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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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)

Saturday 31st May 2025

Blithfield Resv

06:00 to late morning Little Stint off Pastry point at 06:25 also 110x Ringed Plover, c19x Sanderling, 40x Dunlin, 40x Common Tern, (SRi)  -  Little Stint still at 09:45, 13x Sanderling at Dairy House, c110x Ringed Plover, c35x Dunlin, (PAn)

Lichfield

Osprey south of Lichfield and east of Wall flew SE over the A5127 at 07:00, (PAn)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Little Tern briefly at 09:43 (site tick), (RPo)

Rudyard

Sum plum Little Stint at north end, 10x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (SSe) 

                                                         Little Stint by Steve Gibson

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Ringed Plover, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

12x Avocet (+4 chicks), 2x Little Egret, 3x Bittern, (STu)

Rugeley

Osprey over at 15:00 following river towards Wolseley Bridge, Red Kite at 15:30 and a Peregrine shortly after, 12x Swift, (AFi)

Whitemoor Haye

Sanderling, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, (TPe)

Brewood

Red Kite, (JDu)

Alrewas NMA/Catholme

Red Kite, Hobby, Cuckoo, Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 10+ Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Branston GPs

2x Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 5x Shoveler, 4x Teal, 20x Pochard, Hobby, 3x Oystercatcher, 25x Lapwing, 8x Common Tern, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Linnet, (DSc)

Friday 30th May 2025

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern, 2x Whimbrel early am, 89x Ringed Plover, 13x Sanderling, 38x Dunlin, Hobby, juv Stonechat, (MDJ, GJM)  -  17:50 to 19:05 no sign of the Little Tern, 1s Caspian Gull, 6x Sanderling, c30x Dunlin, c80x Ringed Plover, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

6x Sanderling, Curlew, 13x Ringed Plover, 9x LRP, 2x Dunlin, Spotted Flycatcher, 

Rudyard

Kittiwake on mud at north end but oiled, 3x Little Egret, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Grey Wagtail, (SSe)

                                                             Kittiwake by Steve Seal

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, Common Tern, LRP, Oystercatcher, Pochard, Shoveler, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Swift, (PJT)

Tittesworth Water

Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Common Tern, Curlew, Hobby, (LEH, AEH)  -  Cuckoo, 8x Goosander, Ringed Plover, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

3x Bittern, Hobby, Cuckoo, 2x LRP, 2x Redshank, Avocets, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (DJB)

Stanley Pool

Osprey over west at 16:45, (GBr)

Doxey Marsh

LRP, Cetti's Warblers, Reed Warblers, Sedge Warblers, (KLe)

Branston GPs

3x Sanderling, Dunlin, Curlew, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 6x Ringed Plover, 18x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 29x Pochard, 14x Shelduck, 2x Teal, 7x Shoveler, 45x Gadwall, 11x Egyptian Geese, WC Pintail, 22x Little Grebe, 15x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, 2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Gropper, 3x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, MCa)

Little Aston

2x Red Kite west over Recreation ground at 17:30, (PAn)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, (LSt)

Thursday 29th May 2025

Blithfield Resv

21x Sanderling, (MDJ, GJM)  -  100+ Ringed Plover, 27x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (GJM)

Rudyard

6x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, (SSe)

Doxey Marsh

1-2x Hobby, Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Water Rail, 3x Stonechat, (RSt)  -  2x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, 29x Swift, Great Egret, Little Egret, Common Tern, Red Kite, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 9x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, 8x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher (+3juvs), 3x Grey Wagtail, 2x Teal, (JWo, LH)

Staffs County showground

Red Kite at 11:00, (DGl)

Branston GPs

Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 7x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 7+ Mandarin (6+ducklings), 2x Teal, 9x Pochard, 58x Gadwall, 18x Shelduck, 14x Egyptian Geese, 16x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, 2x Hobby, 4x Stonechat (2juv), 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, 400x Swift. Also Alder Woodwasp (possibly the 2nd Staffs record).

