Monday 31st October 2022

Middleton Lakes

Ruddy Shelduck on JW north, flyover Crossbill, 18x Golden Plover, 8x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Great Egret, 4x Stonechat, (MSm)

Endon - Denford

30x Snipe, Jack Snipe, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

2800x Wood Pigeon thru SW early am, (GJM)

Audley

c1150 Wood Pigeon over Ryehills 07:10 to 07:25, (JHu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Spoonbill in front of Gazebo hide this afternoon, 

Elford

Possible Rough legged Buzzard reported, in meadow off the A513. (BGe)

Alton - Oakamoor

7x Goosander alongside the railway this afternoon, (JTu)

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 6x Curlew, Water Rail, Goosander, Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 24x Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

 

Sunday 30th October 2022

Cannock Chase

c20 Waxwing over shooting butts flying fast SW at 11:10, (TMG)

Cuckoo Bank

18x Waxwing flew south over central belt, Short-eared Owl flew high north, 40x Stonechat.

Knypersley Resv

Willow Tit, 7x Mandarin, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

3x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 1w Common Gull, Siskin, (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, Rock Pipit thru, 

Alvecote

12x Snipe, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Furnace Grange Farm Trescott

Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 200x Fieldfare, (IMo, GCl, CVa, ADe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, Little Egret, Pochard,

Tittesworth Water

53x Wigeon, 8x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Silverdale CP

2x Stonechat, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 45x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 12x Common Gull, 3x Red Kite, Peregrine, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Egyptian Geese, (HF, SE)

Endon STW

Barn Owl at 17:10, (DCo)

Branston GPs

15x Curlew, 200x Lapwing, 160x Golden Plover, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Dunlin, 7x Snipe, 60x Little Grebe, 6x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, 35x Wigeon, 87x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Siskin, Redpoll, (DSc)

Saturday 29th October 2022

Alrewas

Willow Tit this am, (SCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, 2x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 13x Golden Plover, 5x Snipe, 3x Pintail, Great Egret flew east, 2x ad YL Gull, 12x Greenfinch, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

150x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, Pintail, 22x Shoveler, 43x Pochard, 58x Wigeon, 126x Teal, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Dipper, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

52x Golden Plover, 417x Lapwing, Grey Partridge, 183x Teal, 13x Pochard, 74x Wigeon, 22x Gadwall, 13x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, 10x Goldcrest, 18x Egyptian Geese, Tree Sparrow, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

54x Mandarin, 37x Wigeon, 6x Goosander, Common Gull, (SGi, IB)

Cuckoo Bank

14x Stonechat, 3x Brambling, 21x Redpoll, 8x Siskin, 137x Stock Dove, 

Endon - Denford

Green Woodpecker, Little Egret, Stonechat, 25x Siskin, (ALa)

Radford Meadows

52x Wigeon, Goosander, 242x Lapwing, 4x Stonechat, (RSw)

Branston GPs

180x Lapwing, 12x Golden Plover, 15x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 4x Ruff, 6x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, Water Rail, 3x ad YL Gull, 7x GBB Gull, 7x Egyptian Geese, 20x Wigeon, 45x Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, 6x Siskin, (DSc)

                                                        Stonechat by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Friday 28th October 2022

Wetley Moor

9x Stonechat, 2x Snipe, (ALa)

Fradley - Alrewas towpath

Brambling, 3x Grey Partridge, 19x Skylark, 40x Fieldfare, 90x Redwing, (BHa)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Snipe, (BHa)

Tittesworth Water

54x Mandarin, 36x Wigeon, 5x Siskin, 650x Jackdaw, 35x Redwing, (SGi)

Whitemoor Haye

Yellowhammer, Stonechat, 210x Lapwing, (MSc)

Croxall

Ruddy Shelduck, 15x Little Egret, Stonechat, (MSc)

Milwich

Red Kite at 10:15, (SBe)

Thursday 27th October 2022

Tittesworth Water

14x Snipe, 37x Mandarin, 7x Goosander, 24x Wigeon, (JOA, LH)

Rudyard Lake

51x Snipe, Dunlin, 4x Wigeon, (SSe)

Alvecote

Stonechat, 4x Snipe, (MSc)

Tucklesholme

Pintail, 68x Wigeon, 5x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 7x Goosander, 4x Snipe, 2x Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 3x Ringed Plover, Stonechat, (GWi)  -  c150 Wigeon, (JTu)

Wednesday 26th October 2022

Endon to Denford

Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 16x Snipe, Little Egret, 20x Wigeon, Peregrine, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 2x Ringed Plover, 38x Dunlin, 3x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Stonechat, (GWi)

Cheddleton

Red Kite over at 14:00.

