Saturday 17th May 2025

Doxey Marsh SSSI  (The Shrike is the second record for Staffs, the first was at Whitemoor Haye in 2010)

Woodchat Shrike along railway line by Rugby club, (GHa)  -  Woodchat Shrike still at 15:55 between Stafford Rugby club pitches and Tillington flash Doxey Marsh, (RPo)  -  At 17:10 now very much on the marsh at  Doxey viewable from main track by hide, (MBo).  -  The Shrike showed to 20:26 from path by main hide then flew east towards Dead arm, (DTo),  -  Cuckoo for around 20 mins at 06:30 (MGo).  -  Also 11x Shelduck, Cuckoo still 20:10, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)  -  In addition Cattle Egret (breeding plumage on Creswell Flash, (TWo)

                                                                 By Bill Goldstraw

Middleton Lakes

Temmincks Stint still, 8x Ringed Plover thru north, Avocets, Bitterns, Cuckoo's, Hobby, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, (RGi)

Rudyard Lake

Osprey circling over at 09:09 then drifted off north, (Laxmi)

Whitemoor Haye

1-2x Hobby, Common Tern, LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (BSa)  -  Black Tern on roadside pit from quarry entrance, 2x Hobby, 4x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

The Roaches

Cuckoo, (Mke, Jke)

Endon

Red Kite over at 15:30, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

Pied Flycatcher, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Temminck's Stint, 3x Little Egret, 12x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 16x Pochard, 12x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 16x Common Tern, 70x Swift, 2x Stonechat, Great Egret, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Temminck's Stint still this evening on Ashy pit island, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Trentham Gardens

Goosander, 2x GC Grebe, Little Egret, 4x Reed Warbler, (STu)

Leek

11x Swift around John Street at 20:30, (RWi)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, 

Alrewas NMA

2x Hobby, Cuckoo, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, (JWo)  -  Green Woodpecker, (TCo)

Blithfield Resv

8x Sanderling, 16x Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (GJM, MPR)

Barton GPs

Cuckoo, Common Sandpiper, (TCo)