Wednesday 30th April 2025

Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 2x Wood Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, (MHu) - 20:00 Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Dunlin, + a Whimbrel on JW, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Cattle Egret, 

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret present at 09:35, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (TEy)

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern, (GJM)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (DCo)

Tamworth

Hoopoe reported in garden, (per SB)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Wigeon, 4x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, 12x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, 4x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 15x Sedge Warbler, 12x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Plover, Greenshank, Dunlin on pit opposite quarry entrance, (TPe)

Gun Hill

3x Cuckoo, 2x Hobby, (PEa)

Hollington

Goshawk at 15:40 taking a Jay, (BSi)

Tuesday 29th April 2025

Blithfield Resv

Spotted Redshank Admaston Reach then flew east, (GJM)  -  Probable Little Tern Blithe Bay, Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 

                                                      Spotted Redshank by GJ Mant

Branston GPs

25x Ruff, Whimbrel, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, White-cheeked Pintail, Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, 3x Hobby, 2x Gropper, 4x Garden Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (JWo, CEc, BSt)

Belvide Resv

2x Cattle Egret

Uttoxeter 

Red Kite over Waitrose at 11:20, (AR)

Rudyard

2x Common Sandpiper on west shore, (Laxmi)

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper still, Greenshank, 4x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)  -  also 3x Hobby, (SB)

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over at 10:45, (SFe)

Longsdon Mill Pool

Wheatear, Oystercatcher (ALa)

Wolseley Centre

Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Croxden Quarry

Caspian Gull (near adult) at 17:20, (RPo)

                                                              By Richard Powell

Upper Tean

Red Kite at 17:30, (RPo)

Burton

2x Swift over Clarence St, (AJa)

Trentham Gardens

2x Mandarin, (DCo)

Stanley Pool

Male Wheatear,  (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank roadside pit, (JAl)  -  This evening 2x Redshank, Greenshank, calling Cuckoo, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

Site record count of 131x singing Sedge Warbler in public areas, Common Tern, Great Egret, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (RSt)  -  Also 32x Cetti's Warblers counted in public areas, 

Tucklesholme

Wheatear, (AP)  -  3x Common Tern along the Trent beside the reserve, (JTu)

Monday 28th April 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Wood Sandpiper still JW north from the two benches, Swift, Cuckoo, Common Tern, 2x Gropper, Pochard, Bittern, (SPA)  -  Late afternoon 2x Wood Sandpiper, (JAl)

Stanley Pool

Lesser Whitethroat at the south end in hedge, (GBr)

Trentham Gardens

Male Garganey in flight heading south, 2x Mandarin, 2x Gadwall, 5x Little Egret, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, (RGi)

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Gadwall, (JIs)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey thru at 09:30, Bar-tailed Godwit still, LRP, Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, (RWi)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 13x Whitethroat, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Oystercatcher, (DCo)

Rocester

3x Swift over at 13:15, (JDr)

North Staffs

Wood Warbler, (RTo)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Cetti's Warbler, Biddulph Oystercatcher, (SHi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Bar-tailed Godwit at 17:35, 2x Common Tern, Little Egret, (RPo)

Stafford

Peregrine over the town centre, (RSt)

Churnet Valley

Pied Flycatcher, Dipper, 2x Grey Wagtail, 4x Mandarin, (TDu)

Branston GPs

Hobby, Cuckoo, Redshank, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 28x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, 16x Shelduck, Wigeon, Goldeneye, 7x Pochard, Red-crested Pochard, 2x Mandarin, White-cheeked Pintail, 10x Egyptian Geese, 21x Little Grebe, 5x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Gropper, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, 8x Reed Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, (JWo, CEc, JHo, SHo, George)

Gun Hill

3x Cuckoo, Hobby this evening, (TEe)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Gropper, (LSt)

Berryhill

Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Little Egret, (RTo)

Sunday 27th April 2025

Middleton Lakes

2-3x Wood Sandpiper on JW from the benches, (DHu)  -  also Whimbrel, drake Garganey north pit, (GPa)

Doxey Marsh

20x Swift this am, (GPr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

2x Common Tern, 10x Whitethroat, 6x Reed Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (RPo)

Clay Mills

Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, (RPo)

Gailey Resv

2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 18x Swift, 6x Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat and at nearby Otherton 2x Egyptian Geese over, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Whitethroat, (SRi)

Westport Lake

2x Gadwall, (PWa)

Branston GPs

Red-crested Pochard, 3x Little Egret, 20x Shelduck, 5x Mandarin, Wigeon, 12x Pochard, Goldeneye, Peregrine, 2x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Common Tern, 20x House Martin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

                                               Red-crested Pochard by Jon Woodcock

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 2x Snipe, 9x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 3x Lapwing, Common Tern, Mandarin, Pied Flycatcher, Cuckoo, 5x Garden Warbler, 3x Blackcap, Whitethroat, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

3x Common Tern, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, 10x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, (JWo)

North Staffs Moors

Hobby, 2x Cuckoo, Tree Pipit, 2x Gropper, Stonechat, (JOa, TE, KH)

Whitemoor Haye

Female Merlin, Whimbrel, 11x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern, 18x Sedge Warbler, 7x Blackcap 23x  Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 7x Blackcap, 2x Yellowhammer, 17x Linnet, 3x Little Grebe, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Skylark, (Mke, Jke)

Weston Coyney

3x Swift this am, (SFe)

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, 8x Shelduck, (MJa)

Shoal Hill

Goshawk, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Swift and at Huntington Red Kite, 9x House Martin, (SRi)

Saturday 26th April 2025

Stanley Pool

2x Sandwich Tern, male White Wagtail, (GBr) 

Doxey Marsh

14x Sedge Warbler, 7x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 3x Whitethroat, 10x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, 8x Blackcap, Great Egret, 3x Shelduck, 16x Gadwall, (GPr)  -  Also 14x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, 4x Gropper, many Whitethroats Sedge and Reed Warblers, (MBo, RRa,)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank still, 5x Swift, 3x Garden Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, Red Kite, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Whimbrel flew off high at 08:25 to be replaced with 3 others,  15x Swift, Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper, (TPe, ICW)  -  also Med Gull, (PAn)  -  24x Oystercatcher flew off the Whimbrel field, (SCo)  -  4x Wimbrel, 3x Wheatear, Med Gull, 2x Dunlin, Common Tern, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Yellowhammer, - Ochruros (Kay),  