                                                      Alder Woodwasp by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Wednesday 28th May 2025

Tittesworth Water

Ringed Plover, 23x Mandarin, (SGi)

                                                       Ringed Plover by Steve Gibson

Rudyard

13x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, (SSe)

Blithfield Resv

Wader count this am, 123x Ringed Plover, 9x Sanderling, 28x Dunlin, also 2x Great Egret, (GJM)  -  This evening Great Egret, 35+ Common Tern, 120+ Ringed Plover, 20+ Dunlin, 8+ Sanderling, (SRi)

Mayfield

6x Swift over at 12:45, (MMe)

Tuesday 27th May 2025

Blithfield Resv

110x Ringed Plover, 10x Sanderling, 23x Dunlin, Great Egret, (GJM)  -  18:00 117x Ringed Plover, 8x Sanderling, 10x Dunlin, (RPo)  -  Also this evening 2x Curlew, ad YL Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (JHi)

Burslem

Red Kite over Acreswood this am, (PMo)

Croxden Quarry

7x Sanderling at 16:25, (RPo)

Stanley Pool

Common Tern, Yellow Wagtail, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, 2x Sanderling, 10x Dunlin, 13x Ringed Plover, 2000x Swift, 

Branston GPs

24x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 10x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 4x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 68x Gadwall, 14x Shelduck, 5x Shoveler, 2x Teal, WC Pintail, 2x Mandarin, 11x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, 17x Common Tern, 3x YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Stonechat, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 500x Swift, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Monday 26th May 2025

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, 3x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, (GBr)

Branston GPs

7x Sanderling, Dunlin, Redshank, Oystercatcher, 15x Lapwing,  Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 26x Pochard, 38x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 22x Shelduck, 6x Egyptian Geese, 16x Common Tern, YL Gull, 22x Little Grebe, 500x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc)

Blithfield Resv

94x Ringed Plover, 2x Sanderling, 21x Dunlin, (MPR, GJM)  -  96x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 2x Sanderling, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 25x Common Tern, Red Kite, (SRi)

Cannock Chase

Red Kite drifted over Sherbrook Valley,  (Baz)

Belvide Resv

2x Sanderling, 

Florence Hill

Red Kite, Little Egret over, 12x Swift, (AMa)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Ringed Plover, 2x Peregrine, Red Kite, 10x Common Tern, 400x Swift, (ICW)  -  Osprey over to the SW at 17:23, (TPe)

Tittesworth Water

2x Osprey together, Cuckoo, Ringed Plover, (SGi)

                                                            Osprey  by Steve Gibson

Staffs

Sunday 25th May 2025

Stanley Pool

2x Ringed Plover, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

5x Sanderling, 13x Dunlin, 37x Ringed Plover, (MPR, GJM)  -  Afternoon counts 6x Sanderling, 47x  Ringed Plover, 23x Dunlin, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (SE, HF)

                                                     Sanderlings by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Osprey over North pit this am, 16x Dunlin north over Ashy pit at 12:45, (JWo)  -  Osprey headed back south  from Sandy pit at 09:44, Red Kite over west at mid day, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 16x Shelduck, 40x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 2x Hobby, 2x Peregrine, 4x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 8x Common Tern, c150x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Linnet, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)  -  Additional 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, YL Gull, 12x Common Tern, 52x Gadwall, 16x Shelduck, 6x Pochard, 500x Swift, (JWo, ASt, DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Ringed Plover, 3x Dunlin, 11x LRP, 9x Oystercatcher, 46x Lapwing, 18x Common Tern, 19x Gadwall, 8x Pochard, Great Egret, 5x Little Grebe, Red Kite, Cuckoo, 2x Cetti's Warbler,  (SCo,WeBS -  Also a Hobby, (MBr)

Silverdale CP

2x Oystercatcher over High Lane car park at 08:00, also Gropper, (PCa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Cuckoo, Red Kite, 2x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 1st year Caspian Gull, Common Tern, (MBo, PDy, RRa, RSt, DTo)

Tittesworth Water

Sanderling, 8x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher(with 4 juvs), 5x Lapwing, 4x Mandarin, 2x Common Tern, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint still JW north at 15:20, (TPe)

Croxden Quarry

8x Ringed Plover, (RPo)

Belvide Resv

Red-crested Pochard still, 17x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, Sanderling, 6x LRP, Redshank, 4 pairs Common Tern, 

Saturday 24th May 2025

Stanley Pool

5x LRP this am, (GBr) 

