Thursday 31st August 2023

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Sandpiper, 40x Mandarin, 5x Teal, (SGi)

Cuckoo Bank

Goshawk, (GHa)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 11x Curlew, 10x Little Egret, Pintail, Wigeon, 50x Pochard, 4x Goosander, Hobby, 16x Common Tern, 3x ad YL Gull, ad GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Siskin, (DSc)

Wednesday 30th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

Red-breasted Goose of unknown origin JW north, Garganey, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, (SPA)

Alvercote (Old Orchard area)

5x Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Hobby, Black-tailed Godwit over, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

Spoonbill (DBa), Garganey, 12x Little Egret, Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Redstart, Wheatear, Hobby, 2x juv Black-necked Grebe, 

Blithfield Resv

6x Ruff, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 7x Dunlin, Greenshank, 4x LRP, 48x Ringed Plover, 11x Common Tern, 3x Egyptian Geese, 193x Great Crested Grebe (Tad Bay), 5x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 5x Pintail, 2x Whinchat, 2x Wigeon, Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                              Ruff by Steve Edwards

Cannock Chase

Crossbill along Abrahams Valley this am, (MPi)

Tamworth

Spotted Flycatcher at The Bumpy, (MSc)

Branston GPs

3x Greenshank, Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 12x Little Egret, Pintail, 6x Goosander, 71x Pochard, 67x Gadwall, 81x Shoveler, 35x Common Tern, 4x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 50x Linnet, (JWo, MCa, CEc, Dean, PFo)

Barton under Needwood

Greenshank over, (JWo)

Tuesday 29th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

9x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)  -  Red Kite, (JHo)

Alvecote

Red-crested Pochard still Pretty Pigs pool, 6x Spotted Flycatcher in Orchard, (TPe)  -  Little Egret, 7x Swift, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, (MSc)

Belvide Resv

Short-eared Owl Hawkshutts ridge,

Gailey Resv

3x Little Egret, 2x fem Pochard, (SRi)

Branston GPs

4x Greenshank, 5x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 14x Curlew, 14x Little Egret, Pintail, 6x Wigeon, 58x Pochard, 54x Gadwall, 72x Shoveler, 7x Egyptian Geese, 68x Little Grebe, 26x Common Tern, 4x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, Hobby, Peregrine, (JWo)

Monday 28th August 2023

Branston GPs

Pintail, 40x Gadwall, 35x Shoveler, 6x Little Egret, 3x Curlew, Ruff, 3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 2x Whinchat, 8x Siskin flew east, 5x Egyptian Geese, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

                                                        Whinchat by Dave Scattergood

Alvecote

2x Spotted Flycatcher Old orchard, (TPe)

Gailey Resv

Whinchat just north of Resv at Otherton in overground field adjacent to old rail line, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, 2x Black Swan, (GB)

Belvide Resv

Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, (CMa, RF)

Cannock Chase

2x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, (BHa)

Furnace Grange

6x Yellow Wagtail along Staffs Way, (CVa)

Sunday 27th August 2023

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Juv Turnstone 09:20 to 09:35 only, 9x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 2x Greenshank, 3x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, Garganey still, Goosander, 12x Little Egret, Red Kite, 24x Swift thru, 

Alvecote

Red-crested Pochard on Pretty Pigs,  Green Sandpiper, 2x Spotted Flycatcher at Old Orchard. (ARa)

Stoke

Greenshank still at Lordship Lane, (RGi)

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 10x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 9x Dunlin, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, 8x Goosander, 9x YL Gull, 15x Common Tern, Tree Pipit, 20x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, (SRi)  -  2x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Sandpiper, 8x Dunlin, 4x LRP, 41x Ringed Plover, 5x Ruff, 5x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, Egyptian Goose, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Pintail, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Swift, 12x Common Tern, 6x Goosander, (SE, HF)

                                                        Ringed Plover by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 

Branston GPs

Imm Marsh Harrier, 6x Curlew, 8x Snipe, 3x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Ruff, Greenshank, 75x Lapwing, 10x Little Egret, Pintail, 40x Shoveler, Shelduck, 3x Goosander,  50x Pochard, 30x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, 2x ad YL Gull, (DSc)  -  Hobby over SMP2, (JWo)

Hixon airfield

8x Grey Partridge this am, (ABe)

Bobbington

1 to 2 Wheatear off Leaton Lane, (WN)

Saturday 26th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

20x Little Egret, Great Egret, 5x Snipe, 4x Wigeon, 2x Common Tern, Barn Owl, (SPA)

