Monday 24th June 2024

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 2x Avocet, Redshank, Cuckoos, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, 25x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, (CMa, RF)

Kingstone

2x Curlew, Oystercatcher, (CMa, RF)

Ingestre

2x Red Kite early morning, (RCB)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 2x Med Gull (ad+2s), Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 7x Oystercatcher, 86x Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, 45x Pochard, 17x Shelduck, 34x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 12x Teal, 3x Mandarin, 28x Little Grebe, 29x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday 23rd June 2024

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier at 10:00, Cuckoo, LRP, 4x Common Tern, (MSm)

Branston GPs

11x Shelduck, 30x Gadwall, 16x Teal, 35x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, Mandarin, 5x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 95x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 10x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  additionally 1s Little Gull, 2s Med Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                          Juvenile Green Woodpecker by Dave Scattergood

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroats with 2x juvs, (SRi)

Chasewater

The Shag still, (CMa)

Croxden Quarry

5x Little Egret, (RPo)

Upper Tean

3x Red Kite, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

6x Cetti's Warbler, 2x YL Gull, 6x Gadwall, (CAFH)

Alton

6x Red Kite over mown field, (TEy)

Saturday 22nd June 2024

Croxall Lakes

Marsh Harrier at 11:22 and again from 11:35 to 11:50, also 3x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Green Woodpecker, 6x Egyptian Geese, (BHa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Red Kite thru this morning, YL Gull, Little Egret, Ringlets, (RPo)

Upper Tean

Red Kite over from Cheadle Road this am, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite over, 2x Common Tern, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, (SGi, IB)

Bramshall

Red Kite circling over at 16:00, (JTu)

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, 2x Little Egret this evening, (RTo)

Staffs

Short-eared Owl seen away from the moors this evening. (BHa)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 2s Med Gull, Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 44x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 6x Shoveler, 14x Teal, 36x Pochard, 5x Little Egret, 20x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Friday 21st June 2024

Middleton Lakes

LRP, Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (GG)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Little Egret, 8x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Tucklesholme

12x Egyptian Geese, Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 2x Wigeon, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x GC Grebe, (RGr)

Botteslow Flash

Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Garden Warbler, (RTo)

Branston GPs

Little Gull (1s), 2x Med Gull (2s and ad), YL Gull (2s), 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 62x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 84x Pochard, 12x Shoveler, 72x Gadwall, 14x Teal, 6x Mandarin (5 ducklings), 12x Egyptian Geese, 26x Shelduck (7 ducklings), 18x GC Grebe (4 chicks), 28x Little Grebe (3 chicks), 24x Common Tern, Hobby, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 50x Swift, (JWo)

Thursday 20th June 2024

Beech

2x Red Kite over the A519, (RPl)

Smithpool

2x Gadwall, (RGi)

Fisherwick

No sign of the reported Quail in field north of Cappers Lane this evening, several Yellowhammer, Lesser Whitethroat. (BHa)

Branston GPs

Little Gull, Med Gull, Green Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 79x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, 58x Pochard, 88x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 16x Teal, 20x Shelduck (8 ducklings), 6x Mandarin, 31x Little Grebe, 27x Common Tern, Gropper, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday 19th June 2024

Alton

2x Red Kite over Hurlstones Lane at 11:30, (GSt)

Lightwood

Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Red Kite, (LDa)

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, Little Gull (1s), Med Gull (2s), 2x YL Gull, 6x Little Egret, 78x Pochard, 56x Gadwall, Shoveler, 7x Teal, 6x Mandarin, 18x Shelduck, 35x Little Grebe, 26x Common Tern, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, JHo, SHo)

Tuesday 18th June 2024

Stanley Pool

LRP on east side, 3x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

Drake Common Scoter, (GJM)

Stoke on Trent

Lordship Lane - Dunlin, Oystercatcher, (RGi)

Shugborough

Common Tern along the Trent, (PCo)

Gailey

Hobby over, (PCo)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, Hobby, Little Gull (1s), Med Gull (2s), Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 7x Little Egret, 89x Pochard, 5x Shoveler, 8x Teal, 32x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 31x Little Grebe, 20x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 200x Swift, (JWo)

