Thursday 21st August 2025

Doxey Marsh

Creswell Flash Garganey, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Little Egret and  2x Green Sandpiper on Octo scrape scoped from Creswell, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv

This am 2x Turnstone thru, 15x Ruff, 5x Greenshank, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, LRP, 23x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Yellow Wagtail, 30x Linnet, 3x YL Gull, (RBr)  -  Additionally pm - juv Curlew Sandpiper, juv Marsh Harrier thru, 3x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 3x Swift, (DBr)  -  Curlew Sandpiper still at 19:13 in Blithe Bay (JKl)

Tittesworth Water

Female Common Scoter, 5x Mandarin, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, 2x Red Kite, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Black-tailed Godwits, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, Great Egret, Common Tern, Water Rail, Goosander, 

Belvide Resv

Juv Black Tern at 15:15, 1st sum Goshawk

Whitemoor Haye

2x Ruff, 4x juv LRP, 4x Green Sandpiper, (TPe)

Branston GPs

2x Ruff (juv), Dunlin (juv), 2x Curlew, 12x Snipe, 5x Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 196x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 2x Mandarin, 126x Pochard, 116x Gadwall, 35x Shoveler, 106x Teal, 85x Little Grebe, 7x Common Tern (5 juv), YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Wednesday 20th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint this am Admaston Reach, (KM, GJM)  -  5x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 6x Ruff, 16x Ringed Plover, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Redshank, 3x Dunlin, Little Stint, Wheatear, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 23x Barnacle Geese, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, (DBa, CE, PB, KM)  -  additional counts 9x Ruff, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 31x Barnacle Geese, Little Egret, (SE, HF)

                                                       Little Stint by Steve Edwards

Radford Meadows Stafford

Juv Whinchat, 3+ Stonechat, juv Peregrine, 3x Snipe, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Swift, (RSw)

Rudyard

Little Stint, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Grey Wagtail, 7x Teal, (SGi)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 10x Goosander, Red Kite, (SGi)

Gailey Resv

Juv Wheatear, 2x Teal, Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Green Sandpiper, 3x juv LRP, Great Egret, 5x ad YL Gull, (TPe)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

3x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, Wigeon, 44x Gadwall, 7x Egyptian Geese, 6x Common Tern (3juv), 9x Swift, 100+House Martin, 30+ Sand Martin, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Tuesday 19th August 2025

Berryhill

7x Wheatear (5 at the mound and 2 off Spedding Road), 2x Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Redstart and at Botteslow Flash imm Shelduck, 5x Teal, (RTo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ruff, Hobby, 2x Swift, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (TPe)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey still on west scrape, 3x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 3x LRP, 6x Green Sandpiper, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

2x juvenile Black Tern off the dam, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, juv Knot, 7x Great Egret, 

Rudyard

Little Stint, 5x Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 7x Teal, 3x Grey Wagtail, (SGi)  -  Red Kite over at 14:53, (Laxmi)

                                                        Little Stint by Steve Gibson

Branston GPs

2x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 2x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 132x Pochard, 115x Gadwall, 62x Shoveler, 99x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 111x Little Grebe, 4x Common Tern (2juv), YL Gull, 2x Green Woodpecker (1 juv), Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Swift, (JWo)

                                                       Mandarins by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Marsh Harrier, 5x YL Gull, 1s Caspian Gull, 12x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, Sanderling, 3x Greenshank, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Curlew, (SRi)

Monday 18th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 4x Ruff, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 25x Snipe, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

Ruff, Dunlin, Snipe Redshank, Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 

Knypersley Resv

Little Egret, 10x Mandarin, 4x Swift, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

2x Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP (inc chick), 4x Greenshank, ad YL Gull, 2x Wheatear, Whinchat, 4x Swift, (CMa, RF)

Rudyard

This morning 2x Ruff, Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 35x Lapwing, 4x Goosander, 7x Teal, (SGi)

Hednesford - Rugeley

Female Goshawk flew across the A460 at 16:25, (AFi)

Gailey Resv

The Shag still on main island, also Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 9x Swift, (SRi)

Branston GPs

7x Curlew, Ringed Plover, 3x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, 115x Pochard, 156x Gadwall, 63x Shoveler, 86x Teal, Egyptian Geese, 95x Little Grebe (1 chick), 9x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Hobby, 10x Swift, 17x Linnet, 4x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Sunday 17th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, 2x Ruff, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, (GG)

