Sunday 24th August 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Stint on east side this am, LRP, Lapwing and a Hobby over, 3x Red Kite, (GBr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Ruff, Ringed Plover, 3x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Little Egret, Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 6x Goosander, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 22x Snipe, Greenshank, 3x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 2x Hobby, (MSm)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 120x Pochard, Peregrine, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, ad YL Gull, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

Female Marsh Harrier this am,  35x Mandarin, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, (JOa, LH, TE)

Saturday 23rd August 2025

Rudyard

Great Egret, 3x Ruff, (GBr)  -  3x Ruff, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 21x Teal, (SGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Egret, 33x Shoveler, 40x Teal, (RPo)

Gailey Resv

Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, (JIs)

Middleton Lakes

Whinchat, 2x Hobby, 2x Garganey on west scrape,  6x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Ruff, 5x Snipe, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

08:30 - 12:30 Great Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 5x YL Gull, 1st Sum Caspian Gull, 15x Ruff, 7x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, Wheatear, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)  -  7x Crossbill over, (GJM)

Belvide Resv

Juv Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 8x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, Garganey, 2x Lesser Scaup, 

Stanley Pool

Hobby, 2x Red Kite, 9x Buzzard, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, 6x Black-tailed Godwit over, 2x LRP, 2x Hobby, Great Egret, (TPe)  -  Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x LRP, 4x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 111x Lapwing, 3x Hobby, 16x Egyptian Geese, 2x YL Gull, 9x Common Tern, 8x Little Grebe, 9x GC Grebe, c60 Linnet, 4x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti;s Warbler, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 6x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, (SGi)

Catholme (footpath)

3x Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Greenshank, Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Barton-under -Needwood

Hobby over heading south, (JWo)

Cannock Chase

Siskin flock in Abrahams Valley, (JTu)

Branston GPs

Red Kite thru east at 17:45, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 12x Little Egret, c100 Gadwall, c100 Pochard, 130x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Redstart, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, ASt, BSt)

Friday 22nd August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey still on west scrape, (GG)  -  Marsh Harrier, 3x Greenshank thru, 4x Ruff, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 11x LRP, Redshank, 22x Snipe, 2x Garganey, 2x Hobby, 34x Swift, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

12x Crossbill Blithe Bay, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Early am 16x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Ringed Plovers, LRP, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtails, ad YL Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (PAn)  -  Additionally 2x juv Med Gull, 11x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Redshank, 197x GC Grebe, (MDJ)

Brindley Ford

2x Redstart, Garden Warbler, Willow Tit, (CBo)

Whitemoor Haye

Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Little Egret, 7x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler,  (SCo)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, 3x Greenshank, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 6x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper 3x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 13x Little Egret, 8x Great Egret, 2x juv Redstart, ad YL Gull, 2x Hobby, Red Kite, Wheatear, Spotted Flycatcher, 15x Yellow Wagtail, 

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 9x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, (SGi)

Rudyard

3x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 25x Teal, 56x Linnet, (SGi)

                                                            Ruffs by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

Sandwich Tern this evening, Crossbill, 2x Tree Pipit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Swift, 10x Snipe, 6x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, LRP, Dunlin, 86x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, Goosander, 9x Mandarin, 114x Pochard, 142x Gadwall, 44x Shoveler, 77x Teal, 15x Egyptian Geese, 94x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern (2juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, (JWo, DSc)

                                                     Sandwich Tern by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 21st August 2025

Doxey Marsh

Creswell Flash Garganey, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Little Egret and  2x Green Sandpiper on Octo scrape scoped from Creswell, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv

This am 2x Turnstone thru, 15x Ruff, 5x Greenshank, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, LRP, 23x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Yellow Wagtail, 30x Linnet, 3x YL Gull, (RBr)  -  Additionally pm - juv Curlew Sandpiper, juv Marsh Harrier thru, 3x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Swift, (DBr)  -  Curlew Sandpiper still at 19:13 in Blithe Bay (JKl)

Tittesworth Water

Female Common Scoter, 5x Mandarin, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, 2x Red Kite, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwits, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Great Egret, Common Tern, Water Rail, Goosander, 

Belvide Resv

Juv Black Tern at 15:15, 1st sum Goshawk

Whitemoor Haye

2x Ruff, 4x juv LRP, 4x Green Sandpiper, (TPe)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff (juv), Dunlin (juv), 2x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 196x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Mandarin, 126x Pochard, 116x Gadwall, 35x Shoveler, 106x Teal, 85x Little Grebe, 7x Common Tern (5 juv), YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Linnet, Tree Pipit over Newbold pit,  (JWo)

