Thursday 31st July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Marsh Harrier, 2x Green Sandpiper, LRP, Redshank, 8x Common Tern, Great Egret, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Goosander, 7x Mandarin, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, Dunlin,  12x Lapwing, 9x Swift, (JOs, LH)

Blithfield Resv

243x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Greenshank, Snipe, 3x juv Shelduck, (MJa)

Enville

6x Crossbill, 11x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Redstart, 2x Green Woodpecker, (MDJ)

Endon - Denford

Hobby, 2x Redstart, 6x Green Woodpecker (incl juvs), (DCo)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Little Egret, Wigeon, 4x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, 12x GC Grebe (2nest), 6x Common Tern, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Newcastle

7x Swift over Maybank at 20:45, (PCa)

Wednesday 30th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Drake Common Scoter, 4x Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

                                                     Common Scoter by Phil Jones

Belvide Resv

5x Common Scoter off the dam, 

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 6x Egyptian Geese, 30x Pochard, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 22x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, Crossbill thru south at 09:55, (heard only), (DSc)  -  2x Crossbill flew from Newbold pit towards Tucklesholme, (JWo)

Claymills

Hobby, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x LRP, 6x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc, JWo)  -  2x Crossbill flew east over the footbridge at 17:30, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

5x Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 3x Redshank, 3x Bittern, 3x Great Egret, 8x Common Tern, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 7x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 32x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 31x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, Caspian Gull, (SE, HF)  -  This evening juv Med Gull in Blithe Bay, (RPo, MPR)

Tittesworth Water

LRP, 2x Dunlin, 11x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (SGi)

Rudyard

4x LRP, Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)

Tuesday 29th July 2025

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Branston GPs

10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 155x Lapwing, 6x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 33x Pochard, Mandarin, 4x Shoveler, 28x Teal, 58x Gadwall, 3x Shelduck, 72x Little Grebe, 32x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Swift, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Female Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, 2x Lesser Scaup also a report of a Sandwich Tern thru, 

Middleton Lakes

Juv Water Rail, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x juv Redshank, (MSm)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, 236x Lapwing, Curlew, 4x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Oystercatcher, 4x Shelduck, 3x Little Egret, (MJa)

Gradbach

Pied Flycatcher, (TCo)

Uttoxeter

Little Egret in Bramshall Road park, (AR)

Monday 28th July 2025

Branston GPs

Little Stint, Dunlin, Redshank, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 10x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 53x Pochard, 36x Gadwall, 28x Teal, 3x Shelduck, 12x Egyptian Geese, 73x Little Grebe, 44x Common Tern (11juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby,  Peregrine, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

3x Sanderling this afternoon, 2x Lesser Scaup, 2x Garganey, 4x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Croxall

Osprey at 12:00, (SCl)

Tittesworth Water

Firecrest heard in the woods on the west side of the lake (c10 mins south of the water sports centre), also Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Willow Tit, (TCo)

Blithfield Resv

Admaston Pastry Point 17:15 to 17:30 - Whimbrel, Sanderling also 1sum Caspian Gull still in Blithe Bay, (JAl)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, (JWo)

Sunday 27th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

3x Goosander, 15x Mandarin, Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 27x Lapwing, 9x Oystercatcher, Curlew, (JOa, LH, TE)

Croxden Quarry

2x Black-tailed Godwit, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull again at 21:00, Juv Marsh Harrier, 8x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 8x Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 2x ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, 36x Common Tern, Mandarin, 8x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 50x Gadwall, 26x Teal, 120+ Pochard, 62x Little Grebe, 10x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 2x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 

Whitemoor Haye

4x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 10x Common Tern, 5x LRP, 72x Lapwing, Hobby, 10x Swift, 30x Linnet, (SCo) - Also 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Saturday 26th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 6x Stonechat, 60x Lapwing, Common Tern, (GPr)

Sandon

2x Red Kite over at 14:00,

Tittesworth Water

Little Grebe (scarce here), Common Scoter, Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 4x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, 16x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, KH)