Berryhill

Early am 5x Redstart, 3x Wheatear, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Tree Pipit, c30 Linnet,  (RTo)   - 2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, (IBu)

Rudyard 

Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 45x Lapwing, Peregrine, Grey Wagtail, 3x Stock Dove, (SGi)  -  Ring-necked Parakeet at 19:53, (Laxmi)

                                                         Greenshank by Steve Gibson

Gailey Resv

Shag showing well on the dam at 13:20, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Mandarin, 4x Teal, Common Gull, 4x Stock Dove, (JOa, LH, TE)

Furnace Grange Trescott

2x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, (GCl)

Blithfield Resv

Ruddy Shelduck, Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 4x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4x Greenshank, 11x Ringed Plover, 2x Ruff, 2x Snipe, 3x Little Egret, 7x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

                                                     Ruddy Shelduck by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

80x Little Grebe, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, Shelduck, Mandarin, 50x Shoveler, 120x Gadwall, 80x Teal, 120x Pochard, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 100x Lapwing, 2x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, Stonechat, 6x Linnet, (DSc)  -  Additionally 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 40x Linnet, (JWo)

Sandon Bank

Red Kite over, 

Belvide Resv

Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, 6x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Hobby, Red Kite, 4x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, c50 Swift, 

Saturday 16th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover dropped into Blithe Bay early am,  (MPR), - 2xTurnstone, c35x Ringed Plover, Grey Plover, Marsh Harrier, Caspian Gull, 2x Whinchat, (GJM)  -  Imm Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 1st sum Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull, Grey Plover, 2x Turnstone, 75+ Ringed Plover (incl group of c40 NW), 6x LRP, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, Curlew, 40+ Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, Whinchat, juv Stonechat, (SRi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Greenshank, 6x Curlew, Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 11x Little Egret, Common Tern, 20x Shoveler, 5x Mandarin, (RPo)

Middleton Lakes

2x Ruff (juvs), 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, 17x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, Goosander, Wigeon, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

2x Red Kite, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 31x Gadwall, 2x Mandarin, 3x Pochard, Hobby, 100x Lapwing, male Redstart, (MBo)

Croxall

Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Tree Pipit, (ICW)

Whitemoor Haye

Great Egret, Hobby, Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, 32x Egyptian Geese, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 2x Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 16x Ringed Plover thru, 2x Greenshank, 6x Redshank, 3x Dunlin, 9x LRP, Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, 

Branston GPs

8x Little Egret, 70x Little Grebe, 4x Egyptian Geese, 110x Gadwall, 44x Shoveler, 80x Teal, 45x Pochard, 2x Peregrine, Hobby, Water Rail, 175x Lapwing, 2x Ringed Plover, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 6x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, Little Grebe, 6x Gadwall, 2x Lapwing, 4x Common Tern, (DSc)

Catholme (footpath)

Great Egret, 26x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 10x Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, Lapwing, (JWo)

Alvecote

4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, (MSc)

Friday 15th August 2025

Rudyard Lake

Marsh Harrier thru, 9x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Teal, Peregrine, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Yellow Wagtail, (RSc)

Elton

7x Yellow Wagtail, (SWa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Marsh Harrier flew out NW at 1510, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Greenshank, 35+ Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (MDJ)  -  1st sum Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, (juv +3 adults), (TPe).  -  Also Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, LRP, Snipe, Common Terns, Red Kite, juv Peregrine, Common Gull, Little Egrets, GBB Gulls, (RBe)  -  In addition 4x Spotted Flycatcher, (SJo)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Little Egret, 10x Common Tern, Hobby, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Thursday 14th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

8x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 5x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, Avocet (juv) to 09:10 only, 10x Dunlin, c15 Ringed Plover, LRP, 10x Yellow Wagtail, Great Egret, 15x Barnacle Geese, (BSt)  -  This afternoon Avocet in Tad Bay at 13:15, also Ruddy Shelduck, (BSt)  -  12x Common Tern, 37x Egyptian Geese, 3x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Sandpiper, 11x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, 4x Little Egret, YL Gull, 2x Caspian Gull, (DBr)

                                                       Yellow Wagtail by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

Goosander, 3x Mandarin, Gadwall, 4x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 5x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa, LH)

