 9x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

                                                       Pallid Harrier by Jon Woodcock

Bithfield Resv

2x new Bar-tailed Godwit landed in Blithe Bay making 3 present, 22x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, 5x ad YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, sev Yellow Wagtail Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)  -  The Shag still off Watery Lane at 08:15, 3x Ruff, 17x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Wheatear, (PBe)

Furnace Grange farm Trescott

The Greenshank still present, (ADe)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, 150x Lapwing, 3x Grey Partridge, 3x Siskin over, 18x Greenfinch, 34x Teal, 4x Little Egret, Great Egret, 6x Wigeon, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Wigeon, 7x Pochard, (RPo)

Enville

Shelduck (1st for The Mere), (DBa)

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Willow Tit by old hatchery, 2x Mandarin, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, (SGi)

Silverdale CP

2x Whinchat, (PCa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

9x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Greenshank, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Pintail, 3x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 2x Little Egret, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Swift, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 1w YL Gull, 

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 2x Egyptian Geese, Snipe, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Aqualate

2x Juv/fem Marsh Harriers from 07:55 to 10:25, (KHa)

Friday 9th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 4x Garganey still, Barn Owl, (SPA)  -  Glossy Ibis this am, (HSk)  -  4x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, (MSc)

Blithfield Resv

Corncrake seen 3 times in flight between 10:15 and 10:30 in Blithe Bay from middle hide but not since, (MDJ, GJM)  -  The Shag still at the causeway, (GJM)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 10x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 17x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, 2x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 2x Peregrine, 5x Whinchat, 2x Barnacle Geese, (SE, HF)

                                                              Shag by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, (MBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Stint near the spill weir with 8x Ringed Plover, ( Foz), also 7x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 

Branston GPs (North pit)

8x Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, (DSc)

                                                 Curlew Sandpipers by Dave Scattergood

Furnace Grange farm Trescott

Greenshank still for its 4th day, (IMo, CVa)

Wombourne

Redstart at Pickerills Hill, (WN)

Thursday 8th September 2022

Blithfield Resv

European Shag from sailing club shore, (GJM)

                                                                    By GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey still, 75x Wigeon, 2x Pintail, 2x Ruff, 3x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 68x Teal, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SGi)  -  also 15x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Wombourne

3x Redstart on Pickerells Hill, (WN)

Trentham Gardens

Dipper, (CBai)

Branston GPs

Adult male Marsh Harrier this afternoon and again at dusk, 3x Ruff, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Black-railed Godwit, 11x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 25x Snipe, 10x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 4x Pintail, 178x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 2x Black-necked Grebe, 76x Little Grebe, 1w Med Gull, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 5x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock

                                                        Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

Hixon Airfield

Wheatear, Whinchat also a Red Kite earlier seen from A51 near Great Haywood, (RCB)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 3x Great Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, (DB)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe, (JTu)

Gailey Resv

4x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Ebstree Smestow Valley

Greenshank still, Green Sandpiper, Whinchat, (CVa, IMo)

Wednesday 7th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Merlin thru past east scrape screen, Ruff, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, (SPA)  -  4x Garganey still, (MSm)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

Osprey over at 13:50, 2x Hobby, Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 18x Wigeon, Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

10x Black-tailed Godwit, 17x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Ruff, Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 40x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 100x Linnet, (DBa)  -  also Green Sandpiper, YL Gull, (SCa)  -  updated counts 22x Little Egret, 2x Greenshank, 21x Ringed Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, Snipe,  2x Red Kite, Ruff, 3x Wheatear, 8x Whinchat, Osprey, (ABl)

Alvecote

Ruff, Whinchat, Great Egret, Little Egret, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Black-necked Grebe, 2x Pintail, 6x Wigeon, 2x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Redshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Dunlin, 14x Curlew, 15x Snipe, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tuesday 6th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, 2x Greenshank, possible 3x Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Garganey, 

Berryhill

5x Whinchat from the Palletstacks, and a Spotted Flycatcher Fenton Park east of the sunken garden, (IBu)

Rudyard Lake

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 2x Snipe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Goosander, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 83x Lapwing, Snipe, 9x Goosander, (SGi)

Alvecote

2x Redstart, 2x Whinchat, Great Egret, (MSc)

Longsdon

Barn Owl, (SGi)

Branston GPs

21x Dunlin, 19x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 10x Green Sandpiper, 17x Snipe, 2x Black-necked Grebe, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Pintail, 154x Pochard, 8x Wigeon, 73x Little Grebe, Water Rail, Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Greenfinch, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                 Lesser Whitethroat by Jon Woodcock       

Ebstree Smestow Valley

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, (CVa, IMo)

Tixall Heath

Red Kite over at  13:30, (RCB)

Monday 5th September 2022

Ipstones Edge

Red Kite at 10:45, (SCh)

Middleton Lakes

7x Great Egret, 2x Greenshank, 4x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper,  4x Garganey, 2x Hobby, (MSm)

                                                          Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Blithfield Resv

2x Black Tern off Yeatsall Bank, (BGe)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (IGr)  -  11x Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, Bar-tailed Godwit, 12x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 5x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 30x Yellow Wagtail, 12x Barnacle Geese, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, (SE, HF)

                                                         Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Chase Terrace

Ring-tailed Hen Harrier over 13:00, 

Berryhill

13x Whinchat (8 from the Palletstacks also 3 at the end of Mossfield Road this am and a further 2 this afternoon in scrub between Fenton Road and the disused railway), also 3x Wheatear, 3x Redstart, (RTo)  -  14x Whinchat, 4x Redstart, Tree Pipit, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Wheatear, (NDP)

Cannock Chase

5x Spotted Flycatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, (ABl)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Mandarin, 6x Teal, (PBe)

Alvecote

Ruff, 2x Snipe, Redstart, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, (MSc)