Tuesday 30th April 2024

190 species recorded so far in Staffs 2024

Cheddleton 

From the Valley to "The Boat" Willow Tit, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Goosander, 4x Sedge Warbler, (ALa)

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, fem Marsh Harrier thru south, 

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Whimbrel, 3x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup (m), 12x Pochard, Mandarin, 8x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 38x Shelduck, 32x Little Grebe, Marsh Harrier (f), Wheatear, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 20x Swift, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 15x Redpoll, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, JHo, SJo, ABl, CBl, PAn, Ray)

                                                      Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Sandwich Tern above JW, (PDe)

                                                            Bittern by Kevin Taylor

Rudyard Lake

Common Tern 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SSe)

Whitemoor Haye

Whinchat on start of rough track, 9x Whimbrel again, (TPe)  -  Hobby, fem Wheatear, (SRi)

WMI site near Calf Heath

4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x White Wagtail, Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 29th April 2024

190 species recorded so far in Staffs 2024

Middleton Lakes

2x Whimbrel on west scrape, Garganey, Cuckoo, 6x Swift, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Great Egret, 5x Garden Warbler, (MSm)

Outwoods - Park Farm floods

6x White Wagtail, 3x Shelduck, 2x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, (ABe)

Tittesworth Water

Yellow Wagtail, Redstart, Common Tern, (SGi)

                                                        Yellow Wagtail by Steve Gibson

Endon - Denford

3x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x LRP, Curlew, (DCo)

Carmountside Flash

Grasshopper Warbler, RNP, Little Egret, (ALa)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper,  Garden Warbler, (ALa)

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper to 13:40 only, Greenshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 

Chasewater

Shag still, Common Sandpiper, 2x Swift, Oystercatcher, 12x GC Grebe, (SWa)

Berryhill

2x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, Snipe, (RTo, IBu)

Pendeford Hall Lane

Greenshank heard calling, Lesser Whitethroat, Gadwall, (IMo)

Branston GPs

2x Whimbrel, 8x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup, 7x Pochard, 32x Shelduck, 32x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, 8x Teal, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30 GC Grebe, 36x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, 2x Common Gull, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Garden Warbler, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 80x Swift, 25x Redpoll, (JWo)

                                                         Whimbrel by Jon Woodcock

Cannock Chase

3x Tree Pipit, 2x Crossbill, Redpolls, Siskins, (CMa, RF)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Whimbrel still this evening from quarry entrance, (BHa)  -  7x Whimbrel late evening, (SRi)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Whimbrel, 28x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 5x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, Common Gull, Swift, (RSw)

Sunday 28th April 2024

Gailey Resv

2x Arctic Tern, Common Tern early am, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

7x Arctic Tern on North pit, drake Garganey, Ringed Plover, (MSm)  -  Med Gull flew south over JW, 3x Dunlin, 

Whitemoor Haye

12x Black-tailed Godwit, (TPe)  -  6x Whimbrel still late morning, (AMa, NCo)  -  7x Whimbrel this evening also 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, (JAl)

i54 - Pendeford Hall Lane

Greenshank still, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JDu)

Blithfield Resv

5x Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern off Beech Tree Point, mid morning, (SRi  -  mid day 9x Arctic Tern, 5x Common Tern, 10x Swift, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Belvide Resv

2x Arctic Tern, Common Tern, fem Scaup, Osprey thru at 10:25, 

Endon - Denford

2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Curlew thru, (DCo)

Botteslow Flash

LRP early am, (RTo)

Stoke Lordship Lane

Yellow Wagtail over, (RGi)

Branston GPs

3x Common Tern, 4x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, Pochard, 18x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 18x Teal, 16x Little Grebe, 50x Swift, 100x House Martin, Yellow Wagtail, 15x Redpoll, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo, DSc, SRi)  -  In addition this afternoon 13x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Mandarin, 5x Pochard, Peregrine, YL Gull. 80x Swift, 20x Redpoll, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, (GPr, RRa, AHa)

Tittesworth Water

8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 3x Common Gull, Goosander, 2x Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

The Burntwood (Loggerheads)

2x Curlew, Red Kite, 2x Siskin, (RGi)

River Sow Meadows

2x Oystercatcher, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Gadwall, (IWi)

Calf Heath

Dunlin, (KCl)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Red Kite, (GBr)

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (LSt)

Saturday 27th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel to 06:00 from the benches, also drake  Garganey still, 4x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, 2x Dunlin, 8x Swift, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Whimbrel, LRP, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Swift, 5x Shelduck, Little Egret, (SCo)  -  7x Arctic Tern briefly on Back pit, 7x Whimbrel, White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail (TPe, PAn)

Belvide Resv

Black Tern at 12:15, 

Berryhill

Red Kite over east at 09:35, LRP over calling, 2x Stonechat still, 2x Redpoll, Sedge Warbler, (RGi)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 3x Reed Warbler, 3x Swift, 5x House Martin, Whitethroat, 7x Sedge Warbler, (GPr, RRa)

Cannock Chase

4x Cuckoo, 2x Redstart, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 5x Tree Pipit, 6x Stonechat, Curlew, (BHa)

Knypersley Resv

Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (GBr)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, (STu)

Blithfield Resv

4x Swift, 7x Common Tern, Red Kite, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Yellow Wagtail, House Martins, (MJa)  -  20x Arctic Tern, (TPe)

Norton Green

Red Kite over at 14:30, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 8x Oystercatcher, (SGi, IB)

Mosshouse - Foxley

Peregrine, Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellowhammer, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, (JHu)

Apedale

Cuckoo, (CBa)

i54 floods

Lawn Lane / Pendeford Hall Lane Greenshank (Foz, KCl)