Branston GPs

7x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2xOystercatcher, 222x Lapwing, 9x Curlew, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 114x Pochard, 202x Gadwall, 17x Shoveler, 44x Teal, 16x Egyptian Geese, 86x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

 

Wednesday 13th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Greenshank, Ruff, 8x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, 4x Common Tern, 3x Great Egret, 

Blithfield Resv

12x Dunlin, 6x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, juv Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 20x Yellow Wagtail, 16x Barnacle Geese, 2x Great Egret, 3x juv Shelduck, Ruddy Shelduck, Wheatear, 12x Egyptian Geese, (DBa, KM, CE, IG)

Branston GPs

Juv Marsh Harrier, 12x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, 165x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 67x Pochard, 16x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 25x Teal, 14x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern (4juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup between west end and Gazebo, Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, Bar-headed Goose, 8x Grey Wagtail, 

Tuesday 12th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

Wheatear, Ruff, 7x Green Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 2x Redshank, 9x Snipe, Barnacle Goose, Marsh Harrier, 4x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, Goosander, Barn Owl, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

Green Sandpiper, 3x female Goosander, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 4x LRP, 9x Ringed Plover, 14x Dunlin, 8x Black-tailed Godwit, juv Avocet, 24x Barnacle Geese, Whinchat, Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Yellow Wagtail, Red Kite, Peregrine, Ruddy Shelduck, (RBr)  -  3x Black Tern, juv Little Gull, (MPR)

Doxey Marsh

4x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 3x YL Gull, 2x Water Rail, 2x Common Tern, 2x Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, 3x Teal, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Linnet, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

7x Green Sandpiper, 8x Common Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 147x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 67x Pochard, 102x Gadwall, 15x Shoveler, 22x Teal, Shelduck, 15x Egyptian Geese, 92x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern (5 juv), 2x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 11th August 2025

Middleton Lakes

Ruff on west scrape this am, 

Rudyard Lake

White Stork circling before drifting off north at 10:41, (Maxmi)

Branston GPs

12x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 12x Curlew, Oystercatcher, 162x Lapwing, 3x Water Rail, 4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 3x Mandarin, 107x Pochard, 117x Gadwall, 88x Teal, 17x Shoveler, 14x Egyptian Geese, 86x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

Med Gull (juv), Turnstone, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, Spotted Flycatcher, (GJM, MDJ, 1CW)

Sunday10th August 2025

Rudyard

2x Green Sandpiper this am, (RSc)  -  2x Hobby over the lake at 14:10, (Laxmi)

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (JIs)

Uttoxeter

Osprey flew south over the A50 at 10:20, also nearby at Uttoxeter quarry Green Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 2x Pochard, 8x Shoveler, 21x Teal, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

4x Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, 72x Lapwing, Spotted Flycatcher, Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, YL Gull, Common Tern, 2x Water Rail, (MBo, BLo, RRa, DTo)

Stanley Pool

Female Redstart and Spotted Flycatcher by bridge Stanley Head side, Red Kite over the dam, Swift, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover thru, 12x Common Tern, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, (ICW)

Croxall

2x Green Sandpiper, (ICW)

Aqualate

Red Kite in tree, (VSm)

Tittesworth Water

20x Mandarin, Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, Hobby, Peregrine, Red Kite, Common Gull, (JOa, LH, TE)

Branston GPs

Male Redstart to 12:15 at least, 2x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 70x Gadwall, 60x Pochard, 12x Teal, Peregrine, 10x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 15x Common Tern, 3x Yellow Wagtail thru, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 15x Linnet, Hobby, ad YL Gull, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Marsh Harrier thru, Curlew, c250 Lapwing, 10x Common Tern, 7x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Red Kite, 2x Little Egret, 11x Shelduck, (MJa)  -  10x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Sanderling, Wheatear, 8x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, Hobby, 25x Egyptian Geese, Little Egret, (DBa)  -  In addition Black-tailed Godwit, 5x Common Sandpiper, 16x Dunlin, 4x LRP, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Little Egret, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (SE, HF)  -  This evening increased counts of 10x Black-tailed Godwit, c75 Common Tern and a Wigeon, (PAn)

