Sunday 3rd August 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup still, Black-necked Grebe, 7x Little Egret, Great Egret, YL Gull, 4x Ringed Plover, 16x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 2x Red Kite, Wheatear, 

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on West scrape, Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Dunlin, juv Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern (adult and juv), Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Rudyard

3x Common Tern at 08:48, (Laxmi)

Whitemoor Haye

36x Common Tern, 7x Little Egret, 61x Lapwing, 4x LRP (3 juvs),  Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Grebe, 39x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

5x Crossbill over Yeatsall Bank this am, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

15x Mandarin, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 84x Gadwall, 11x Shoveler, 86x Pochard, 2x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 30x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Tern, Gadwall, 2x Teal, (CAFH)

Dunstall

2x Green woodpecker (ad+juv), (JWo)

Saturday 2nd August 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, fem Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, Gropper, Redstart.

Stanley Pool

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (GBr)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 09:00, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Curlew, 3x LRP (juv), 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 2x Wigeon, 12x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Swift, 4x Linnet, (JWo)  -  Additional 2x Pochard, Hobby again at 16:30, (DSc)

Baldwins Gate

Egyptian Goose this morning, (RWh)

Endon - Denford

Willow Tit, Gropper, 3x Green Woodpecker, 6x Mandarin at Ashes Pool, (DCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, 5x Teal, (JWo)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 50x Little Grebe, 6x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck, 50x Gadwall, 10x Teal, 40x Pochard, Peregrine, 8x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 60x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Longton

Red Kite circling over the A50 at 07:51, (STu)

Middleton Lakes

Arctic Tern with 12x Common Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, c50x Lapwing, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Great Egret, 2x juv Water Rail, Hobby, 3x Garden Warbler, (DBr)

Friday 1st August 2025

Blithfield Resv

2x Spoonbill in Blithe Bay at 08:05 and flew NW at 08:10, (MDJ, GJM)  -  Greenshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 12x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Snipe, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                         Greenshank by Steve Edwards

Stanley Pool

3x Crossbill flew NE at 07:20, female Pintail, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Branston GPs

4x Turnstone, Little Stint, Whimbrel, 12x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 57x Pochard, 66x Gadwall, 20x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 74x Little Grebe, 33x Common Tern, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, Yellowhammer, 4x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 16x Swift, 15x House Martin, (JWo)  -  This evening Little Stint present to 20:30 when flushed by Peregrine, 12x Egyptian Geese, 85x Pochard, 22x Swift, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup still, Black-necked Grebe, Common Scoter, Sanderling, 15x Black-tailed Godwit thru,

Berryhill

4x Stonechat, 3x Redstart, 13x Swift, (RTo)

Thursday 31st July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, 8x Common Tern, Great Egret, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Goosander, 7x Mandarin, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, Dunlin,  12x Lapwing, 9x Swift, (JOs, LH)

Blithfield Resv

243x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Greenshank, Snipe, 3x juv Shelduck, (MJa)

Enville

6x Crossbill, 11x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Green Woodpecker, (MDJ)

Endon - Denford

Hobby, 2x Redstart, 6x Green Woodpecker (incl juvs), (DCo)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Wigeon, 4x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x GC Grebe (2nest), 6x Common Tern, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Newcastle

7x Swift over Maybank at 20:45, (PCa)

Wednesday 30th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Drake Common Scoter, 4x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

                                                     Common Scoter by Phil Jones

Belvide Resv

5x Common Scoter off the dam, 

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30x Pochard, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 22x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Crossbill thru south at 09:55, (heard only), (DSc)  -  2x Crossbill flew from Newbold pit towards Tucklesholme, (JWo)

Claymills

Hobby, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, 6x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)  -  2x Crossbill flew east over the footbridge at 17:30, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 3x Redshank, 3x Bittern, 3x Great Egret, 8x Common Tern, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 32x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 31x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Caspian Gull, (SE, HF)  -  This evening juv Med Gull in Blithe Bay, (RPo, MPR)

Tittesworth Water

LRP, 2x Dunlin, 11x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (SGi)

Rudyard

4x LRP, Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)

Tuesday 29th July 2025

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Branston GPs

10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 155x Lapwing, 6x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 33x Pochard, Mandarin, 4x Shoveler, 28x Teal, 58x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 72x Little Grebe, 32x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Swift, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Female Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, 2x Lesser Scaup also a report of a Sandwich Tern thru, 

Middleton Lakes

Juv Water Rail, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x juv Redshank, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 236x Lapwing, Curlew, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, (MJa)

Gradbach

Pied Flycatcher, (TCo)

Uttoxeter

Little Egret in Bramshall Road park, (AR)

