Saturday 12th October 2019

Whitemoor Haye
3x Great White Egret, 18x Little Egret, also drake Hooded Merganser of unknown origin at 08:40, (DAb)  -  2x Goldeneye, 3x Swallow, Golden Plover, 20x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, (BirderAlrewas)

Tittesworth Water
4x Whooper Swan, 9x Wigeon, 3x Goosander, 67x Lapwing, (SG, WLH, IB, CT)  -  30x Pink-footed Geese over at 10:15, (JOa, SF)

Branston GPs
Cattle Egret still in sheep field at 09:45, (CEc)  -  also 5x Little Egret, Egyptian Goose, 65x Little Grebe, Pintail, 36x Shoveler, 18x Gadwall, 250x Teal, 67x Pochard, 8x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 54x Skylark thru, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, 3x Migrant Hawkers, (DSc)

Gailey Resv
Cetti's Warbler c50 yards east of the hide, (IMo)

River Sow Meadows
40x Wigeon, 2x Gadwall, 55x Teal, 50x Lapwing, (RSw)

Cannock Chase
60x Pink-footed Geese east over the Stepping Stones, (BirderAlrewas)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Black-necked Grebe, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 28x Golden Plover, 20x Snipe, juv Peregrine, 

Hanford
Peregrine on incinerator chimney at 11:20, (ASt)

Biddulph
2x Swallow over, (SSe)

Audley Meadows
5x Swallow, Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, (PDo)

Friday 11th October 2019

Branston GPs
Cattle Egret on Ashy Pit sheep field, 2x Little Egret, 4x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, Snipe, 5x Lapwing, Pintail, 58x Pochard, 6x Wigeon, 52x Shoveler, 10x Gadwall, 212x Teal, 59x Little Grebe, 2x GBB Gull, 30x Pied Wagtail, c500x Starling, Migrant Hawker, (JWo)

By Jon Woodcock

Middleton Lakes
3x Great White Egret and 23x Little Egret roosted riverside, Pintail, 6x Goosander, Stonechat, 2x Common Gull, 50x Snipe, (MercianBirding)

Thursday 10th October 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, fem Pintail, Stonechat, (SAt)

Kings Bromley
Red Kite over SE at 11:00, (SSt)

Berryhill
Whinchat, 5x Stonechat

Wednesday 9th October 2019

Westport Lake
Drake Common Scoter still

Berryhill
80x Pink-footed Geese over east at 08:45, vismig - 608x Redwing,  77x Pied Wagtail, 13x Swallow over. Present Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, (RTo, DWa)

Middleton Lakes
2x Stonechat, 3x Pintail, 24x Snipe, 240x Lapwing, (MSc)

Branston GPs
3x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, 60x Shoveler, 160x Teal, 2x Water Rail, 12x Curlew, 3x Lapwing, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x YL Gull, 12x GBB Gull, 2x Swallow, 30x Pied Wagtail thru south, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Tuesday 8th October 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Cattle Egret on the dam, (GJM)

By GJ Mant

Westport Lake
Drake Common Scoter still, (DKe)

Branston GPs
Ruddy Shelduck, Pintail, 9x Wigeon, 71x Pochard, 8x Gadwall, 190x Teal, 45x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 73x Little Grebe, 8x Curlew, 50x Lapwing, 4x Little Egret, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, GBB Gull, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 2x Migrant Hawker, 3x Small White, Red Admiral, 6x Pipistrelle Bat, (JWo)

Great Bridgeford
Hobby over the A5013 at 17:15, (RSw)

Trentham Gardens
23x Mandarin, 2x Little Egret, 4x Gadwall, (RTo)

Monday 7th October 2019

Westport Lake
Drake Common Scoter still, (DKe)

Trentham Gardens
13x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, (MJW)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
One Brent Goose still, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 150x Redwing, 208x Tufted Duck, (GJM)

Silverdale CP
Jack Snipe and 20x Snipe on the Void, (PJo)

Sunday 6th October 2019

Whitemoor Haye
Cetti's Warbler along track opp old new workings, Merlin, Grey Partridge, 17x Little Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 40x Shoveler, 23x Lapwing, (AlrewasBirder)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Dark bellied Brent Geese at deep end but flighty, (GJM)

By GJ Mant

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Rock Pipit on the dam also Great White Egret

Westport Lake
Drake Common Scoter, (PJo)

By Steve Edwards

Essington Quarry Pool
Grasshopper Warbler, (JJO, JJH, SH, WDB)

Upper Elkstone
Ring Ouzel (DGH)

Radford Meadows
Great White Egret, Peregrine, 30x Shoveler, (CDa)

