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),