Monday 28th July 2025

Branston GPs

Little Stint, Dunlin, Redshank, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 10x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 53x Pochard, 36x Gadwall, 28x Teal, 3x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 73x Little Grebe, 44x Common Tern (11juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby,  Peregrine, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

3x Sanderling this afternoon, 2x Lesser Scaup, 2x Garganey, 4x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Croxall

Osprey at 12:00, (SCl)

Tittesworth Water

Firecrest heard in the woods on the west side of the lake (c10 mins south of the water sports centre), also Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Willow Tit, (TCo)

Blithfield Resv

Admaston Pastry Point 17:15 to 17:30 - Whimbrel, Sanderling also 1sum Caspian Gull still in Blithe Bay, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, (JWo)

Sunday 27th July 2025

Stanley Pool

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

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 15x Mandarin, Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 27x Lapwing, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (JOa, LH, TE)

Croxden Quarry

2x Black-tailed Godwit, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull again at 21:00, Juv Marsh Harrier, 8x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 8x Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 2x ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, 36x Common Tern, Mandarin, 8x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 50x Gadwall, 26x Teal, 120+ Pochard, 62x Little Grebe, 10x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 

Whitemoor Haye

4x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 10x Common Tern, 5x LRP, 72x Lapwing, Hobby, 10x Swift, 30x Linnet, (SCo) - Also 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Saturday 26th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 6x Stonechat, 60x Lapwing, Common Tern, (GPr)

Sandon

2x Red Kite over at 14:00,

Tittesworth Water

Little Grebe (scarce here), Common Scoter, Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 16x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, KH)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, juv Redstart, Little Egret, (GJM, MPR, NT)

Belvide Resv

2x Sandwich Tern, juv Arctic Tern, 8x Common Tern, 2x Lesser Scaup, 2x Garganey, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, 15x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Red Kite, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Hobby, 11x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, (RPo)

Rugeley

Upper Birches - juv Hobby, Peregrine, 15x Swift, House Martin, (AFi)

Branston GPs

6x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese, 34x Pochard, 7x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher,  3x Common Sandpiper, 140x Lapwing, ad Med Gull roosted, 3x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 34x Common Tern, 11x Shelduck, (DSc)

                                                        Med Gull by Dave Scattergood

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Hanbury Woodend

Red Kite, (DSc)

Leek

7x Swift above John Street this evening, (RWi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Friday 25th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier showing on and off,  5x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, LRP, 3x Great Egret, Barn Owl, 7+ Common Tern incl 2 recently fledged, juv Peregrine, juv Redshank,  (SPA, MSm)

Enville

Spotted Flycatcher 3x Redstart, 6x Red Kite, 10x Swift thru, (ICW)

Whiston

Red Kite at The Leys, (GSt)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 4x Great Egret, Hobby, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Oystercatcher, 26x Lapwing, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 2x Lesser Scaup

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 12x Curlew, 138x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Mandarin, 4x Shoveler, 15x Teal, 43x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck, 13x Egyptian Geese, 61x Little Grebe, 16x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Water Rail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Swift, (JWo, DSc)

Thursday 24th July 2025

Cresswell

Little Egret on River Blithe, (BBo)

Branston GPs

3x Sanderling, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 12x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 130x Lapwing, 8x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 41x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 13x Shelduck (9juv), 8x Egyptian Geese, 60x Little Grebe, 24x Common Tern, (5 juv), ad Common Gull, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Stafford

Red Kite over Sandon Road Oxford Gardens

Tittesworth Water

Common Scoter, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, Little Egret, 4x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 14x Lapwing, 8x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Cannock Chase

Chase Cafe Enterprise centre - 2x Hobby 6x Swift at 09:00, (BCh)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup still, fem Garganey, 6x Egyptian Geese, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Green Woodpecker, (CMa, DG)  -  Now 2x Lesser Scaup, 

Blithfield Resv

Knot, Curlew, Whimbrel, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 5x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x YL Gull, (RBr)

Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Shoveler, Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Trentham Gardens

Female Pintail, 4x Mandarin, 8x Little Egret, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Great Egret, 3x newly fledged Common Terns, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Eclipse drake Lesser Scaup at west end this afternoon, 

Doxey Marsh

3x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (inc 2juvs), 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 2x Gropper, (DBa, IG, KM) - this afternoon 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, 2x juv Water Rail, (BGo)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

36x Mistle Thrush feeding on Rowan berries, (TEy)

Wootton

Red Kite over at 15:10, (JDr)

Blithfield Resv

This evening - Great Egret, 1st S Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull, 60x Common Tern, 3x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 10x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (SRi)