Branston GPs

7x Whimbrel thru north, (DSc), 3x Little Egret, (m) Scaup, 16x Shelduck, 14x Teal, 8x Pochard, 22x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 3x Mandarin, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 6x Common Gull, 30x Swift, 40x House Martin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 28x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 5x Redpoll, 5x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)

                                                         Common Gull by Jon Woodcock

Westport Lake

2x Swift  this afternoon, (RGi)

Highgate Common

2x Cuckoo, (KBa)

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Friday 26th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, Whimbrel on JW north, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, 2x Snipe, 4x Shelduck, (SPA), 

Burntwood

Female Redstart in gardens, (MCl)

Rocester North Lake

5x Pochard, 6x GC Grebe, 4x Oystercatcher, 23x Barnacle Geese, (JDr)

Branston

Cuckoo by the Trent near the Riverside hotel, (ASt)

Cannock Chase

Early am Tree Pipit, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (KHa)  -  in addition 2x Cuckoo, (ABe)

Shareshill

Approx one mile west of Shareshill a White Stork drifting north at 13:55, (per ICr)

Botteslow Flash

2x Yellow Wagtail this am, (RTo)

Otherton

Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 9x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, 4x Mandarin, 28x Shelduck, 19x Gadwall, 16x Shoveler, 16x Teal, 8x Egyptian Geese, 25x GC Grebe, 34x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 300x Sand Martin, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 14x Redpoll, Greenfinch, Peregrine, (JWo, CEc Dean George, SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Peregrine, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x LRP, 2x Grey Partridge, (SCo)

Thursday 25th April 2024

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, Common Tern, Pied Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, (SGi) 

Branston GPs

Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 8x Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Goldeneye, 18x Gadwall, 10x Shoveler, 20x Shelduck, 24x Teal, 3x Mandarin, 7x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Gull, 31x Little Grebe, 24x GC Grebe, 6x Redpoll, 15x Swift, (JWo)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (ALa)

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, (GW)

Doxey Marsh

2x Ruddy Shelduck on Creswell Flash to 15:05 when they flew off, (RRa)

Belvide Resv

2x White Stork flew north at 16:10, Curlew Sandpiper briefly then flew north at 16:45, 

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still at 16:15, (SCo)

Lichfield

Darnford Park Garden Warbler, Darnford Lane 4x Yellowhammer, 3x Greenfinch, Whitethroat, (BHa)

Wednesday 24th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

Spotted Redshank, Wood Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Garganey, LRP, 3x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  Common Tern, 7x Swift, 3x Redshank, Garden Warbler, (SPA)

Berryhill

3x Whinchat by the Palletstacks mound, 10x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (RTo)  -  Sedge Warbler, House Martin, (IBu)  -  2-3x Whinchat and 8x Wheatear still at 17:35, (IBu)

Endon - Denford

2x Shelduck, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, (DCo)

Pool Hall

2x Wheatear this am, (GCl)

Belvide Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, 

Doxey Marsh

Osprey thru at 13:20, (RRa)

Hem Heath Wood - Newstead STW

2x Gadwall, 2x Little Grebe, Grasshopper Warbler, House Martin, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still, (TPe)  -  also Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, (PAn)

Shoal Hill Common

2x Garden Warbler, (SRi)

i54

Garden Warbler, (JDu)

Branston GPs

2x Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, Goldeneye, 14x Shoveler, 22x Gadwall, 36x Teal, 26x Shelduck, 20x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull,  YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Wheatear, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 4x White Wagtail, 5x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 17x Swift, 8x Linnet, (JWo, SBl, CEc, Dean)

                                                     Cetti's Warbler by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

Early evening 8x Little Egret, Great Egret, 18x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, Goosander, Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Wheatear, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)  -  early afternoon Redshank, 2x Dunlin, (DEv)

Lower Penn

2x Hobby this afternoon,

Whitemoor Haye

Female Ring Ouzel at 06:20 this am, (GBr)

Tuesday 23rd April 2024

Middleton Lakes

40x Redshank still, LRP, 6x Snipe, Garganey, Common Tern thru, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

10x Whimbrel still, 6x LRP, 8x Yellowhammer, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, 6x Shoveler, Yellow Wagtail, (SCo), this evening Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Grey Partridge, White Wagtail, and the 10x Whimbrel still, (TPe)

Berryhill

Palletstacks - Whinchat, 4x Wheatear still,  Curlew over, (RGi)  -  Botteslow Flash a Redstart this evening along the fence line that runs alongside the north side of the flash, Little Egret, (RTo)

Belvide Resv

Drake Garganey, drake Scaup, Arctic Tern,

Blithfield Resv

2x Arctic Tern early am, 7x Pintail, (GJM)  -  4x Arctic Tern at 14:30 also 6x Yellow Wagtail, (PFo)

Downs Banks

Redstart, 6x Yellowhammer, (CBo)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, (CBo)

Sideway fishing pool

Cetti's Warbler still, Lesser Whitethroat, (IBu)

Chasewater

Shag still, Common Sandpiper, 5x Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, (CMa)  -  Cuckoo, 2x Common Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, (CW)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey, 2x House Martin, (SGi)

                                                                  By Steve Gibson

WMI site near Calf Heath

Probable 3rd sum Caspian Gull briefly, 12x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Gadwall, Wheatear, White Wagtail, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Curlew, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 4x Pochard, 14x Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 24x Teal, Mandarin, 17x Shelduck, 11x Egyptian Geese, 22x GC Grebe, 40x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Wheatear, 12x Swift, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Redpoll, Yellowhammer, (JWo)

Monday 22nd April 2024

The weather conditions produced some nice birding in Staffs today including a good movement of Arctic Terns

Belvide Resv

35x Arctic Tern, Little Tern at 11:11 to 11:30 only, 3x Common Tern, 2x Kittiwake, 14x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Scaup, 17x Swift

