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,
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)