Branston GPs

This evening - 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck, 36x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 32x Pochard, Hobby, Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 70x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Gull, 32x Common Tern, 10x House Martin, Gropper, (DSc)

Tuesday 22nd July 2025

Branston GPs

2x Common Scoter(pair), 12x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 216x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 36x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck (4juv), 11x Egyptian Geese, 47x Little Grebe, 27x Common Tern (6 juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 6x Greenfinch, (JWo)

                                                     Common Scoters by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

c130 Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 16x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 3x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Chasewater

Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (CMa)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret on the sailing lake, 6x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Monday 21st July 2025

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, (MBo)

Berryhill

2x Redstart in paddock just east of the Spedding Road gate, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv

Pintail, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 4x Dunlin, 11x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP,  2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 14x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 189x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 8x Avocet (5juv), 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 54x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 7x Egyptian Geese, 66x Little Grebe, 16x Common Tern, (3juv), 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Sunday 20th July 2025

Stanley Pool

12x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 154x Swallow south in one hour, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank thru, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 14x Little Egret, Hobby, 25x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, (ICW)  -  Also Whimbrel heard thru, 4x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret in total, (SCo)  -  This afternoon 14x Common Tern, 2x Redshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 32x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 2x Teal, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)  -  3x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, Snipe, 4x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 7x Swift, 3x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 9x Avocet, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 142x Lapwing, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 20x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, 25x Gadwall, 21x Pochard, 10x Swift, Peregrine, (DSc)  -  Additional SMP2: 3x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank (3juv), 15x LRP (11juv), 10x Common Tern (2juv), Bittern, Great Egret, (MSm) 

Tucklesholme

3x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Pochard, 2x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Gailey Resv

6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 35x Linnet, a few hundred Sand Martins, (SRi)

Saturday 19th July 2025

Croxall

6x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x LRP, (SCo)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

From main hide - 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (HKi)

                                                        Cattle Egret by Bill Goldstraw

Blithfield Resv

06:45 - 13:00 7x YL Gull, Peregrine, 50+ Common Tern, sev Ringed Plover, 11x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, (SRi)  -  Turnstone early am (MPR)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 9x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, GBo)

Rudyard

13x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 8x Avocet, 3x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 16x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 90x Lapwing, 5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 12x Common Tern (2juv), 7x Egyptian Geese + 7 new goslings, 14x Shelduck (8 juv), 7x Teal, 35x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 2x ad YL Gull, Gropper, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Tern, 2x Barn Owl, (SPA)

Newcastle

13x Swifts over Westlands this am, (JBa)

Friday 18th July 2025

Stanley Pool

5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, 9x Avocet (4juv),  10x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover (1juv), 6x Oystercatcher, 112x Lapwing, 5x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 49x Pochard, 52x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck, (3juv+1 duckling), 8x Egyptian Geese, 52x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Whiston

Red Kite circling low over the Leys at 11:30, (GSt)

Enville

5+ Crossbill plus another 7 west, 3x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, (ICW)

Doxey Marsh

2x Bar-tailed Godwit main hide this am, (MPe)  -  This pm 28x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, Great Egret, 7x Gropper, 4x Stonechat, Linnet, 5x Swift, (CAFH) - The 2x Bar-tailed Godwit still present from main hide at 21:17, (DTo)

Norton Bridge

2x Red Kite circling over a recently ploughed field at 14:30, (DGI)

Mayfield

7x Swift over Mayfield, (JDr)

Thursday 17th July 2025

Stanley Pool

3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Whimbrel briefly briefly in Blithe Bay this am, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 3x Greenshank,  (GJM)  -  8x Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Turnstone, 3x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 2x LRP, 24x Ringed Plover, 9x Common Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, (RBr)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x juv Bittern, 6x Avocet (inc 4juvs), (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 7x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Avocet (3juv), Redshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 168x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 57x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck, Black Swan, 10x Egyptian Geese, 70x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Gropper,, 15x Swift, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                         Peregrine by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 16th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Redshank, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret in breeding plumage from Octagonal hide, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Water Rail, 4x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Swifts, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 30x Common Sandpiper, 4x Dunlin, Hobby, 3x Mandarin, (HF, SE)

                                                     Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

5x Common Tern, (SWa)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Wigeon, Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 7x Common Tern (3juv), 12x GC Grebe, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Greenfinch, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Trent Washlands

c40 Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (AJa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 2x ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, 4x Shelduck (+4juvs), 4x Egyptian Geese, 15x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, (DSc)

Tuesday 15th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Garganey west scrape, 17x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, c20x Avocet (inc 11 juvs), (SPA) 

