Sunday 19th June 2022

Knypersley Resv

2x Oystercatcher, 2x Mandarin, 10x Grey Wagtail, (GBr)

Wombourne

Red Kite over low this am, (DBa)

Drayton Bassett

Red Kite over at 10:55, (MSm)

Uttoxeter Quarry

11x Little Egret, 2x Common Tern, (RPo)

Doxey Marsh

3x Common Tern, 2x Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Water Rail, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 43x Gadwall, Pintail also large Tern Species went very high east, (MBo, WeBS)

Whitemoor Haye

5x LRP, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Corn Bunting, 6x Tree Sparrow, Grey Partridge, Cetti's Warbler, Goldeneye, Common Tern, 4x Little Egret, (SCo)

Gailey Resv

2x Spotted Flycatcher still and 2 new Oystercatcher chicks, (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Red Kite thru, Hobby, Common Sandpiper, LRP, 

Tittesworth Water

Green Sandpiper, 13x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 12x Mandarin, Spotted Flycatcher, (JOa, LH)

Croxden Quarry

Black-necked Grebe this evening, (ABa)

Chase Terrace

Red Kite over south, 

Baswich

Cuckoo, (GHa)

Saturday 18th June 2022

Stanley Pool

Red Kite at 06:40, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Sandwich Tern over JW, (MSm),  -  Grey Plover thru JW at 10:45, Snipe drumming, (SPA)

Swindon/Highgate/Bobbington

Curlew, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Corn Bunting, 2x juv Stonechat, (IMo)

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over at 11:40, (MKe, LDa)

Tittesworth Water

Dipper, Little Egret, (IGi, IB)

Catholme

6x Green Sandpiper, 2x LRP, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA 

Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 2x Oystercatcher, Cetti's Warbler,  -  Alrewas -Wychnor,  Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Bottleslow Flash

9x LRPs this evening, (RTo)

Cannock Chase

6x Nightjar, 9x Woodcock, 8x Stonechat, 3x Tree Pipit, (MKe, PKe, JKe)

Rocester (JCB lake)

Oystercatcher, several pairs of Common Terns, (JTu)

Friday 17th June 2022

Drointon

Red Kite at 10:45, (PBe)

Alrewas NMA

Red Kite, Common Tern, Little Egret, (RBe)

                                                           Reed Warbler by Rob Bendelow

Cannock Wood

Hobby over at 17:12, (BCh)

Branston GPs

6x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 59x Lapwing, 12x Pochard, 29x Shelduck, YL Gull, 6x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

                                                             YL Gull by Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 16th June 2022

Middleton Lakes

Wood Sandpiper on JW north, (MSm)

Tittesworth Water

11x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 11x Mandarin, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH)

Barton under Needwood

Red Kite over at 13:06, (JWo)

Bobbington

4x Corn Bunting by the vineyard,  (HKi)

Eccleshall

2x Spotted Flycatcher at the churchyard, (GHa)

Penn Common

2x Ringed-necked Parakeet, (MM)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, Redshank, Green Sandpiper

Wednesday 15th June 2022

Warlslow

Red Kite over south, (DGH)

Newboorough

Red Kite over, (VHa)

Tucklesholme / Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, 4x Pochard, Little Egret, 7x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Tuesday 14th June 2022

Endon - Denford

3x Oystercatcher, 2x Green Woodpecker, 5x Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, (DCo)

Cannock Chase

6x Redstart, 5-6x Cuckoo, 7x Tree Pipit, 7x Stonechat, 2x Garden Warbler, Green Woodpecker, (DBa)

Middleton Lakes

22x Avocet (inc juvs), 3x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, 24x Shoveler, 3x Wigeon, 7x Common Tern, (MSc)

Doxey Marsh

LRP, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, (RSt)

Stafford

Oystercatcher NE over Park Avenue at 17:40, (AHa)

Branston GPs

Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 2x Redshank, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Cuckoo, Hobby, 2x Green Woodpecker, Little Egret, Water Rail, YL Gull, 5x Common Tern, 26x Pochard, 54x Gadwall, 54x Shelduck, 3x Garden Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Monday 13th June 2022

Uttoxeter

Red Kite over the A522 at Beamhurst, (SJT)

Leek

Red Kite SE over Leek Road, (FCa)

Botteslow Flash

4x LRP this evening, (RTo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Red-necked Phalarope at 18:10 and still present to 20:16 when it flew off SW, also Ferruginous Duck still, 