Belvide Resv

31x Swift, Greenland Wheatear, Whimbrel, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, Curlew thru, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, Greenshank, Redshank, 4x Common Tern, Common Gull, Great Egret, 

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

RSPB Coombes Valley

Pied Flycatcher, (TWy)  -  3x Pied Flycatcher, (SFe)

Rudyard Lake

2x Garden Warbler, 2x Blackcap, (Laxmi)

Burston Marsh

4x LRP, (AEa)

Trentham Gardens

Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, Whitethroat, (ST)

Stoke

Lordship Lane Greenshank, 2x Shelduck, (RGi)

North Staffs Moors

Red Kite, (SHi)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Hobby, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (RBe)

                                                            Bittern by Rob Bendelow

Branston GPs

Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, Wigeon, Redshank, (DSc)  -  Marsh Harrier, Common Tern, Curlew, (ASt, BSt)  -  2x Stonechat, Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, Mandarin, Ochruros (Kay0

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Shenstone

Footherley Lane Yellowhammer, Whitethroat, (PAn)

Little Hay

Green Barns Lane 11+ Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Biddulph Moor

5x Tree Sparrow this afternoon, (ALo)

Catholme (footpath only)

Hobby, Peregrine, 8x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Sedge Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 6x Linnet, Alrewas Canal 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, (JWo)

Barton GP

Ringed Plover, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, 15x Common Tern, 4x Sedge Warbler, 7x Shelduck, Cetti's Warbler, (TCo)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit, (IB)

                                                       Bar-tailed Godwit by Ian Butcher

Berryhill

Wheatear, 2x Whitethroat, (JKe)

Catton Hall

Red-breasted Goose off unknown origin in fields SW of the hall, (TCo)

Chasewater

13x Swift - Ochruros (Kay), 

Friday 25th April 2025

Belvide Resv

Caspian Gull, 4x Common Gull, 7x Swift, Greenshank, Great Egret, Little Egret, 5x Common Tern, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail,

Lightwood

Florence Park Grasshopper Warbler, Redstart, Whitethroat, (LDa)

Middleton Lakes

Whimbrel on JW south near second viewing screen, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Swift, -  Ochruros (Kay)

Whitemoor Haye

This morning Med Gull flew south, Whimbrel, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler, Shelduck, Shoveler, (PJT)  - Late afternoon 3x Whimbrel briefly, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Cuckoo, (TPe)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, LRP, 2x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, (RRa)

Branston GPs

3x Little Egret, 20x Shelduck, Mandarin, Wigeon, 8x Pochard, 3x Ringed Plover, Green Woodpecker, 4x Swift, White Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 10x Linnet, (DSc)  -  Whimbrel, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, Goldeneye, Wigeon, Mandarin, 18x Shelduck, 34x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Peregrine, Cuckoo, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 8x Swift, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

6x Shelduck, Wigeon, Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, Cuckoo, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Tittensor Chase

Garden Warbler, (AR)

Thursday 24th April 2025

Tittesworth Water

8x Mandarin, Goosander, 8x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Lapwing, 5x Garden Warbler, 4x Blackcap, Common Tern, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Swallow Moss

2x Cuckoo, (LHa)

Norton - Stockton Brook

2x Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 2x LRP, (IMy)

Endon - Denford

Wheatear, Curlew over the STW, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 9x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, Mandarin Duck, Green Woodpecker, 4x Lapwing, (DCo)

Branston GPs

Cuckoo briefly  Newbold fields at 15:05,  (BSt)

Westport Lake

Reed Warbler, (AR)

Doxey Marsh

4x LRP, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Blackcap, Great Egret, (BGo)

Berryhill

Lesser Whitethroat this evening at reedbed pool,  (IBu)

North Staffs Moors

Golden Plover, 2x Cuckoo, Wheatears, Curlews, Lapwings, (SHi)

Trent Washlands

2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 4x Whitethroat, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Swallow, (AJa)

Tucklesholme and Branston Leas

Red Kite, 2x Common Tern, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Wigeon, 4x Goosander, 12x Teal, 8x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Reed Warbler, 12x Sedge Warbler, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Grasshopper Warbler, (DHa)

Wednesday 23rd April 2025

Whitemoor Haye

This morning, 14x Arctic Tern, Whimbrel thru, Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, (ICW)  -  This afternoon Arctic Tern, Wheatear, 3x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, LRP, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, (BSa)  -  This evening Sanderling, 5x Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, (TPe)  -  also this pm Redshank, 2x Yellowhammer, 8x Oystercatcher,  (JHi)

Gailey Resv

Arctic Tern briefly at 06:30, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, Oystercatcher, Gadwall, (JIs)

Stanley Pool

Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper still, Whimbrel flew out, Greenshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwits thru, Ringed Plover, Black Tern, 4x Arctic Tern, 3x Common Tern, Hobby, 2x Yellow Wagtail,  -  Also Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, Swift, Garden Warbler, 2x RL Partridge, (CMa, RF)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Whimbrel to 10:44 at least, 5x Wheatear, (IMo)

Trentham Park

Red Kite, Linnets, (BMo)

Branston GPs

3x Black-tailed Godwit briefly at 07:50, 2x Oystercatcher, 18x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, 3x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 2x Gropper, Roe buck Deer briefly unusual here, (DSc)  -  2x Whimbrel flew SW at 06:45, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 14x Lapwing,  4x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 12x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 34x Shelduck, 11x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, Goldeneye, 18x GC Grebe, 24x Little Grebe, 5x Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, juv Peregrine, 4x Gropper, 4x Garden Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 15x Linnet, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

20x Arctic Tern off Beech Tree Point this afternoon, (JAl)

Berryhill

Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, (RTo, JOa)  -  This evening 2x Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, (IBu)

Chatterley Whitfield

2x Reed Warbler, (SHi)

Croxall Lakes

3x Arctic Tern briefly, Whitethroat, (BSa)

Tucklesholme

Grasshopper Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, (BSa)

Middleton Lakes

Male Marsh Harrier, Great Egret, Little Egret, Arctic Tern, 12x Avocet, Oystercatchers, 3x Redshank, Greenshank, 2x LRP, Hobby, Bittern, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (RBe)

                                                               Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo this evening, (TEe)

Cannock Chase

7x Tree Pipit, 2x Cuckoo, 4x Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, (DBa, CEv, MLe, BJo)