Gailey Resv

3x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Turnstone, Wood Sandpiper, fem Garganey, 

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet (2grown up juvs), Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 43x Pochard, 75x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3 juv+1 duckling), 12x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, 20x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, Hobby, 6x Linnet, 46x Swift, (JWo)

                                                        Great Egrets by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper this am, 5x Common Sandpiper, 12x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, Curlew, (RBr)

Monday 14th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Greenshank over, 4x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatcher, 2x Red Kite, Willow Tit, Little Grebe, also a black  Swallow over with a white breast and throat at 10:00, (GBr)

Branston GPs

7x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 3x Common Tern, Egyptian Goose, (CMa, RF)  -  Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Curlew, 32x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Med Gull (ad), Common Gull (ad), 2x YL Gull (ad), 10x Common Tern, 56x Little Grebe, 16x Pochard, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 36x Gadwall, 7x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Sunday 13th July 2025

Rudyard

2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, (Laxmi)

Stanley Pool

7x Red Kite, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Caspian Gull, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Greenshank, Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 2x Water Rail, Hobby, Gropper, Yellow Wagtail, (MBo, RRa, RSt, DTo, WeBS Team), 

Tittesworth Water

4x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 13x Oystercatcher, 12x LRP, 23x Lapwing, 12x Common Sandpiper, 3x Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH, KH, TEe), 

Branston GPs

2x Crossbill thru NE at 12:27, 2x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 4x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 20x Pochard, 5x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, ad Med Gull, ad YL Gull, 8x Common Tern, 45x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 16x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 4x White-letter Hairstreak, Holly Blue, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, Volucella Zonaria, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, Hobby, Garden Warbler, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (SCo)

Eccleshall

4x Oystercatcher over the tennis courts at 10:30 heading SW at 10:30, (RGa)

Rocester - Ellastone

Red Kite over at 14:30, (JDr)

Doxey Marsh

4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 22x Swift, 2x Gadwall, Water Rail, 4x Gropper, (CAFH)

Saturday 12th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 3x Red Kite, 3x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Caverswall

2x Red Kite over this am, (BBo)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, juv Cuckoo, 3x Great Egret, 3x Common Tern, 2x Water Rail, 3x Gropper, Stonechat, (RSt)

Whitemoor Haye

05:00 to 09:00 - 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 35x Lapwing, LRP, 9x Little Egret, Wigeon, 30x Egyptian Geese, 20x GC Grebe, 6x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, Hobby, 4x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, Red-breasted Goose (escape), (SCo, WeBS)

Tittesworth Water

10x Little Egret, 35x Lapwing, 12x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, 5x Goosander, (SGi, IB)

                                                        Little Egrets by Steve Gibson

Kinver Edge

Pied Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker this am, (MDJ)

Branston GPs

Ruff (m), 125x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Avocet, 4x Shelduck (+4 ducklings), 3x Egyptian Geese, 17x Pochard, Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 6x Linnet, 4x Migrant Hawker, (DSc)

Rocester

9x Swift over this evening  -  JCB Common Tern, 2x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Friday 11th July 2025

Gailey Resv

LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Osprey over this am, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, LRP, 

Botteslow Flash

3x Little Egret, juv Redstart, c30x Swift, (RTo)

Thursday 10th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Sandpiper, 13x LRP, 35x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3 juvs), 4x Mandarin, (JOa, LH) - 20x Swift, (AP)

Cheddleton - Consal

2x Green Woodpecker (ad and juv), (DSc)

Cheadle

2x Peregrine over at 11:21, (TDu)

Burton

25x Swift over Clarence St at 14:45, (AJa)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper at 18:12, (Laxmi)

Cellarhead

Red Kite over the crossroads at 07:30, (PCa)

Leek

Red Kite over town centre at 17:00, (PCa)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 19:10, (PCa)

Stone

20x Swift over Swan pub, (MJa)

Branston GPs

Osprey circled high over the Ashy pit then drifted off north, ad Med Gull, 12x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 55x Pochard, 49x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 11x Egyptian Geese, 38x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

3x Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Great Egret, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                       4 Great Egrets by Steve Gibson

Whitemoor Haye

YL Gull, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 53x Lapwing, 5x Little Grebe, 4x Gadwall, 4x Common Tern, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 22x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, Water Rail (juv), 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Gropper, 7x Swift, 3x Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Red Kite, Water Rail showing main hide, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MBo, PDy)  -  This pm 5x Shoveler, 21x Swift, 3x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 7x Reed Warbler, 3x Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay only this am, 22x Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Oystercatcher, 10x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 5x Dunlin, 142x Greylag Geese, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), 2x Shelduck, Swift, (CMa, RF)  -  Tad Bay this pm 24x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Redshank, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 10x Shelduck (inc 5juvs), (JHi)