Blithfield Resv

60x Arctic Tern between BTP and the causeway at 13:30, (JAl), Female Common Scoter this am (GJM)  -  49x Arctic Tern still at 17:30, Common Scoter still at 17:50, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Mandarin, (RPo)  -  Sandwich Tern, Swift, (AM)

Branston GPs

28x Arctic Tern on Ashy pit, 18x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Knot on North pit, Whimbrel, Curlew, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, Mandarin, 32x Shelduck, 24x Shoveler, 19x Gadwall, 44x Teal, 5x Egyptian Geese, 26x GC Grebe, 32x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x White Wagtail, 16x Swift, 10x Redpoll, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Barn Owl, (JWo, CEc, SBl)

                                                    Bar-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

                                                           Knot by Jon Woodcock

Chasewater

Adult Red-throated Diver at 15:40, Shag still, Dunlin, 9x Swift, 20x House Martin, (CW)  -  28x Arctic Tern at 12:30, (CMa, RFe)  -  Whimbrel thru, (PAn)

Stoke on Trent

Lordship Lane - White Wagtail, House Martin, Snipe, (RGi)  -  Redshank and LRP this afternoon, (IBu)

Ford Green

Oystercatcher for 5 mins, (JJo)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, Gropper. Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Great Egret over north, (TWy)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Arctic Tern over back pit, 4x Swift over roadside pit, (JAl)  -  this evening 11x Whimbrel, 2x Med Gull, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Swift, (TPe)  -  also Gropper, 4x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Swift, (SCo)

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone still on JW north, 41x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x White Wagtail, Arctic Tern flying upriver, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Rudyard Lake

2x Arctic Tern dropped in this afternoon, (SSe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Marsh Harrier at 16:45, drake Pintail, 4x Goosander, 6x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, (RPo)

Gailey

10x Swift, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Trentham Gardens

Reed Warbler, (NMK

Sunday 21st April 2024

Seisdon village

2x Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail over, (GCl)

Belvide Resv

2x Whimbrel north shore, 4x Swift, 

Branston GPs

2x Swift, (AM)  -  4x Little Egret, Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, Scaup(m), Goldeneye, 3x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, House Martin, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Redpoll, (DSc)

Pool Hall

12x Wheatear in ploughed fields below Pool Hall, (GCl)

Burslem Park

7x Goosander, (JBr)

Dingle Lane (near Rudyard)

Greenfield farm - Redstart, 6x Tree Pipit, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey still from the lookout, (JAl)  -  Whimbrel on JW north until 19:45 then flew north, Garganey, 18x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck, 2x Redshank, Avocet, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, Cuckoo, Gropper, 3x Reed Warbler, 8x Sedge Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret,  (BHa)

Radford Meadows Stafford

18x Little Egret, 30x Shelduck, 2x Wigeon, 14x Gadwall, 2x Goosander, 10x Shoveler, 3x LRP, 3x White Wagtail, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

4x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtails, Wheatear, 13x Shelduck, (MJa)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey thru at 11:40, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, House Martin, Pied Flycatcher, Goosander, (JOa, LH, KH)

Swallow Moss

Redstart, (JOa)

Otherton

Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, nearby a Wheatear along Mansty Lane, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x LR Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Red Kite, 3x Little Egret, (SCo)  -  also reports of Whinchat, 2x Med Gull and 2x Common Tern, 

Tucklesholme

Common Tern 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 4x Shelduck, 8x GC Grebe, Little Egret, (JDr)

Berryhill

Female Ring Ouzel on north side of the Palletstacks track, 7x Wheatear, (JKe, MKe)  

Baldwins Gate

Red Kite, (RWh)

Silverdale CP

3x Grasshopper Warbler, (TR

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler to 20:40 still, (LSt)

Saturday 20th April 2024

Belvide Resv

Slavonian Grebe off Chappell hide, Marsh Harrier thru, 2x Brambling, 2x Goshawk, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 10x Goldeneye, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Egyptian Geese, 

WMI site near Calf Heath

3x Wheatear, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, Shelduck, (SRi)

Aqualate

Osprey thru NW at 10:00 , Cuckoo, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Egyptian Goose, 4x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (KHa)

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel still, 7x Wheatear,  Curlew east over 20 foot pool at 06:36, (STu)  - Curlew over at  07:15, (PWi)  -  Green Woodpecker at 10:10, (IBu)

Sideway

Cetti's Warbler still, (RGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Whimbrel, 2x Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Red Kite, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey on North pit, (PAn)

Gentleshaw Common

Cuckoo this morning, (Simon)

Chatterley Whitfield

Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, also a Whitethroat at Brindley Ford, (CBo)

Pickles Hill

Red Kite over at 10:50, (AJo)

Otherton

2x Wheatear east of disused  railway, nearby another Wheatear in paddock along the B5012 west of Shoal Hill Common, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Wheatear, Ruddy Shelduck, 5x LRP, Corn Bunting, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Wombourne

Grasshopper Warbler, (WN)

Essington Pool area

Wheatear, (DBa)

Knypersley Resv

Oystercatcher, drake Mandarin, Water Rail, (GBr)

Coombes Valley

6x Pied Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 8x Blackcap, 2x Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, 25x Siskin, (BHa)

Doxey Marsh

Drake Garganey, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, (RRa, AHa, GHa, GPr)

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Goosander, (SGi, IB, PS)

                                                      Pied Flycatcher by Steve Gibson

Radford Meadows Stafford

29x Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 7x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 5x LRP, Oystercatcher, 6x House Martin, 140x Sand Martin,7x Blackcap, (RBr)

North Staffs Moors

Cuckoo this am, (PBu)