Branston GPs
Injured Great White Egret still on BM Pit, 6x Little Egret, 78x Little Grebe, 2x Egyptian Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Mandarin, Pintail, 65x Shoveler, 100x Teal, 32x Gadwall, 62x Pochard, 210x Tufted Duck, Peregrine, 2x Water Rail, 25x Lapwing, Ruff, 12x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 20x Snipe, 18x GBB Gull, 1w YL Gull, 5x Common Gull, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 4x Migrant Hawker, 7x Common Darter, 3x Red Admiral, Comma, Large White Butterfly, (DSc)

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret

Saturday 5th October 2019

Whitemoor Haye
40x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 36x Shoveler, 2x Gadwall, 6x Teal, Wigeon, 70x Linnet, Yellowhammer in song, 2x Little Egret, (BirderAlrewas)

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 41x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, (SAt)  -  Hobby, 3x Pintail, 3x Goosander, (MercianBirding)

i54
55x Redwing, 6x Grey Wagtail, 17x Linnet, Snipe, (JDu)

Berryhill
Merlin over south at 08:40, 7x Whooper Swan south at 10:40, 17x Pink-footed Geese over west at 10:35, 862x Redwing over, 608x Meadow Pipit over, (RTo, NDP, DWa, PBi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Vismig 07:00 - 09:15, Rock Pipit, 75x Meadow Pipit, 203x  Redwing, 64x Skylark

Ford Green
Spotted Flycatcher, (JJo)

Branston GPs
Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, 9x Curlew, 8x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 33x Lapwing, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Pintail, 55x Shoveler, 28x Gadwall, 18x Wigeon, 150x Teal, Hobby thru, 72x Little Grebe, 2x Water Rail, 14x GBB Gull, ad YL Gull, 20x Pied Wagtail thru south, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Barn Owl, (DSc)

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, (DSc)

Friday 4th October 2019

Middleton Lakes
Marsh Harrier over Dosthill NR at 18:45, Great White Egret and Pintail on JW, 36x Little Egret roosted riverside, (MercianBirding)

Cheddleton
60x Redwing over south, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale
4x Redwing, (TEy)

i54
8x Redwing, (MFo)

Branston GPs
3x Ruff, 8x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, 16x Lapwing, 14x Snipe, fem Ruddy Shelduck, 68x Pochard, 7x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 70x Shoveler, 72x Teal, 84x Little Grebe, 2x Great White Egret, 4x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, 2x GBB Gull, 2x Stonechat (p), 3x Cetti's Warbler, c500 Starling, 3x Tawny Owl, 6+ Migrant Hawker, Painted Lady, 5+ Pipistrelle Bats, (JWo)

Fem Ruddy Shelduck By Jon Woodcock

Staffs

Thursday 3rd October 2019

Stafford Common
Gannet over east at 12:29, (AHa)

Berryhill
Whinchat and 5x Stonechat still, Hobby over south. Vismig 774x Meadow Pipits SW also 53x Redwing over, (RTo, DWa, NDP)

Alrewas
Imm Gannet ENE over the A38 at 14:10, (TLo)

Cheslyn Hay
Fieldfares and Redwings over, (CMa)

Wednesday 2nd October 2019

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Whooper Swan north over the dam, (GJM)

Cheddleton
16x Pink-footed Geese over SE at 10:00, (DSc)

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, 5x Stonechat (SAt) - Jack Snipe flushed from a stubble field near JW

Radford Meadows
Great White Egret opposite second viewpoint by boat club, (CDa)

Knypersley Resv
2x Siskin, Willow Tit, (GBr)

Trentham Gardens
2x Little Egret, 5x Mandarin, (DEm)

Branston GPs
9x Curlew, 3x Ruff, 40x Lapwing, Great White Egret, 5x Little Egret, Pintail, Shoveler, Wigeon, Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Stonechat, Green Sandpiper, (CEc)

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, Stonechat,

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 7x Stonechat still

Whittington Farm
Peregrine, c300 Swallow, (JLi)

Tuesday 1st October 2019

Doxey Marsh
Great White Egret, 2x Little Egret, 30x Lapwing, 10x Snipe, 50x Teal, (RRa)

Monday 30th September 2019

Stoke (South Handford farm)
Whinchat, 15x Lapwing, (RGi)

Stoke
Ring-necked Parakeet calling in trees in trees along the canal at Festival Park, (JBr)

Berryhill
Visible migration session produced another good passage of 2285x Meadow Pipits, also 2x overhead Wheatears which is unusual here. Amongst common migrants over were 42x Skylark, 9x Redwing, 10x Siskin, 78x Chaffinch, 17x Linnet, 11x Greenfinch, 3x Reed Bunting,  (NDP, RTo, DWa)  - 3x Whinchat, 7x Stonechat in the paddocks, (SE, HF)  -  2x Wheatear present on the top slag mound.