Tuesday 22nd April 2025

Stanley Pool

Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 9x Oystercatcher, 14x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, Goldeneye, 2x Mandarin, 28x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 18x GC Grebe, 24x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 3x Gropper, 6x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, Peregrine, 200x Sand Martin, (JWo, CEc, PFo)  - Whinchat, (PFo)

Endon - Denford

Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 2x Gropper, (DCo)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, 2x Tree Pipit, Stonechat, Yellowhammer, (IWi)

Berryhill

Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 20+ Whitethroat, 2x Wheatear, 2x Swallow, Linnets, (BMo)

Ford Green

Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (PFo)

Kings Bromley

Osprey over fishing lake with fish heading NW at 14:48, (SCo)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (TPe)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Shelduck, Great Egret, (BGo)

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo, Gropper, Whitethroat, (TEe)

Monday 21st April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrivals

Belvide Resv

7x Bar-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, Whimbrel thru, LRP, Ringed Plover, 15x Arctic Tern to 11:50 only, Little Gull, Swift over the dam this afternoon,

Branston GPs

Swift over,  Ad sum Little Gull, Arctic Tern, Common Tern, Whimbrel, 3x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 9x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, 22x Little Grebe, 3x Water Rail, ad YL Gull, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 10x House Martin, 5x Garden Warbler, 5x Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, 11x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, LCI)

Blithfield Resv

2x juvenile Whooper Swan still in Blithe Bay, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Gropper, 2x Wheatear, 2x Redshank, (SCo)  -  late evening 2x Great Egret flew south, Dunlin, 6x Sedge Warbler, 2x Whitethroat,, Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Goosander, (BSa)

Tittesworth Water

3x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Pied Flycatcher, 3x Garden Warbler, (PSh

Tucklesholme

Gropper this am, (TWy)  -  This afternoon Cuckoo, 2x Gropper, 12x Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 6x Whitethroat, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x LRP, Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin (on river), 10x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, Grey Wagtail, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, (BSa)

Stanley Pool

3x Common Sandpiper, (ALa)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Jack Snipe, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 9x Warbler species, (SPA)

Gailey Resvs

Arctic Tern to 08:20 at least, Whimbrel thru NW at 06:55, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Wheatear, Little Egret, 3x Gadwall, (JIs)

Lightwood

2x Grasshopper Warbler Florence Park, (LDa)

Chatterley Whitfield

Gropper, 2x Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, (SHi)

Chasewater

4x Arctic Tern late afternoon, 870x Sand Martins roosted, (CW)

Sunday 20th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

One Wood Sandpiper still, 3x Greenshank, adult Little Gull,

Berryhill

Whimbrel thru at 07:45, male Redstart from the bottom of the Palletstacks track, 2x Whinchat in scrub downhill from the viewpoint, 3x Wheatear, (RTo)  -  Bottleslow Flash 2x Yellow Wagtail at 11:53, 2x LRP, (BBo)  -  2x Little Egret early am, 

                                                         Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Between Rudyard Lake and Biddulph Moor

3x Tree Sparrow at Greenfield farm off Dingle Road, (GBr)

Tucklesholme

Gropper reeling, 2x Wheatear in sheep field, (TWy)

Blithfield Resv

2x juv Whooper Swan heading north, (GJM), 2x Whooper Swan Blithe Bay, (HF, SE)  -  Hobby, 3x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Great Egret, (ICW, MDJ)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo at 08:35,  (Baz)  -  Nightjar, (WMRG)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank this afternoon, (RPo)

Doley Common 

Hobby, (VSm)

River Sow Meadows Stafford

Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroat, several Reed Warblers, several Cetti's Warbler, Shelduck, Little Egret, (IWi)

Tittesworth Water

3x Snipe, Curlew, 7x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Sandpiper, 11x LRP, Lapwing, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 2x Teal, 5x Garden Warbler, 5x Blackcap, 11x Willow Warbler, 15x Swallow, 5x Sand Martin, Dipper, Grey Wagtail, (LH, JOa, TEe)

Freehay

2x Red Kite Freehay Road at 09:05, (FCa)

Doxey Marsh

Sedge Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, 2x Willow Warbler, 2x LRP, 2x Stonechat, Swallow, House Martins, (BGo)

Branston GPs

Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 10x Gadwall, Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, Gropper, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, Bittern, 8x Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, (RBe)

Norbury Junction

Common Sandpiper on canal bank north of Norbury Junction at 11:00, (MGo)

Radford Meadows Stafford

LRP, Dunlin, Yellow Wagtail, Sedge Warbler, and nearby at Baswich Ring-necked Parakeet, (RSt)

Endon

Red Kite over, (DCo)

Chasewater

593x Sand Martin in roost, (CW)

Saturday 19th April 2025

Branston GPs

5x Grey Plover, Bar-tailed Godwit, (CEc), - Redshank, Common Sandpiper 6x Oystercatcher, 7x Lapwing, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 10x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, Red Kite, 4x Gropper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Stonechat, 6x House Martin, (CEc, JWo, DSc, BSt, ASt)  -  2x Grey Plover still to 15:00 at least on Ashy pit, 2x Greenshank, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Med Gulls briefly, Yellow Wagtail, Stonechat, Red Kite thru east, Great Egret, (DSc)

                                         Bar-tailed Godwit and Grey Plover by Jon Woodcock

                                                        Grey Plover by Dave Scattergood

Belvide Resv

2x Black Tern, 18x Common Tern, 7x Avocet, 16x Redshank, 7x Greenshank, 2x Wood Sandpiper,  2x Dunlin, Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 2x Little Gull thru SE, 19x Shelduck, 

                                                      Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

                                                            Black Tern by Steve Edwards

Uttoxeter Quarry

Whimbrel at 09:00, 9x Arctic Tern, 09:45 to 09:48 only, Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Mandarin, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

34x Bar-tailed Godwits thru north at 12:15, Whimbrel thru, 2x Dunlin 2x Yellow Wagtail, 30x Shoveler, (ICW)  -  Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, 2x Whooper Swan, (ICW, SCo)

Aqualate

Common Tern this am, (IGr)  -  Adult Little Gull this afternoon, Common Tern, Cuckoo, (PJor)

Middleton Lakes

3x Bar-tailed Godwit, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (TPe)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Oystercatcher, Goosander, Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat, (RRa)

Tittesworth Water

Common Tern, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 5x Willow Warbler, (TEe)

