Saturday 19th November 2022

Blithfield Resv

Glossy Ibis in Tad Bay to 10:20 only, (MJa)  -  Curlew Sandpiper still, 4x Dunlin, 5x Curlew, 15x Goldeneye, 120x Wigeon, 3x Goosander, Mandarin, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, Peregrine, (BHa)  -  additionally Jack Snipe, 6+ Stonechat, (SRi, ARa)

                                                   Very distant Glossy Ibis by GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 2x Shelduck, 6x Goldeneye, Goosander, 5x Stonechat, (SPA)  -  25x Snipe flushed from North pit by work party at 10:30, 16x Pink-footed Geese thru at 14:45, 3x Jack Snipe flushed from North pit during work party, Great Egret, Pochard, (MSm)

Knypersley Resv

9x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 2x Woodcock by old hatchery, Willow Tit, Little Egret, (GBr)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

11x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, Little Egret, Mandarin, 2x Stonechat, 6x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Pink-footed Goose, 8x Pintail, 

Radford Meadows Stafford

544x Golden Plover, 300x Lapwing, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, 2x Shelduck, 28x Shoveler, 4x Gadwall, 100s Teal/Wigeon, Red Kite drifted west, (RSw)

Uttoxeter Quarry

11x Pink-footed Geese in the Goose flock until they flew north, 200x Golden Plover, 10x Dunlin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, (RPo)

Trescott and Pool Hall area

2x Jack Snipe, 5x Common Snipe, 79x Lapwing, Little Egret, Goosander, (IMo, GCl, CVa, ADe)

Trentham Gardens

Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 2x Common Gull, 6x Little Grebe, (HF)

Berryhill

Woodcock, 8x Stonechat, 11x Redpoll between Fenton Road and Spedding Road, Jack Snipe, 22x Teal and a Barn Owl at Botteslow, Little Egret over, (RTo)

                                                              Redpoll by Clive Wood

Whitemoor Haye

56x Golden Plover, c700 Lapwing, 3x Snipe, fem Merlin, 94x Wigeon, 2x Goldeneye, 38x Pochard, 5x Gadwall, 8x Tree Sparrow, 3x Redpoll, c50 Skylark, c40x Yellowhammer, 14x Egyptian Geese, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Shoveler, 69x Wigeon, 92x Teal, 17x Siskin, 3x Willow Tit, 2x Common Gull, (SGi, IB)

Hanchurch

5x Jack Snipe, 27x Snipe, Woodcock, (RSu)

Branston GPs

Black-tailed Godwit, 12x Curlew, c500 Golden Plover, c350 Lapwing, 3x Redshank, 4x Ruff, 20x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 2x GBB Gull, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 50x Linnet, 4x Redpoll, (DSc)

Tucklesholme

Great White Egret to 16:38 the flew south to roost, 4x Little Egret, 100x Wigeon, 40x Gadwall, 4x Pochard, 4x Snipe, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 8x Pochard, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Friday 18th November 2022

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit Blithe Bay, Curlew Sandpiper still, 28x Little Egret, 47x Dunlin, 825x Teal, (MDJ, GJM)

Middleton Lakes

Grey Plover, Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Shelduck, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Common Scoter to 15:09 only, 

Westport Lake

70+ Goosander at 14:00, (BCa, LCa)

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe still this afternoon, (PJor)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin, 25x Golden Plover, Dunlin, Great Egret, Peregrine, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Shelduck, 7x Tree Sparrow, Stonechat, c1000 Starling, (IWh)

                                                          Merlin by Rob Bendelow

Hoarcross

2x Brambling in the churchyard, (JWo)

Chasewater

Drake Red-crested Pochard still on Norton Bog lagoon, (CW)  -  A Shag reported on south shore and photographed.

Thursday 17th November 2022

Tittesworth Water

Scaup, 52x Wigeon, 75x Teal, 10x Pochard, (SGi)

Admaston

Red Kite at 12:30, (PBe)

Branston GPs

Knot, 35x Dunlin, 1006x Golden Plover, 528x Lapwing, 4x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 15x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, Common Gull, 8x GBB Gull, 4x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 5x Goldeneye, 3x Pintail, 86x Pochard, 9x Greenfinch, 50x Linnet, (JWo)

Wednesday 16th November 2022

Endon - Denford

24x Snipe, 18x Lapwing, Little Egret, Willow Tit, Green Woodpecker, 3x Siskin, (DCo)

Keele

c50 Pink-footed Geese over at 11:10, (MWa)

Trentham Gardens

Female Goldeneye, Pochard, 5x Little Egret, 10x Mandarin, Water Rail, (HF)

Middleton Lakes

2x Golden Plover, 10x Snipe, 2x Pintail, Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, Great Egret, 2x Stonechat, (MSm)