Tittensor

6x Swift around the church on the A34 this am, (DGl)

Branston GPs

Med Gull, 10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 142x Lapwing, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 38x Pochard, Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 4x Egyptian Geese, 51x Little Grebe (3juv), 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

3x Oystercatcher over south, (JWo)

Monday 7th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit present with a further 7 thru this am, also Green Sandpiper, juv Bittern,  (SPA)

Barlaston Common

2x Red Kite over east at 11:30, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper still, 3x Redshank, 6x Common Tern, Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                        Common Tern by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

19x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Water Rail, 6x Teal, 49x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 9x Shelduck (2+3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 40x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, Caspian Gull (2s), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

                                               Black-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 6th July 2025

Croxall

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Med Gull, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)  -  Hobby, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, (MBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 16x Common Tern, 30x Swift, 10x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, Teal, Avocet, 12x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Egyptian Geese, 2x Linnet, Siskin thru south, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, GBB Gull, 

Saturday 5th July 2025

Blithfield Resv

Garganey in Blithe Bay, sec/sum Caspian Gull, 2x Greenshank, several juv Redstarts, (GJM, MPR)

Rudyard

7x Black-tailed Godwit, early morning, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 12x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 11x Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, (SGi, IB, PS)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Trentham Gardens

Hummingbird Hawkmoth, around shopping village. (HF)

                                                                  By Heather Forbes

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, 32x Gadwall, 8x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit roosted, 8x Lapwing, 10x Curlew roosted, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Tern, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

c300x Sand Martin over fields, 2x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 35x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Egyptian Geese, several Yellowhammers, 5x Gadwall, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Tree Damsel Bug, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

2x Yellow Wagtail, Green Lane, (JWo)

Friday 4th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Sum/plum Black-tailed Godwit, (GG)

Astonfields Balancing Lakes

2x Peregrine Sandon Road, (RSt)

Blackshaw Moor

Red Kite at 13:15, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank (1juv), 9x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 38x Lapwing, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 6x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck (2ducklings), 40x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, (JWo, CEc, George, MCa)

Claymills

Green Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, Swift, Garden Warbler, Painted Lady, (DSc)

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 15x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, Curlew, 7x Mandarin, 9x Teal, 3x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Common Gull, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH). This evening -  Green Sandpiper, Redshank, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

3x Red Kite, (JOs, LH)

Branston GPs

Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 62x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Goosander, 43x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, Shoveler, 4x Teal, 5x Shelduck (3ducklings), 4x Egyptian Geese, 34x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 3+ WL Hairstreak, 5+Purple Hairstreak, 2x Painted Lady, (JWo)

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

16x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Common Tern, (Laxmi)  -  Also Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (SGi)

Brankley Pastures

8x Yellowhammer, 15+Purple Hairstreak, Variable Longhorn Beetle, Welsh Chafer, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, Gropper, (PCa)

Tuesday 1st July 2025

Gailey Resv

9x Common Tern (inc 7 thru east at 06:30), Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Tucklesholme

Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Wigeon, 4x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 109x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 5x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 6x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

7x Mandarin(6 ducklings), 2x Gadwall, 2x LRP, 3x Lapwing, YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, 3x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Swift,  (CAFH)

Monday 30th June 2025

Doxey Marsh

2x Redstart (one juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Gropper, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 2x Red Kite, 3x Willow Tit, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 11x LRP, 10x Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)  -  4x adult Med Gulls this evening, 2x Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 

Branston GPs

Redstart (juv), at BMP, Black-tailed Godwit(s/p), 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 81x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 45x Pochard, Teal, 4x Shelduck (2juv), 16x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 28x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 8x Swift, (RTo)

Sunday 29th June 2025

Stanley Pool

2x Redstart(fem and juv), at south side of lake, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Rudyard

Common Tern at 09:15, (Laxmi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, 15x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 12x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), Pied Flycatcher, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

                                                      Black-tailed Godwits by Tom Eeles

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 20x Little Grebe, 12x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck(+2juvs),  8x Teal, 12x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 26x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  - 

Bug Stictopleurus punctatonervosus (or S. abutilon) - no previous Staffs records of S.punctatonervosus, 1 previous record of S abutilon. Caddisfly (Athripsodes bilineatus) - 4 records since 1995, Large Marsh Horsefly, 3+ White-letter Hairstreak, 150+ Large White Butterflies, (JWo)

                                 Stictopleurus punctatonervosus or S abutilon by Jon Woodcock

Alvecote

4x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, Garden Warbler, 12x Lapwing, (MSc)

Leek

25x Swift again above John Street, (RWi)

Wolseley Centre

2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, Reed Warbler, (CAFH)

Tucklesholme

Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 28th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Redstart at south end, Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, (GBr).