Alvecote

Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Doxey Marsh

Green Sandpiper,  Great Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Gadwall, Shoveler, (CAFH)

Monday 17th June 2024

Branston GPs

Osprey over SMP2 this afternoon, female Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 1s Little Gull, 2s Med Gull, 2x Sanderling, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 35x Pochard, 12x Teal, 4x Shoveler, 16x Gadwall, 3x Mandarin, 14x Shelduck, 34x Little Grebe, 24x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, TWy)

                                                         Marsh Harrier by Jon Woodcock

Shugborough Estate

Red Kite over at 10:40, (per HKi)

Burton on Trent

Hobby circling over Brizlincote valley at 10:50 - 11:00, (SJo)

Biddulph

Hobby at Rockend, 

Belvide Resv

Osprey this afternoon, 

Sunday 16th June 2024

Claymills

4x Cattle Egret this am with c100 cattle in field adjacent to River Dove. Just Staffs side of the River border with the Derbyshire Highbridge Gravel pits complex, also nearby 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

                                                       Cattle Egrets by Dave Scattergood

Belvide Resv

Little Gull this morning, 

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover thru, Pochard, 100x Swift, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

2+ Common Tern 2x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 7x Mandarin, Willow Tit, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH)

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Egyptian Geese, Oystercatcher, 6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

Red Kite west at 15:50, Hobby at south end at 17:00, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Hopwas Woods and Fazeley Canal

Hobby, Great Egret, Green Woodpecker, 50x Swift, (BHa)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier, 1s Little Gull, 2s Med Gull, Mandarin, 6x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 38x Gadwall, 25x Pochard, 2x Little Egret, Ringed Plover, 2x Dunlin, 5x Oystercatcher, 15x Common Tern, 40x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 15th June 2024

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier thru south at 06:55, Redshank, 4x LRP, Cuckoo, 50x Swift, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Little Egret, YL Gull, (RPo)

Wolseley Bridge

2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 3x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (STu)

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Egyptian Geese, Oystercatcher, 5x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, (TPe)  -  Corn Bunting, 7x Shelduck, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Mandarin, Otter, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Mandarin, 4x Shelduck, 8x Pochard, 15x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Common Tern, 10x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc

Uttoxeter

Red Kite east over the racecourse at 15:00, (AR)

Friday 14th June 2024

Stoke on Trent  

Lordship Lane - Do not enter the private quarry area. Wood Sandpiper on marl pit,  (RGi)   -  To 16:00 at least.

Middleton Lakes

2x Cuckoo, Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 30x Swift, (STu)

Branston GPs

Little Gull (1s), Common Sandpiper, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, 36x Pochard, 7x Teal, 4x Shoveler, 26x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 26x Little Grebe, 25x Common Tern, YL Gull (2s), Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

2x Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, Curlew, 3x Red Kite, Little Egret, 

Thursday 13th June 2024

Gentleshaw Common

3x Red Kite over, (GSt)

Tittesworth Water 

Barn Owl, (SGi)

Trentham Gardens

2x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x GC Grebe, (STu)

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, 2s Med Gull, 4x Ringed Plover, 5x Little Egret, 38x Pochard, 8x Shoveler, 10x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 11x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 22x Common Tern, YL Gull (2s), Hobby, 200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Grebe, GC Grebe, Gadwall, Shelduck, 2x Little Grebe, 8x Swift, (RGr)

Wednesday 12th June 2024

WMI site near Calf Heath

8x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, (GCl)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 7x Cetti's Warbler, Swifts, (DBa, KM, CE)  -  2x Redshank, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, (MBo)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, Pochard, 4x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 18x Egyptian Geese, 9x GC Grebe, 4x Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Alvecote

32x Swift, (MSc)

Wychnor

Cuckoo calling this am in small woods behind the country club, (KBi)

Tuesday 11th June 2024

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Sanderling from "National Grid" parking area, Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, Common Tern, Oystercatcher, 2x Cuckoo, Swifts, (RBe)

Branston GPs

Little Gull, Med Gull (2s), 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 20x Shelduck, 22x Gadwall, 34x Little Grebe, 29x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 200x Swift, (JWo)