Wednesday 20th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint this am Admaston Reach, (KM, GJM)  -  5x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 6x Ruff, 16x Ringed Plover, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Dunlin, Little Stint, Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 23x Barnacle Geese, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, (DBa, CE, PB, KM)  -  additional counts 9x Ruff, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 31x Barnacle Geese, Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                       Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Radford Meadows Stafford

Juv Whinchat, 3+ Stonechat, juv Peregrine, 3x Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Swift, (RSw)

Rudyard

Little Stint, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, 7x Teal, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 10x Goosander, Red Kite, (SGi)

Gailey Resv

Juv Wheatear, 2x Teal, Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x juv LRP, Great Egret, 5x ad YL Gull, (TPe)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

3x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, Wigeon, 44x Gadwall, 7x Egyptian Geese, 6x Common Tern (3juv), 9x Swift, 100+House Martin, 30+ Sand Martin, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Tuesday 19th August 2025

Berryhill

7x Wheatear (5 at the mound and 2 off Spedding Road), 2x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Redstart and at Botteslow Flash imm Shelduck, 5x Teal, (RTo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ruff, Hobby, 2x Swift, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (TPe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey still on west scrape, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 6x Green Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

2x juvenile Black Tern off the dam, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, juv Knot, 7x Great Egret, 

Rudyard

Little Stint, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Teal, 3x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)  -  Red Kite over at 14:53, (Laxmi)

                                                        Little Stint by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

2x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 2x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 132x Pochard, 115x Gadwall, 62x Shoveler, 99x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 111x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern (2juv), YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker (1 juv), Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Swift, (JWo)

                                                       Mandarins by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Marsh Harrier, 5x YL Gull, 1s Caspian Gull, 12x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Sanderling, 3x Greenshank, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, (SRi)

Monday 18th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 4x Ruff, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 25x Snipe, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Ruff, Dunlin, Snipe Redshank, Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 

Knypersley Resv

Little Egret, 10x Mandarin, 4x Swift, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP (inc chick), 4x Greenshank, ad YL Gull, 2x Wheatear, Whinchat, 4x Swift, (CMa, RF)

Rudyard

This morning 2x Ruff, Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 35x Lapwing, 4x Goosander, 7x Teal, (SGi)

Hednesford - Rugeley

Female Goshawk flew across the A460 at 16:25, (AFi)

Gailey Resv

The Shag still on main island, also Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 9x Swift, (SRi)

Branston GPs

7x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, 115x Pochard, 156x Gadwall, 63x Shoveler, 86x Teal, Egyptian Geese, 95x Little Grebe (1 chick), 9x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Hobby, 10x Swift, 17x Linnet, 4x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Sunday 17th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 2x Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, (GG)

Berryhill

Early am 5x Redstart, 3x Wheatear, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, c30 Linnet,  (RTo)   - 2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, (IBu)

Rudyard 

Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 45x Lapwing, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, 3x Stock Dove, (SGi)  -  Ring-necked Parakeet at 19:53, (Laxmi)

                                                         Greenshank by Steve Gibson

Gailey Resv

Shag showing well on the dam at 13:20, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Mandarin, 4x Teal, Common Gull, 4x Stock Dove, (JOa, LH, TE)

Furnace Grange Trescott

2x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, (GCl)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                     Ruddy Shelduck by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

80x Little Grebe, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Shelduck, Mandarin, 50x Shoveler, 120x Gadwall, 80x Teal, 120x Pochard, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 100x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 6x Linnet, (DSc)  -  Additionally 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 40x Linnet, (JWo)

Sandon Bank

Red Kite over, 

Belvide Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, 6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Red Kite, 4x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, c50 Swift, 

Saturday 16th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover dropped into Blithe Bay early am,  (MPR), - 2xTurnstone, c35x Ringed Plover, Grey Plover, Marsh Harrier, Caspian Gull, 2x Whinchat, (GJM)  -  Imm Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 1st sum Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, Grey Plover, 2x Turnstone, 75+ Ringed Plover (incl group of c40 NW), 6x LRP, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, Curlew, 40+ Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, Whinchat, juv Stonechat, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank, 6x Curlew, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 11x Little Egret, Common Tern, 20x Shoveler, 5x Mandarin, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

2x Ruff (juvs), 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 17x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Goosander, Wigeon, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

2x Red Kite, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 31x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 3x Pochard, Hobby, 100x Lapwing, male Redstart, (MBo)

Croxall

Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Tree Pipit, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret, Hobby, Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, 32x Egyptian Geese, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 16x Ringed Plover thru, 2x Greenshank, 6x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 9x LRP, Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 