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x LRP, Ringed Plover, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, Oystercatcher, Peregrine, LG Gull, (RPo)

Stoke

Lordship Lane - Greenshank, 28x Lapwing, (RGi)

Knypersley Resv

3x Mandarin, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint still, 

Croxall

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Peregrine, Wheatear, (IWh)

Belvide Resv

Garganey, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 16x Common Sandpiper, 14x Little Egret, 2x Peregrine, Red Kite, 3x Tree Pipit, Stonechat, 

Aqualate

Juv Marsh Harrier, Osprey, Hobby, (PJor)

Tittesworth Water

Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 31x Mandarin, 14x Buzzard, (SGi, IB, CL)

Branston GPs

10x Little Egret, 40x Little Grebe, 7x Egyptian Geese, Mandarin, 35x Shoveler, 35x Pochard, 70x Lapwing, 14x Curlew,  4x Snipe, 40x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 24x Pochard, 3x Common Tern, (DSc)

Friday 25th August 2023

Belvide Resv

Garganey, 19x Little Egret, Cattle Egret, 11x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 6x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 

Enville

8x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Redstart and 4x Yellow Wagtail south, (IWh)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, 2x Snipe, 2x Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Little Stint still, 6x Great Egret, 35x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, (MDJ)

Thursday 24th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

9x Black Tern Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  Little Stint, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Great Egret, (JFu)

                                                          Black Tern by Jean Tuck

Belvide Resv

Juv Black Tern, Garganey, 4x Greenshank, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 3x Pochard, 

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Sandpiper, 59x Mandarin, Pochard, Common Gull, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Hobby, Common Terns, (RBe)

Kings Bromley layby

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, (BHa)

                                                              Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Furnace Grange Trescott

Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, Green Sandpiper flew from farm pool to the brook, (IMo, GCl)

Branston GPs

Black Tern until mid afternoon only, 5x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 60x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 92x Pochard, 61x Shoveler, 49x Gadwall, 34x Little Grebe, 38x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Alvecote

2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Wednesday 23rd August 2023

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, 7x Snipe, (SPA)

Branston GPs

2x Black Tern and Red-crested Pochard still, 2x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Snipe, 4x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 180x Lapwing, 9x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 116x Pochard, 64x Shoveler, 69x Gadwall, Mandarin, 62x Little Grebe, 39x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 4x Red Kite over, 4x Green Woodpecker, 12x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                           Black Terns by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

2x Little Stint, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 5x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 36x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 2x Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, Redstart, 30x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                          Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Botteslow Flash

3x Little Egret early am, (RTo)

Tuesday 22nd August 2023

Blithfield Resv

2x juv Little Stint, 4x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 25x Ringed Plover, 6x Dunlin, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, juv Med Gull, 4x Great Egret, Wheatear, 2x Wigeon, Red Kite,  (TPe, JAl)

Stoke 

Lordship Lane - Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (RGi)

Slindon

Red Kite over A519 at 12:20. (RPl)

Doxey Marsh

Male Marsh Harrier this am, (RBr)

Tittesworth Water

58x Mandarin, 16x Goosander, 3x Common Sandpiper, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

Black Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 7x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 9x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 122x Pochard, 43x Gadwall, 49x Shoveler, 3x Mandarin, 43x Little Grebe, 42x Common Tern, 4x YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Redstart, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean).

Monday 21st August 2023

Branston GPs

Black Tern still, 30x Common Tern, 3x Ruff, 3x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, Snipe, 7x Green Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 12x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (CEc)  -  2x Black Tern still, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, (SB)

Gailey Resv

Imm male Goshawk over, Yellow Wagtail and at nearby Otherton Redstart along disused railwai, (SRi)

Ipstones

Red Kite circling at 10:45, (SCh)

Hixon Airfield

13x Grey Partridge, Green Sandpiper, 2x Wheatear, (RCB)

Ingestre

Hobby over at 08:30, (RCB)

Blithfield Resv

2x Little Stint Blithe Bay, Green Sandpiper, 4x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, juv Med Gull, (BSt, ASt)  -  Dunlin, 4x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, Wheatear, 5x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, (DBa)

                                                          Juv  Med Gull by GJ Mant

Sunday 20th August 2023

Knypersley Resv

Great Egret over south at 07:50, Swift, Mandarin, (GBr)

Rudyard Resv

2x Little Egret, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, (SSe)