Rocester JCB

24x Barnacle Geese, 4x Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Alrewas NMA

Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, (JWo)

Branston GPs

4x Little Egret, 28x Shelduck, 14x Pochard, Goldeneye, 2x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Redpoll, (DSc)

Friday 19th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 4x House Martin, 4x Shelduck, (SPA)

Stoke on Trent

Lordship Lane - Dunlin, (RGi)

Endon - Denford

Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

21x Little Egret, Gropper, 6x Blackcap, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (RBr)  -  4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Dunlin, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 10x Shelduck, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 150x Sand Martin, (RSw)

Chasewater

Shag still, 14x House Martin, 150x Sand Martin, (CMa, DGl)

Codsall

Long Birch - Wheatear, 3x Yellowhammer, (PCo)

Berryhill

2x Ring Ouzel, Whinchat, 6x Wheatear, (HF, SE)

Otherton

Male Wheatear and still a Wheatear along Mansty Lane, (SRi)

Knypersley Resv

Red Kite by Lodge Barn Road, drake Mandarin on the lake, (GBr)

Alvecote

4x Little Egret, (MSc)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel briefly on Ashy Pit at 20:03, 2x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, Scaup, 3x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 24x Gadwall, 22x Shoveler, Mandarin, 44x Teal, 26x Shelduck, 26x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 8x Wheatear, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Redpoll, (JWo)

                                                      Common Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 18th Marsh 2024

Middleton Lakes

Grey Plover, GW Teal, ad Med Gull, LRP, 2x Redshank, 2x Avocet, Gropper, Pochard, 4x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warblers, Whitethroats, (SPA)

Berryhill

2x Ring Ouzel, (female and male), Whinchat, 9x Wheatear, (RTo)

Pool Hall

6x Wheatear, (GCl)

Whitemoor Haye

Gropper still, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, (SGi)  -  2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 5x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (JOa)

Sideway - South Hanford farm area

Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (RGi)

Baggeridge

Reed Warbler on Fishermans pool, (DBa)

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, Tree Pipits, (GSt)

Doxey Marsh

Marsh Harrier, (RSt)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Wigeon, 8x Shelduck, 2x Gadwall, 8x GC Grebe, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Whitethroat, 8x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 9x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Stonechat, 12x Linnet, (JWo)

Otherton

2x Wheatear in field east of disused railway, Peregrine thru, Mansty Lane a Wheatear, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Scaup (m), Pochard, 20x Shoveler, 23x Gadwall, 48x Teal, Mandarin, 21x Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 24x GC Grebe, 24x Little Grebe, 2x Wheatear, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 50x House Martin, 2x White Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)

Lichfield

3x Blackcap, 7x Greenfinch, (BHa)

Wednesday 17th April 2024

Brindley Ford

Whinchat in scrubby field SE of the football pitches, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Goosander flying towards Ford Green, (CBo)

Berryhill

2x Ring Ouzel in paddocks on north side of the Palletstacks track, Whinchat at the Palletstacks mound,(NDP)  -  In addition Lesser Whitethroat still on bottom track, 8x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, (RTo)

Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper at 08:57,  (RTo)  -  still at 14:45, (IBu)

                                                  Common Sandpiper by Russell Toon

Fenton Park

Female Pied Flycatcher, (IBu)

                                                                   By Rob Gilbert

Belvide Resv

Adult Kittiwake

Blithfield Resv

Whinchat, 4x Wheatear, (GJM)

Pendeford Hall Lane

Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (JDu)

Otherton

3x Wheatear in large field east of old railway, (SRi)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

2x Red Kite, (TEy)

Huntington

Wheatear in paddocks off Mansty Lane, (SRi)

Branston GPs

3x Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 6x White Wagtail, c1000x Sand Martin, 20x House Martin, Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, Scaup, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Pochard, 16x Shoveler, 21x Gadwall, 34x Shelduck, 40x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 5x Egyptian Geese, 30x Little Grebe, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 4x Whitethroat, (JWo, DSc)

Coombes Valley RSPB

17x Pied Flycatcher, one Redstart, (RSPB)

Tuesday 16th April 2024

Berryhill

Lesser Whitethroat at 06:55 along the bottom track, 8x Wheatear, 3x Stonechat, (RTo)  -  Lesser Whitethroat still at 11:30, (IBu)

Rudyard Lake

Arctic Tern from 09:00 to 09:30 then flew off north, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, (SSe)

Blithfield Resv

Arctic Tern, female Merlin this am, (GJM)  -  4x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (CMa, RFe)

Whitemoor Haye

Grasshopper Warbler this am, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

Arctic Tern this am, (SGi)

Chasewater

Shag still, 12x House Martin, 300x Sand Martin, (CMa, RFe)

Belvide Resv

Swift over north wood, 

Wetley Rocks

Red Kite over at 13:37, (SFe)

Cannock Chase

6x Redstart, 5x Tree Pipit, Cuckoo, 9x Stonechat, (DBa, KM, PB, ML, JB)

North Staffs

3x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Mandarin, 2x Blackcap, (JDr)

Branston GPs

5x Wheatear, 2x Swift, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 8x Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 9x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup, Goosander, 2x Goldeneye, 6x Mandarin, 20x Shelduck, 22x Gadwall, 18x Shoveler, 40x Teal, 40x House Martin, 400x Sand Martin,  (JWo).