Barton under Needwood

Adult Med Gull over this am, (JWo)

Branston GPs

Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, Cuckoo, 18x Pochard, 70x Gadwall, 53x Shelduck, 2x Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Sunday 12th June 2022

Coven 

2x Hobby, (JDu)

Bobbington

Yellow Wagtail off Leaton Lane, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

Hobby hunting at 11:00, (AHa)

Ipstones Edge

2x Red Kite 12:00 to 13:00 around mown fields, 3x Curlew, (SCh) - Red Kite over Ipstones at 17:30, (SCh)

Cannock Chase

Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 4x Cuckoo, 5x Tree Pipit, 3x Redstart, Stonechats, (SRi)  -  5x Nightjar, (BCh)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew, 3x LRP, 2x Dunlin, 30x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 13x Shelduck, (MJa)

Biddulph

Hobby at Rockend at 14:20, (ALo)

Botteslow Flash

3x LRP still commuting to and from to feed, (BMo)

Middleton Lakes

Avocet, Ringed Plover, Little Egret, Common Tern, (RBe)

Cuckoo Bank

2x Yellow Wagtail, 5x Common Tern thru, 

Cheddleton

2x Red Kite over Rod Wood, (EWi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Catholme

Hobby, Oystercatcher, 2x Shelduck, 9x Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Little Egret, 4x Oystercatcher, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Garden Warbler, - Alrewas to Wychnor Common Tern, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Loynton Moss

Hobby at 20:00, (AR)

Butterton Moor

Red Kite over south at 13:25, (TJe)

Saturday 11th June 2022

Handsacre

Red Kite over, (GSt)

Cheddleton Heath

2x Red Kite drifting over west, (PCa)

Codsall

2x Hobby over Watery Lane, Green Woodpecker, (PCo)

Alvecote

3x Common Tern, (MSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Friday 10th June 2022

Endon

5x Oystercatcher over, (DCo)

Whiston 

2x Red Kite over mown fields 14:15 to 14:45, (GSt)

Doxey Marsh

LRP, Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, Little Egret, (RRa)

Branston GPs

4x Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, Ad Common Gull, 6x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Mandarin, Shoveler, (DSc)

Cannock Chase

5x Nightjar, 29x Woodcock, 3x Tree Pipit, 5x Stonechat, (MKe, LDa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck, 4x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, 

Thursday 9th June 2022

Tittesworth Water

12x LRP, Redshank, 6x Common Sandpiper, 14x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Redstart, (JOa, LH)

Whitemoor Haye

Cuckoo, Hobby, 2x Dunlin, 3x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, (SCo)

Branston GPs

Cuckoo, Hobby, 2x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 7x Oystercatcher, 3x juv Water Rail, 19x Pochard, 84x Gadwall, 46x Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, 4x Common Tern, 2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Botteslow Flash

2x LRP still commuting to and from the flash.

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Garganey, Ferruginous Duck, Hobby, 

Wednesday 8th June 2022

Endon

4x Oystercatcher over, (DCo)

Tittesworth Water

10x LRP, 8x Common Sandpiper, 2x Curlew, 8x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, 2x Willow Tit, 2x Common Tern, 24x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Peregrine, (SGi)

                                                             Redstart by Steve Gibson

                                                    Common Sandpiper by Steve Gibson

Eccleshall

Spotted Flycatchers behind the church, (AWa)

Blithfield Resv

Dunlin at the causeway, (JTu)

Tucklesholme / Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 3x Shelduck, 2x Pochard, Gadwall, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, 7x Cetti's Warbler,  4x Common Tern, (JWo)

                                                         Skylark by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck still, 

Tuesday 7th June 2022

Stafford

Red Kite over SE, (RSt)

Tamworth 

Red Kite over Belgrave at 11:00, (SCl)

Swythamley

Red Kite, (DCo)

Castletown Stafford

Cuckoo at 12:00, (AR)

Tucklesholme

Red Kite at 14:50, (GLy)

Cannock Chase

4-5 Cuckoo, 8x Stonechat, 4x Tree Pipit, 8x Redstart, Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, (DBa)

Doxey Marsh

2x Water Rail, Common Tern, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, (SRi)

Ipstones

Cuckoo, (SCh)