Alvecote

2x Goosander, Shelduck, (MSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Yellow Wagtail over, 8x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Shelduck, Mandarin, 2x Gropper, Common Tern,  over, 7x Swallow, (@Ochruros)

Chasewater

400x Sand Martin, (@Ochruros)  -  Cuckoo, 900x Sand Martins roosted, (CW)

Alrewas NMA

Red Kite, Great Egret, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo, 10x Tree Pipit, (DBa)

Friday 18th April 2025

Belvide Resv

Black Tern at 08:23 but no sign after 10:15, fem Ring Ouzel briefly at 10:35, 

Tucklesholme

Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Groppers, Great Egret, 3x Goosander, Mandarin on river, 2x Egyptian Geese, Whitethroat, Red Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (PAn)  -  Whinchat still at first pond by railway line, (TWy)

Middleton Lakes

2x Wheatear, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, (SPA)  -  Bittern, Gropper, Reed Warblers, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Redshank, Snipe, Red Kite, (@Ochreros)

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern off Yeatsall Bank, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Black Tern at deep end at 15:45, (RPo)  -  2x Yellow Wagtail, (PAn)

Gailey Resv

2x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, (JIs)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Avocet south down river, White Wagtail, (ICW)  -  16:00 to 17:00 3x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Wheatear, 3x Shelduck, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Stafford Astonfields Balancing Resv

Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, 2x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Blackcaps, Willow Warbler, (RSt)  -  Technology Park Lesser Whitethroat, (RSt)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, Water Rail, Reed Warbler, 5x Whitethroat, Sedge Warblers, Cetti's Warblers, Blackcaps, (RSt)  -  additional Yellow Wagtail, Gropper, (RRa)

Berryhill

Wheatear, Garden Warbler, Whitethroats, (RTo)  -  Sedge Warbler, (IBu)

Upper Hulme

Red Kite over A53 at 11:40, (DCo

Rudyard

Osprey at 09:00 heading north, (SSe, PJ)

Stanley Pool

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Garden Warbler, 8x Blackcap, 15x Willow Warbler, 2x Red Kite, Snipe, (SGi, KH)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 7x Shelduck, 8x Shoveler, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 4x Whitethroat, Gropper, 5x Blackcap, 500+House Martin, 2x Egyptian Geese, Grey Wagtail, (MKe, JKe, Lda)  -  4x Whimbrel, 2x Curlew, Greenshank, Redshank, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 14x Lapwing, Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 30x Shelduck, 33x Little Grebe, ad YL Gull, Peregrine, 3x Garden Warbler, 5x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Yellow Wagtail,, 20x House Martin, 500x Sand Martin, 2x Stonechat, 8x Linnet, (DSc, JWo, BSt, ASt)

North Staffs Moors

Pied Flycatcher, Curlews, Lapwings, 8x Swallow, (SHi)

Chasewater

100+ Swallows, 6x House Martin, Common Sandpiper, Grey Wagtail, (BCh)

Thursday 17th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Tucklesholme

Whinchat still, (SMG)  -  3x Whinchat, (MPa, JPa), 2x Whinchat by first pond along railway,  (JAl)  -  - 2x Whinchat, 2x Gropper, 8x Reed Warbler, 11x Sedge Warbler, 9x Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Goosander, 4x Shelduck, 18x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Grebe, 9x GC Grebe, Grey Wagtail, 5x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Whinchat by Jon Woodcock

Endon - Denford

2x Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Gropper, Whitethroat, Green Woodpecker, 2x Lapwing, (DCo)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret still on Newbold pit, (SMG)

Blithfield Resv

White Stork over causeway (Knepp bird ?), 

Berryhill

5x Wheatear also 3x Little Egret at Botteslow, (RTo)

Westport Lake

Red Kite over east at 12:45, (AR)

Doxey Marsh

Redstart, 2x Garden Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 12x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Sedge Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 9x Willow Warbler, 8x Blackcap, 3x Whitethroat, 5x Shelduck, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, Great Egret, Little Egret, (MBo, PDy, DTo)

Barton Turns 

Cuckoo calling but mobile, (SCo)

Carmountside Flash

Green Sandpiper, Whitethroat, 3x Teal, (ALa)

Stanley Pool

4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (ALa)  -  Wheatear, Goosander, 3x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Longsdon Mill Pool (Devil's Lane)

2x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, (ALa)

Deep Hayes

Mandarin, 3x Teal, (ALa)

Cheddleton Valley

From The Boat 4x Teal, Sedge Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, (ALa)

Tittesworth Water

8x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, Snipe, 3x Goosander, Pied Flycatcher, 3x Blackcap, Siskin, 20x Swallow, Mute Swan, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

North Staffs Moors

Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear, (JOa)

i54

4x Wheatear, (JDu)

Belvide Resv

11x Wheatear (inc 3x Greenland), 2x Redstart, Hobby, 6x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail,

Astonfields Balancing Resv Stafford

2x Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (RSt)

Chatterley Whitfield

4x Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Sedge Warbler, this afternoon, (SHi)

Whittington STW

23x Wheatear, some males showing Greenland plumage, (MDJ)

Shenstone

5x Wheatear in Derry farm horse paddocks along Footherley Lane this evening also Yellow Wagtail over, (PAn)

Whitemoor Haye

This evening Red B Goose, 3x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, (TPe)

Consall Forge

Lesser Whitethroat, (PWi)

WMI site near Four Ashes

Wheatear, 2x LRP, (JDu)

Middleton Lakes

Wheatear, 9x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Avocet, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRPs, Ringed Plovers, Redshank, (MB)

Chasewater

Sand Martin roost increased to 925, Water Rail, Cuckoo, Reed Warbler, (CW)

Wednesday 16th April 2025

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret still, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 4x Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 10x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Water Rail, Goosander, 3x Goldeneye, 8x Pochard, 25x Shelduck, Shelduck, 23x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 2x Peregrine, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 11x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, 6x House Martin, 400x Sand Martin, 40x Swallow, (DSc. JWo, Bob)

Blithfield Resv

White Stork (with blue ring on left leg - Knepp bird) in Tad Bay at 16:55, Common Tern, (RPo)  -  Also 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, (PFo)  -  Osprey over, (BRe)

Stanley Pool

Female Wheatear and 2x LRP, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whooper Swan still, Dunlin, (SCo)  -  This evening 2x Whooper Swan still, 2x LRP, Yellow Wagtail, Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JHi)  -  7x Yellow Wagtail, 8x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (BSa)