Tucklesholme

14x Pochard, Goosander, 92x Wigeon, 26x Gadwall, 75x Teal, 2x Shoveler, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, 30x Linnet, 5x Redpoll, 8x Greenfinch, 2x Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                        Stonechat by Jon Woodcock

Churnet Valley Cheddleton to Consall

Shoveler, Wigeon, 4x Water Rail, 130x Lapwing, Woodcock, Willow Tit, 50x Siskin, 3x Redpoll, (DSc)

Tuesday 15th November 2022

Blithfield Resv

First winter Kittiwake off Yeatsall Bank, 4x female Common Scoter at deep end, (GJM)

                                                             Kittiwake by GJ Mant

Middleton Lakes

8x Golden Plover, 2x Dunlin, 3x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 5x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 5x Pochard, 

Branston GPs

838x Golden Plover, 17x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 36x Snipe, 285x Lapwing, Common Gull, 4x YL Gull, 15x GBB Gull, Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, 92x Pochard, 2x Barn Owl, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 25x Redpoll, 6x Greenfinch, 80x Linnet, (JWo)

Uttoxeter

c40-50 Pink-footed Geese over at 14:30, (JTu)

Monday 14th November 2022

Aqualate

Savonian Gebe still, Marsh Tit, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, 30x Siskin, (IGri, DBa, CEv)

Middleton Lakes

2x Golden Plover, 3x Dunlin, 6x Snipe, 5x Pochard, 2x Great Egret, (MSm)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

2x Brambling, 200x Fieldfare, (TEy)

Burslem Park

6x Goosander, (PMo)

Fradley Junction

Dipper along canal opposite the Swan pub, (per  DBI)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Redshank, 2x Ruff, 21x Dunlin, 4x Stonechat, 2x Little Egret, Goosander, 8x YL Gull, 

Sunday 13 November 2022

Blithfield Resv

Curlew Sandpiper Blithe Bay, adult Caspian Gull, (GJM, MPR)

Endon STW

Barn Owl, (GBr)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, (BHa)

Whitemoor Haye (WeBS)

141x Golden Plover, 8x Dunlin, 689x Lapwing, fem Merlin, 113x Pochard, 5x Goldeneye, 8x Shoveler, 162x Wigeon, 9x Gadwall, 3x Egyptian Geese, 2x Little Egret, Peregrine, 50x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)

Branston GPs

342x Golden Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Ruff, 150x Lapwing, Redshank, 6x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Common Gull, 85x Pochard, 2x Pintail, 5x Goldeneye, 12x Wigeon, 50x Shoveler, 30x Gadwall, 2x Shelduck, 18x Goosander thru, Barn Owl, YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 2x Brambling, 6x Greenfinch, 40x Redpoll, (DSc)

Millend

Great Egret this afternoon, (SJT)

Alrewas - Wychnor

2x Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Siskin, Little Egret, 4x Greenfinch, 300x Fieldfare, (BHa)

Aqualate 

Slavonian Grebe still at 14:00, (RSw)

Tittesworth Water

6x Shoveler, 18x Pochard, 5x Goosander, 8x Mandarin, 61x Wigeon, 26x Lapwing, 2x Siskin, (LH, JOa)

Furnace Grange Trescott

Jack Snipe, 6x Snipe, 2x Stonechat, 63x Lapwing, 100x Linnet, 20x Skylark, (IMo, CVa, GCl, ADe)

Middleton Lakes

Dunlin, Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 3x Stonechat, Common Gull, 2x Siskin, (Kay)

Cuckoo Bank

26x Golden Plover, Green Sandpiper, 1000+ Fieldfare, Brambling, 7x Wigeon, 4x Goosander, 

Lichfield

4x Yellowhammer, 3x Redpoll, 18x Linnet, 10x Skylark, Little Egret, in fields north of Darnford Lane, (BHa)

Saturday 12th November 2022

Blithfield Resv

Spoonbill in Blithe Bay, (GJM)  -  2x Little Gull off Beech Tree point early afternoon, 17x Brent Geese dropped in Blithe Bay at 12:30, (MPR)

                                                            Spoonbill by GJ Mant

                                                          Brent Geese by GJ Mant

Croxall Lake

Swallow at north end, (MSm)

Burton on Trent

150x Pink-footed Geese in two skeins over north at 09:15, (Dean)

Cheadle

120x Pink-footed Geese SE over Morrisons car park at 10:58, (RPo)

Dresden

c150x Pink-footed Geese over at 10:52, (MJa)

Little Stoke

100x Pink-footed Geese over north at 10:57 and a further 200 east, (DEm)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

2x Whooper Swan thru, Scaup still, 2x Ruff, 20x Brambling, 5x YL Gull, 

Gailey

2x Egyptian Geese over SW, (SRi)

Weston Coyney

190x Pink-footed Geese in two skeins over east at 10:45, (SFe)

Whitemoor Haye

Female Merlin, 150x Golden Plover, Goldeneye, (MSm)  -  Male Merlin at Alrewas end of the rough track, (YB, CEc)