Monday 10th June 2024

Branston GPs

Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 3x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 17x Shelduck, 82x Gadwall, 4x Mandarin (3 ducklings), 12x Egyptian Geese, 46x Little Grebe, 19x Common Tern, 2nd sum Med Gull, YL Gull, Red Kite, Hobby, Gropper, 6x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 200x Swift, (JWo)

                                                           Med Gull by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

4x Common Tern, 3x LRP, (CMa, RF)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (SGi)

Endon - Denford

Green Woodpecker, Mandarin, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Grebe, (DCo)

Wolseley

Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, (Steve)

Endon

Red Kite flying over Basnett's Wood area and then across valley to Stanley village at 16:15, (DPC)

Barton-under-Needwood

Red Kite, (JWo)

Gnosall

Red Kite A518  by Swan Pit nursery  at 14:35, (GCa)

Sunday 9th June 2024

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Sanderling, 7x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Stanley Pool

Peregrine, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Chasewater

The long staying Shag still, also many Swifts, (CMa, LRM)

Middleton Lakes

5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Dunlin, Avocet, Cuckoo, 150x Swift, Pochard, (SPA)  -  also Garganey, Hobby, (MSm)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Little Egret, 200x Swift, 9x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck, fem Wigeon, (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye

4x Ringed Plover, (TPe)  -  9x Common Tern, 6x GC Grebe, 3x Little Grebe, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, Redshank, 2x Little Egret, Teal, 2x Gadwall, 2x Grey Partridge, Cetti's Warbler, 18x Mistle Thrush, Cuckoo, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Hobby, 11x Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Mandarin, 8x Shelduck, 4x Teal, 64x Gadwall, 28x Pochard, 2nd sum Med Gull, 20x Common Tern, 200x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 8th June 2024

Belvide Resv

Turnstone thru at 10:10, 2000x Swift, 2x Tree Sparrow, 

Stanley Pool

Sanderling on the dam, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, Otter, (SGi, IB)

Gnosall

6x Red Kite off Radmore Lane with tractors gathering grass, (RPl)

Middleton Lakes

Cuckoo, Hobby, Common Tern, Little Egret, Swifts, (RBe)

                                                             Bittern by Rob Bendelow

Chasewater

Cuckoo at Norton Bog, (MBe)

North Staffs

Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, (MKe)

                                                                  By Michael Kettle

Branston GPs

1s Little Gull, Sanderling, 4x Dunlin, 7x Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Shelduck, 4x Teal, 32x Pochard, 20x Common Tern, 100x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Goosander, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Tern, 10x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

WMI site near Calf Heath

3x Sanderling, 4x Dunlin, 12x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (SRi, KCl), 

Radford Meadows Stafford

Cattle Egret on BMW scrape this afternoon, (per VEm)

Friday 7th June 2024

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite, Redshank, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 5x Common Tern, 2x Cuckoo, (SPA)

Branston GPs

Little Tern briefly on Ashy pit at 08:40 (GWi), - 3x  Sanderling, Grey Plover (winter plumage), 3x Dunlin, Little Gull, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x Little Egret, 34x Pochard, 92x Gadwall, 8x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 12x Shelduck, 18x Common Tern, Cuckoo, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler,  (JWo, DSc, CEc, ASt)

                                                          Sanderlings by Jon Woodcock

Wildwood

Red Kite over at 13:15, (DLF)

Stafford

2x Red Kite over King Edward vi high school at 12:57, (AHa)

Armitage

Red Kite over at 08:10, (GHa)

North Staffs Moors

Tree Pipit, Curlew, Stonechat, Siskin, (DSc)

Upper Longdon

Red Kite over at 16:55, (per ABa)

Thursday 6th June 2024

Blithfield Resv

Knot on the outflow, (GJM)

                                                                    By GJ Mant

Knypersley Resv

Spotted Flycatcher by Gawtons stone, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, 2x Hobby, Red Kite, 3x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Cuckoo, (MSm)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 30x Swift, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