Branston GPs

2x Black Tern still at 20:20,  42x Common Tern, 12x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, 45x Shoveler, 115x Pochard, 3x Goosander, Peregrine, 5x Curlew, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 4x Snipe, 3x YL Gull, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 50x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Seisdon area

2x Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Tree Pipit, 2x Little Egret, (GCl, IMo) 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, roadside pit, (TPe)

Tucklesholme

Juv Ruff on the end of spit, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, 36x Mandarin, 4x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey, Hobby briefly this am, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Water Rail, 16x Cetti's Warbler,  (MBo, RRa, WeBS team)

Blithfield Resv

5x Great Egret, 32x Little Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, 52x Ringed Plover, 12x LRP, 4x Ruff, 2x Hobby, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Pintail, (SE, HF)  -  20x Yellow Wagtail, Swift, 3x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (SFi)

                                                          Great Egrets by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

11x Common Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 2x Ruff, 3x Oystercatcher, LRP, 7x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 4x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker. 

Saturday 19th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern, 4x Arctic Tern, Common Scoter, Whimbrel, 4x Ruff, 78x Ringed Plover, 6x Great Egret, (MRa, GJM)  -  Juv Med Gull off Stephens Bay, (MYa)

Whitemoor Haye

Marsh Harrier briefly at 09:50, 9x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 113x Lapwing, 7x Common Tern, 3x Wigeon, Yellow Wagtail, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

12x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Greenshank, 

Tittesworth Water

Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, Little Egret, 25x Mandarin, 11x Goosander, (SGi,)

Berryhill

2x Redstart, (RGi)

Branston GPs

2x Black Tern still at 13:00, 3x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 9x Curlew, 70x Lapwing, 36x Common Tern, 40x Shoveler, 3x Shelduck, 30x Pochard, 6x Little Egret, 10x Yellow Wagtail thru south, 4x ad YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Juv Caspian Gull, 13x Little Egret, 4x Greenshank, 11x Common Sandpiper, 13x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, 3x Oystercatcher, Marsh Harrier, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Redstart, Stonechat, 

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret reported on Creswell Flash.

Tucklesholme

2x Whinchat to 16:30 at least, (DSc)

Friday 18th August 2023

Belvide Resv

Adult Sabines Gull this morning until 11:20 when it flew off west, Black Tern in at 14:30, juv Caspian Gull briefly

Middleton Lakes

3x Curlew Sandpiper on JW north, (DCo), - 5x Wood Sandpiper on JW north (SPA, DCo), -  2x Garganey, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, 18x Snipe, (SPA)

Branston GPs

16x Black Tern, juv Marsh Harrier, Redstart, 2x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 120x Lapwing, 15x Little Egret, Goosander, 94x Pochard, 7x Shelduck, 34x Gadwall, 24x Shoveler, 44x Little Grebe, 46x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                          Black Tern by Jon Woodcock

Tucklesholme

Whinchat, (TWy)

Blithfield Resv

60 Ringed Plover, Black Tern still, (GJM)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Black Tern on back pit distantly from rough track, (TPe)

Tittesworth Water

Red Kite, Goosander, Common Sandpiper, (KBr)

Thursday 17th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper in Tad Bay, (MDJ, GJM)  -  Red Kite, Wood Sandpiper still, (MBo, PDy, DTo)  -  4x Ruff, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 12x Little Egret, 27x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, Red Kite, (DBa)

Stanley Pool

Hobby and 619x Swallows south in two hours, (GBr)

Botteslow Flash

2x Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, (RTo)

Cannock Chase

2x Hobby Sherbrook Valley this afternoon, (NMk)

Branston GPs

10x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 100x Lapwing, 10x Little Egret, Red-crested Pochard, 2x Goosander, 115x Pochard, 3x Shelduck, 56x Gadwall, 32x Shoveler, 41x Little Grebe, 25x Common Tern, Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, Hobby, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Wednesday 16th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

Black Tern Beech Tree Point, (HF, SE)  -  Marsh Harrier, 26x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Snipe, 3x Ruff, 23x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, Whinchat, Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa, KM, CE)

                                                        Black Tern by Steve Edwards

Endon - Denford

Water Rails, 2x Redstart, 2x Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Botteslow Flash

Wheatear on fence posts, Green Woodpecker, (RTo)

Tuesday 15th August 2023

Doxey Marsh

4x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Mandarin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (MBo)