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Whitethroat, Shelduck, (SRi)

Monday 15th April 2024

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, Arctic Tern, 

Pool Hall

Brambling, (GCl)

Chatterley Whitfield

Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (CBo)

Loggerheads

Brambling, 6x Greenfinch, 8x Siskin, (JSt)

Baldwins Gate

Brambling, (RWh)

WMI site near Calf Heath

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, c40 Pied Wagtails and at nearby Gailey a Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 7x White Wagtail, 2x Dunlin, Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, Scaup, 2x Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, 21x Shelduck, 17x Gadwall, 40x Teal, 12x Shoveler, 24x Little Grebe, Peregrine, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 700x Sand Martin, 15x House Martin, (JWo, CEc, Dean, PFo)

                                                      Yellow Wagtail by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

Wheatear, 4x LRP, Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, 2x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, 3x GC Grebe, 200x Sand Martin, (RSw)

Chasewater

GN Diver and the Shag still, (CW)

Sunday 14th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Wetley Moor

Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Tit, Stonechat, Whitethroat, c30 Willow Warbler, 7x Linnet, (DCo)

Shoal Hill Common

6x Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap and at Otherton  a Wheatear, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Sandwich Tern, 2x Whimbrel flew west with 2x Curlew at 11:50, 4x Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Wombourne

White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail and Wheatear in ploughed field opposite Garden village, (WN)

Trescott

Opposite Garden centre on Bridgenorth Road - Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, (GCl)

Pendeford Hall Lane- i54

2x LRP, 2x Goosander, 2x Gadwall, Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 7x Whitethroat, 6x Willow Warbler, (JDu)

WMI site near Calf Heath

9x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, 3x Gadwall,  (SRi)

Berryhill

11x Wheatear this am also 4x Whitethroat, 12x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 12-15x Skylark, 6x Greenfinch,  (RTo)

Dimmingsdale pool Lower Penn

5x Common Sandpiper, (per @Tricastgaz)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Whitethroat, 

River Sow Meadows Baswich-Milford

11x Little Egret on the floods, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, Whitethroat, 5x Willow Warbler, Swallow, (RSw)

Doxey Marsh

Adjacent flood meadow 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (NGr)  -  Common Sandpiper, Water Rail, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Sedge Warbler, Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, Swallows. (GHa)

Beacon Hill Stafford

Yellow Wagtail, (IWi)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey over North Pit, Green-winged Teal still, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Swift over North pit to 18:30 at least, Great Egret, Little Egret, female Marsh Harrier, Scaup, 16x Shelduck, 20x Teal, 5x Goldeneye, Goosander, Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Whitethroat, 4x Reed Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, Redpoll. (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 19x Swallow, (JOa)

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Linnet, (PCa)

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite hunting fields towards Sittles farm at 15:45 then drifted towards Elford. (JAl)

Rudyard Lake

2x Dunlin this am, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, (SSe)

                                                             Dunlin by Steve Seal

Weston Coyney - Cellerhead

Red Kite over Dalecrete quarry at 11:50, (SFe)

Loggerheads

Cuckoo at Bishops Wood, (CBa)

Cannock Chase

2x Tree Pipit, Redstart, (JMa)

Chatterley Whitfield

Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Blackcap, 3x Willow Warbler, Ford Green 8x Swallow, (CBo)

Chasewater

The Shag still, (CW)

Saturday 13th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

Osprey lingered over JW for 5 mins at 08:30, Green-winged Teal still, 3x Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SPA, MSm)  -  Garganey pair to left of lookout, (DHu)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, Curlew, Mandarin, 30x Shoveler, 3x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye

Grasshopper Warbler reeling, 3x Wheatear, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 19x Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, 20x Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Little Grebe, 2x GC Grebe, Red Kite, 6x House Martin, (SCo)

Alrewas Meadows

Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

2x Spoonbill from 10:45 to 11:27 only

Amerton flood/Sheep meadows east of Stafford

3x Wheatear, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, (RSw)

Berryhill

Tree Pipit briefly, (IBu)  -  8x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, 2x Swallow, 4x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 

Doxey Marsh - Wellies required many paths still flooded

Male Ring Ouzel off Rugby club, LRP, 4x Sedge Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, (MBo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Cattle Egret (site tick), from 12:15 to 13:17  then flew south, 5x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, reeling Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Blackcap, 2x Goosander, 5x Shelduck,  (RPo) 

                                                   Cattle Egrets by Richard Powell

Branston GPs

Osprey north over Ashy pit at 07:40, also Garden Warbler, Male Scaup, (PFo)  -  Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Curlew, 8x Dunlin, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 6x White Wagtail, 2x Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler,  1w Common Gull, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Croxall

2x White Wagtail, Dunlin, 4x LRP, (TPe)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew over, 2x Oystercatcher, Goldeneye, 10x Shelduck, (MJa)

Endon - Denford

Sedge Warbler, 4x Oystercatcher, Green Wood Woodpeckers, Mandarin, Goosander, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey, Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Swallow, (SGi, IB)

Trentham Gardens

Dipper, 2x Mandarin, Blackcap, (STu)

Tucklesholme

2x LRP, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, (JPa, MPa,)

Ramshaw Rocks

Cuckoo, (NMK)

North Staffs Moors

6x Redstart, 2x Wheatear, (NMK)

Chasewater

Common Sandpiper, Whitethroat, Swallow, (CMa)  -  Shag, GN Diver, 5x Willow Warbler, 4x Blackcap, 4x Greenfinch, 5x GC Grebe, (MBe)

Calf Heath  WMI site

Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, Shelduck, 2x YL Gull, (SRi, KCl)

Cannock Chase

30x Crossbill, 6x Stonechat, Whitethroat, 4x Willow Warbler, (Mke, Lda)

Biddulph Moor - Horton Valley

2x Curlew, (SHi)

Friday 12th April 2024

Pendeford Hall Lane

Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Goosander, (JDu)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Berryhill

8x Wheatear still, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Swallow, (RGi)