Knot, Sanderling, 4x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 7x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, 31x Pochard, 36x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 2x Teal, Ruddy Shelduck (m), 16x Shelduck, 3x Mandarin, 9x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern, Little Gull, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 200x Swift, (JWo, DSc, George, DJa, et al)

                                                              Knot by Jon Woodcock

WMI site near Calf Heath

Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, Dunlin, (KCl)

Whitemoor Haye

Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Egyptian Geese, GBB Gull, 3x Common Tern, (RGr)

Wednesday 5th June 2024

Stanley Pool

Red Kite, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

2x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Cuckoo, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, (GJM)

Doxey Marsh

7x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Swift, (CAFH)

Clay Mills

No sign of the reported White Storks at 08:00 in fields to north of the pumping station (no access to fields to the south), Other sightings 2x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 2x Gadwall, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 8x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Bradnop

Red Kite over at 13:00, (LRa)

WMI site near Calf Heath

6x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, Gadwall, (KCl)

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 3x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese (7 goslings), 4x Gadwall, 10x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Branston GPs

SMP2 - Sanderling, Dunlin, Little Gull, 3x Mandarin, 5x Egyptian Geese, 200x Swift, (DSc, JWo)

Tuesday 4th June 2024

Belvide Resv

4x drake Common Scoter off the dam,

Tittesworth Water

Red Kite, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, (SGi)

WMI site near Calf Heath

2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 8x LRP, 2x Shelduck, 3x Gadwall, (SRi, KCl)

Clay Mills pumping station

The 3x White Stork relocated in field near the pumping station but distant and too far away to see if they were ringed (JWi)

Monday 3rd June 2024

Whittington

Quail singing late morning, (BHa)

Westport Lake

Drake Common Scoter still at 11:20, (RGi)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet, Yellow Wagtail, Peregrine, (PJT)

Leekbrook - Cheddleton

Red Kite over Leek Road at 12:30, (FCa)

Tucklesholme

3x White Storks circled over a nearby factory before crossing the county border and drifting past Drakelow NR, 16:15 to 16:25.  (TCo)

                                                                       By Tom Coe

North Staffs Moors

Red Grouse, 2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, Snipe, Grasshoper Warbler, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

2x ad Med Gull, 1s Little Gull, 12x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 21x Pochard, Shoveler, 5x Teal, 78x Gadwall (12x ducklings), 25x Shelduck, 36x Little Grebe, 31x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Hobby, Cuckoo, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 100x Swift, (JWo)

                                                          Med Gulls by Jon Woodcock

WMI site near Calf Heath

3x Oystercatcher, 7x LRP, Redshank, Goosander, (SRi)

Belvide Resv

2x Tree Sparrow

Sunday 2nd June 2024

Belvide Resv

American Golden Plover still, 

Rudyard Lake

2x Spotted Flycatcher, (LRa)

Gailey Resv

2x Spotted Flycatcher, Common Tern, (IGr)

Branston GPs

Little Gull still (1s), 2x Little Egret, 5x Teal, 18x Shelduck, 20x Pochard, Ringed Plover, Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, Hobby, Cuckoo, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

                                                          Little Gull by Dave Scattergood

 Short-eared Owl away from the the North Staffs Moors seen yesterday

                                                                 By Alan Johnson

Staffs

Saturday 1st June 2024

Belvide Resv

American Golden Plover still, 

WMI site near Calf Heath

Dunlin, 8x LRP, 2x Shelduck, (SRi)

Radford Meadows Stafford

3x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, LRP, 5x Little Egret, Great Egret, 2x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, Teal, (RSw)

Gailey Resv

2+ Spotted Flycatcher, 5x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Common Sandpiper, Cetti's Warblers, Grasshopper Warbler, (BGo)

Biddulph Moor

12x Tree Sparrow, (ALo)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite, Hobby, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 5x Little Egret, 18x Pochard, 16x Shelduck, 91x Gadwall, 5x Teal, 3x Shoveler, 10x Egyptian Geese, 22x GC Grebe, 30x Little Grebe, 31x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, (JWo, DSc, Bob)

Cheadle

Red Kites circling over Leek Road late afternoon, (per GSt)

Loggerheads

2x White Stork over at 16:15, (JSt)