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Caspian Gull, juv Redstart, Little Egret, (GJM, MPR, NT)

Belvide Resv

2x Sandwich Tern, juv Arctic Tern, 8x Common Tern, 2x Lesser Scaup, 2x Garganey, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 3x LRP, Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, 15x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, Red Kite, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

Hobby, 11x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, (RPo)

Rugeley

Upper Birches - juv Hobby, Peregrine, 15x Swift, House Martin, (AFi)

Branston GPs

6x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 10x Egyptian Geese, 34x Pochard, 7x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher,  3x Common Sandpiper, 140x Lapwing, ad Med Gull roosted, 3x ad YL Gull, Common Gull, 34x Common Tern, 11x Shelduck, (DSc)

                                                        Med Gull by Dave Scattergood

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, 2x Egyptian Geese, (DSc)

Hanbury Woodend

Red Kite, (DSc)

Leek

7x Swift above John Street this evening, (RWi)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Friday 25th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Female Marsh Harrier showing on and off,  5x Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Snipe, LRP, 3x Great Egret, Barn Owl, 7+ Common Tern incl 2 recently fledged, juv Peregrine, juv Redshank,  (SPA, MSm)

Enville

Spotted Flycatcher 3x Redstart, 6x Red Kite, 10x Swift thru, (ICW)

Whiston

Red Kite at The Leys, (GSt)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 4x Great Egret, Hobby, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Oystercatcher, 26x Lapwing, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 2x Lesser Scaup

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Ringed Plover, 12x Curlew, 138x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 9x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Mandarin, 4x Shoveler, 15x Teal, 43x Pochard, 40x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck, 13x Egyptian Geese, 61x Little Grebe, 16x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Water Rail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Swift, (JWo, DSc)

Thursday 24th July 2025

Cresswell

Little Egret on River Blithe, (BBo)

Branston GPs

3x Sanderling, Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 12x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 130x Lapwing, 8x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 41x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 38x Gadwall, 13x Shelduck (9juv), 8x Egyptian Geese, 60x Little Grebe, 24x Common Tern, (5 juv), ad Common Gull, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Stafford

Red Kite over Sandon Road Oxford Gardens

Tittesworth Water

Common Scoter, 3x Mandarin, Goosander, Little Egret, 4x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 14x Lapwing, 8x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Cannock Chase

Chase Cafe Enterprise centre - 2x Hobby 6x Swift at 09:00, (BCh)

Belvide Resv

Lesser Scaup still, fem Garganey, 6x Egyptian Geese, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Green Woodpecker, (CMa, DG)  -  Now 2x Lesser Scaup, 

Blithfield Resv

Knot, Curlew, Whimbrel, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Dunlin, 5x LRP, 4x Ringed Plover, 4x YL Gull, (RBr)

Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Gailey Resv

2x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Shoveler, Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Trentham Gardens

Female Pintail, 4x Mandarin, 8x Little Egret, (RGi)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe, Great Egret, 3x newly fledged Common Terns, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Eclipse drake Lesser Scaup at west end this afternoon, 

Doxey Marsh

3x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (inc 2juvs), 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 2x Gropper, (DBa, IG, KM) - this afternoon 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, 2x juv Water Rail, (BGo)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

36x Mistle Thrush feeding on Rowan berries, (TEy)

Wootton

Red Kite over at 15:10, (JDr)

Blithfield Resv

This evening - Great Egret, 1st S Caspian Gull, 6x YL Gull, 60x Common Tern, 3x Ringed Plover, 10x LRP, 10x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (SRi)

Branston GPs

This evening - 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 8x Shelduck, 36x Gadwall, 4x Teal, 32x Pochard, Hobby, Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 70x Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Common Gull, 32x Common Tern, 10x House Martin, Gropper, (DSc)

Tuesday 22nd July 2025

Branston GPs

2x Common Scoter(pair), 12x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 216x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 36x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 6x Shelduck (4juv), 11x Egyptian Geese, 47x Little Grebe, 27x Common Tern (6 juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 6x Greenfinch, (JWo)