Branston GPs

Little Stint, 16x Ringed Plover, 8x Dunlin, 2x Greenshank Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, Osprey briefly, 2x Red Kite, Hobby, Peregrine, 14x Common Tern, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 5x Pochard, 20x Gadwall, 8x Mandarin, 14x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 90x Swift, (JWo, CEc, PFo)  -  Little Stint to 10:14 only along with 12x Ringed Plover when flushed by a Peregrine, Ruff, 14:50 to 20:50 at least, 4x Sanderling 13:44 to 14:08 at least, 2x Great Egret,  20x Shelduck, 30x Gadwall, 3x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 18x Pochard, 2x Goosander, 14x Common Tern, c200x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 4x Stonechat,  (DSc)

                                                           Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

                                                            Ruff by Dave Scattergood

Blithfield Resv

Pair of Garganey still at 10:13, (RPo)  -  Red Kite, 21x Ringed Plover, 7x Dunlin, 4x Oystercatcher, 32x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 25x Shelduck, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Goosander, Shoveler, 25x Gadwall, 75+ GC Grebe, 2x GBB Gull, 4x YL Gull, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Red-crested Pochard, Ad Kittiwake to 09:52 only, 2x Sanderling, 11x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, 3x Ringed Plover, Cuckoo, (SCo)  -  Sanderling early am (ICW)

Perton

Cuckoo heard this am grid ref SO8498, (IWi)

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint JW north also 4x Dunlin, (MB)

Tucklesholme

Whimbrel 16:45 t0 17:00 only, Shoveler, LRP, 3x Common Tern, 30x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)  -  Marsh Harrier thru north at 18:50, (TCo)

Coombs Valley RSPB

4x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, (Mke, Jke)

Barton GP

Cuckoo calling, 3x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, LRP, (TCo)

Friday 23rd May 2025

Whitemoor Haye

Red Kite, Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, LRP, Oystercatcher, (PJT)

Burston Marsh

5x LRP, Hobby, Little Egret, (AEa)

Belvide Resv

2x Avocet, 

Branston GPs

4x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Mandarin, 20x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, 48x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 22x Pochard, Red Kite, Hobby, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Lapwing, 10x Common Tern, 40x Swift, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler, 3x Willow Tit, Peregrine, (LSt)

Thursday 22nd May 2025

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 2x Redshank, 4x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 19x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 8x Mandarin (7 ducklings), 3x Pochard, 8x Shoveler, 47x Gadwall, 2x Teal, 24x Shelduck, WC Pintail, 10x Egyptian Geese, 16x Common Tern, 24x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Hobby, 4x Stonechat (2juv), 10x Linnet, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Grey Wagtail, 500x Swift, (JWo)

Belvide Resv

Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 6x LRP, 4x Common Tern, 2x Yellow Wagtail,

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher (3juvs),  Curlew, 3x Lapwing, 7x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Grey Wagtail, 3x Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa, LH)

Oakamoor

Cuckoo, (TEy)

Brewood

Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo, (JDu)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, (LSt)

Blithfield Resv

2x Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 16x Ringed Plover, (GJM)

Wednesday 21st May 2025

Branston GPs

3x Whimbrel, 3x Ringed Plover, 16x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 4x Goosander, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 28x Shelduck, 13x Pochard, 44x Gadwall, WC Pintail, 10x Egyptian Geese, 18x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, YL Gull, Water Rail, Peregrine, Hobby, Cuckoo, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 10x Linnet, 100x Swift,  (JWo, DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Little Tern off Beech Tree Point at 10:02, c40x Common Tern, a late Fieldfare along Admaston Reach, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby, Little Stint, Sanderling, 3x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 23x Ringed Plover, ad YL Gull, Great Egret, (SRi)  -  This pm 1cy Caspian Gull. 4x LRP, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Little Egret, Mandarin with young, (PAn)

Bishton Pools

2x Common Tern fishing this am, (MnA)

Cheddleton - Consall Valley

"The Boat" S to Bascule bridge: 46 species inc 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, also 2x Barnacle Geese, and Egyptian Goose amongst wildfowl on pools between bridges 47 and 48, (ALa)

Stafford

Red Kite east over Victoria Park at 14:40, (AR)

Middleton Lakes

2-3x Bittern, 12x Avocet, 2x Redshank, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Water Rail, 2-4x Hobby, (RBe)

