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)