                                                     Common Scoters by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

c130 Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 16x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 3x YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Chasewater

Little Egret, 3x Common Tern, (CMa)

Gailey Resv

Great Egret on the sailing lake, 6x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Monday 21st July 2025

Stanley Pool

Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, (MBo)

Berryhill

2x Redstart in paddock just east of the Spedding Road gate, (RTo)

Blithfield Resv

Pintail, 2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 4x Dunlin, 11x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP,  2x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), (CMa, RF)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 14x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 189x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 8x Avocet (5juv), 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 54x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 7x Egyptian Geese, 66x Little Grebe, 16x Common Tern, (3juv), 2x YL Gull, Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Sunday 20th July 2025

Stanley Pool

12x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 154x Swallow south in one hour, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank thru, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 14x Little Egret, Hobby, 25x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 4x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, (ICW)  -  Also Whimbrel heard thru, 4x LRP, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret in total, (SCo)  -  This afternoon 14x Common Tern, 2x Redshank, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 32x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 2x Teal, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

6x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, (RPo)  -  3x Goosander, 2x Little Egret, Snipe, 4x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 9x Oystercatcher, 10x Lapwing, 7x Swift, 3x Garden Warbler, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 9x Avocet, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Ringed Plover, 142x Lapwing, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 20x Common Tern, ad YL Gull, 25x Gadwall, 21x Pochard, 10x Swift, Peregrine, (DSc)  -  Additional SMP2: 3x Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Redshank (3juv), 15x LRP (11juv), 10x Common Tern (2juv), Bittern, Great Egret, (MSm) 

Tucklesholme

3x Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, Pochard, 2x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Gailey Resv

6x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, 35x Linnet, a few hundred Sand Martins, (SRi)

Saturday 19th July 2025

Croxall

6x Common Tern, 2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, Garden Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x LRP, (SCo)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

From main hide - 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, (HKi)

                                                        Cattle Egret by Bill Goldstraw

Blithfield Resv

06:45 - 13:00 7x YL Gull, Peregrine, 50+ Common Tern, sev Ringed Plover, 11x Dunlin, 5x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 2x Greenshank, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, (SRi)  -  Turnstone early am (MPR)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 9x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Curlew, Little Egret, 8x Mandarin, (SGi, IB, GBo)

Rudyard

13x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, (SGi, IB)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 8x Avocet, 3x Curlew, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, 16x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 90x Lapwing, 5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 12x Common Tern (2juv), 7x Egyptian Geese + 7 new goslings, 14x Shelduck (8 juv), 7x Teal, 35x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 2x ad YL Gull, Gropper, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

4x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Avocet, 2x Oystercatcher, Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Common Tern, 2x Barn Owl, (SPA)

Newcastle

13x Swifts over Westlands this am, (JBa)

Friday 18th July 2025

Stanley Pool

5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 11x Common Sandpiper, 9x Avocet (4juv),  10x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover (1juv), 6x Oystercatcher, 112x Lapwing, 5x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 49x Pochard, 52x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck, (3juv+1 duckling), 8x Egyptian Geese, 52x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Whiston

Red Kite circling low over the Leys at 11:30, (GSt)

Enville

5+ Crossbill plus another 7 west, 3x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, (ICW)

Doxey Marsh

2x Bar-tailed Godwit main hide this am, (MPe)  -  This pm 28x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 4x Little Egret, Great Egret, 7x Gropper, 4x Stonechat, Linnet, 5x Swift, (CAFH) - The 2x Bar-tailed Godwit still present from main hide at 21:17, (DTo)

Norton Bridge

2x Red Kite circling over a recently ploughed field at 14:30, (DGI)

Mayfield

7x Swift over Mayfield, (JDr)

Thursday 17th July 2025

Stanley Pool

3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x Bar-tailed Godwit and a Whimbrel briefly briefly in Blithe Bay this am, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 3x Greenshank,  (GJM)  -  8x Whimbrel, Curlew, 2x Turnstone, 3x Dunlin, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 2x LRP, 24x Ringed Plover, 9x Common Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, (RBr)