                                                             Cuckoo by Rob Bendelow

Staffs

Tuesday 20th May 2025

Branston GPs

Little Stint still, 6x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 20x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, 6x Pochard, Shoveler, 18x Shelduck, 33x Gadwall, 6x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 10x Common Tern, Peregrine, Hobby, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Garden Warbler, 100x Swift, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                          Little Stint by Jon Woodcock

Knypersley Resv

Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Avocet this afternoon, 

Tittesworth Water

Avocet, 2x Shelduck, Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, (SGi)

                                                           Avocet by Steve Gibson

Cannock Chase

3x Cuckoo, Hobby, 2x Woodcock, (CMa, RF, LRM)

Monday 19th May 2025

Branston GPs

Temminck's Stint still, Little Stint, 15x Ringed Plover, Curlew, 4x Oystercatcher, 18x Lapwing, Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, 12x Pochard, 36x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 2x Teal, 22x Shelduck, 10x Egyptian Geese, 14x GC Grebe, 22x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, YL Gull, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 100x Swift, 8x Linnet, 4x Stonechat (2juv), (JWo, SBI, George, CMa, Ray)

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone on JW south, (SPA)

Blithfield Resv

Temminck's Stint still this am, (GWi)  -  this afternoon, Temminck's Stint, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, (KCl)

Doxey Marsh

2x Wood Sandpiper still from Hexagonal hide this am, (HKi)  -  2x Wood Sandpiper to 15:30 at least, LRP, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, Little Egret, (MBo)  -  Red Kite over west, (ASt) - The Wood Sands to 19:50 then flew high NE calling, (SRi)

Rudyard Lake

Cuckoo calling at 04:40, (Laxmi)

Walton

Red-breasted Goose (of unknown origin) along the River Trent, (YBl)

                                                                By Yvonne Bland

Cannock Orbital

Barn Owl outside SCS last night, (JDu)

Sunday 18th May 2025

Branston GPs

2x Temminck's Stint on Ashy pit islands to 08:49 only when they flew off north. A 3rd Temminck's Stint flew from the north side of Ashy pit heading high to the north 30 mins after the other two, (JWo)   -  2x Temminck's again 15:00 to 15:43 then lost view, ad/sum Med Gull, 2x Great Egret, Hobby, Ringed Plover, 10x Lapwing, 12x Pochard, 12x Common Tern, 10x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Temminck's Stint at Pastry Point, (MPR, GJM)  -  Temminck's Stint still at 10:25 also 3x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, (PAn)  -  Sanderling Tad Bay, (MJa)  -  2x Knot, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, (LCl)  -  2x Knot, 2x Sanderling, 13x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, (TWo)

                                                        Temminck's Stint by GJ Mant

Tucklesholme

Whimbrel on the wading ponds, (TWy)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Lesser Whitethroat, 11x Reed Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Oystercatcher, Lesser Whitethroat, Gropper, (RSt)  -  2x Wood Sandpiper mid afternoon, (CS)  -  The  2x Wood Sandpiper still at 19:20 from Octagonal hide at 19:20, (RRa)  -  This evening 8x Shelduck, 20x Swift, 2x LRP, Cuckoo, Gropper, 6x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Belvide Resv

Osprey thru NW at 14:20, Cattle Egret, 

Tittesworth Water

13x Oystercatcher, (+4juvs), 5x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 4x Lapwing, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo, Redstart, 2x Common Tern, Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

North Staffs Moors

2x Red Kite, Cuckoo, 5x Swift, (JOa)

Stanley Pool

3x Whimbrel this morning, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

LRP, Oystercatcher, 36x Lapwing, 5x Common Tern, (LCl)

Churnet Valley Consall RSPB

3x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, Mandarin, 6x Lapwing, Dipper, Grey Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

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)

Friday 16th May 2025

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint still on JW north, Little Tern on JW south, (GG)

Blithfield Resv

5x Sanderling early morning, 17x Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, (GJM, MDJ)

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe still, Garganey still, 

Trentham

Red Kite over New Inn Lane at 09:20, (Ed)

Thursday 15th May 2025

Belvide Resv

Osprey thru north at 13:35, 3x Black-necked Grebe, Garganey, 

Tittesworth Water

2x Common Tern, 7x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher (+4 juvs), 4x Lapwing, Hobby, Red Kite, 2x Mandarin, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JOa, LH)

Lightwood

Oystercatcher over, (LDa)