Branston GPs

2x Sandwich Tern, ad male Marsh Harrier, Greenshank, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup, 28x Goldeneye, 23x Shelduck, 16x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 45x Teal, 24x Little Grebe, 22x GC Grebe, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 6x White Wagtail, Brambling, 2x Redpoll, 10x Fieldfare, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, ( (JWo, CEc, Dean, DSc, SCo, JHo, SHo, JAl)

                                                    Sandwich Terns by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Redshank, LRP, (DCo)

Endon - Denford

Green Sandpiper along the brook, 2x Whitethroat, drake Wigeon, STW Wheatear, 2x Oystercatcher over, Ashes pool 2x White Wagtail, (DCo)

Belvide Resv

15x Common Sandpiper, 3x Wheatear, female Scaup, Common Tern, Greenshank, 2x Ruff thru at 17:00,

                                                              Scaup by Steve Edwards

Calf Heath

6x LRP, 2x White Wagtail, Blackcap, (SRi)

Brown Edge

Juv Peregrine, 4x Willow Warbler, (MSv)

Lichfield

2x Yellowhammer and Swallow at Darnfield Lane, (BHa)

Consall Woods - Churnet Valley

Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, Redstart, 3x Willow Warbler, Redpoll, (DSc)

Thursday 11th April 2024

Berryhill

Ring Ouzel flew from the paddocks to the Hawthorn by the Palletstacks mound, (NDP, CBo)  -  11x Wheatear, 4x Stonechat, (RGi, etal)

Stanley Pool

Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, House Martin and a dead Common Tern in the boat yard, (GBr)

Pool Hall

Cattle Egret flying low NE before going up the Smestow valley, Whitethroat, (GCl)

Branston GPs

Spoonbill back on Black Meadows pit, Water Pipit back on Newbold pit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Redshank, 16x Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher,  5x Little Egret, 26x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard,  24x Shoveler, 24x Shelduck, 46x Teal, 18x Gadwall, 15x Egyptian Geese, 24x GC Grebe, 28x Little Grebe, Red Kite, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 8x White Wagtail, 200x Sand Martin, 10x Swallow, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, George, GWl, JAl, BHa)

                                                         Spoonbill by Jon Woodcock

Chatterley Whitfield

Grasshopper Warbler, (SHi)

Longsdon Mill Pool

Wheatear early am, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal still,

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 4x Oystercatcher, Curlew, Little Egret, 8x Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, (JOa)

Lichfield

Yellow Wagtail at HS2 works on Cappers Lane also 2x Little Egret, (BHa)

Belvide Resv

4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, 

Wednesday 10th April 2024

Branston GPs

Spoonbill this am and again at 14:30,  (SBl),  -  Water Pipit still on Newbold pit, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 16x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, Scaup, 22x Shelduck, 14x Shoveler, 24x Gadwall, 60x Teal, 16x Pochard, 29x Goldeneye, 30x Little Grebe, 2x Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, 11x White Wagtail, Yellowhammer, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Willow Warbler, 20x House Martin, (JWo, CEc, SBl, Bob, DSc, SCo)

                                                          Spoonbill by Jon Woodcock

Rudyard Lake

2x Redstart, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SSe)

Berryhill

Curlew over east at 10:10, (IBu)  -  9x Wheatear, 3x Stonechat, (RTo)

                                                        Wheatears by Russell Toon

Rocester JCB

North Lake 12x Barnacle Geese, 6x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Endon - Denford

3x Whitethroat, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, Green Woodpecker, 2x Mandarin, Drake Wigeon, 10x Swallow, (DCo)

Alvecote

Oystercatcher, 10x House Martin, (MSc)

Calf Heath

2x LRP, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag, 3x Goldeneye, Goosander, 130x Sand Martin, 2x Swallow, House Martin, (CW)

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x LRP, Goosander, (JDu)

Middleton Lakes

2x Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, (SPA)

Tuesday 9th April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal still, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Arctic Tern thru NW this am, (GJM)

Branston GPs

Water Pipit still om Newbold pit, Merlin, 2x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 17x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 25x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 33x Shelduck, 22x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 60x Teal, 32x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, YL Gull, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 20x House Martin, 100x Swallow, 500x Sand Martin, 30x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Water Pipit by Jon Woodcock

Gailey Resv

Arctic Tern on sailing lake to 16:25 at least, 15x House Martin,  (SRi)

Wolseley

2x Yellow Wagtail in flooded fields beside River Trent, (MJo)

                                                                      By MJo

Belvide Resv

1s Little Gull,

Monday 8th April 2024

Berryhill

10x Wheatear by 08:20, (RTo)  -  2x Ring Ouzel in hedgerow at the Viewpoint paddock (20 foot pool) then flew up towards the mast this am, still 7x Wheatear this evening, (IBu)

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew south, Common Sandpiper, 11x Shelduck, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (MSm)  -  Reed Warbler heard

Blithfield Resv

Sedge Warbler this am, (GJM)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag, 8x Swallow, 15x Willow Warbler, 2x Goldeneye, (SWa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, 25x Crossbill, Willow Warblers, Swallow, (RPo)  -  Wheatear near the Glacial boulder around 18:00, (MSt)

Codsall

House Martin over, (HT)

Fradley - Alrewas towpath

Sedge Warbler, 2x Swallow, 2x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 3x Yellowhammer, Willow Warbler, 75x Linnet, 6x Greenfinch, (BHa)

Shoal Hill Common

2x Wheatear in the paddock off the B5012 just west of the common, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Water Pipit on Newbold pit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x White Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, 2x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 20x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Scaup, 20x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 16x Gadwall, 22x Shoveler, 40x Teal, 32x Shelduck, 20x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Willow Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean, SBI)

                                                         Water Pipit by Jon Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 50x Shoveler, 1w Common Gull, 2x House Martin, (RSw)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Swallow, (MSc)