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Common Tern, Silver-washed Fritillary, 8x Ringlet, (RPo)

Stafford

11x Red Kite and 17x Raven interacting/soaring over a ridge north of Stafford at 06:20, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Hobby, Red Kite, 10x LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, Curlew, c100x Lapwing, Common Terns, 6x Shelduck, (MJa)

Denstone

Red Kite circling over the railway at 12:45, (JTu)

Middleton Lakes

22x Avocet, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 4x Redshank, Little Egret, (MSc)

Freehay

Red Kite over at 17:00, (FCa)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese, 14x Pochard, 2x Shelduck (+ducklings), 7x Goosander, 9x Curlew, 40x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper  (DSc)

Blithe Bridge

Red Kite heading west at 12:02, alongside A50 towards the A521 roundabout, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 12x Yellowhammer, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler,  Hobby, 5x Gadwall, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

3x Oystercatcher, Greenshank, 4x Egyptian Geese, 4x Teal, 4x Common Tern, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Garden Warbler, (CAFH)

Claymills

3x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Skylark, (DSc)

Friday 27th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

43x Oystercatcher (inc 5 juvs), 9x Common Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, 30x LRP, Peregrine, (MDJ)

Leek

Red Kite over Sainsburys at 18:55, (FCa)  -  26x Swift over John St, (RWi)

Berryhill

Little Egret over, (Ed)

Kings Bank Trentham

5x Purple Hairstreak, (SE)

                                                                  By Steve Edwards

Thursday 26th June 2025

Botteslow Flash

LRP, Little Egret, Red Kite, 23x House Sparrow along Fenton Road, 2x Greenfinch, (RTo)

Cheadle

Red Kite over fire station at 08:30, (KR)

Rocester

7x Swift over, (JDr)

Tittesworth Water

15x LRP, 11x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 6x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Goosander, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, 2x Avocet, Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 14x Little Egret, Water Rail, 43x Pochard, 5x Shoveler, Teal, 2x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 30x Little Grebe, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Scarlet Tiger Moth, (JWo)

Wednesday 25th June 2025

Barton-under-Needwood

Red Kite low over heading south, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart male +3 juv, 19x Linnet, 2x Goosander, (SGi)

                                                          Redstart by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 54x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, Teal, 6x Shelduck (3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern,  YL Gull (3s), Garden Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Scarlet Tiger Moth by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

Great Egrets, Little Egrets, Bittern, Common Terns, Avocets, Oystercatchers, Redshanks, LRPs, Red Kite, (RBe)

Tuesday 24th June 2025

Rudyard

Adult Spotted Flycatcher with 2 juvs, (Laxmi) 

                                                                    By Laxmi

Beamhurst

Red Kite over at 12:00, (FCa)

Branston GPs

Grey Plover, Curlew, Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, (CMa, RF)

Blithfield Resv

2nd year Caspian Gull still, (GJM)

Tucklesholme

Green Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon(m), 6x Egyptian Geese, 6x GC Grebe, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 5+ Cetti's Warbler, 6+ Linnet, (JWo)

Trentham 

Scarlet Tiger Moth, (JAt)

                                                                  By Jon Attwell

Monday 23rd June 2025

Branston GPs

Grey Plover still, Black-tailed Godwit,  Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Avocet, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 5x Shelduck(3ducklings), 8x Gadwall, 7x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 31x Pochard, 11x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Gull, YL Gull, Hobby, (JWo, SBI, George, CEc, Dean).

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Longnor

12x Curlew in silage field, (PJo)

Sunday 22nd June 2025

Doxey Marsh

Marsh Harrier flying over west at 06:00 mobbed by Lapwings, (MGo)

Brocton

Red Kite being mobbed by Crows and Gulls over field adjacent to the Chetwynd Arms at 10:30, (GBe)

Gailey Resv

2x Egyptian Geese, 4x ad Oystercatcher + one well grown chick, Common Sandpiper, 2+ Yellow Wagtail, Marsh Tit, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

Green Sandpiper, 3x Curlew over, Dunlin, Ringed Plovers, (GJM,MPR)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, 9x Avocet (inc young), 12x Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, (LDa, MKe)  -  Bittern, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 28x Avocet (inc young), 12x LRP, 2x Redshank, (RBr)