Trent Washlands

Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Swift, (AJa)

Ramshorn - Caulden Low

Curlew over at 11:44, (JDr)

Chasewater

Cuckoo, Oystercatcher, (CMa),

Blithfield Resv

18:00 - 19:30 Sum plum Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, Dunlin, 9x Lapwing, Little Egret, 25+ 'Commic Tern', 10x Shelduck, Mandarin, (PBe)

Branston GPs

3x Common Sandpiper, 6x Ringed Plover, 16x Lapwing, 4x Oystercatcher, 6x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 2x Teal, 4x Shoveler, 20x Shelduck, 20x Gadwall, Black Swan, 14x Egyptian Geese, 23x Little Grebe, 12x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 4x Stonechat (2juv), 2x Grey Wagtail, 100x Swift, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Gropper, 12x Linnet, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate

Ring-necked Parakeet, (RWh)

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint still, 

Wednesday 14th May 2025

Middleton Lakes

Temminck's Stint, up to 12x Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Bittern, Red Kite, Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper 

Leek

Swift over Stockwell Road at 13:30, (Laxmi)

Whitemoor Haye

5x Ringed Plover, LRP, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 5x Ringed Plover, 26x Lapwing, Little Egret, 6x Pochard, 16x Shelduck, Black Swan, 11x Egyptian Geese, White-cheeked Pintail, 2x Gropper, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo, DSc)

Tucklesholme

Dunlin, 6x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Common Tern, 8x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 3x Garden Warbler, 6x Cetti's Warbler, 10x House Martin, (JWo)

Tuesday 13th May 2025

Middleton Lakes

Grey Plover on JW south, (per GG)  -  Wood Sandpiper from JW north, (GG)  -  Grey Plover and Wood Sandpiper still JW north at 17:30, (MSm)

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over east at 11:27, (SFe)

Branston GPs

2x Black Tern,  (CEc, Dean),  -  4x Sanderling, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, 22x Lapwing, 7x Little Egret, 9x Pochard, 2x Mandarin, 23x Shelduck, 9x Egyptian Geese, Black Swan, 20x Little Grebe, 11x Common Tern, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 2x Stonechat (m+juv), 4x Garden Warbler, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean, George)

                                                           Black Tern by Jon Woodcock

Lightwood

Florence Park Garden Warbler, 2x Whitethroat, (LDa)

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe again, 5x Whimbrel, 

Wolseley Centre

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, (AR)

Hazelslade LNR

2x Garden Warbler, (BCh)

Stafford

Peregrine over Riverside shopping centre at 13:00, HWi)

Blithfield Resv

2x Sanderling this am (GJM)  -  7x Sum plum Black Tern north of causeway to 17:15 at least, (SRi)  -      - Also Greenshank, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Yellow Wagtail, (PBe)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Plover, 2x Sanderling, Dunlin, 3x Tundra Ringed Plover, (TPe)  -  Also 30x Common Tern on back pits, (SCo, TPe)

Cannock Chase

Woodcock, 2x Hobby, 3x Cuckoo, 3x Tree Pipit, 5x Stonechat, (NSl)

Monday 12th May 2025

Doxey Marsh

4x Arctic Tern thru, (RSt)

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on JW north from the two benches, (SPA)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Plover to 09:30 on Barley Green Lane pit from opposite quarry entrance, Common Tern, 2x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, Greenfinch, Oystercatcher, (PJT)  -  2x Grey Plover still at 16:30, (TPe)

Belvide Resv

2x Garganey, 6x LRP, 4x Common Sandpiper, Great Egret, 4x Common Tern, 

Blithfield Resv

3x winter plumaged Sanderling briefly this am, (GJM)  -  this evening Great Egret, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, Peregrine, 40x Common Tern, 7x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Stone

5x Swift over Stonefield Park at 10:00, (DGl)

Brewood

3x Spotted Flycatcher, (JDu)

Branston GPs

Female Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, 2x Hobby, 2x Redshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 22x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 19x Shelduck, 14x Pochard, 26x Little Grebe, 9x Common Tern, YL Gull, Cuckoo, 2x Gropper, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Stonechat (2 juv), (JWo, BSt, ASt)

Bentilee

Red Kite over at 14:45 during thunderstorm, (PCa)