Berryhill

Jack Snipe this evening, (IBu)

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 10x Goosander, 2x Stonechat and 42x Little Egret and 8x Great Egret in the riverside roost, 

Sandon Hall

2x Red Kite over at 15:30, (MKe)

Brankley Pastures

30x Yellowhammer, 2x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, 120x Stock Dove, (JWo)

Tuesday 25th October 2022

Rudyard Lake

2x Dunlin, 38x Snipe, 6x Wigeon, (SSe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Female Ferruginous Duck again also 2x Little Stint, imm Scaup, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret still at 11:40, (DSc)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

Med Gull, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Fieldfare, 25x Skylark, Little Egret, (BHa)

Branston GPs

270x Golden Plover, 4x Ruff, Redshank, 9x Dunlin, 28x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 146x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Water Rail, 3x Little Egret, Mandarin, Goldeneye, 102x Pochard, 42x Wigeon, 64x Shoveler, 286x Teal, 8x Egyptian Geese, 52x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Peregrine, Barn Owl, 2x Stonechat, 8x Greenfinch, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 40x Dunlin, 2x Ringed plover, 4x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, (GWi)

Monday 24th October 2022

Blithfield Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper in Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Little Stint, (GWi)  -- additional Curlew Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 53x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover. 3x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, Red Kite, Barnacle Goose, (HF, SE)

                                    Record shot of the Pectoral Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

                                             Distant shot Pectoral Sandpiper by GJ Mant

Branston GPs

Osprey low over Ashy pit at 11:45, 4x Ruff, 47x Golden Plover, 7x Dunlin, 15x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 2x GBB Gull, 4x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 7x Egyptain Geese, 4x Stonechat,  (CEc)

Westport Lake

26x Goosander, (CWa)

Keele

2x Brambling, 3x Stonechat, 

Kings Bromley A515 layby

Adult Med Gull, Little Egret, (BGe)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Little Egret, 3x Tree Sparrow, also Little Egret Tucklesholme, (BGe)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Goosander, Snipe, (MSc)

Botteslow Flash

Drake Mandarin, 3x Snipe, Little Egret, Peregrine, (RTo)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, Shoveler, Peregrine, (SRi)

Sunday 23rd October 2022

Tittesworth Water

42x Snipe, 32x Mandarin, 14x Goosander, 15x Wigeon, (SGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Pintail, 9x Wigeon, 17x Pochard, 4x Goosander, Great Egret, Little Egret, Dipper, (RPo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, 115x Golden Plover, 2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, imm Scaup, 4x Mandarin, 4x Pintail, 9x Stonechat, YL Gull, Peregrine, 

Cuckoo Bank

Hobby, 5x Stonechat, Woodcock, 23x Redpoll, 5x Siskin, 340x Skylark, 75x Linnet, Golden Plover, 

Branston GPs

Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, GBB Gull, 7x Egyptian Geese, 3x Pintail, 24x Wigeon, 300x Teal, 77x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Water Rail, 50x Lapwing, 12x Curlew, 10x Snipe, Dunlin, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 9x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, JWo)  -  at dusk 14x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 9x Ruff, Redshank, 138x Lapwing, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

3x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat on the spit, (JWo)

Saturday 22nd October 2022

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 5x Green Sandpiper, 14x Pochard, 3x Wigeon, Willow Tit, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Gailey Resv

12x Egyptian Geese (inc one hybrid type) over to the west, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