Middleton Lakes

Garganey, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x juv Bittern, 6x Avocet (inc 4juvs), (SPA)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin, 7x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 5x Mandarin, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Avocet (3juv), Redshank, 15x Curlew, 2x Ringed Plover, 168x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 4x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 57x Pochard, 32x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck, Black Swan, 10x Egyptian Geese, 70x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, Gropper,, 15x Swift, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                         Peregrine by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 16th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Redshank, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret in breeding plumage from Octagonal hide, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 3x Water Rail, 4x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Swifts, (DBa)

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, Redshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 30x Common Sandpiper, 4x Dunlin, Hobby, 3x Mandarin, (HF, SE)

                                                     Wood Sandpiper by Steve Edwards

Chasewater

5x Common Tern, (SWa)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, Wigeon, Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 7x Common Tern (3juv), 12x GC Grebe, Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Greenfinch, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Trent Washlands

c40 Swift, Cetti's Warbler, (AJa)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, 2x ad YL Gull, ad Common Gull, 4x Shelduck (+4juvs), 4x Egyptian Geese, 15x Pochard, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, (DSc)

Tuesday 15th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Garganey west scrape, 17x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, c20x Avocet (inc 11 juvs), (SPA) 

Gailey Resv

3x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Turnstone, Wood Sandpiper, fem Garganey, 

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Avocet (2grown up juvs), Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 43x Pochard, 75x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 6x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3 juv+1 duckling), 12x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, 20x Common Tern, YL Gull, Common Gull, Hobby, 6x Linnet, 46x Swift, (JWo)

                                                        Great Egrets by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Wood Sandpiper this am, 5x Common Sandpiper, 12x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, Curlew, (RBr)

Monday 14th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Greenshank over, 4x Lapwing, 3x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Oystercatcher, 2x Red Kite, Willow Tit, Little Grebe, also a black  Swallow over with a white breast and throat at 10:00, (GBr)

Branston GPs

7x Little Egret, 3x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 3x Common Tern, Egyptian Goose, (CMa, RF)  -  Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 8x Curlew, 32x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Med Gull (ad), Common Gull (ad), 2x YL Gull (ad), 10x Common Tern, 56x Little Grebe, 16x Pochard, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 36x Gadwall, 7x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Sunday 13th July 2025

Rudyard

2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, (Laxmi)

Stanley Pool

7x Red Kite, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Caspian Gull, 6x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, Greenshank, Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 2x Water Rail, Hobby, Gropper, Yellow Wagtail, (MBo, RRa, RSt, DTo, WeBS Team), 

Tittesworth Water

4x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 13x Oystercatcher, 12x LRP, 23x Lapwing, 12x Common Sandpiper, 3x Red Kite, Common Gull, 2x Little Egret, (JOa, LH, KH, TEe), 

Branston GPs

2x Crossbill thru NE at 12:27, 2x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 4x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, 20x Pochard, 5x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, ad Med Gull, ad YL Gull, 8x Common Tern, 45x Little Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 16x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 4x White-letter Hairstreak, Holly Blue, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, Volucella Zonaria, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

8x Little Egret, Hobby, Garden Warbler, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern, (SCo)

Eccleshall

4x Oystercatcher over the tennis courts at 10:30 heading SW at 10:30, (RGa)

Rocester - Ellastone

Red Kite over at 14:30, (JDr)

Doxey Marsh

4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 22x Swift, 2x Gadwall, Water Rail, 4x Gropper, (CAFH)

Saturday 12th July 2025

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, 3x Red Kite, 3x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Caverswall

2x Red Kite over this am, (BBo)

Doxey Marsh

Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, juv Cuckoo, 3x Great Egret, 3x Common Tern, 2x Water Rail, 3x Gropper, Stonechat, (RSt)