Sunday 11th May 2025

Belvide Resv

Cuckoo, 3x Black-necked Grebe, Garganey, Hobby, Red Kite, Ringed Plover, Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, 

Whitemoor Haye

2x Grey Plover on pit opposite quarry, Osprey thru at 10:50, (TPe)

Gailey Resv

Peregrine, 2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Gnosall

3x Red Kite over Ginger Hill at 12:30 drifting west, (GCa)

Tittesworth Water

7x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 6x Lapwing, 2x Common Tern, 2x Red Kite, 2x Garden Warbler, 2x Mandarin, 3x Grey Wagtail, 2x Swift, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Longnor

8x Swift, (JOa)

Rudyard

Spotted Flycatcher at 14:55,  (Laxmi)

Branston GPs

Red Kite, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Sanderling, 7x Ringed Plover, 3x Redshank, 10x Lapwing, 2x Oystercatcher, Peregrine, 2x Little Egret, 20x Shelduck, 3x Shoveler, 8x Pochard, 5x Common Tern, 2x Stonechat(+2 juvs), Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper,  (DSc)

Huntington

Red Kite over at 16:30, several Swifts, 20x House Martin, (SRi)

Knypersley

Hobby, (ALo)

Aqualate

Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Cuckoo this morning, (PJor)

Barton GP

Cattle Egret briefly on pit by entrance then flew towards River Trent at 19:50, Hobby, Cuckoo, 3x LRP, 6x Common Tern, Reed Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, Black Swan, (TCo)

North Staffs Moors

3x Hobby, Cuckoo, (TEe)

Trescott

2x Corn Bunting just north of the Bridgenorth Road, CVa)

Saturday 10th May 2025

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe still, Goshawk over, 

Gailey Resv

Osprey west at 08:55, 3x Common Tern, 5x Yellow Wagtail, 10x Reed Warbler, Pochard, 2x Oystercatcher, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

Whimbrel, 3x Sanderling, (GJM)  -  Greenshank, Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, (GWi)

                                                             Whimbrel By GJ Mant

Trentham Gardens

2x Little Egret, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x GC Grebe, Cetti's Warbler, 5x Reed Warbler, Red Kite over SW at 12:36, (STu)

Whitemoor Haye

Sanderling on pit opposite quarry entrance, (TPe)

Middleton Lakes

Bittern inflight, 6x Hobby, 10x Avocet, Oystercatcher, (SCl)

Tittesworth Water

Peregrine, Kingfisher, (SGi, IB)

Alrewas NMA

Cuckoo, 2x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas Canal

Cattle Egret, Little Egret, 2x LRP, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, LRP, 2x Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Brewood

2x Spotted Flycatcher, (JDu)

Branston GPs

20x Shelduck, 2x Shoveler, 2x Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, 4x Common Tern, 2x Stonechat, (DSc)

Trescott

2x Yellow Wagtail north of the Bridgenorth Road, (IMo)

Friday 9th May 2025

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe, Wood Sandpiper, Garganey, - 3x Great Egret, 6x LRP, 3x Common Tern, Curlew, Goshawk, 

Tittesworth Water

Redstart, Lesser Whitethroat, Swift, Green Woodpecker, (SGi)

Stafford

Cuckoo heard at Knightley, (BRo)

Branston GPs

2x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 20x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Pochard, 31x Shelduck, 11x Egyptian Geese, Black Swan, 16x Little Grebe, 14x Common Tern, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, 2x Stonechat (m+juv), 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Thursday 8th May 2025

Branston GPs

Whimbrel, 2x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 6x Oystercatcher, 14x Lapwing, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 8x Pochard, 26x Shelduck, 11x Egyptian Geese, 22x Little Grebe, 18x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Stonechat, 100x Swift, 10x House Martin, (JWo)

Tittesworth Water

4x Oystercatcher, 7x Common Sandpiper, 5x LRP, 6x Lapwing, 2x Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Mandarin, Common Gull, 2x Cuckoo, 5x Garden Warbler, (JOa)

Doxey Marsh

7x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, 2x Reed Warbler, 15x Gadwall, Shelduck, Goosander, Water Rail, 2x Stonechat, (CAFH)

Barlaston

Wryneck in a garden this afternoon (per STu)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 12x GC Grebe, Hobby, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Wednesday 7th May 2025

Gun Hill

Black Kite circling low before drifting off south at 14:25. Found by Antony Brydges and the last Staffs record was in May 1991.