                                                         Wheatear by Steve Edwards

Belvide Resv

Whimbrel, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Lapwing, Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, LRP,  Lesser Scaup, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Crossbill heard, 

Middleton Lakes

Osprey, Great Egret, Little Egrets, Common Terns, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Egyptian Geese, (RBe)

Saturday 9th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

2x Turnstone St Stephen's Bay this am,  (GJM)  -  5x Turnstone Admaston Reach, (PAn)

Enville

23x Crossbill, 3x Red Kite, Little Egret, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Curlew, 25x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, (SGi, IB) 

Rudyard

Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, 44x Lapwing, Redstart, (SGi, IB)

Stanley Pool

3x Red Kite (incl 1 juv), Common Tern, 5x Lapwing, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

15x Common Tern, 5x Little Egret, 81x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 14x Egyptian Geese, 44x GC Grebe, 12x Little Grebe, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 9x Pochard, 2x Gadwall, 5x Swift, 2x Garden Warbler, possible Black-necked Grebe, (SCo, WeBS)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, Wigeon, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Dunlin, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, Snipe, 8x Grey Wagtail, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Red Kite east, Great Egret, Little Egret, Hobby, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 

Alrewas to Wychnor

Hobby, 4x Common Tern (2juv), (JWo)

                                                      Common Terns by Jon Woodcock

Alrewas NMA

Green Woodpecker, Egyptian Goose, (JWo)

Catholme

12x Little Egret, 300+ Cormorant, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, Shelduck, 25x Pochard, 13x Curlew, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 10x Common Tern, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, 3x Common Tern, (DSc)

Friday 8th August 2025

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill over the Whitehouse this afternoon also Garden Warbler, (AHa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Med Gull, (GJM, MDJ)  -  Also Whinchat and a Clouded  Yellow sailing club area, (MDJ, GJM) -Turnstone Admaston Reach to 16:40 at least, (JAl)

                                                   Clouded Yellow by Rob Bendelow

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP, Grey Wagtail, and c70 House Sparrow around the old Botteslow farm area, Peregrine, (RTo)

Branston GPs

Marsh Harrier (juv), 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 12x Curlew, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 130x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 68x Pochard, 62x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, 39x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 68x Little Grebe, 19x Common Tern (9 juv), YL Gull, 6x Swift, 4x Greenfinch, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

This evening - 5x LRP, Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 27x Little Egret with 3x Great Egret roosted riverside, (MB)

Alvecote

Spotted Flycatcher in Old Orchard, (TPe)  -  3x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 24x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, (MSc)

Churnet Valley

Peregrine, (GSt)

Thursday 7th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

3x Whimbrel top of Blithe Bay this am, (MJa)  -  3rd year Caspian Gull this am, (GJM)  -  Little Egret, Common Terns, 2x Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Peregrine (juv), Hobby, Yellow Wagtails, (RBe)

                                                     Yellow Wagtail by Rob Bendelow

Tittesworth Water

2x Mandarin, Little Egret, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x Lapwing, (JOa)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 43x Pochard, 64x Gadwall, 6x Shoveler, 10x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, 70x Little Egret, 23x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 8x Swift, 6x Linnet, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

                                                    Yellow-legged Gull by  Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 6th August 2025

Blithfield Resv

Sanderling, 2x Greenshank, 13x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 4x LRP, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, 11x Yellow Wagtail, (SE,HF)

Tittesworth Water

Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 7x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                    Black-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

Cannock Chase

7x Crossbill, Yellowhammer, Siskin, (DBa, CEv)

Tucklesholme

Curlew, 2x Oystercatcher, 8x Common (3juv), Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, 15x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 18x GC Grebe, 4x Cetti's Warbler (2juv), 15x Linnet, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Ad Caspian Gull, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (TPe)

Coven

Count of 28x Mistle Thrush on ploughed field, (JDu)

Alton

3x Red Kite over mown fields, (TEy)

Tuesday 5th August 2025

Trentham Gardens

Fem/1st sum Pied Flycatcher, 6x Little Egret, 40x Swift, (RGi)

Trentham

Ring-necked Parakeet over the garden calling, (HF)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Dunlin, Snipe, Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 8x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, Wigeon, 52x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 10x Shoveler, 15x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 64x Little Grebe, 17x Common Tern (5 juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 18x Swift, 10x Linnet, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