Whitemoor Haye

05:00 to 09:00 - 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 35x Lapwing, LRP, 9x Little Egret, Wigeon, 30x Egyptian Geese, 20x GC Grebe, 6x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, Hobby, 4x Yellowhammer, 40x Linnet, Red-breasted Goose (escape), (SCo, WeBS)

Tittesworth Water

10x Little Egret, 35x Lapwing, 12x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, 5x Goosander, (SGi, IB)

                                                        Little Egrets by Steve Gibson

Kinver Edge

Pied Flycatcher, Green Woodpecker this am, (MDJ)

Branston GPs

Ruff (m), 125x Lapwing, 7x Oystercatcher, 12x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Avocet, 4x Shelduck (+4 ducklings), 3x Egyptian Geese, 17x Pochard, Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 6x Linnet, 4x Migrant Hawker, (DSc)

Rocester

9x Swift over this evening  -  JCB Common Tern, 2x GC Grebe, (JDr)

Friday 11th July 2025

Gailey Resv

LRP, Common Sandpiper, 3x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Belvide Resv

Osprey over this am, 5x Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern, LRP, 

Botteslow Flash

3x Little Egret, juv Redstart, c30x Swift, (RTo)

Thursday 10th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Sandpiper, 13x LRP, 35x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern (+3 juvs), 4x Mandarin, (JOa, LH) - 20x Swift, (AP)

Cheddleton - Consal

2x Green Woodpecker (ad and juv), (DSc)

Cheadle

2x Peregrine over at 11:21, (TDu)

Burton

25x Swift over Clarence St at 14:45, (AJa)

Rudyard Lake

2x Common Sandpiper at 18:12, (Laxmi)

Cellarhead

Red Kite over the crossroads at 07:30, (PCa)

Leek

Red Kite over town centre at 17:00, (PCa)

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 19:10, (PCa)

Stone

20x Swift over Swan pub, (MJa)

Branston GPs

Osprey circled high over the Ashy pit then drifted off north, ad Med Gull, 12x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 93x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 55x Pochard, 49x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 11x Egyptian Geese, 38x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Wednesday 9th July 2025

Tittesworth Water

3x Greenshank, Redshank, 5x Great Egret, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                       4 Great Egrets by Steve Gibson

Whitemoor Haye

YL Gull, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 53x Lapwing, 5x Little Grebe, 4x Gadwall, 4x Common Tern, (SCo)

Doxey Marsh

2x LRP, 22x Lapwing, 2x Common Sandpiper, Water Rail (juv), 2x Little Egret, Great Egret, 3x Gropper, 7x Swift, 3x Gropper, 2x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Tuesday 8th July 2025

Doxey Marsh

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Red Kite, Water Rail showing main hide, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, (MBo, PDy)  -  This pm 5x Shoveler, 21x Swift, 3x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Great Egret, 7x Reed Warbler, 3x Gropper, Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay only this am, 22x Black-tailed Godwit, 25x Oystercatcher, 10x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, 5x Dunlin, 142x Greylag Geese, 2x Egyptian Geese (+4 chicks), 2x Shelduck, Swift, (CMa, RF)  -  Tad Bay this pm 24x Black-tailed Godwit, 7x Redshank, 2x Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 10x Shelduck (inc 5juvs), (JHi)

Tittensor

6x Swift around the church on the A34 this am, (DGl)

Branston GPs

Med Gull, 10x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 142x Lapwing, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 38x Pochard, Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 8x Shelduck (3juv+1duckling), 4x Egyptian Geese, 51x Little Grebe (3juv), 10x Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, 4x Linnet, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

3x Oystercatcher over south, (JWo)

Monday 7th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

4x Black-tailed Godwit present with a further 7 thru this am, also Green Sandpiper, juv Bittern,  (SPA)

Barlaston Common

2x Red Kite over east at 11:30, (AR)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper still, 3x Redshank, 6x Common Tern, Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                        Common Tern by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

19x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Avocet, 4x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 28x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, Water Rail, 6x Teal, 49x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 9x Shelduck (2+3 ducklings), 10x Egyptian Geese, 40x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, Caspian Gull (2s), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