WMI site near Four Ashes

2x LRP this evening, (JDu)

Rudyard Lake

Goosander, (Laxmi)

Tuesday 15th April 2025

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 4x Greenshank, 3x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 12x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 24x Little Grebe, 6x GC Grebe, Mandarin, 4x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 14x Shelduck, Peregrine, imm male Marsh Harrier, 6x Egyptian Geese, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, House Martin, 20x Swallow, 500x Sand Martin, 2x Stonechat, (BSt, JWo, CEc, DSc, George)

                                                      Cattle Egret by Jon Woodcock

Botteslow Flash

4x Little Egret at 06:30, (RTo)

Belvide Resv

Black-necked Grebe, 2x Dunlin, 7x LRP, Ringed Plover, 9x Common Sandpiper, 12x Shelduck, Great Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Curlew, 2x Shelduck, 2x Swallow, Egyptian Goose, (CMa, RF)  -  2x Common Scoter, (GJM)

Whitemoor Haye, 

2x Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroats, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warblers, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Swallow, House Martin, 4x LRP, (GHa)

Cannock Chase

4x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Cuckoo heard, Goosander, (CMa, RF)   -  4x Redstart, 2x Tree Pipit, Red Kite, Willow Warblers, (TSl)

Tittesworth Water

Osprey over NW at 15:45, (RTo)

Churnet Valley

2x Pied Flycatcher, (BBo)

Alvecote

Little Egret, Goosander, Swallow, (MSc)

Berryhill

Male Wheatear "Lap Bunt" paddock this evening, (IBu)

Tucklesholme

2x Whinchat  near second viewing screen, 3x Reed Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 4x Whitethroat, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 2x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Shelduck, 6x Gadwall, Goosander, (BSa)

Chasewater

827x Sand Martin in the roost, (CW)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still and nearby Grasshopper Warbler at Hanford, (LSt)

Monday 14th April 2025

Chatterley Whitfield

3x Whitethroat, (SHi)

Blithfield Resv

Wheatear, Common Tern, (GJM)  -  also 6x Yellow Wagtail between St Stephen's Bay and Old Acre Bay, (RCB)

WMI near Four Ashes

8x Whitethroat, (JDu)

Biddulph

Willow Tit, Oystercatcher, (SHi)

Hixon Airfield

2x Yellow Wagtail, (RCB)

Chasewater

200-300x Sand Martin, 2x Swallow, House Martin, Whitethroat, (CMa, LRM)  -  Common Sandpiper flying along western shore, (SWa)  -  700x Sand Martins pre roost, (CW)

Botteslow

Common Sandpiper, Little Egret and nearby a Wheatear from the Palletstacks, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whooper Swan still, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 2x Redshank, Cetti's Warbler, (JAl)

Endon - Denford

2x Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Green Woodpecker, 3x Mandarin, Little Egret, Swallow, (DCo)

Branston GPs

11x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 4x House Martin, 29x Swallow, c500x House Martin, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 17x Lapwing, Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 12x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, 30x Teal, 6x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Stonechat,  JWo, CEc)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 8x Gadwall, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

White Stork over this evening, (AJo)

                                                                  By Alan Johnson

                                                                   By Alan Johnson

Trentham Lakes

Garden Warbler, (LSt)

Sunday 13th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Stanley Pool

Dunlin, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Gadwall, (JIs)

Endon - Denford

Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Swallow, 2x Green Woodpecker, Snipe, 2x Lapwing,  - Ashes Pool 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 3x Lapwing, 3x House Martin, 4x Swallow, 2x Sand Martin, 25x Fieldfare, 3x Willow Warbler, (DCo)

Berryhill

3x Wheatear and at nearby Botteslow Flash 3x Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, (RTo)  -  Late morning Berryhill, Willow Tit, 2x Wheatear, Whitethroat Swallow, (IBu)

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x Wheatear, (JDu)

Doxey Marsh

Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, 7x Sedge Warbler, 3x Willow Warbler, 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 70x Sand Martin, Swallows, House Martins, (MBo, PDy, RSt)

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Curlew, 2x Lapwing, Common Tern, 7x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 5x Teal, Pied Flycatcher, 50x Swallow, 10x House Martin, 8x Sand Martin, 4x Redpoll, 4x Willow Warbler, 2x Blackcap, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier SMP2, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Whitethroat, House Martin, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)  - Additionally 28x Shelduck, 20x Shoveler, 3x Goldeneye, Curlew, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, c400x Sand Martin, 20x Swallow, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 4x Yellowhammer, 3x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, several Common Sandpiper, Curlew thru, 100x Sand Martin, Swallows, House Martin, 

Tucklesholme

Whinchat early evening along the rail track just north of the railway bridge, (BHa)  -  Curlew, 6x Sedge Warbler, Grasshopper Warbler, 5x Whitethroat, 2x LRP, 2x Little Egret, (BSa)

                                                          Whinchat by Ben Saunders

Trent Washlands

2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 2x Willow Warbler, Swallow, 9x Teal, 2x Wigeon, 2x Gadwall, (AJa)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Saturday 12th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

Wood Sandpiper, 2x Whimbrel, 2x Redshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Whitethroat, 3x Wheatear, Reed Warbler, 6x Sedge Warbler, 

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 12x Avocet, 7x Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, White Wagtail, Peregrine, 2x Sand Martin,  (SPA)  -  12x Avocet, 5x LRP, 3x Redshank, 2x Bittern, 2x Reed Warbler, 9x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Female Marsh Harrier west over Blithe Bay at 08:40, (MPR, GJM)  -  2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, (MJa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Male Marsh Harrier at 09:30, 2x Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap, 11x Chiffchaff, 2x Common Sandpiper, (RPo)

Berryhill

4x Wheatear, (two north of Palletstacks near Eaton Park and a further two between "Lap Bunt" paddock and the viewpoint, 2x Whitethroat (inc one at Botteslow), c12x Skylark, c20x Linnet, 8x Willow Warbler between Botteslow and the LNR, 3x Blackcap, 4x Greenfinch, 8x Reed Bunting,  (RTo)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Whooper Swan still, 2x Red Kite, Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Gadwall, 52x Shoveler, 2x Goosander, 5x Little Grebe, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, LRP, 7x Lapwing, 4x Egyptian Geese, 2x Sedge Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler,  (SCo)