Wolseley

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail in flooded fields beside the River Trent, (MJo)

Chatterley Whitfield

Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler both towards the north end,  Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, (CBo)

Sunday 7th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Belvide Resv

Grasshopper Warbler reeling this am also Reed Warbler, 

Middleton Lakes

Whitethroat by the benches, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 2x Shelduck, Goosander, 4x Sand Martin, 3x Swallow, 7x Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (MSm)  -  Arctic Tern thru at 15:55, Green-winged Teal still on JW south, 14x Sand Martin, 4x Swallow, LRP, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

c250 Sand Martin, c40 Swallow, 5x House Martin, (GJM)

Branston GPs

Greenshank (1st this year) this am, flew off at 16:30,  (DSc)  -  3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 15x Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, Scaup, 28x Goldeneye, 30x Shelduck, 14x Shoveler, 50x Teal, 10x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 16x Gadwall, Goosander,  42x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 1w Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 5x House Martin, 100x Swallow, 300x Sand Martin, 3x White Wagtail, 18x Egyptian Geese, 7x Willow Warbler, 25x Fieldfare, Redpoll, (DSc, JWo)

                                                      Greenshank by Dave Scattergood

Chasewater

300x Sand Martin, 2x House Martin, 3x Swallow, Common Sandpiper, Red Kite, Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher,  (IMB, Kay)

Amerton Meadows flood (east of Stafford)

Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Shelduck, 5x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 5x Wheatear, Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, (RSw)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Little Egret, 24x Wigeon, 15x Gadwall, 3x Goosander, 10x Shelduck, 52x Shoveler, Pintail, 2x House martin, 6x Sand Martin, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, (RSw)

Doxey Marsh

Osprey drifting high north at 12:30, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, Sand Martins, House Martins, Swallows, Cetti's Warblers, Blackcap,  (GHa)

Silverdale CP

Grasshopper Warbler reeling this am, 2x Stonechat, (JHu)

Enville

Redstart east of Hollies Dingle

Tucklesholme

Wheatear, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Swallow, 10x Sand Martin, 4x Oystercatcher, Blackcaps, (Kay)

Tittesworth Water

Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, Mandarin, Swallow, 4x Willow Warbler, 5x Blackcap, (JOa, LH, KH)

Trentham Gardens

Common Sandpiper, House Martins, Swallows, Sand Martins, (PBi)

Westport Lake

Goosander, GC Grebe, 8x Swallow, 4x House Martin, 2x Sand Martin, 2x Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap, 3x Greenfinch, (KSt, WeBS)

Eccleshall

Red Kite over Swynnerton Road at 16:30, (RPl)

Saturday 6th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo heard calling at 07:55, (GTa)  -  Redstart, Tree Pipit, and Crossbills this am, (BSt, ASt)  -  pair of Ring Ouzels between Glacial boulder and Sherbrook Valley, (TDa)  -  Common Sandpiper over the stepping stones also Redstart, Red Kite, 4x Willow Warbler, (BHa)

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal again on JW south, LRP, Common Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  Sedge Warbler, (DH)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Whimbrel, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Swallow, Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Pendeford Hall Lane

3x LRP, (JDu)

Berryhill

No sign of any Ring Ouzels early am, 2x Wheatear at the "Lap Bunt paddock", 3x Willow Warbler, 2x Swallow, (RTo)  -  Fenton Park Blackcap, (IBu)

Essington Quarry Pool area

Wheatear, 2x Yellowhammer, (DBa)

Belvide Resv

Sedge Warbler singing, Yellow Wagtail over, 7x House Martin, Brambling, 9x LRP, 10x Oystercatcher, 16x Swallow, Red Kite, 

Wombourne

Red Kite at 12:00, (DBa)

RSPB Consall Woods

Singing Pied Flycatcher, (RSPB)

Branston GPs

Reed Warbler briefly this am, male Scaup, 12x Shelduck, 4x Wigeon, 12x Shoveler, 18x Goldeneye, 16x Shelduck, 8x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, YL Gull,  4x Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Blackcap, 2x White Wagtail, 300x Sand Martin, House Martin, 2x Swallow, 4x Fieldfare, 30x Linnet, (DSc)

Fradley

Whitethroat, 2x Swallow, (MJo)

Blithfield Resv

Common Tern off Yeartsell Bank at 16:30, (RCB)

Silverdale CP

3x Willow Warbler, 2x Swallow, (TRo)

Chasewater

GN Diver and the Shag still, 8x Goldeneye, Goosander, 22x GC Grebe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Jack Snipe, 120x Sand Martin, 4x Swallow, 4x Willow Warbler, (CW)

Friday 5th April 2024

Berryhill

2x Ring Ouzel this am,  one in paddocks on north side of the Palletstacks track and the other on the hedgerow (east side of Tiddlers pool) which runs down from the viewpoint. (RTo)

Middleton Lakes

Common Sandpiper, (MSm)  -  this afternoon LRP, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, (SPA)

Branston GPs

1w Little Gull on Ashy pit this am, Med Gull, Scaup, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 12x Oystercatcher, 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, 34x Goldeneye, 10x Pochard, 20x Shelduck, 26x Shoveler, 26x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 38x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Red Kite, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 3x Swallow, 150x Sand Martin, 7x Willow Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x White Wagtail, Redpoll,  (JWo, DJa, BHa, DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Yellow Wagtail flew along south side of the causeway into fields adjoining  Admaston Reach, (RCB)  -  White Wagtail, Swallow, (CMa, RF)

Burslem Park

Blackcap singing, (PMo)

Wombourne

Red Kite over, (DN)

Highgate Common

Willow Warbler, (DBa)

Alrewas 

2x LRP in flooded field above common lock on the T&M canal, (MJo)

Thursday 4th April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal still JW south, (MSm)