Stanley Pool

Swift and 306x Swallows south in one hour, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Fem/imm Marsh Harrier, Red-crested Pochard, 3x Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 9x Common Sandpiper, 10x Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 80x Lapwing, 10x Little Egret, 89x Pochard, 32x Shoveler, 39x Gadwall, 57x Little Grebe, 30x Common Tern, 5x YL Gull, 3x Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)

Monday 14th August 2023

Belvide Resv

Pectoral Sandpiper at west end to 10:00 only, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, 80x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 97x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 27x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 6x Mandarin, 42x Teal, 43x Little Grebe, 40x Common Tern, 4x YL Gull, 2x Hobby, 6x Swift, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

2x Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, (BGe)

Chatterley Whitfield

Barn Owl this evening, (PMo)

Gnosall

Hobby on Radmore Lane at 18:15. (RPl)

Sunday 13th August 2023

Whitemoor Haye

Female Whinchat along rough track, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

Cattle Egret in planation Blithe Bay, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Dunlin, 16x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, Hobby,  (HF, SE)

                                                          Cattle Egret by GJ Mant

                                                       Cattle Egret by Steve Edwards

Seisdon

7x Little Egret, site record, (GCl)

Endon - Denford

6x Willow Tit, 3x Redstart, Water Rail, Snipe, 2x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Pintail, 5x Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, LRP, (JOa, LH)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

3x Spotted Flycatcher, (RGi)

Belvide Resv

2x Greenshank, Dunlin, 14x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Golden Plover, 6x Little Egret, 3x Redstart, Goshawk. Peregrine, Hobby.

Branston GPs

7x Little Egret, 7x Shelduck, 78x Pochard, 3x Mandarin, Hobby, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 120x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 30x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (DSc)

Saturday 12th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

3x Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit, LRP, Ringed Plover, Great Egret, (SPA)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 9x Lapwing, 18x Little Egret, Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 2x Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Berryhill

Redstart, (RGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Juv Marsh Harrier at 14:45, 10x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

Scaup, 22x Goosander, 9x Mandarin, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Belvide Resv

14x Common Sandpiper, 3x Redshank, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Greenshank, 2x Shelduck, 7x Little Egret, 2x Redstart, Goshawk. 

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard still, 6x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 8x Little Egret, 75x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 50x Lapwing, 20x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Swift, (DSc)

Friday 11th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 70x Lapwing, Great Egret, (SPA)

Berryhill

Spotted Flycatcher in copse above standing stones circle, (CSi)

Blithfield Resv

2x Whinchat, Wheatear, 25x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Great Egret, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (MDJ)  -  4x Dunlin, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 300x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, Red Kite, (MJa)

Branston GPs

2x Redstart, (CEc, Dean,)  -  Great Egret, Red-crested Pochard, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Curlew, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 50x Lapwing, 9x Little Egret, 117x Pochard, Wigeon, 42x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 33x Little Grebe, 15x Common Tern, 5x YL Gull, 2x Hobby, 5x Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                       Greenshank by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 10th August 2023

Tittesworth Water

LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Lapwing, 55x Mandarin, 12x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, Little Egret, (SGi)  -  LRP, Common Sandpiper, 9x Mandarin, Redstart, Hobby, (JOa)

Rudyard Lake

6x Spotted Flycatcher and a Hobby this evening, 

Wednesday 9th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 2x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Hobby, (SPA)

Longsdon Wood

3x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Willow Tit, 4x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Chasewater

Common Sandpiper. (KWh)  -  The Shag still

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit west end, 

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by John Tebbet

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 90x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 16x Little Egret, 23x Common Tern, 76x Pochard, Wigeon, 20x Shoveler, 33x Gadwall, 3x Mandarin, 5x Goosander, 42x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, Hobby, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 9x Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Tuesday 8th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

7x Dunlin, 3x Redshank, 4x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, 8x Shelduck, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (DBa, IGr, PB)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard, Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Common Sandpiper, 6x Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 80x Lapwing, 16x Little Egret, 66x Pochard, 34x Little Grebe, 39x Common Tern, 7x YL Gull, Hobby, 3x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Monday 7th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill still, 3x Great Egret, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 2x Arctic Tern, 10x Common Tern, Wheatear, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (CMa)

Tucklesholme

Whinchat this afternoon, (APa)

Tittesworth Water

2x Redstart, 3x Willow Tit, 2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Curlew, Oystercatcher, 14x Goosander, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

Sunday 6th August 2023

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill still at 07:30, 2x Great Egret, (NJS)  -  Spoonbill, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 35x Little Egret, c30 Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Hobby, 2x YL Gull, Mandarin, Goosander, (RSw)  -  also Redstart (SE, HF)  - Little Stint Tad Bay late afternoon, 

                                                         Redstart by Steve Edwards

                                                          Spoonbill by Jean Tuck

Radford Meadows

Adult Med Gull, 3x juv Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, 5x Shoveler, (CDa)

Seisdon

16x adult Kittiwake went up the valley

Penkridge

3x Kittiwake west over Teddesley Park at 12:34.