Tucklesholme

Grasshopper Warbler, 4x Sedge Warbler, 3x Willow Warbler, 7x Cetti's Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Blackcap, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x LRP, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Swallow, (DOu, LOu)

                                                                By Dave Oulsnam

Baldwins Gate

Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, Grasshopper Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x House Martin, 2x Swallow, (RWh)

 Knypersley Resv

Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, (GBr)

Stanley Pool

Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, (GBr)

Freehay

Red Kite over churchyard 13:10 to 13:20, (FCa)

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, (SGi)

Branston GPs

Fem Marsh Harrier, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Sedge Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler,  10+Whitethroat, 7x Willow Warbler, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 3x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 26x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, ad YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 15x Swallow, 100x Sand Martin, (JWo, DSc, PFo, BSt, ASt)

Dimmingsdale

2x Pied Flycatcher, Willow Tit, 2x Goosander, (RHi)

Alrewas NMA

2x Goosander, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 100x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Wychnor

2x LRP, 4x Shelduck, Reed Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Friday 11th April 2025

Middleton Lakes

Pair of Garganey on JW south, (SPA)

Trent Washlands Burton

Red Kite over at 08:09, Sedge Warbler, 4x Blackcap, Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Swallow, 3x Greenfinch, Wigeon, 11x Teal, (SJo)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 2x Teal, Shoveler, (JIs)

Burston Marsh

4x LRP, 2x Fieldfare, 

Berryhill

4x Curlew dropped in the top paddocks near the mast at 09:30, (RTo)

Ford Green

Cetti's Warbler, (SGi)

                                                                 By Steve Gibson

North Staffs Moors

5x Curlew, (SHi)

Branston GPs

5x Curlew, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 28x Lapwing, 8x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Goldeneye, 3x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 26x Shelduck, Wigeon, 8x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, ad Common Gull, Red Kite, Green Woodpecker, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Willow Warbler, House Martin, 70x Sand Martin, 7x Swallow, 2x Stonechat, (CEc, Dean, JWo, MCa)  -  Grasshopper Warbler, (DSc)

Thursday 10th April 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Reed Warbler, 8x Sedge Warbler, 3-4x Willow Warbler, Curlew, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 12x Avocet, 7x Oystercatcher, Redshanks, Snipe, 3x Egyptian Geese, Swallow thru, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Downs Banks

2x Yellowhammer by Millennium Point, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

10x Shelduck, 3x Goosander, Mandarin, 11x Teal, 7x LRP, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Jack Snipe, 4x Lapwing,  4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Grey Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Blackcap, 7x Willow Warbler, 11x Swallow, Red Kite, (JOa, LH)

Cannock Chase

Redstart this morning, (GJM)

                                                                        By GJ Mant

Burntwood

Red Kite over north at 12:20, (GHa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Shelduck, Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 9x Teal, YL Gull, Great Egret, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Lapwing, (CAFH)

Himley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GCl)

Baggeridge

Reed Warbler, (per DBa)

Mere Farm

2x Yellow Wagtail, (per DJa)

Endon - Denford

Green Sandpiper, 2x Lapwing, Wheatear, Green Woodpecker, (DCo)

North Staffs Moors

9x Curlew, (TDu)

Berryhill

Wheatear, several Blackcaps, Willow Warblers, (CWo)

                                                                    By Clive Wood

Branston GPs

9x Curlew, 3x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 26x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 5x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 26x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, 24x Little Grebe, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 12x Swallow, 150x Sand Martin, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 9x Willow Warbler, (JWo)

Alvecote

3x Shelduck, Snipe, (MSc)

Belvide Resv

Ruff, LRP, 5x Snipe, 11x Shelduck, Great Egret, Little Egret, Red Kite, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Yellowhammer, 

Gun Moor

2x Red Grouse, 3x Stonechat, 15x Willow Warbler, (DEm)

Wednesday 9th April 2025

 Returning Staffs 2025 Arrivals

Whitfield Valley CP 

Grasshopper Warbler singing at 05:50, (NHo)

Stanley Pool

Male Ring Ouzel in fields at south end of the lake, 4x Oystercatcher, LRP, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

4x Yellow Wagtail in fields to the NW, Reed Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Gadwall, (JIs)

Doxey Marsh

3x Sedge Warbler, 2x Grasshopper Warbler, 6x Willow Warbler, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 3x Little Egret, 3x Goosander, 6x Water Rail, Wigeon, (MBo, PDy)  -  Female Marsh Harrier at 17:00, (NGr, BA)  -  Also LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (BGo)

Coombes Valley

6x Pied Flycatcher, (RSPB)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Female Marsh Harrier 17:00 to 17:05 and again at17:40 also Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Redshank,  (RPo)

Biddulph

2x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, (SHi)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Black-tailed Godwit, (RBe)

Cannock Chase

6x Brambling, Tree Pipit, 15+ Willow Warbler, 7x Stonechat, (DBa, CE, PB, AB, BJ, DE)

Consall

Dipper on the Churnet, (JJo)

Blithfield Resv

Dunlin, 5x LRP, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JTu)  -  7x LRP, Dunlin, 2x Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, 2x Great Egret, (JHi)

Tuesday 8th April 2025

Stanley Pool

Male Redstart and male Wheatear in fields south end of lake, male Yellow Wagtail by boats, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Reed Warbler singing from causeway, White Wagtail, Avocets, LRP, Willow Warblers (GG)

Blithfield Resv

4x Little Gull briefly of BTP at 11:30, (GJM)  -  4x Great Egret, LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Shelduck, (CMa, RF)

Wombourne

Pickerills Hill - Ring Ouzel this am, (ADe)

Baggeridge Pool

Reed Warbler (per Trish)

Trentham Estate

Green Woodpecker near the monument, (AR)

Burston Marsh

5x LRP, Little Egret, (AEa)

Essington Pool area

Whitethroat, Blackcap, Skylarks, (DBa)

Berryhill

Wheatear at the Palletstacks mound, (BBo)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, Shelduck, (PJT)  -  3x Yellowhammer 2x Ringed Plover, Whitethroat at Sittles farm corner, (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Little Egret, Curlew, 2x Wigeon, 5x Shelduck, (CMa, RF)  -  2x Redshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x Curlew, 20x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, Mandarin, 36x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, 32x Little Grebe, 20x GC Grebe, Peregrine, Reed Warbler, 10x Willow Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Swallow, 100x Sand Martin, 14x Linnet, White Wagtail, Stonechat, (JWo, George)