Branston GPs

8x Little Egret, 70x Little Grebe, 4x Egyptian Geese, 110x Gadwall, 44x Shoveler, 80x Teal, 45x Pochard, 2x Peregrine, Hobby, Water Rail, 175x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 6x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Little Grebe, 6x Gadwall, 2x Lapwing, 4x Common Tern, (DSc)

Catholme (footpath)

Great Egret, 26x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, Lapwing, (JWo)

Alvecote

4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, (MSc)

Friday 15th August 2025

Rudyard Lake

Marsh Harrier thru, 9x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Teal, Peregrine, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (RSc)

Elton

7x Yellow Wagtail, (SWa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Marsh Harrier flew out NW at 1510, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 35+ Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (MDJ)  -  1st sum Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, (juv +3 adults), (TPe).  -  Also Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, LRP, Snipe, Common Terns, Red Kite, juv Peregrine, Common Gull, Little Egrets, GBB Gulls, (RBe)  -  In addition 4x Spotted Flycatcher, (SJo)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 10x Common Tern, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Thursday 14th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

8x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 5x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, Avocet (juv) to 09:10 only, 10x Dunlin, c15 Ringed Plover, LRP, 10x Yellow Wagtail, Great Egret, 15x Barnacle Geese, (BSt)  -  This afternoon Avocet in Tad Bay at 13:15, also Ruddy Shelduck, (BSt)  -  12x Common Tern, 37x Egyptian Geese, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 11x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, 4x Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x Caspian Gull, (DBr)

                                                       Yellow Wagtail by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

Goosander, 3x Mandarin, Gadwall, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 5x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

7x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2xOystercatcher, 222x Lapwing, 9x Curlew, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 114x Pochard, 202x Gadwall, 17x Shoveler, 44x Teal, 16x Egyptian Geese, 86x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

 

Wednesday 13th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Greenshank, Ruff, 8x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, 4x Common Tern, 3x Great Egret, 

Blithfield Resv

12x Dunlin, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, juv Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 20x Yellow Wagtail, 16x Barnacle Geese, 2x Great Egret, 3x juv Shelduck, Ruddy Shelduck, Wheatear, 12x Egyptian Geese, (DBa, KM, CE, IG)

Branston GPs

Juv Marsh Harrier, 12x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 165x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 67x Pochard, 16x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 25x Teal, 14x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern (4juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup between west end and Gazebo, Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Bar-headed Goose, 8x Grey Wagtail, 

Tuesday 12th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

Wheatear, Ruff, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 2x Redshank, 9x Snipe, Barnacle Goose, Marsh Harrier, 4x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, Goosander, Barn Owl, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

Green Sandpiper, 3x female Goosander, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 4x LRP, 9x Ringed Plover, 14x Dunlin, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, juv Avocet, 24x Barnacle Geese, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite, Peregrine, Ruddy Shelduck, (RBr)  -  3x Black Tern, juv Little Gull, (MPR)

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x YL Gull, 2x Water Rail, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, 3x Teal, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

7x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 147x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 67x Pochard, 102x Gadwall, 15x Shoveler, 22x Teal, Shelduck, 15x Egyptian Geese, 92x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern (5 juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 11th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

Ruff on west scrape this am, 

Rudyard Lake

White Stork circling before drifting off north at 10:41, (Maxmi)

Branston GPs

12x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 12x Curlew, Oystercatcher, 162x Lapwing, 3x Water Rail, 4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, 107x Pochard, 117x Gadwall, 88x Teal, 17x Shoveler, 14x Egyptian Geese, 86x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Med Gull (juv), Turnstone, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, (GJM, MDJ, 1CW)

Sunday10th August 2025

Rudyard

2x Green Sandpiper this am, (RSc)  -  2x Hobby over the lake at 14:10, (Laxmi)

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (JIs)

Uttoxeter

Osprey flew south over the A50 at 10:20, also nearby at Uttoxeter quarry Green Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 2x Pochard, 8x Shoveler, 21x Teal, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 72x Lapwing, Spotted Flycatcher, Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, YL Gull, Common Tern, 2x Water Rail, (MBo, BLo, RRa, DTo)

Stanley Pool

Female Redstart and Spotted Flycatcher by bridge Stanley Head side, Red Kite over the dam, Swift, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover thru, 12x Common Tern, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, (ICW)

Croxall

2x Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Aqualate

Red Kite in tree, (VSm)

Tittesworth Water

20x Mandarin, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, Hobby, Peregrine, Red Kite, Common Gull, (JOa, LH, TE)