4x Great Egret, 8x Stonechat, 5x Snipe, 3x Pintail, Goldeneye, Yellowhammer, (SPA)  -  Peregrine, (RBe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, 2x Little Stint, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, 5x Pintail, Med Gull, 10x Common Gull, 8x YL Gull, 20x Egyptian Geese, 7x Stonechat, 1074x Redwing, 369x Fieldfare, 

Radford Meadows

60x Lapwing, 40x Wigeon, Cetti's Warbler, (IWi)

Blackbank (visible migration)

Merlin north at 08:30, 70x Golden Plover, 880

Tittesworth Water

50x Pink-footed Geese over, 2x Dunlin, 6x Snipe, 110x Fieldfare, 700x Jackdaw in the roost, 2x Willow Tit, 12x Wigeon, 15x Mandarin, (SGi, IB)

Brankley Pastures

5x Yellowhammer, 2x Greenfinch, Snipe, 8x Egyptian Geese, (MKe, JKe)

Silverdale CP

2x Stonechat, (PCa)

Branston GPs

200x Golden Plover, 150x Lapwing, Redshank, 3x Ruff, 8x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 62x Little Grebe, 7x Egyptian Geese, 3x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 17x Wigeon, 82x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, Peregrine, Water Rail, 3x ad YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Barn Owl, Stonechat, 32x Fieldfare, 80x Redwing, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Siskin, (DSc)

Wychnor

Willow Tit, Siskin, Cetti's Warbler, 250x Redwing, 60x Fieldfare, (JWo)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Friday 21st October 2022

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite, Bittern, 10x Golden Plover, 9x Snipe, 250x Wigeon, 3x Pintail, Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, 9x Stonechat, 11x Redpoll, (MSm)

Berryhill

18x Stonechat this am - 16 in the LNR and 2 from the bottom end of the palletstacks, (RTo)

Blackbank visible migration

3302x Redwing, 178x Fieldfare, 50x Chaffinch, (NDP)

Radford Meadows

20x Wigeon, 25x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat, Snipe, (IWi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Merlin, 2x Ruff, imm Scaup, 8x Stonechat, 2000x Redwing, 

Blithfield Resv

Brent Goose, 60x Dunlin, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, Red Kite, 2x Peregrine, Stonechat, Barnacle Goose, 6x Egyptian Geese, (HF, SE)

Branston GPs

272x Golden Plover, 247x Lapwing, Redshank, 5x Ruff, 6x Dunlin, 16x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 86x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 7x Egyptian Geese, 56x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, 80x Linnet, 320x Redwing, 12x Fieldfare, 15x Greenfinch, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Golden Plovers by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 20th October 2022

Tittesworth Water

Arctic Tern briefly, Kittiwake, 3x Dunlin, 19x Snipe, 15x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, 4x Common Gull, (SGi)

                                                       Kittiwake by Steve Gibson

Middleton Lakes

32x Snipe, 12x Dunlin, Redshank, 4x Pintail, 5x Stonechat, 3x Great Egret, (SPA)

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Rock Pipit, 481x Redwing, 30x Fieldfare, (Foz)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Little Stint, 46x Dunlin, Imm Scaup, 

Endon

160x Redwing over, (DCo)

Gnosall

1200x Redwing over Radmore Lane at 16:44, (RPl)

Wednesday 19th October 2022

A massive movement of Redwings from Scandinavia moving fast inland from the east coast led to many very large counts over central and western visible migration watchpoints.

Blackbank visible migration 07:30 to 13:00

10,160x Redwing thru (Staffs record count), 555x Fieldfare, 154x Chaffinch, 4x Siskin, (NDP)

Branston GPs

8x Snipe, 3x Green Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 68x Golden Plover, 6x Curlew, 5x Ruff, 3x Pintail, Water Rail, Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, (DBa, KM, IG)

Blithfield Resv

29x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 4x Curlew, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Barnacle Goose, 12x Egyptian Geese, 4x Common Gull, 2x Pochard, (SE, HF)

Amington

Red Kite over Woodland Road, (MSc)

Brankley Pastures

550x Redwing, 80x Fieldfare, 8x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

75x Redwing, (TEy)