Belvide Resv

4x adult Little Gull still, Ruff, 2x Redshank, Curlew, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 

Gailey

Red Kite soaring over the A5 between Gailey Island  and Stretton at 12:45, (IGr)

Barton under Needwood

Swallow at Bar Lane, (KBi)

Monday 7th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Male Pied Flycatcher this am, (TEy)

Belvide Resv

8x ad Little Gull, Sedge Warbler,

Stanley Pool

LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Goosander, (GBr)

Himley Great Pool

2x Oystercatcher briefly to 11:20 only, (CTi)

Middleton Lakes

Fem type Marsh Harrier, 14x Avocet, Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 5+ Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 13x Snipe, 2x Bittern, Great Egret, 4x Shelduck, 2x Swallow, (SPA)

Barton Marina

10x Wigeon, (SCo)

Sneyd Green

Osprey over heading north at 15:25, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

Ring Ouzel, 4x Wheatear, (NDP)

Chasewater

Goshawk flew in across from the Burntwood bypass and flew around the boggy heathland behind the sailing club, 21x Chiffchaff, 11x Willow Warbler, 5x Blackcap, (CMa, LRM)

Branston Leas

Cattle Egret flew up from cattle field, (TWy)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe and the 2x Whooper Swan still, Curlew, 6x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck, 7x Pochard, 2x Wigeon, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  2x LRP, 4x Yellowhammer, 7x Little Grebe, c20x Linnet, 2x Cetti's Warbler, many Chiffchaff, Skylark, (TSl)

                                                     Yellowhammer by Tony Slater

Burton

Avocet feeding on the patio of a residential garden in Horninglow this am,  (film received by BSt, ASt)

Biddulph

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Lapwing at 17:00, (SHa)

Berryhill

2x Stonechat, Lapwing, (IBu)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret flew from South Pit to Tucklesholme at 19:30, Reed Warbler singing from the canal plantation, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 2x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 24x Lapwing, 28x Shelduck, 9x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 38x Shoveler, 31x Gadwall, 70x Teal, 16x Wigeon, 2x Egyptian Geese, 24x Little Grebe, 20x GC Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 12x Linnet, 2x Redpoll, Grey Wagtail, Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Willow Warbler, 8x Swallow, 80x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday 6th April 2025

Belvide Resv

5x Little Gull still, 1w Caspian Gull, Yellow Wagtail, Common Sandpiper, LRP, 

Berryhill

Male Ring Ouzel from the Palletstacks track at 09:00, Wheatear in the Lap paddock, (RTo)   -  Ouzel still present in the lower paddocks to 14:00 at least, (IBu)

                                                        Ring Ouzel by Clive Wood

                                                       Ring Ouzel by Steve Edwards

Morfe Lane

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Wheatear, (WN)

Doxey Marsh

Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Cetti's Warblers, Blackcaps, Great Egret, Little Egret, Swallow, Sand Martins, Stonechat, (RSt)

Enville

Yellow Wagtail on farmland, (WN)

Stanley Pool

2x Willow Tit, Goosander, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 2x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Chasewater

Adult Little Gull this afternoon, (BHa)  -  also 300x Sand Martin, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Red Kite, 2x Goldeneye, Common Sandpiper, (ICW)

Burston 

4x LRP, (AEa)

Gailey Resv

4x House Martin, sev Swallows, 50x Sand Martin, also nearby Micklewood Lane, 8x Shoveler, 2x Teal, (RRi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 8x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 8x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, 4x Teal, Red Kite, 5x Willow Warbler, Blackcap, 30+ Swallow, House Matin, 5x Sand Martin, 7x Fieldfare, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Tucklesholme

2x Avocet on the spit 16:25 to 16:32 only, 4x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, (DSc)

Weeping Cross Stafford

House Martin, (HKi)

Trent Washlands

2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Swallow, 2x Shelduck, 25x Wigeon, 19x Teal, 2x Gadwall, (AJa)

Branston GPs

7x Curlew, Willow Warbler, Sand Martins, (NCo)  -  Great Egret, Little Egret, 28x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 15x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 4x Pochard, 12x Goldeneye, 8x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, Snipe, ad YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, 6x Swallow, 60x Sand Martin, Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 7x Willow Warbler, 12x Linnet, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail 3x Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, Ruff, Dunlin, 4x LRP,  4x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, (SRi)

Branston Leas

Mandarin on the River Trent, (TWy)

Saturday 5th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

5x Little Gull off the dam, 

Gailey Resv

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Shoveler, 2x Oystercatcher, 19x Sand Martin, 8x Fieldfare over and nearby at Mansty Lane 132x Fieldfare, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still from opposite quarry entrance, 2x Whooper Swan still from S bends near Sittles farm, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Little Grebe, 4x GC Grebe, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 38x Shoveler, 3x Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, 2x Willow Warbler, 30x Swallow, 2x House Martin, 5x Sand Martin, 14x Fieldfare thru,  (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Snipe,  female Marsh Harrier, 8x House Martin, 4x Swallow, 42x Sand Martin, 2x Willow Warbler, 4x Blackcap, 8x Cetti's Warblers, 2x Shelduck, 40x Teal, 20x Gadwall, 12x Shoveler, 2x Little Egret, (MBo, GPr, RRa)

Mere Farm

Marsh Harrier heading high NE, Red Kite, Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins, (WN)

Berryhill

Female Wheatear, 2x Sand Martin, (JOa)

Tittesworth Water

Garganey, 4x LRP, 3x Snipe, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 2x Mandarin, 6x Teal, 2x Willow Warbler, 11x Chiffchaff, (SGi, IB)

Longsdon Mill Pool

2x Wheatear, (SGi)

Bobbington

Redstart, (WN)

Blithfield Resv

3x Great Egret, Ruff, Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, (MJa)

Cannock Chase

Cuckoo this morning, called 3 times at the back of Castle Ring, (GTa)  -  4x Swallow, 21x Linnet, 3x Greenfinch, Red Kite, (MKe, JKe)

Rugeley

Red Kite drifting over towards Wolseley at 16:35, (AFi)

Branston GPs

20x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, 30x Shoveler, Pochard, 6x Goldeneye, Oystercatcher, 6x Curlew, 11x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Swallow, 40x Sand Martin, Yellow Wagtail thru north, White Wagtail, Stonechat, Willow Warbler, 12x Linnet, 5x Redpoll, (DSc)