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Ruff, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (RPo)

Knypersley Resv

Muntjac at top of Judgefield Lane at 04:15 with thermal imager, 5x Tawny Owl, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Turnstone, 11x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 12x Common Sandpiper, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, 4x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Water Rail, (SWa)

Tittesworth Water

9x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard still Ashy pit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 11x Curlew, 6x YL Gull, juv Common Gull, 20x Common Tern, 2x Green Sandpiper, (DSc)

Saturday 5th August 2023

Belvide Resv

2x ad Arctic Tern, 2x Common Tern, 4x drake Common Scoter to 08:05 only, 17x Little Egret, 10x Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, LRP, Dunlin, Hobby, Peregrine, YL Gull.

Westport Lake

Drake Common Scoter on main lake at 07:00, 

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone on JW south, 10x Redshank, 4x Dunlin, LRPs, 2x Garganey, 

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, Shoveler, 12x Goosander, 11x Mandarin, Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill still in Tad Bay, 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 2x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Wigeon, (RPo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

6x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Curlew, 7x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Yellow Wagtail, 7x Pochard, 2x Little Egret, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, (RGi)

Alrewas NMA

6x Goosander (juvs), (JWo)

Friday 4th August 2023

Middleton Lakes

2x Redshank, LRP, Great Egret, 2x Common Tern, Peregrine, Wigeon, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill still, 3x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Gull, juv Cuckoo, Redstart, (MDJ)  -  Spoonbill, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 7x Dunlin, 11x LRP, 3x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Great Egret, 36x Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (SE, HF)

                         Spotted Flycatcher by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

Drake Common Scoter, Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 17x Little Egret, 

Croxden Quarry

Juv Med Gull this evening also ad YL Gull, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard still, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, Ringed Plover, 14x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 60x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 20x Little Egret, 60x Pochard, 31x Gadwall, 28x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Greenfinch, (JWo)  -  additionally this evening 8x Oystercatcher, 110x Lapwing, 7x Egyptian Geese, 13x Mandarin, (DSc)

Wootton (near Weaver Hills)

Red Kite at 16:00, (DSc)

Thursday 3rd August 2023

Middleton Lakes

Garganey still on east scrape, Great Egret, 2x Redshank, Hobby, 

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 23x Little Egret, 18x Goosander, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (MJa)  -  Tad Bay 17x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, (RCB)  -  Spoonbill still Tad Bay, (MGG)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard, Arctic Tern, 7x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 60x Lapwing, 14x Little Egret, 80x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 28x Little Grebe, 24x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull,  (JWo)

Wednesday 2nd August 2023

Blithfield Resv

36x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, Whimbrel, LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 7x Dunlin, White Wagtail, (CMa, RF)  -  Spoonbill, Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 9x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 21x LRP, Ringed Plover, 26x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (SE, HF)

                                                         Spoonbill by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard, 5x Oystercatcher, Black -tailed Godwit, (CMa, RF)  -  Red-crested Pochard, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 11x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 60x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, 71x Pochard, 35x Common Tern, 6x YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, Greenfinch, (JWo)

                                                   Common Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Endon - Denford

2x Redstart, Willow Tit, Water Rail, 3x Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel heard this evening, (TPe, SCo)

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper on north shore this evening, 

Whitemoor Haye

3x Grey Partridge, Hobby, Whimbrel, YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, (SCo)

Tuesday 1st August 2023

Stanley Pool

5x juv Shelduck over NW at 06:00, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank on JW north, Common Sandpiper, 3x Garganey still on west scrape, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill Tad Bay, Wood Sandpiper still, 12x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, 5x Dunlin, Curlew, 15x Little Egret, 2x Great Egret, 5x Goosander, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (SRi, IMo)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard still, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 12x Curlew, 14x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 14x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 60x Lapwing, 11x Little Egret, 5x Goosander, 48x Pochard, 13x Shelduck, 31x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern, 5x YL Gull, 5x Green Woodpecker, Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                  Red-crested Pochard by Jon Woodcock

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