Doxey Marsh

Red Kite, 2x Common Tern, Ringed Plover, 10x Swift, Little Egret, (GPr)

Belvide Resv

Spotted Redshank from Hawkshutts hide, Greenshank, Redshank, 2x Cattle Egret, 

Alsager

Common Crane over at 11:10 and calling,  (EdK)

Tittesworth Water

2x Whimbrel, Bar-tailed Godwit, White Wagtail, Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, 3x Mandarin, (SGi)

Gailey Resv

Common Tern, Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Yellow Wagtail, (JIs)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 4x LRP, 2x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 10x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, Green Woodpecker, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 10x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Sedge Warbler, 8x Reed Warbler, 6x Linnet, (JWo)

Cannock Chase

2x Cuckoo, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Garden Warbler, (AJa)

Blithfield Resv

2x Great Egret, 2x Mandarin, Red Kite, 2x GBB Gull, 45x Common Tern, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, Dunlin, Sedge Warbler, (SRi)

Middleton Lakes

Black Tern this evening, (SRo)

Trentham Lakes

Cetti's Warbler still, Peregrine, (LSt)

Tuesday 6th May 2025

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Garganey, Greenshank, Redshank, 

Branston GPs

Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Redshank, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, 11x Lapwing, 3x Oystercatcher, Cattle Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Mandarin, 28x Shelduck, 16x GC Grebe, 23x Little Grebe, 2x Common Gull, 3x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, Cuckoo, 250x Swift, 3x Stonechat, (1+juv), 4x Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes

3x Crane over at 13:00, also Red Kite and 4x Hobby, GLy)

Whitemoor Haye

Ringed Plover, LRP,  Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler, Swift, Common Tern, Garden Warbler, (PJT)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, Curlew, Oystercatcher over, Common Sandpiper, 4x Garden Warbler, (DCo)

Sneyd Green

Swift over, (JOa)

Checkley

Red Kite over cricket club at 13:10, (FCa)

Doxey Marsh

Hobby, Reed Warblers, Sedge Warblers, Great Egret, (BGo)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, Wigeon, 2x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 10x GC Grebe, Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Berryhill

Whinchat from the viewpoint, (CWo)

                                                                      By Clive Wood

Monday 5th May 2025

Returning Staffs 2025 Arrival

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Garganey, 2x Whimbrel, Arctic Tern thru Osprey over at 09:35, Great Egret, 7x Common Sandpiper,  500-600x Swift, 

Gailey Resv

Osprey 09:10 to 09:16 then headed west, 2x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Rudyard

Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Garden Warbler, (TEe)

Silverdale

Quail heard at waste farm meadows, Common Sandpiper, 2x Stonechat, Also a escaped Red-tailed Hawk in the copse of trees just off High Lane CP.(PCa)

Apedale

Cuckoo heard, (PCa)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Common Tern, Green Woodpecker and in the general area a Little Owl on private land, very scarce in this area, (SGi)

                                                     Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Gibson

        

                                                               Little Owl by Steve Gibson

Burston

Red Kite over at 16:00, (SBe)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay, 2x Arctic Tern, c60x Common Tern, Whimbrel  over south, 3x Ringed Plover, 6x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (SRi)

Huntington

Hobby low over the Barns pub, (SRi)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret (Ashy pit), Mandarin, 20x Shelduck, 22x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, Peregrine, Hobby, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 100x Swift, 4x House Martin, 2x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc, PFo)

Cheddleton

Whimbrel over calling at midnight heading north, (DSc)

Sunday 4th May 2025

Trentham Gardens

Pink-footed Goose still, 3x Mandarin, 5x Gadwall, 4x Goosander, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, Woodcock over, 10x Swift, 6x Little Egret, 8x Reed Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler and a Trentham Beaver, (RGi)

Belvide Resv

3x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Cattle Egret, 2x Garganey, 5x Ringed Plover, 8x LRP, Great Egret, YL Gull, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 

Highgate Common

2x Cuckoo, 3x Garden Warbler, (IEv)

Middleton Lakes

Osprey thru north

Whitemoor Haye

Whimbrel, 4x Hobby, 21x Common Tern, (TPe)  -  Med Gull this afternoon on pit opposite activity centre, (SAC)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, 8x Common Sandpiper, 7x LRP, 5x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, Common Tern, 4x Garden Warbler, Mandarin, (JOa, LH, TEe)