Tuesday 18th October 2022

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Common Gull, Water Rail, Cetti's Warblers, (GSa)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, Pintail, 3x Greenfinch, (JWo)

                                                           Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Stoke

Dipper on the Trent close to the electricity sub station, (ASt)

Middleton Lakes

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

Monday 17th October 2022

Leek

Red Kite over Westwood Road, 

Blithfield Resv

Great Egret, 2x GBB Gull, Little Egret, 8x Wigeon, (BGe)

Ford Green NR

2x Ring-necked Parakeet, Cetti's Warbler, (BCa, LCa)

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 12x Snipe, 152x Lapwing, Pintail, 64x Pochard, 8x Wigeon, 24x Shoveler, 185x Teal, 8x Egyptian Geese, 61x Little Grebe, 4x Common Gull, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 2x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 75x Linnet, (JWo)

Sunday 16th October 2022

Tittesworth Water

Merlin, 52x Mandarin, 15x Wigeon, Willow Tit, (SGi)  -  also 2x Snipe, 3x Redwing, (JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

Cattle Egret briefly Blithe Bay, (GJM, MPR)  -  2x Little Stint, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, 19x Dunlin, Great Egret, Red Kite, Stonechat, (RPo)  -  additional Green Sandpiper, 2x Golden Plover, 3x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                     Green Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

7x Stonechat, 3x Snipe, (IBu)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Probable Yellow Wagtail (heard), 3x Stonechat, 3x Snipe, Peregrine, 5x Yellowhammer, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Stoke - Hanford

Green Sandpiper on the Trent, 2x Little Egret, (RGi)

Blackbank

Fem Hen Harrier, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Brambling, (LDa, BDa, JKe)

Chasewater

28x Goosander on the swag, (GHa)

Rudyard Lake

63x Snipe, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

13x Golden Plover, 3x Ruff, 16x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 100x Lapwing, 3x Pintail, Shelduck, 36x Pochard, Hobby, Peregrine, 4x YL Gull, Common Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 7x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, 70x Little Grebe, Redwing, (DSc, JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Scaup, 10x Goldeneye, 5x Pintail, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Stonechat, Swallow, YL Gull, Great Egret, 

Saturday 15th October 2022

Tittesworth Water

41x Mandarin, 5x Wigeon, 2x Redwing, (SGi, IB)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

7x Whooper Swan at west end, Rock Pipit thru, imm Scaup still, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 6x Stonechat, 

Newcastle

18x Pink-footed Geese over Westlands this am, (GSa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 19x Golden Plover, 100x Lapwing, 16x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 3x Pintail, Shelduck, 4x YL Gull, Common Gull, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellowhammer thru, 3x Siskin thru, (DSc)

Stafford Beacon Hill

200x Linnet, 100x Skylark, 150x Chaffinch, (IWi)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Pintail, 110x Wigeon, 4x Pochard, ad Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 2x Dipper, 8x Goosander, 8x Pochard, 11x Shoveler, (RPo)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 8x Little Egret, 20x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 4x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Juv Marsh Harrier, 2x Little Egret, Goosander, 5x Greenfinch, Alrewas Canal to Wychnor Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 7x Stonechat, 8x Snipe, 64x Lapwing, 15x Shoveler, (RSw)

Friday 14th October 2022

Endon - Denford

Green Sandpiper, over, 3x Redpoll, Stonechat, (DCo)

Ipstones

Swallow thru, (SCh)

Cuckoo Bank

150x Skylark, 2x Yellowhammer, Stonechat, (GHa)

Blithfield Resv

2x Little Egret, Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 3x Ringed Plover, 21x Dunlin, 3x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, Common Gull, Stonechat, Barnacle Goose, 7x Egyptian Geese, (SE,HF)

Bramshall

Red Kite over at 14:15, (JTu)

Whitemoor Haye

Juv Marsh Harrier, Little Egrets, 8x Egyptian Geese, (RBe)

                                                          Marsh Harrier by Rob Bendelow

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Brambling, (TEy)

Seckington (on the couny border)