Branston GPs

Sanderling, 10x Dunlin, 10x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, Curlew, 50x Gadwall, Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 6th June 2022

Tucklesholme

2x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 12x Pochard, Gadwall, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)  -  probable 1s Arctic Tern, (TWy)

Cheddleton

Red Kite over at 10:45, (MKe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Grey Plover, 9x Ringed Plover, 4x Dunlin, 2x Avocet, Greenshank, Garganey, Cuckoo, Lesser Whitethroat, 4x Goosander, Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, (NDP)

Cannock Chase

3x Yellowhammer, 4x Garden Warbler, 10x Tree Pipit, 4x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Cuckoo, 3x Redstart, 9x Stonechat, (ABl)

Branston GPs

Turnstone, 11x Dunlin, 15x Ringed Plover, 6x Curlew, Redshank, 7x Oystercatcher, 21x Pochard, 72x Gadwall, 60x Shelduck, 5x Mandarin, 2x Little Egret, Water Rail, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, 6x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Weston Park

Red Kite over at 16:30, (ETh)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Little Tern to 10:26 only, Ferruginous Duck, 

Sunday 5th June 2022

Uttoxeter Quarry

Grey Plover, 2x Avocet, Greenshank, Garganey, 3x Mandarin, 2x Shoveler, 2x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, (RPo)

                                                    Avocets by Richard Powell

                                                       Grey Plover by Richard Powell

Branston GPs

Little Tern over Sandy pit. (TWy)  -  2x Turnstone, Sanderling and 3x Dunlin, Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 22x Pochard, 54x Gadwall, 9x Mandarin, on Ashy pit, c1000x Swift, (JWo)  -  additional Hobby, 6x Ringed Plover, 3x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes

Turnstone briefly JW north, Sanderling, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Dunlin, 3x Ringed Plover, (TPe, MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Adult Kittiwake, 4x Sanderling, Ferruginous Duck, Hobby, 

Saturday 4th June 2022

Tittesworth Water

2x Garganey, 4x Common Tern, Spotted Flycatcher, Red Kite, Redstart, (SGi, IB, KH)

Knypersley Resv

2x Little Egret over at 06:10, (GBr)

Coven

Red Kite over, (JDu)

Doxey Marsh

Little Tern at 12:35 at Creswell Flash but no further sign by 13:24, 5x LRP, Ringed Plover, Redshank, Cuckoo, Little Egret, (MBo)

Wolseley Bridge

2x Common Tern, Garden Warbler, (AR)

Cannock Chase

12x Stonechat, 3x Tree Pipit, (JKe, MKe)  -  2x Nightjar, (BCh)

Blithfield Resv

Redshank, 8x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 3x Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, Common Terns, Cuckoo, 10x Shelduck, 3x Goosander, (MJa)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Marsh Harrier, Cuckoo, 25x Common Tern, 

Friday 3rd June 2022

Middleton Lakes

Drake Garganey on JW south, (MSm)  -  24x Avocet, 4x Redshank, Snipe, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 4x Oystercatcher, Cuckoo, (MSc)

Caverswall

Red Kite over at 10:00, (BBo)

Ipstones

Red Kite over west at 10:40, (SCh)

Blithfield Resv

3x Dunlin, 2x Oystercatcher, 6x Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 2x Common Tern, 8x Shelduck, Wigeon, 9x Gadwall, (JPe)

Swinscoe

Red Kite, (DCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Roseate Tern off Chappell hide from 13:20 but flew south at 15:05, also fem Ferruginous Duck still,

North Staffs Moors

Merlin, (EKi)  -  also 3x Wheatear away from the usual locations. (TEy)

Tittesworth Water

4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, (EKi)

Thursday 2nd June 2022

Gailey Resv

4x Common Tern, 4x Oystercatcher, 3x Yellow Wagtail, Spotted Flycatcher, (SRi)

Weston Coyney

Red Kite over at 12:10, (SFe)

Tittesworth Water

Dunlin the only new bird of note, (SGi)

Middleton Lakes

Red Kite north over JW,

Uttoxeter

Peregrine, (AR)

Huntington

2x Red Kite over at 15:20, SRi)

Tucklesholme / Branston Leas

Cuckoo, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 4x Common Tern, 10x Pochard, 5x Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Garden Warbler, (JWo)

Ipstones Edge

2x Curlew, 3x Tree Sparrow, (SCh)