Hawksmoor

Cuckoo, (Laxmi)

Branston GPs

2x Little Egret, 20x Shelduck, Wigeon, Shoveler, 8x Pochard, Peregrine, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 7x Egyptian Geese, 2x Stonechat, 100x Swift, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

50x Swift, 20x House Martin, Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 3rd May 2025

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)

Friday 2nd May 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Cattle Egret, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 3x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Garganey, 20x Shelduck, 2x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Yellow Wagtail,  -  Fem Marsh Harrier

                                                            Garganey by Steve Edwards

Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper, Greenshank, 4x Dunlin, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x Cuckoo, 2x Swifts, (SPA)

The Roaches

Cuckoo at 09:50, (Laxmi)

Parkhall Lake

Common Sandpiper, Sedge Warbler, (SFe)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Whimbrel, Redshank, 2x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, Curlew, 18x Lapwing, Red-crested Pochard, Pochard, Wigeon, 22x Shelduck, White-cheeked Pintail, 5x Common Tern, Red Kite, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Cuckoo, 2x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Gropper, (DSc, JWo, CEc, Dean)

North Staffs Moorland

Golden Plover, Pied Flycatcher, Wheatear, 3x Cuckoo, (SHi)

                                                          Golden Plover by Sylvia Hill

Swallow Moss

Cuckoo, 2x Hobby, (TEl)

Thursday 1st May 2025

Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 2x Ruff still, Sanderling, (SPA)  -  Also this evening 6x Avocet, 4x Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, (MPo)

                                                           Sanderling by Steve Atkinson

                                                    Wood Sandpiper by Steve Atkinson

Pendeford Hall Lane

2x Red Kite, (JDu)

Belvide Resv

2x Cattle Egret, Great Egret, Little Egret, 

Clay Mills

4x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Sedge Warbler, 3x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DSc)

Tittesworth Water

Bar-tailed Godwit still, 9x Common Sandpiper, 8x LRP, 5x Lapwing, 5x Oystercatcher, 5x Garden Warbler, (JOa)

Trent Washlands

Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Whitethroat, 5x Swift, 2x Swallow, (AJa)

The Roaches

Cuckoo, (Laxmi)

Gailey Resv

Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, sev Reed Warbler, (SRi)

Freehay

Red Kite low over 7 Acre Wood and the towards Freehay quarry, (FCa)

Wetley Moor

Stonechat, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat, (GWo)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, LRP, 3x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Garden Warbler, 4x Whitethroat, 4x Sedge Warbler, (PBe)

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret, Little Egret, 2x Redshank, Greenshank, Curlew, 10x Ringed Plover, 5x Common Sandpiper, 32x Lapwing, 6x Oystercatcher, Red-crested Pochard, 12x Pochard, Goosander, Wigeon, 24x Shelduck, 8x Egyptian Geese, White-cheeked Pintail, Water Rail, 27x Little Grebe, 26x GC Grebe, 8x Common Tern, YL Gull, 3x Hobby, Cuckoo, 2x Stonechat, 3x Gropper, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, DSc)

                                                        Cattle Egret by Jon Woodcock

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, 3x LRP, Dunlin, (SCo)

Wednesday 30th April 2025

Middleton Lakes

Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 2x Wood Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, (MHu) - 20:00 Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Dunlin, + a Whimbrel on JW, (SPA)

Belvide Resv

2x Black-necked Grebe, 2x Cattle Egret, 

Branston GPs

Cattle Egret present at 09:35, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, (TEy)

Blithfield Resv

3x Black Tern, (GJM)

Endon - Denford

Redstart, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Garden Warbler, 5x Sedge Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, (DCo)

Tamworth

Hoopoe reported in garden, (per SB)

Tucklesholme

Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Wigeon, 4x Shelduck, 4x Gadwall, 12x Egyptian Geese, 10x GC Grebe, 4x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 6x Garden Warbler, 6x Reed Warbler, 15x Sedge Warbler, 12x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

Grey Plover, Greenshank, Dunlin on pit opposite quarry entrance, (TPe)

Gun Hill

3x Cuckoo, 2x Hobby, (PEa)

Hollington

Goshawk at 15:40 taking a Jay, (BSi)