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Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Wednesday 18th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

14x Crossbill west at 15:18, 

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Tuesday 17th June 2025

Florence Hill

Grasshopper Warbler, (AMa)

Doxey Marsh

This pm Shoveler, 6x Gadwall, 12x Swift, 3x LRP, Little Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Yoxall - Ridware - Kings Bromley

Red Kite over, (AGP)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, Curlew, 33x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 19x Pochard, 7x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 14x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese(6juv), 32x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, Red Kite, Hobby, RL Partridge, Gropper, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Tad Bay 19:00 to 20:30 - 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck(4juvs), 5x Teal, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Cuckoo, (JHi)

Monday, 16 June 2025

Monday 16th June 2025

Stanley Pool

4x Red Kite over Stanley Head, Spotted Flycatcher, (GBr)

Chasewater

Osprey over north, (GHa)

Wetley Moor

7x Stonechat, Garden Warbler, 12x Whitethroat, 4x Linnet, (LEH)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern, 2x LRP, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x ad Avocet (+7 chicks), (CMa, RF)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 5x Redstart, 5x Common Tern, 4x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Cheadle

2x Red Kite, Hobby, 7x Buzzard, (LEH)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 30x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 39x Pochard, 4x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 18x Shelduck, 23x Little Grebe, 9x Egyptian Geese, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, 3x Cetti's Warbler,100x Sand Martin, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Sunday 15th June 2025

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher along path down to lake Stanley head side, Willow Tit by bridge, (GBr)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over 06:00, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

3x fem Mandarin, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, 1st Sum Caspian Gull, 1st Sum YL Gull, 40+ Common Tern, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, (SRi)

Doxey Marsh

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 3x Little Egret, Great Egret, Peregrine, 4x Shoveler, Common Tern, 5x Water Rail, 29x Gadwall, 17x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (MBo, PDy, RRa, RSt, DTo)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 9x Pochard, 6x Shelduck, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

3x Common Tern(+3juvs), 8x LRP(+ 4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(+3juvs), Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese(+6 Goslings), 14x Shelduck(+ducklings), 40x Gadwall, 7x Shoveler, 22x Pochard, Goldeneye Hobby, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Lapwing, 3x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, c150x Sand Martin, (DSc)  -  Additional Red Kite over, (JWo)

Saturday, 14 June 2025

Saturday 14th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Little Tern off Beech Tree Point this morning, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret,  (GJM)

Brookleys Lake

11x Crossbill over towards Alton Towers at 09:42, (RPo)

Cheadle 

Curlew over at 05:26, (LEH)

Belvide Resv

2x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 10x Gadwall, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, Common Sandpiper, 14x Shelduck, 7x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 37x Pochard, 6x Common Tern, (DSc)

Staffs

Marsh Warbler trapped and ringed at a private undisclosed site. No further sign after release,

Friday, 13 June 2025

Friday 13th June 2025

Tittensor Chase

Hobby mobbed by House Martins, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Juv Redstart, Common Tern (with 3 young), Lapwing (with 3 young), 4x Linnet rare here,  (SGi)

                                                         Redstart by Steve Gibson

Rocester

5x Swift over, (JDr)

Branston GPs

3x Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 22x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 25x Pochard, 4x Teal, 9x Shoveler, 42x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck(4 ducklings), 13x Egyptian Geese(6juv), Gropper, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, MCa)

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Thursday 12th June 2025

Botteslow Flash

Red Kite over at 07:40 heading towards Eaton Park, (RTo)

Baddeley Green

Red Kite up and down A53 by the Nissa shop, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern(2juvs), 8x LRP(4juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper(4juvs), Snipe, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Bittern, Avocets, LRP, Oystercatchers, 2-3x Red Kite, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Common Tern, (RBe)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, Avocet, 5x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Wigeon, 44x Pochard, 3x Teal, 6x Shoveler, 76x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, Black Swan, 28x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Wednesday 11th June 2025

Rudyard

Common Tern at 08:57, (Laxmi)

Alton 

8 to 10x Red Kite over mown fields, 2x Willow Tit, (TEy)

Blithfield Resv

2x Dunlin, 16x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 13x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 3x Avocet, Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (AGP)

Chasewater

3x Pochard, 11x Greylag Geese, (CMa)

Cheadle

Hobby over Hales Hall pool late afternoon, (MEd)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 2x Garden Warbler, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 12x Gadwall, 9x Egyptian Geese (5juv), 4x Common Tern, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, 5x LRP, (JHi)

Tuesday, 10 June 2025

Tuesday 10th June 2025

Belvide Resv

Spotted Flycatcher still but elusive, (CMa, RF)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, Siskin, Sherbrook Valley, (HTy)

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 18x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 21x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday, 9 June 2025

Monday 9th June 2025

Branston GPs

2x Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, 23x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 30x Pochard, 6x Teal, 8x Shoveler, 43x Gadwall, 21x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese (6juv), 16x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, 150x Sand Martin, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

Alvecote

Cuckoo, 100+ Swift, Common Tern, (MSc)