Red Kite, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Middleton Lakes

Redshank, 2x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Pochard, 3x Goosander, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (SB)  -  2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (MSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, imm Scaup, 5x Pintail, Great Egret, 

Berryhill

Water Rail at the moat/reedbed end, (RTo)

Thursday 13th October 2022

Middleton Lakes

Cattle Egret left the riverside roost at 07:22 with 2x Great Egret and 13x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 3x Goosander, 6x Stonechat, Barn Owl, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

2x Whooper Swan to 10:45 only, 48x Mandarin, 10x Snipe, 8x Wigeon, (JOa, LH)

Rudyard Lake

43x Snipe, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, 5x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Marchington Woodlands

Marsh Tit, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Ringed Plover, Golden Plover, 2x Little Stint, 16x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew, 2x Stonechat, (GWi)

Wednesday 12th October 2022

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 14x Curlew, Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 3x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, Barn Owl, 4x YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Redwing, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Brankley Pastures

10x Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 45x Wigeon, (MSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm male Merlin, Peregrine, imm Scaup still, 

Croxall Lakes

11x Little Egret, Great Egret, Green Woodpecker, (BHa)

Tittesworth Water

Merlin reported (per AHe)

Tuesday 11th October 2022

Endon

c25 Pink-footed Geese over at 11:00 also 2x Willow Tit, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, Bar-tailed Godwit, 32x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 3x Ruff, Golden Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, (CMa)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (CMa)

Branston GPs

4x Pintail, Shelduck, (CMa)

Fradley - Alrewas

10x Grey Partridge, Peregrine, Yellowhammer, (BHa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Swallow thru, (DB)

Whitemoor Haye

22x Gadwall, 33x Wigeon, 5x Pochard, 21x Shoveler, 2x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, c200 Lapwing, Barn Owl, (SCo)

Marchington Woodlands

2x Marsh Tit, (JWo)

River Sow Meadows

2x Goosander also Mandarin on canal by the Baswich Lane bridge, (IW)

Monday 10th October 2022

Blithfield Resv

Juv Whooper Swan, 2x Pintail, 8x Ringed Plover, Golden Plover, Little Stint, 11x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 3x Curlew, 3x Stonechat, (GWi)

Branston GPs

White-fronted Goose, 3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 8x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 134x Lapwing, 8x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 56x Pochard, Shelduck, 4x Wigeon, 118x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 214x Teal, 63x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday 9th October 2022

Alrewas

Hobby over, Redwing, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Grey Plover to 09:15 only, Rock Pipit over north, Little Stint still, 14x Ringed Plover, 30x Dunlin, Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 4x Ruff, Swallow, 3x Stonechat, c200 Linnet, (SRi)  -  additional Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                         Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

4x Little Stint, fem Merlin, 46x Golden Plover, 4x Snipe, 7x Swallow, 

Berryhill

6x Stonechat from the end of Mossfield Road, 20x Song Thrush, Fieldfares, Redwing, (ALa)

Trentham Gardens

11x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, (PBi)

Rudyard Lake

28x Snipe, 84x Lapwing, (JOa, LH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Pochard, 2x Goosander, (Blu)

Furnace Grange farm Trescott

3cy YL Gull, Brambling over SE, Goosander, Little Egret, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Alvecote

3x Pintail, (MSc)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey over at 11:15, 2x Whooper Swan, 2x Pintail, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 3x Goosander, 2x Stonechat, Snipe, (R)  -  Cattle Egret roosted riverside along with 40x Little Egret and 8x Great Egret, Whooper Swan still on JW at dusk, (Mercian Birding)

Branston GPs

3x Ruff, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 80x Little Grebe, 5x Little Egret, 3x Shelduck, 3x Pintail, 50x Pochard, Goldeneye, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  additional on SMP 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, AP Stonechat, (JWo)

Saturday 8th October 2022

Whitemoor Haye

9x Golden Plover over west, 41x Little Egret, 9x Great Egret, Wheatear, Goldeneye, 39x Pochard, 65x Wigeon, 21x Shoveler, 3x Snipe, 2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 92x Lapwing, 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo, WeBS)  -  6x Egyptian Geese, Yellowhammer, (RBe)