                                               Black-tailed Godwits by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Sunday 6th July 2025

Croxall

6x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, LRP, Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Med Gull, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)  -  Hobby, Red Kite, Common Sandpiper, (MBr)

Tittesworth Water

2x Curlew, 11x Oystercatcher, 11x LRP, 9x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Lapwing, 2x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Willow Tit, (JOa, LH, KH)

Branston GPs

3x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 16x Common Tern, 30x Swift, 10x Pochard, 4x Shelduck, Teal, Avocet, 12x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 10x Curlew, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, 9x Egyptian Geese, 2x Linnet, Siskin thru south, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, GBB Gull, 

Saturday 5th July 2025

Blithfield Resv

Garganey in Blithe Bay, sec/sum Caspian Gull, 2x Greenshank, several juv Redstarts, (GJM, MPR)

Rudyard

7x Black-tailed Godwit, early morning, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 12x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 11x Oystercatcher, 9x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, (SGi, IB, PS)

                                                      Green Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Trentham Gardens

Hummingbird Hawkmoth, around shopping village. (HF)

                                                                  By Heather Forbes

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, 30x Little Grebe, 32x Gadwall, 8x Pochard, Black-tailed Godwit roosted, 8x Lapwing, 10x Curlew roosted, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Common Tern, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Common Tern, 2x Linnet, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

c300x Sand Martin over fields, 2x Little Egret, 4x Great Egret, 35x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Egyptian Geese, several Yellowhammers, 5x Gadwall, Garden Warbler, (SCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Tree Damsel Bug, (JWo)

Barton-under-Needwood

2x Yellow Wagtail, Green Lane, (JWo)

Friday 4th July 2025

Middleton Lakes

Sum/plum Black-tailed Godwit, (GG)

Astonfields Balancing Lakes

2x Peregrine Sandon Road, (RSt)

Blackshaw Moor

Red Kite at 13:15, (KBr)

Branston GPs

Adult Med Gull, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank (1juv), 9x Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 38x Lapwing, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, 3x Teal, 6x Gadwall, 5x Shelduck (2ducklings), 40x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, Hummingbird Hawkmoth, (JWo, CEc, George, MCa)

Claymills

Green Sandpiper, 3x Goosander, Swift, Garden Warbler, Painted Lady, (DSc)

Thursday 3rd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

12x Oystercatcher, 15x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, 10x Common Sandpiper, 11x Lapwing, Curlew, 7x Mandarin, 9x Teal, 3x Common Tern (+3juvs), 2x Common Gull, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH). This evening -  Green Sandpiper, Redshank, (SGi)

North Staffs Moors

3x Red Kite, (JOs, LH)

Branston GPs

Snipe, Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 62x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Goosander, 43x Pochard, 6x Gadwall, Shoveler, 4x Teal, 5x Shelduck (3ducklings), 4x Egyptian Geese, 34x Little Grebe, 3x Common Tern, YL Gull, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Gropper, 2x Garden Warbler, 6x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 3+ WL Hairstreak, 5+Purple Hairstreak, 2x Painted Lady, (JWo)

Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Tittesworth Water

16x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Common Tern, (Laxmi)  -  Also Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, (SGi)

Brankley Pastures

8x Yellowhammer, 15+Purple Hairstreak, Variable Longhorn Beetle, Welsh Chafer, (JWo)

Silverdale CP

Stonechat, Gropper, (PCa)

Tuesday 1st July 2025

Gailey Resv

9x Common Tern (inc 7 thru east at 06:30), Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, (JIs)

Tucklesholme

Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Wigeon, 4x Egyptian Geese, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 109x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 48x Pochard, 2x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 5x Shelduck(3 ducklings), 6x Egyptian Geese, 41x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Gropper, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

7x Mandarin(6 ducklings), 2x Gadwall, 2x LRP, 3x Lapwing, YL Gull, 2x Little Egret, 3x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Swift,  (CAFH)