Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival
Belvide Resv (All Dayer count 96 species)
3x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Garganey, Wood Sandpiper, Sanderling, 2x Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Osprey at 11:35,
Middleton Lakes (Staffs/ Warks All Dayer count (102)
Curlew Sandpiper, Dunlin, Avocet, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Bittern, (PAn) - Spotted Flycatcher North Pit, (DCo) - LRP, Greenshank,
Branston GPs (All Dayer count 102 species)
Glossy Ibis flew south at 05:48 - first site record, (DSc) - Whimbrel, Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, Snipe, 2x Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 6x Mandarin, Wigeon, 3x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 17x Pochard, 25x Shelduck, 15x Gadwall, White-cheeked Pintail, 24x Little Grebe, 20x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat + 2juv, Yellow Wagtail, 30x Swift, 10x House Martin, 5x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 8x Linnet, 3x Water Rail, (DSc, JWo, CEc, Dean, PFo)
Aqualate (All Dayer count 72 species)
Female Marsh Harrier, Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Gropper, Cuckoo, Hobby, 4x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, (KHa)
Whitemoor Haye (All Dayer count 64 species)
Whimbrel, Curlew, Redshank, Hobby, (SCo)
Gailey Resv
Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, 40x Swift, Wheatear, At nearby Micklewood Lane 2x Shelduck on roadside pool, (SRi)
Blithfield Resv (All Dayer count 78 Species)
2x Sanderling, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Cuckoo, 19x Egyptian Geese, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Great Egret, (JHi) - 2x Sanderling, Cuckoo, Wheatear, Marsh Tit, (MJa)
Doxey Marsh (All Dayer count 78 species)
Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Gropper, Common Gull, 10x Swift, 10x House Martin, 10x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, (GPr, AHa, RRa, MBo) - Redstart, (CWi)
Uttoxeter Quarry
Bar-tailed Godwit still at 17:00, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, Curlew, (RPo)