Whinchat by Steve Edwards

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Little Owl, Little Egret, Wigeon, Shoveler, (DBa)

Branston GPs
Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 7x Snipe, 67x Pochard, 17x Wigeon, 36x Gadwall, 77x Shoveler, 115x Teal, Mandarin, 89x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 10x Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Sunday 29th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, 4x Stonechat,

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Merlin, juv Arctic Tern, Common Sandpiper, 500x Meadow Pipit

Chasewater
Common Sandpiper, ad Med Gull in roost, Goosander,

Berryhill
5x Whinchat and 9x Stonechat in vegetated field just west of the Viewpoint also 3x Wheatear nearby and a Golden Plover over, (RTo)

Knypersley Resv
Redwing by visitor centre also Willow Tit by Osier beds, (GBr)

Radford Meadows
3x Golden Plover, 18x Snipe, 80x Lapwing, 26x Shoveler, 15x Wigeon, 55x Teal, 2x Gadwall, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Osprey, 2x Med Gull, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Wheatear, Goldeneye, (Kay)  -  adult Med Gull, (MYa)

Whitemoor Haye
7x Little Egret, Goldeneye, 5x Shoveler, 247x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Common Gull, (BirderAlrewas)

Alrewas
Hobby, (JWo)

Branston GPs
Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, 54x Little Grebe, Barnacle Goose, Mandarin, Pintail, 12x Wigeon, 180x Teal, 38x Shoveler, 55x Pochard, 4x Green Sandpiper, 50x Lapwing, ad YL Gull, 20x GBB Gull, (DSc)

Saturday 28th September 2019

Tittesworth Water
5x Common Tern, (JOa, etal)

Longnor
12x Fieldfare,  (JOa)

Middleton Lakes
Cattle Egret on North Pit

Berryhill
2648x Meadow Pipits over from 06:45 during vismig. Present were 8x Stonechat, 3x Wheatear, Whinchat, 6x Fieldfare, Peregrine, (DWa, PBi, NDP)

Trentham Lakes
Peregrine over the Bet365 stadium (KDa)

Whitemoor Haye
2x Great White Egret, 14x Little Egret, (BirderAlrewas)

Alvecote
4x Little Egret, 2x Whinchat, Hobby, (MSc)

River Sow Meadows
Hobby, 2x Stonechat, 23x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, (RSw)

Chasewater
2x Ad Med Gull, 1w Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull, 2x Hobby

Friday 27th September 2019

Stafford
15x Pink-footed Geese over Weeping Cross to the SW, (HKi)

Whitemoor Haye
6x Great White Egret, 41x Little Egret, 8x Grey Partridge, 600x Lapwing, Peregrine, (BirderAlrewas)

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, Stonechat, also 51x Wigeon on Dosthill NR, (SAt)

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (RTo, NDP, DWa)

Alrewas
Great White Egret over, (BirderAlrewas)

Alvecote
Great White Egret, Pochard, (MSc)

Branston GPs
7x Green Sandpiper, 6x Curlew, 45x Lapwing, 2x Great White Egret, 6x Little Egret, Pintail, 58x Pochard, 26x Gadwall, 64x Shoveler, Wigeon, 150x Teal, 4x Water Rail, 63x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 22x GBB Gull, 3x Cetti's Warbler, c500 Starling, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Thursday 26th September 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe still, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 5x Ringed Plover, (DJa)  -  LRP, Peregrine, 

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 2x Snipe, 48x Wigeon, 3x Stonechat, Water Rail, (MSm)  - 2x Hobby

Doxey Marsh 
Great White Egret still, (MSc)

Tittesworth Water
2x Fieldfare over, (SF)  -  40x Lapwing, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
3x Common Tern NW at 09:10, Whinchat, 2x Wheatear, Common Sandpiper, (GJM)

Chasewater
2x Caspian Gull (1w and 2w), ad Med Gull, 6x YL Gull

Cuckoo Bank
2x Swift thru

Codsall
3x Ring-necked Parakeet over the High School at 17:45, (IMo)

Wednesday 25th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Greenshank, 10x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 3x Pintail, 82x Wigeon, 3x Stonechat, Water Rail, (MSm)

Berryhill
4x Whinchat, 5x Wheatear, 6x Stonechat also 2x Fieldfare thru, (RTo, NDP, DWa)

Doxey Marsh
3x Great White Egret, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Pochard, (JSp)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe still, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, 2x Snipe, Little Egret, 9x Egyptian Geese, 