Sunday, 8 June 2025

Sunday 8th June 2025

Tucklesholme

Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Wigeon, 6x Gadwall, Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese (5+juv), (JWo)

Audley

3x Red Kite over the bowling green at 14:15, (MJW)

Blithfield Resv

Caspian Gull (2y), 43x Ringed Plover, 9x Dunlin, Cuckoo, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, Mandarin, 6x Common Sand (+3juv), 13x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Willow Tit, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH, TE)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Common Tern, 4x Water Rail, 8x Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Belvide  Resv

Shoveler, 11x Gadwall, 9x Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper,

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese (+6juvs,+8 young), 18x Shelduck, 38x Gadwall, 5x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 3x Pochard, 8x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 4x Common Tern, 200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc, PFo) - Additional Spotted Flycatcher at the Deerfield, (JWo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)


Saturday, 7 June 2025

Saturday 7th June 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern thru Blithe Bay  early am, 19x Dunlin, 40x Ringed Plover, Redshank, (GJM)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Cuckoo, Great Egret, (RPo)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x Shelduck, 6x Shoveler, 34x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 20x Pochard, Peregrine, Hobby, 3x Curlew, 6x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Freehay

A Mandarin family party in the garden, (RCa)

                                                                By Richard Castles

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 100+Swift, (MSc)

Friday, 6 June 2025

Friday 6th June 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Black-necked Grebe North Pit, (GG)

Bignal End

6x Raven over Boon Hill at 09:15, (MJW)

Aqualate

Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo this afternoon, (KLe)

Branston GPs

5x Dunlin, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 21x Pochard, 4x Teal, 5x Shoveler, 66x Gadwall, 15x Shelduck, 28x Little Grebe, Black Swan, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Stonechat (m+juv), Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 250+ Swift, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

28x Gadwall, 100+ Swift, 4x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Claymills

Adult Med Gull thru north at 20:40, 2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 5x Goosander +2juvs, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Thursday, 5 June 2025

Thursday 5th June 2025

Doxey Marsh

2x Ringed Plover, 9x Gadwall, 5x Swift, 3x Reed Warbler, Gropper, 7x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 8x LRP (+6juvs), 5x Common Sandpiper (+3juvs), 2x Oystercatcher (+2juvs), 5x Lapwing,  Little Egret, 2x Teal, 2x Willow Tit, (JOa)

North Staffs Moors

Hobby, (JOa)

Trentham Gardens

12x Little Egrets, (HFo)

Branston GPs

Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 11x Pochard, 4x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 67x Gadwall, 12x Shelduck, 18x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 300x Swift, Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)

Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Wednesday 4th June 2025

Draycott in the Moors

2x Red Kite over Old Road at 14:30, (AR)

Staffordshire 

Wood Warbler at a undisclosed location.

By Tony Slater

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 8x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 6x Linnet, 4x Common Tern, Little Egret, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, 8x GC Grebe, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Red Kite, c45 Common Tern, 17x Ringed Plover, 5x Dunlin, 

Whitemoor Haye

Dunlin, Redshank, 4x LRP, 2x Common Tern, Yellowhammer, (SCo)

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

Tuesday 3rd June 2025

Whitemoor Haye

Corn Bunting, Oystercatcher, LRP, Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (PJT)

Trentham Gardens

A pair of Little Egrets with five young on nest, (HFo)

Branston GPs

Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 11x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 24x Pochard, 4x Mandarin, 14x Shelduck, 19x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, Grey Wagtail, 350x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Monday, 2 June 2025

Monday 2nd June 2025

River Sow Meadows Staffoed

Female Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo, Mandarin, Little Egret, (RSw)

Rudyard

2x Sanderling, 6x Ringed Plover, LRP, 8x Oystercatcher, (TEe)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, 24x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Goosander, 12x Pochard, 12x Shelduck, 78x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 5x Teal, 9x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 6x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, 4x Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 8x Linnet, 200+ Swift, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

40+ Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 24x Dunlin, 3x Sanderling, 4x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 2cy YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, (CMa, RF) -  Wheatear still in Blithe Bay on the broken bridge, 

Sunday, 1 June 2025

Sunday 1st June 2025

Blithfield Resv

5x Sanderling, 34x Dunlin, 76x Ringed Plover, 2s YL Gull, (PAn)  -  Little Stint still Tad Bay, (HF, SE)  -  Wheatear, 3x Red Kite, Great Egret, Little Egret, (MJa)

Stanley Pool

2x Barnacle Geese to 04:40, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Arctic Tern thru, Marsh Harrier, 2x Red Kite, 2x Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, Yellow Wagtail, Yellowhammer, 3x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, c250x Swift, 

Rudyard

Little Stint still at north end, (SSe)

Tittesworth Water

10x LRP (+3juvs), 6x Common Sandpiper (+3juvs), 5x Oystercatcher (+3juvs), 6x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, 2x Common Tern, 2x Willow Tit, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine, 14x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 30x Gadwall, 20x Pochard, 2x Teal, 22x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 6x Common Tern, c200x Swift, Grey Wagtail, 3x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Linnet, (DSc) - Additional Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 6x Little Egret, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 16x Gadwall, 50x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, Willow Tits, (LSt)