Branston GPs

Sum/plum Grey Plover viewed from Ashy pit at 13:35, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper,  4x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 2x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 12x Pochard, Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Linnet, Lesser Whitethroat, 50x Swift, (DSc)  -  19:00 - 20:30 S/p Grey Plover still on Ashy pit, 3x  Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, 5x Teal, Gropper, 100x Swift, (JWo)

                                                      Grey Plover by Jon Woodcock

Sandyford

Red Kite over the Tesco express at 07:30, (GPr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(+3juvs), 14x LRP, 10x Common Sandpiper, 12x Oystercatcher, 7x Lapwing(+5juvs), Red Kite, (JOa, LH, TE)

Gnosall

Red Kite low over Ginger Hill at 13:30 then drifted north, (GCa)

Tucklesholme

LRP, Lapwing, Common Tern, 20x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Linnet, (DSc)

Saturday 21st June 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, (GJM)  -  7x Little Egret, 2x GBB Gull, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, c150x Lapwing, (MJa)

Middleton Lakes

Avocets, LRP, Oystercatcher, Little Egrets, Cuckoo, Common Terns, (RBe)

                                                             Cuckoo by Rob Bendelow

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 5x Egyptian Geese(+ 6juvs), 40x Gadwall, 2x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 16x Pochard, Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, 4x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 40x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 6x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Scarlet Tiger Moth, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, (JWo)

Alrewas - Wychnor

2x Oystercatcher, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Leek

25x Swift over John Street at 21:45, (RWi)

Friday 20th June 2025

Middleton Lakes

Black-crowned Night Heron flew over East scrape at approx 07:55 then banked and landed in one of the pools to the east inside of the fox fence, also 20x Avocet + 16 well grown young, 3x Oystercatcher plus two well grown young, 10x LRP + 2 chicks, 3x Bittern in flight (2juvs) - (Jake Klavins warden)  - The Night Heron now on west scrape at 19:25, also a Green Sandpiper, over, (TPe)

Rocester

9x Swift over at 07:50, (JDr)

Wedgwood Pools

2x Whitethroat, (NRo)

Branston GPs

Avocet, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 65x Lapwing, Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Water Rail, 32x Pochard, 5x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 12x Gadwall, 5x Mandarin(4juv), 13x Shelduck (3ducklings), 12x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 22x Little Grebe, 2x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, MCa)

Aqualate

2x Hobby hunting over mere this pm, (KLe)

Claymills

Cattle Egret at 20:07 then flew north over R Dove to Willington Wetlands, Mandarin, 3x Goosander 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 2x Swift, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Thursday 19th June 2025

Alrewas

Gropper reeling in fields just north of Alrewas also nearby 4x Redshank, 2x LRP, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Grey Wagtail, (SCo)

Trent Washlands

2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 7x Swift, (AJa)

River Sow Meadows Stafford

Female Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(plus 3juvs), 9x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper(plus 3juvs), 5x Oystercatcher 6x Lapwing(plus3juvs), 2x Ringed Plover, (JHa)

Brizlincote Valley

Red Kite northbound towards the River Trent, (SJo)

Eccleshall

Red Kite over the tennis club at 19:30, (RGa)

Richmoor Hill

2x Red Kite over the crossroads on the A52, (GSt)

Wednesday 18th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

14x Crossbill west at 15:18, 

Middleton Lakes

9x visible Avocets made up of 4 adults and 5 juveniles, (JTu)

Claymills

4x Mandarin, 2x Green Sandpiper, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 8x Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tuesday 17th June 2025

Florence Hill

Grasshopper Warbler, (AMa)

Doxey Marsh

This pm Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, 12x Swift, 3x LRP, Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Yoxall - Ridware - Kings Bromley

Red Kite over, (AGP)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, 33x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 19x Pochard, 7x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 14x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 32x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, Red Kite, Hobby, RL Partridge, Gropper, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Tad Bay 19:00 to 20:30 - 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck(4juvs), 5x Teal, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Cuckoo, (JHi)

Monday 16th June 2025

Stanley Pool

4x Red Kite over Stanley Head, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Chasewater

Osprey over north, (GHa)

Wetley Moor

7x Stonechat, Garden Warbler, 12x Whitethroat, 4x Linnet, (LEH)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, 2x LRP, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x ad Avocet (+7 chicks), (CMa, RF)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 5x Redstart, 5x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Cheadle

2x Red Kite, Hobby, 7x Buzzard, (LEH)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 30x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 39x Pochard, 4x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 18x Shelduck, 23x Little Grebe, 9x Egyptian Geese, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, 3x Cetti's Warbler,100x Sand Martin, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday 15th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher along path down to lake Stanley head side, Willow Tit by bridge, (GBr)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over 06:00, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