Hobby, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Common Tern (2 juv), (JWo)

Monday 4th August 2025

Stanley Pool

Red Kite, juv LRP, Common Sandpiper, (GBr) 

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper still, Dunlin, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Goosander, Barn Owl, 8x Common Tern, Great Egret, (SPA)

Branston GPs

Little Stint still, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, 18x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 8x Curlew, 4x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 71x Pochard, 85x Gadwall, 14x Shoveler, 10x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 56x Little Grebe, 28x Common Tern (10 juv), YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 16x Mandarin, Goosander, (SGi)

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, and 2x Great Egret at Creswell Flash at 15:45, (RPo)  - in addition 2x Green Sandpiper on Octo hide flash, (RRa)

Ramshorn

3x Red Kite over at 15:30, (JDr)

Sunday 3rd August 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup still, Black-necked Grebe, 7x Little Egret, Great Egret, YL Gull, 4x Ringed Plover, 16x LRP, Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 3x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 2x Red Kite, Wheatear, 

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on West scrape, Green Sandpiper, 5x Snipe, Dunlin, juv Yellow Wagtail, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Tern (adult and juv), Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Rudyard

3x Common Tern at 08:48, (Laxmi)

Whitemoor Haye

36x Common Tern, 7x Little Egret, 61x Lapwing, 4x LRP (3 juvs),  Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Little Grebe, 39x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Blithfield Resv

5x Crossbill over Yeatsall Bank this am, (GJM)

Tittesworth Water

15x Mandarin, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 7x Oystercatcher, 2x Lapwing, Common Gull, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 8x Egyptian Geese, 2x Shelduck, 84x Gadwall, 11x Shoveler, 86x Pochard, 9x Teal, 12x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, 2x Common Gull, 30x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Tern, Gadwall, 2x Teal, (CAFH)

Dunstall

2x Green woodpecker (ad+juv), (JWo)

Saturday 2nd August 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup, fem Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe, Gropper, Redstart.

Stanley Pool

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

Cheddleton Heath

Red Kite over at 09:00, (PCa)

Tucklesholme

2x Curlew, 3x LRP (juv), 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 2x Wigeon, 12x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Swift, 4x Linnet, (JWo)  -  Additional 2x Pochard, Hobby again at 16:30, (DSc)

Baldwins Gate

Egyptian Goose this morning, (RWh)

Endon - Denford

Willow Tit, Gropper, 3x Green Woodpecker, 6x Mandarin at Ashes Pool, (DCo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Oystercatcher, Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, 5x Teal, (JWo)

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 15x Little Egret, 50x Little Grebe, 6x Egyptian Geese, 4x Shelduck, 50x Gadwall, 10x Teal, 40x Pochard, Peregrine, 8x Curlew, 3x Oystercatcher, 60x Lapwing, 2x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 30x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, 4x Linnet, (DSc)

Longton

Red Kite circling over the A50 at 07:51, (STu)

Middleton Lakes

Arctic Tern with 12x Common Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, c50x Lapwing, 5x Egyptian Geese, 2x Great Egret, 2x juv Water Rail, Hobby, 3x Garden Warbler, (DBr)

Friday 1st August 2025

Blithfield Resv

2x Spoonbill in Blithe Bay at 08:05 and flew NW at 08:10, (MDJ, GJM)  -  Greenshank, 9x Black-tailed Godwit, 11x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 12x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, Snipe, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                         Greenshank by Steve Edwards

Stanley Pool

3x Crossbill flew NE at 07:20, female Pintail, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Branston GPs

4x Turnstone, Little Stint, Whimbrel, 12x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, 5x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 57x Pochard, 66x Gadwall, 20x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 2x Shelduck, 74x Little Grebe, 33x Common Tern, Common Gull, 2x YL Gull, 4x Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, Gropper, Yellowhammer, 4x Greenfinch, 4x Linnet, 16x Swift, 15x House Martin, (JWo)  -  This evening Little Stint present to 20:30 when flushed by Peregrine, 12x Egyptian Geese, 85x Pochard, 22x Swift, (DSc)

Belvide Resv

2x Lesser Scaup still, Black-necked Grebe, Common Scoter, Sanderling, 15x Black-tailed Godwit thru,

Berryhill

4x Stonechat, 3x Redstart, 13x Swift, (RTo)