Branston GPs

Redshank, 11x Oystercatcher, 19x Shelduck, Goosander, 24x Gadwall, Snow Goose, Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Garden Warbler, (MKe, JKe)  -  additional Sanderling, 2x Ringed Plover, 4x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail thru south, (DSc)

Doxey Marsh

3x Common Tern, 

Cannock Chase

6x Nightjar, Cuckoo, Woodcock, 3x Stonechat, (JKe, MKe)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Fem Ferruginous Duck still, 

Wednesday 1st June 2022

Branston GPs

Sanderling, Redshank, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Teal, Mandarin, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -   Red Kite thru south early pm, (TWy, NJS)

Tuesday 31st May 2022

Middleton Lakes

10x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Great Egret, (MSm)

Gun Moor

Red Kite over this afternoon, (SHi)

                                                                   By Sylvia Hill

Branston GPs

Possible distant Little Stint, 2x Sanderling, 8x Dunlin, 8x Ringed Plover, 5x Curlew, 3x Redshank, 5x Oystercatcher, 2x Water Rail, 2x Little Egret, 16x Pochard, 42x Gadwall, 38x Shelduck, 9x Mandarin, 7x Common Tern, Hobby, Barn Owl, Cuckoo, Green Woodpecker, 5x Garden Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, DSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

c3000 Swifts, 

Monday 30th May 2022

Doxey Marsh

Cuckoo, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 2x Goosander, (RRa)

Lichfield

Hobby over Morrisons at 14:55, (JPe)

Sunday 29th May 2022

Aqualate

1s Little Gull, Avocet SE at 10:45, fem type Marsh Harrier, (IGr)

Tittesworth Water

12x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 12x Oystercatcher, 3x Common Tern, Mandarin, Goosander, Willow Tit, 2x Redstart, 2x Pied Flycatcher, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Cuckoo, (JOa, LH, KH)

Cannock Chase

2x Woodcock, (MKe)

Doxey Marsh

Cuckoo this evening, (APr)

Cannock Chase

Nightjars, 4x Woodcock, (BCh)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Avocet, Redshank, 1s Med Gull, 

Saturday 28th May 2022

Tittesworth Water

11x LRP, 7x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Redstart, 2x Pied Flycatcher, Willow Tit, Cuckoo, Dipper, Goosander, (SGi, IB)

Cuckoo Bank

Corn Bunting, Cuckoo, Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, 

Cheslyn Hay

Lesser Whitethroat Strawberry Lane cemetary, (LK)

Alrewas NMA

4x Common Tern, 2x Oystercatcher, 3x Goosander, Mandarin, Gadwall,   Alrewas -  Wychnor  Cuckoo, 2x Common Tern, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

2x Sanderling, 4x Dunlin, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Tern, 12x Pochard, 36x Shelduck, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Mandarin, (DSc)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck, 1s Little Gull, Curlew, Hobby,

Friday 27th May 2022

Branston GPs

Redshank, 2x Ringed Plover, 5x Oystercatcher, 6x Common Tern, 26x Shelduck, 44x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, Green Woodpecker, 4x Garden Warbler, 500x Swift, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

3x LRP, 6x Oystercatcher, 5x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, 2x Shelduck, (JEP) - also Common Terns, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (RBe)

                                                      Common Tern by Rob Bendelow

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Ferruginous Duck and 1s Little Gull, 

Thursday 26th May 2022

Blithfield Resv

3x Sanderling at the causeway, (GJM)

                                                                   By GJ Mant

Cannock Chase

Red Kite over Sherbrook Valley at 08:20 also Curlew, (KPo)

Trentham

Hobby over the lake, (GSa)

Tittesworth Water

12x LRP, 6x Common Sandpiper, 10x Oystercatcher, 2x Common Tern, Cuckoo, (JOa, LH)

Bromley Hurst

Red Kite again this am, (NHi)

Branston GPs

9x Ringed Plover, 2x Redshank, 4x Oystercatcher, 12x Common Tern, 48x Gadwall, 37x Shelduck, 8x Pochard, 2x Shoveler, Green Woodpecker, c800x Swift, 5x Garden Warbler, 2x Crucifer Shieldbugs, (JWo)

                                                     Crucifer Shieldbug by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Fem Ferruginous Duck, 20x Black-tailed Godwit to 06:48 only, 1s Little Gull, ad Med Gull, Arctic Tern,