Branston GPs

Male Redstart to 12:15 at least, 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 70x Gadwall, 60x Pochard, 12x Teal, Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail thru, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 15x Linnet, Hobby, ad YL Gull, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Marsh Harrier thru, Curlew, c250 Lapwing, 10x Common Tern, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 11x Shelduck, (MJa)  -  10x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Sanderling, Wheatear, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, 25x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, (DBa)  -  In addition Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 16x Dunlin, 4x LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (SE, HF)  -  This evening increased counts of 10x Black-tailed Godwit, c75 Common Tern and a Wigeon, (PAn)

                                                         Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Lapwing, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, LRP,  Lesser Scaup, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Crossbill heard, 

Middleton Lakes

Osprey, Great Egret, Little Egrets, Common Terns, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Egyptian Geese, (RBe)

Saturday 9th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

2x Turnstone St Stephen's Bay this am,  (GJM)  -  5x Turnstone Admaston Reach, (PAn)

Enville

23x Crossbill, 3x Red Kite, Little Egret, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Curlew, 25x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, (SGi, IB) 

Rudyard

Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, 44x Lapwing, Redstart, (SGi, IB)

Stanley Pool

3x Red Kite (incl 1 juv), Common Tern, 5x Lapwing, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

15x Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, 81x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 14x Egyptian Geese, 44x GC Grebe, 12x Little Grebe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 9x Pochard, 2x Gadwall, 5x Swift, 2x Garden Warbler, possible Black-necked Grebe, (SCo, WeBS)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, Wigeon, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Dunlin, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, Snipe, 8x Grey Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Red Kite east, Great Egret, Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 

Alrewas to Wychnor

Hobby, 4x Common Tern (2juv), (JWo)

                                                      Common Terns by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Green Woodpecker, Egyptian Goose, (JWo)

Catholme

12x Little Egret, 300+ Cormorant, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, Shelduck, 25x Pochard, 13x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, 3x Common Tern, (DSc)

Friday 8th August 2025

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill over the Whitehouse this afternoon also Garden Warbler, (AHa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Med Gull, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Also Whinchat and a Clouded  Yellow sailing club area, (MDJ, GJM) -Turnstone Admaston Reach to 16:40 at least, (JAl)

                                                   Clouded Yellow by Rob Bendelow

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, Grey Wagtail, and c70 House Sparrow around the old Botteslow farm area, Peregrine, (RTo)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier (juv), 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 130x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 68x Pochard, 62x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 39x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 68x Little Grebe, 19x Common Tern (9 juv), YL Gull, 6x Swift, 4x Greenfinch, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

This evening - 5x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 27x Little Egret with 3x Great Egret roosted riverside, (MB)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher in Old Orchard, (TPe)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 24x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, (MSc)

Churnet Valley

Peregrine, (GSt)

Thursday 7th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Whimbrel top of Blithe Bay this am, (MJa)  -  3rd year Caspian Gull this am, (GJM)  -  Little Egret, Common Terns, 2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine (juv), Hobby, Yellow Wagtails, (RBe)

                                                     Yellow Wagtail by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

2x Mandarin, Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Lapwing, (JOa)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 43x Pochard, 64x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 10x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, 70x Little Egret, 23x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 8x Swift, 6x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                    Yellow-legged Gull by  Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 6th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 2x Greenshank, 13x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 4x LRP, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 11x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

Tittesworth Water

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                    Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill, Yellowhammer, Siskin, (DBa, CEv)

Tucklesholme

Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Common (3juv), Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, 15x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 18x GC Grebe, 4x Cetti's Warbler (2juv), 15x Linnet, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ad Caspian Gull, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (TPe)

Coven

Count of 28x Mistle Thrush on ploughed field, (JDu)

Alton

3x Red Kite over mown fields, (TEy)

Tuesday 5th August 2025

Trentham Gardens

Fem/1st sum Pied Flycatcher, 6x Little Egret, 40x Swift, (RGi)

Trentham

Ring-necked Parakeet over the garden calling, (HF)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Dunlin, Snipe, Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 8x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Wigeon, 52x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 10x Shoveler, 15x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 64x Little Grebe, 17x Common Tern (5 juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 18x Swift, 10x Linnet, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern (2 juv), (JWo)

Monday 4th August 2025

Stanley Pool

Red Kite, juv LRP, Common Sandpiper, (GBr) 

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Goosander, Barn Owl, 8x Common Tern, Great Egret, (SPA)

Branston GPs

Little Stint still, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 18x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 71x Pochard, 85x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 10x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 56x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern (10 juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 16x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, and 2x Great Egret at Creswell Flash at 15:45, (RPo)  - in addition 2x Green Sandpiper on Octo hide flash, (RRa)

Ramshorn

3x Red Kite over at 15:30, (JDr)

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, 9x Teal, 12x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 2x Common 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,