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x LRP, Stonechat and 52x Skylark at i54, (JDu)

Branston GPs

Common Tern feeding over Ashy pit, 10:08 to 10:26 at least, (DSc)  -  1w Little Gull, 2x ad Med Gull, Scaup, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Redshank, 8x Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 4x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 32x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 30x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 6x Wigeon, 30x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 42x Little Grebe, Common Gull, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, 120x Fieldfare, 10x Swallow, 150x Sand Martin, 4x Willow Warbler, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 2x White Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                        Common Tern by Jon Woodcock

                                                          Med Gulls by Jon Woodcock

Bagnall - Wetley Moor

2x Green Woodpecker, Oystercatcher and at Wetley Moor, 5x Willow Warbler, Stonechat, Snipe, (DCo)

Chasewater

Osprey seen to the west of Chasewater flying north at 14:35, (JDa)  -  this evening Common Tern, 70x Sand Martin, Swallow, GN Diver, Shag, 2x Oystercatcher, (CW)

Essington farm

Wheatear with the cows, also present yesterday (per DCr)

Whitemoor Haye

LRP, Green Sandpiper, 18x Goldeneye, (ICW)

Berryhill

Male Ring Ouzel in paddocks north side of the Palletstacks track this afternoon, (MKe, JKe)  -  still present at 17:33 also a Little Egret. (IBu)

Alrewas

4x LRP  next to River Trent near Cotton Close, (MJo)

Wednesday 3rd April 2024

Middleton Lakes

Green-winged Teal on JW north, (MSm)  -  also 2x Avocet, Redshank, Blackcap, (NSl)

Chasewater

GN Diver, Shag, 5x Goldeneye, 18x GC Grebe, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Swallow, 30x Sand Martin, 3x Blackcap from south shore and dam, (CW)  -  early afternoon 70x Sand Martin, 2x Swallow, (GHa)

Branston GPs

1w Little Gull still on SMP2 viewed from Small Meadows Lane, Male Scaup, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 14x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 36x Goldeneye, 16x Pochard, 25x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 14x Wigeon, 18x Shoveler, 120x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 33x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 100x Fieldfare, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, White Wagtail, 30x Swallow, 250x Sand Martin, 4x Redpoll, (JWo, CEc, Dean, SBl )

                                                          Scaup by Jon Woodcock

Trentham

Osprey heading north, (Blu)

Blithfield Resv

Sandwich Tern still, but mostly distant of Beech Tree Point, (PFo), RCB)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Yellow Wagtail, Swallow, Cetti's Warbler, 10x Shelduck, (RSw)

Tuesday 2nd April 2024

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival

Blithfield Resv

Common Sandpiper on causeway, Sandwich Tern this am, (GJM)  -  Sandwich Tern again at 14:15, (AWa)

Berryhill

2x male Ring Ouzel still this am,  view from the top end of Palletstacks track to the paddocks on the north side. (RTo)

Enville

Male Redstart, (ICW)

Rocester JCB

North Lake 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Barnacle Geese, 8x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Stafford

Blackcap singing at Charnley Road, (GHa)

Cannock Chase

Willow Warbler, 2x Stonechat, Yellowhammer, (DBa)

Endon - Denford

2x Willow Tit, 2x Blackcap, 33x Chiffchaff, 4x Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, Ashes Pool Blackcap, Willow Warbler, (DCo)

Branston Water Park, 

4x Blackcap, (AR)

Stanley Pool

7x Goosander, 5x Sand Martin, House Martin, 3x Swallow, Willow Warbler, (GBr)

Chasewater

Shag, 3x Sand Martin, 2x Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, (CMa) - GN Diver, 

Monday 1st April 2024

Chasewater

2x adult Little Gull then flew south at 08:21, Shag, c80 Sand Martin, (PAn)

Berryhill

2x Male Ring Ouzel in paddock north of the Palletstacks mound at 08:10,  view from top end of the track, also a Willow Warbler, (RTo)

                                                                   By Clive Wood

Belvide Resv

Grey Plover to 09:40 only, 2x Sandwich Tern briefly

i54 / Pendeford Hall Lane

2x LRP, 2x Goosander, 2x Ring-necked Parakeet, 2x Stonechat, (JDu)

Wombourne

Pickerills Hill Yellow Wagtail north at 10:30, 2x Blackcap, 60x Linnet, (GCl)

Himley Hall

Swallow, Sand Martin, (GCl)

Aqualate

Male Scaup, 3x House Martin, Swallow, 100x Sand Martin, Pink-footed Goose, (IMG)

Doxey Marsh

Willow Warbler, Swallow, Redpoll, (GPr)

Branston GPs

2x Little Gull at 13:00, 1w on SMP1 and winter adult on Ashy pit, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Curlew, 3x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 30x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Scaup, 2x Mandarin, Goosander, 34x Goldeneye, 13x Pochard, 28x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 14x Wigeon, 29x Shelduck, 8x Egyptian Geese, 46x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Barn Owl, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, White Wagtail, Redpoll, 2x Greenfinch, 100x Sand Martin, (JWo, DSc, SCo, Bob)

                                                         Little Gull by John Woodcock

Radford Meadows Stafford

Dunlin, 4x LRP, Oystercatcher, 8x Snipe, 30x Sand Martin, 6x Swallow, 2x Goosander, 4x Pintail, 14x Gadwall, 60x Shoveler, 45x Wigeon, 6x Shelduck, 2x Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Teddesley Park

50x Linnet, (IWi)

Silverdale CP

2x Willow Warbler, (PCa)

Stanley Pool

Willow Warbler, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Rocester JCB

North lake 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Pochard, 6x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Pintail, 2x Shelduck, 4x LRP, 2x Curlew, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)