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 3x Snipe, 2x Stonechat and a distant Osprey, (SPA)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Curlew Sandpiper 10:15 to 10:32 only, imm Scaup, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Ringed Plover, 11x Golden Plover over west, Garganey, Pintails 2x Goosander, YL Gull, 

Blithfield Resv

A new Little Stint Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 5x Golden Plover, 30x Dunlin, Ruddy Shelduck, (SSe)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 10x Snipe, 38x Mandarin, 26x Teal, Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Blackbank -visible migration

1847x Meadow Pipit, Hobby, Brambling, 3x Fieldfare, 3x Redwing, 77x Linnet, 69x Skylark, 105x Pied Wagtail, 97x Siskin, 4x Golden Plover, 2x Snipe, 20x Swallow, 8x Greenfinch, Redpoll, (NDP)

Newcastle

Peregrine over, (MPa)

Stafford

Stonechat Two Waters Way, (RGo)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 4x Little Egret, 3x Pintail, 10x Wigeon, Shelduck, 20x Skylark thru, Stonechat, 50x Linnet, (DSc)

Stoke on Trent

2x Ring-necked Parakeet 16:30 near cemetery gates on Leek New Road at 16:30, (KKi)

Silverdale CP

3x Stonechat, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Pintail, 80x Wigeon, 8x Pochard, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)

i54

3x Stonechat, (JDu)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, (JWo)

Friday 7th October 2022

Middleton Lakes

Whinchat, 4x Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, Pintail, Goldeneye, 2x Stonechat, 

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Rock Pipit, Imm Scaup, 2x Garganey,

Endon - Denford

3x Stonechat still, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Branston GPs

3x Pintail, 2x Shelduck, Goldeneye, 3x Little Egret, 2x Black-tailed Godwit,12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, Common Gull, ad YL Gull, 16x House Martin, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Curlew, 33x Dunlin, 31x Ringed Plover, Golden Plover, 3x Ruff, Rock Pipit, Great Egret, Hobby, (SE, HF)

                                                       Ruddy Shelduck by Steve Edwards

                                                        Golden Plover by Steve Edwards

Thursday 6th October 2022

Rudyard Lake

48x Snipe, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 97x Teal, Mandarin (SSe, JOa, LH)

Blithfield Resv

2x Rock Pipit briefly on the dam this am before flying north, (GJM)  -  Wheatear, Ruff, 3x Curlew, Egyptian Goose, (JTu)

                                                              Ruff by Jean Tuck

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, Goldeneye, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 19x Mandarin, Yellow Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Ipstones

Red Kite at 15:00, (SCh)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Female Ferruginous Duck at west end, Garganey, Rock Pipit, 

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

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

Trentham Gardens

Med Gull, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 12x Mandarin and a Dipper on river, (HF)

Lichfield

Merlin in fields off Darnford Lane opposite the golf club, also a Little Egret on Darnford Brook, (BHa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 128x Lapwing, 3x Pintail, 63x Pochard, 123x Shoveler, 12x Wigeon, 76x Little Grebe, 6x Little Egret, 4x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 3x Green Woodpecker, Swallow, 100x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Peregrine by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 5th October 2022

Kings Bromley

2x Cattle Egret still from the A515 layby, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

Rock Pipit briefly at the causeway, (GJM)  -  Juv Kittiwake, Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, 28x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 23x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, Great Egret, Common Tern, Peregrine, 500x Linnet, (SE, HF)

                                                         Kittiwake by Steve Edwards

Tucklesholme

2x Pintail, 22x Pochard, 14x Goosander, 128x Wigeon, 12x Gadwall, 11x Egyptian Geese, Snipe, Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x Swallow, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

                                                          Pintail by Jon Woodcock

Highgate Common 

Bramblings this evening, (WN)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

5x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Garganey, 

Alvecote

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

Tuesday 4th September 2022

Middleton Lakes

3x Greta Egret, 5x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, 3x Water Rail,

Belvide Resv(WMBC members only)