3x fem Mandarin, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, 1st Sum Caspian Gull, 1st Sum YL Gull, 40+ Common Tern, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Peregrine, 4x Shoveler, Common Tern, 5x Water Rail, 29x Gadwall, 17x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (MBo, PDy, RRa, RSt, DTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 9x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Tern(+3juvs), 8x LRP(+ 4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(+3juvs), Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese(+6 Goslings), 14x Shelduck(+ducklings), 40x Gadwall, 7x Shoveler, 22x Pochard, Goldeneye Hobby, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, 3x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, c150x Sand Martin, (DSc)  -  Additional Red Kite over, (JWo)

Saturday 14th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Little Tern off Beech Tree Point this morning, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret,  (GJM)

Brookleys Lake

11x Crossbill over towards Alton Towers at 09:42, (RPo)

Cheadle 

Curlew over at 05:26, (LEH)

Belvide Resv

2x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 10x Gadwall, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, 14x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 37x Pochard, 6x Common Tern, (DSc)

Staffs

Marsh Warbler trapped and ringed at a private undisclosed site. No further sign after release,

Friday 13th June 2025

Tittensor Chase

Hobby mobbed by House Martins, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Juv Redstart, Common Tern (with 3 young), Lapwing (with 3 young), 4x Linnet rare here,  (SGi)

                                                         Redstart by Steve Gibson

Rocester

5x Swift over, (JDr)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 22x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 25x Pochard, 4x Teal, 9x Shoveler, 42x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck(4 ducklings), 13x Egyptian Geese(6juv), Gropper, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, MCa)

Thursday 12th June 2025

Botteslow Flash

Red Kite over at 07:40 heading towards Eaton Park, (RTo)

Baddeley Green

Red Kite up and down A53 by the Nissa shop, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(2juvs), 8x LRP(4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(4juvs), Snipe, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Bittern, Avocets, LRP, Oystercatchers, 2-3x Red Kite, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Common Tern, (RBe)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, Avocet, 5x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Wigeon, 44x Pochard, 3x Teal, 6x Shoveler, 76x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, Black Swan, 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday 11th June 2025

Rudyard

Common Tern at 08:57, (Laxmi)

Alton 

8 to 10x Red Kite over mown fields, 2x Willow Tit, (TEy)

Blithfield Resv

2x Dunlin, 16x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 3x Avocet, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (AGP)

Chasewater

3x Pochard, 11x Greylag Geese, (CMa)

Cheadle

Hobby over Hales Hall pool late afternoon, (MEd)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 12x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese (5juv), 4x Common Tern, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, 5x LRP, (JHi)

Tuesday 10th June 2025

Belvide Resv

Spotted Flycatcher still but elusive, (CMa, RF)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, Siskin, Sherbrook Valley, (HTy)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 18x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 21x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 9th June 2025

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 23x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 30x Pochard, 6x Teal, 8x Shoveler, 43x Gadwall, 21x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 16x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, 150x Sand Martin, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

Alvecote

Cuckoo, 100+ Swift, Common Tern, (MSc)

Sunday 8th June 2025

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese (5+juv), (JWo)

Audley

3x Red Kite over the bowling green at 14:15, (MJW)

Blithfield Resv

Caspian Gull (2y), 43x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, Cuckoo, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, Mandarin, 6x Common Sand (+3juv), 13x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH, TE)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Common Tern, 4x Water Rail, 8x Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Belvide  Resv

Shoveler, 11x Gadwall, 9x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper,

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese (+6juvs,+8 young), 18x Shelduck, 38x Gadwall, 5x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 3x Pochard, 8x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Common Tern, 200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, PFo) - Additional Spotted Flycatcher at the Deerfield, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Saturday 7th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern thru Blithe Bay  early am, 19x Dunlin, 40x Ringed Plover, Redshank, (GJM)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Cuckoo, Great Egret, (RPo)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 34x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 20x Pochard, Peregrine, Hobby, 3x Curlew, 6x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Freehay

A Mandarin family party in the garden, (RCa)

                                                                By Richard Castles

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 100+Swift, (MSc)

Friday 6th June 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-necked Grebe North Pit, (GG)

Bignal End

6x Raven over Boon Hill at 09:15, (MJW)

Aqualate

Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo this afternoon, (KLe)

Branston GPs

5x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 21x Pochard, 4x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 66x Gadwall, 15x Shelduck, 28x Little Grebe, Black Swan, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Stonechat (m+juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 250+ Swift, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

28x Gadwall, 100+ Swift, 4x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Claymills

Adult Med Gull thru north at 20:40, 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 5x Goosander +2juvs, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (DSc)