JCB Rocester

29x Barnacle Geese, 2x GC Grebe, Oystercatcher, (JDr)

Rudyard Lake

 Swallow this afternoon, (Laxmi)

Picherills Hill Womborne

Wheatear, (GCl)

Swindon

Green Sandpiper, Goosander at the flood, (GCl)

Staffs Moorlands

2x Curlew, (SHi)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Swallow, 15x Sand Martin, Willow Warbler, (JWo)

Wychnor

Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Friday 4th April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Middleton Lakes

Redstart flew from JW to canal at 10:15, (DCo, RCh)  -  Marsh Harrier this am also Dunlin, (GG)

Belvide Resv

6x Little Gull off the dam at 11:42, Ruff still, 8x Little Gull early evening, 

Gailey Resv

Ad winter Little Gull to at least 09:50, 3x Great Egret, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 45x Fieldfare, (JIs)

Blithfield Resv

8x 1w Little Gull, 6x Common Tern, 4x male Ruff, Common Sandpiper, (GJM, MDJ)  -  2x Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                    Common Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Berryhill

Wheatear, Curlew thru, (RTo)

Highgate Common

2x Wheatear on nearby farmland, (WN)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe still, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Shelduck, (PJT)  -  adult Little Gull, 5x Common Tern on main pit, Slavonian Grebe still, (TPe)  -  This evening adult Little Gull, 5x Common Tern, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 10x Oystercatcher, 3x Goldeneye, 2x Shelduck, 4x Little Grebe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Little Egret, (BHa)

Branston GPs

6x ad Little Gull, 3x Common Gull, YL Gull, Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Redshank, 9x Curlew, 18x Lapwing, 4x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 4x Oystercatcher, 16x Wigeon, 30x Shelduck, 46x Shoveler, 7x Goldeneye, 7x Pochard, 14x Gadwall, 65x Teal, Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, 36x Little Grebe, 7x Swallow, House Martin, 170x Sand Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler,  Peregrine, Red Kite, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, (DSc, JWo)

Chatterley Whitfield

Singing Willow Warbler, (SHi)

Cannock Chase

Tree Pipit east of the Shooting Butts, 3x Bramblings,  3-4x Willow Warbler, (PBa)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Adult winter Little Gull at 16:30 to 18:30 at least, also the Bewick's Swan back at 17:07 to 18:30 at least, Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Swallow, House Martin, 20x Sand Martin, (RPo)

Aqualate

17x Little Gull this afternoon, (PJor)

Doxey Marsh

4x ad Little Gull thru, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, Red Kite, Swallow, 2x Egyptian Geese,(RRa),  -  5x House Martin, Sand Martin, Little Egret, Water Rail, Stonechat, Blackcap, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

2x Red Kite, Swallow, (TEy)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Thursday 3rd April 2025

Branston GPs

Brief visit at 09:00 - 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 12x Shelduck, 14x Wigeon, Goldeneye, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Blackcap, 2x Willow Warbler, 4x Linnet, Redpoll, (DSc)  -  11x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 27x Shelduck, 8x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 16x Wigeon, 24x Gadwall, 56x Shoveler, 36x Little Grebe, ad Caspian Gull, YL Gull, Red Kite, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, 25x Sand Martin, 2x Redpoll, 3x Greenfinch, 12x Linnet, 2x Fieldfare, (JWo)

Brook village

Swallow over at 11:45, (Laxmi)

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 6x Teal, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Snipe, LRP, 3x Swallow, 2x Fieldfare, Common Gull, 4x Willow Warbler, (JOa, LH)

Doxey Marsh

3x Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Cetti's Warbler, Great Egret, 2x Shoveler, numerous Chiffchaff, (KLe)

Middleton Lakes

6x Avocet, 2x Redshank, Bittern 3x Blackcap, (CMa, DG)  -  9x Avocet, Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Redshank, Bittern, several Cetti's Warbler, numerous Chiffchaff, (RCa, FCa)

Aqualate

Black-necked Grebe, drake Garganey, 3x Great Egret, Marsh Harrier, 10x Sand Martin, (PJor)

Belvide Resv

Ruff on the north shore, 

Blithfield Resv

Whooper Swan, LRP, (GJM)

Chasewater

Breeding plumage Black-necked Grebe this evening, 25x Sand Martin, 2x Oystercatcher, (CW)

Wednesday 2nd April 2025

Chasewater

One Little Gull this am, (JJH, SJH)  -  this evening Redshank, Little Gull, still, (CW)

Drayton Bassett

2x Red Kite east at 11:05, also House Martin, (MSm)

Branston GPs

SMPit, Sum/plum Med Gull, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x YL Gull, (PCo, CRe)

Tittesworth Water

2x Willow Warbler, Sand Martin, 14x Chiffchaff, Red Kite, 4x Goosander, 3x Mandarin, (SGi)

Tucklesholme / Branston Leas

3x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Goosander, Goldeneye, 4x Shelduck, 12x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese + 7 Goslings, 10x GC Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, Willow Warbler, 14x Blackcap, Swallow, 10x Sand Martin, (JWo)

Berryhill

Willow Warbler at 18:55, (IBu)

Hem Heath Woods

Blackcap, (AR)

Tuesday 1st April 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Blithfield Resv

5x Little Gull (4adults + 1st sum) south this am, (GJM)  -  Great Egret, Little Egrets, 3x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, (RBe)

                                                               LRP by Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

6x Little Gull from main hide at 10:55, (NGr)  -  Also 2x LRP, (BGo)  -  Still one Little Gull at 15:20, (RRa)

                                                         Little Gull By Bill Goldstraw

Longsdon Mill Pool on Devil's Lane

LRP this morning, (ALa)

Burntwood

Singing Whitethroat along the Burntwood bypass opposite Hammerwich Cemetary, (GHa)

Belvide Resv

3x Little Gull this afternoon, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Bewick's Swan at 17:10 to 18:34 only, also 3x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper,  (RPo)

                                                        Bewick's Swan by Richard Powell

Chasewater

12x Little Gull at 16:20, (CW)

Branston GPs

Jack Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 26x Lapwing, 7x Curlew, 2x Little Egret, 11x Goldeneye, 12x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 31x Shelduck, 4x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Willow Warbler, 9x Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, 4x Swallow, 50x Sand Martin, 8x Linnet, 4x Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, CEc, George).