2x Garganey still, Rock Pipit, 

Alvecote

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

Branston GPs

2x Black-necked Grebe, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 6x Snipe, 165x Lapwing, 13x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 159x Pochard, 20x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, 146x Shoveler, 73x Little Grebe, 5x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 4x Greenfinch, 24x Swallow, (JWo, DSc)

Monday 3rd October 2022

Rudyard Lake

27x Snipe, 2x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 91x Teal, 9x Wigeon, (SSe)

Whitemoor Haye

9x Grey Partridge, 36x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe over, 276x Lapwing, 18x Wigeon, Peregrine, Cetti's Warbler, c140 Linnet, (SCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Garganey still, 2x Ruff, 5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Cetti's Warbler, 7x Pintail, 

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (BGe)  -  also 2x Cattle Egret, 6x Goosander, (RBe)

Tuckleshome

Fem Scaup before flying off SE at 12:40, Little Egret, (BGe)

Croxall Lakes

2x Little Egret, (BGe)

Fradley - Alrewas

3x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet from the canal towpath, (BHa)

Alrewas NMA

Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, Hobby, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (RBe)

Berryhill

Visible migration - 1624x Meadow Pipits, 2x Fieldfare, 27x Redwing, 11x Siskin, 2x Redpoll, 8x Swallow, (NDP)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff, 15x Curlew, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 7x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 140x Pochard, 2x Shelduck, 2x Water Rail, GBB Gull, 2x ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 14x Swallow thru, (DSc)

                                                          Pintail by Dave Scattergood

Doxey Marsh

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

Cotes Heath

Barn Owl crossing A519 at 23:31, (RPl)

Sunday 2nd October 2022

Knypersley Resv

6x Fieldfare. 29x Redwing, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Cattle Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (BHa, SSe)

                                                          Cattle Egret by Steve Seal

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit in Blithe Bay, 3x Curlew, 28x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 33x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Great Egret, Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, 2x Red Kite, Stonechat, (SE, HF)

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Doxey Marsh

9x Cattle Egret flew from the marsh north over the M6 - Staffs record site count, also Great Egret, Little Egret, (BGo)

         

Great Egret by Bill Goldstraw

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

9x Cattle Egret thru south at 14:24, probably the 9 birds that left Doxey at 14:00. also juv Scaup, 2x Garganey, 7x Pintail, 3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Dunlin, 15x Ringed Plover, YL Gull, 

Rudyard Lake

2x Ruff, 4x Snipe, (JOa, LH)

Tittesworth Water

26x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Dimmingsdale - Pool Hall

Stonechat, Little Egret, (IMo, GCl, CVa)

Cuckoo Bank

Merlin, 9x Stonechat, 

Branston GPs

10x Little Egret, 14x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 3x Shelduck, Ruff, 12x Curlew, 6x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Barnacle Geese, (DSc)  -  also 4x YL Gull, 4x GBB Gull, (JWo)

Saturday 1st October 2022

Middleton Lakes

Green Sandpiper, 4x Black-railed Godwit briefly, Pintail, Pochard, 3x Great Egret, 3x Stonechat,

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (IB)

Rudyard Lake

2x Ruff, 2x LRP, 28x Snipe, 75x Lapwing, 7x Wigeon, (SSe)

Doxey Marsh

At least 8x Cattle Egret visible on Creswell Flash this afternoon, (DEm). -  30x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, White Wagtail, (BGo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Rock Pipit west end, 

Endon - Denford

3x Stonechat, (DCo)

Cuckoo Bank

Male Marsh Harrier NE at 16:30, 2x Stonechat, Redwing, Hobby, 7x Redpoll, 

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 6x Goosander, (RBe)

                       Cattle Egret by Rob Bendelow                               

Branston GPs

Little Stint still on Ashy pit, 17x Golden Plover, 3x Pintail, (CEc)

Stafford

Red Kite following the plough at Brancote fields, (RSw)

Chasewater

2x Willow Tit, 4x Snipe, 6x Goosander, (BHa)

Blithfield Resv

6x Ruff, Curlew Sandpiper, 17x Dunlin, 20x Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, Peregrine, 5x Goosander, (MJa)

Alvecote

Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)