Ingestre Floods
Spotted Flycatcher, 3x Green Sandpiper, 6x Mandarin, 2x Wigeon, (RCB)

Hixon Airfield
Wheatear, (RCB)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
YL Gull, Green Sandpiper, 6x Yellow Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, (RCB)

Tuesday 24th September 2019

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Jack Snipe, 4x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, 8x Ringed Plover, LRP, Dunlin, 

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only
Wheatear, Whinchat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 12x Wigeon, (GJM)

Middleton Lakes
Green Sandpiper, 18x Snipe, Great White Egret, 2x Pintail, 19x Wigeon, Hobby, (MSm)

Branston GPs
Ruff, 8x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, 32x Lapwing, 74x Pochard, 5x Wigeon, 62x Shoveler, 32x Gadwall, 156x Teal, 3x Mandarin, 83x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 12x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail + juv, 2x Common Gull, 22x GBB Gull, 3x Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, Dean)

Monday 23rd September 2019

Middleton Lakes
3x Great White Egret, 2x Golden Plover, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 13x Snipe, Hobby, (MSm)

Berryhill
3x Whinchat, 3x Wheatear, 3x Stonechat, also 367x Meadow Pipit over SW, (RTo, DWa)

Doxey Marsh
Ruff at the back of Creswell Flash with 100x Lapwing, 2x Snipe, Little Egret,8x Gadwall, 8x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler (JSp)  -  also Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Pochard, Wigeon, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
Whinchat, Stonechat, 2x Wheatear, 13x Yellow Wagtail, 3x Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Owl, 2x Tree Sparrow, Lesser Whitethroat, (DBa)

Burston Marsh
Hobby, 3x Snipe, 33x Teal, 5x Wigeon, (AEa)

Whitmore Bent Lane
Cetti's Warbler calling, (AMa)

Chasewater
Hobby over Norton Bog, (KWh)

Cannock Chase
7x Snipe, Stonechat, (PAn)

Silverdale
Ring-necked Parakeet (DTo)

Sunday 22nd September 2019

Cuckoo Bank
6x Stonechat,

Middleton Lakes
3x Great White Egret, (MJa)

Berryhill
Whinchat, Stonechat, 3x Snipe, (RTo, NDP)

Tittesworth Water
110x Lapwing, 2x Wigeon, Goosander, (JOa)

Clayton
Redstart, 2x Willow Warbler at Bunnyhill, (RGi)

Chasewater
Hobby

Saturday 21st September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Greenshank, 11x Snipe, 2x Great White Egret, 4x Pochard, 2x Water Rail, (MSm)

Tucklesholme
Great White Egret, (Kay)

Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Ringed Plover, 2x Green Sandpiper, 15x Wigeon, 21x Shoveler, 58x Teal, Goosander, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water
30x Common Gull, Little Egret, 40x Lapwing, (JOa)

Friday 20th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 23x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, (MSm) - Black-tailed Godwit, (DCo)

Berryhill
Whinchat, Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 4x Snipe, Willow Tit, Whitethroat,  also 674x Meadow Pipits over SW with other common migrants, (RToon, NDP, DWa)  -  Redstart still, Peregrine, 4x Stonechat, (PSa)

Aston Pool
Hobby, 4x Snipe, (Hoppy)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)
Juv Little Gull early afternoon, 13x Egyptian Geese

Branston GPs
2x Ruff, Common Sandpiper, 7x Green Sandpiper, 14x Curlew, 19x Lapwing, 2x Pintail, 97x Pochard, 14x Wigeon, 341x Teal, 123x Shoveler, 46x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 79x Little Grebe, Great White Egret, 7x Little Egret,  3x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Peregrine, Tawny Owl, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Codsall
10-12x Ring-necked Parakeet around Moatbrook Avenue, (HT)

Thursday 19th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
2x Great White Egret, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 23x Snipe, Pintail, 19x Wigeon, Yellow Wagtail, Hobby, (MSm)

Alvecote
4x Pintail, 10x Wigeon, 2x Little Egret, 14x Little Grebe, (MSc)

Whittington Farm
Barn Owl, Peregrine, c1000 Swallow, (JLi)

Wednesday 18th September 2019

Middleton Lakes
Great White Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 11x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Berryhill, 
Vismig from 06:30 - c50x Pink-footed Geese, 1070x Meadow Pipit, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Grey Wagtail, 10x Skylark over SW. (DWa, NDP, RTo)

Blithfield Resv (WMBC members only)
2x Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, 5x Yellow Wagtail, (DBa)

Burston Marsh
33x Teal, 3x Wigeon, 5x Snipe, Little Owl, (AEa)

Doxey Marsh
Green Sandpiper along River Sow, (NGr)