                                                            Merlin by Rob Bendelow

Botteslow Flash

Egyptian Goose to 07:40 only, (RTo)

Knypersley Resv

6x Mandarin, Peregrine, 6x Tawny Owl, 2x Redpoll, Siskin, (GBr)

Branston GPs

14x Curlew, 4x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 20x Golden Plover, 150x Lapwing, 8x Snipe, Red Kite, 6x Little Egret, 3x Water Rail, 2x Egyptian Geese, 58x Pochard, 2x Pintail,  Shelduck, 40x Shoveler, 250x Teal, 5x Goldeneye, Goosander, 5x GBB Gull, Peregrine, Green Woodpecker, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Brambling over, 16x Redpoll, (DSc)

i54

4x Stonechat, Little Egret, 50x Lapwing, 8x Siskin, 18x Skylark, (JDu)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Ruff, 60x Golden Plover, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Shelduck, 10x Pochard, 15x Wigeon, 66x Shoveler, 117x Teal, Peregrine, (RPo)

Tittesworth Water

2x Pochard, 37x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, 58x Teal, 21x Lapwing, 4x Siskin, Willow Tit, (SGi, IB)

Cuckoo Bank

5x Grey Partridge, 2x Stonechat, 48x Goosander, 7x Wigeon, 

Baldwins Gate

200x Pink-footed Geese in two skeins over east at 11:00, (RWh)

Catholme

3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 28x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Alrewas NMA

2x Little Egret, Green Woodpecker, 2x Egyptian Geese, 3x Snipe, (JWo)

Alvecote

Stonechat, Snipe, Little Egret, (MSc)

Trentham Gardens

5x Little Egret, 4x Mandarin, 11x Gadwall, Water Rail, (RGi)

Chasewater

Red-crested Pochard, 9x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 10x Goosander, 2x YL Gull, 3x Stonechat, 

Friday 11th November 2022

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe still, (SGi)

                                                                   By Steve Gibson

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

300x Pink-footed Geese over east this am, Great Egret, 

Shugborough

Skein of Pink-footed Geese over east this am, (LCl)

Little Stone

300x Pink-footed Geese over east at 10:30, (DEm)

Croxall

2x Swallow hanging about around the Noon column, (GSt)

Westport Lake

Med Gull 13:11 to 13:21 only, (KSt)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin this am, Great Egret, Little Egret, Golden Plover, Peregrine, Egyptian Geese, (RBe)

                                                            Merlin by Rob Bendelow

Middleton Lakes

Great Egret, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, 

Himley Great Pool

Kittiwake with Black-headed Gulls before flying off SW, (SEd)

Alrewas  -  Wychnor

Ringtail Hen Harrier at lunchtime, (ASt)

Blithfield Resv

5x Curlew, 16x Dunlin, 14x Common Gull, 3x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 4x Little Egret, Peregrine, 4x Red Kite, 2x Stonechat, (SE,HF)

                                                          Peregrine by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

280x Golden Plover, 250x Lapwing, 5x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 66x Pochard, 34x Gadwall, 14x Wigeon, 86x Shoveler, 425x Teal, 51x Little Grebe, 6x YL Gull, 25x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 5x Greenfinch, 60x Linnet, (JWo)

                                                           GBB Gull by Jon Woodcock

Thursday 10th November 2022

Tittesworth Water

Adult Kittiwake, Common Gull, 2x Pochard, 47x Wigeon, 13x Mandarin, 53x Teal, 2x Willow Tit, 600x Jackdaw, (SGi)

                                                            Kittiwake by Steve Gibson

Whitemoor Haye

Female Merlin, Great Egret, 25x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)  -  Merlin, 2x Grey Partridge, 250x Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, Stonechat, 8x Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, 32x Skylark, Pochard, (BHa)

Alvecote

2x Stonechat, Green Woodpecker, 2x Little Egret, (MSc)

Cheadle

c200 Pink-footed Geese in two skeins west to east at 11:48, (TDu)

Middleton Lakes

9x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, Great Egret, Peregrine and a Starling murmuration this evening, (SPA)

Branston GPs

280x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, 3x Green Sandpiper, Curlew, 12x Snipe, 60x Lapwing, 3x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 3x Goldeneye, 89x Pochard, 38x Wigeon, 93x Shoveler, 36x Gadwall, 368x Teal, 2x Shelduck, 62x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 8x GBB Gull, 2x Peregrine, (JWo)

                                                           Curlew by Jon Woodcock

Wednesday 9th November 2022

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe still, (PNi)

Endon - Denford

Jack Snipe still, 10x Snipe, Water Rail, 2x Mandarin, Peregrine, 5x Redpoll, (DCo)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Grey Partridge, 19x Egyptian Geese, 100x Golden Plover, 3x Dunlin, 300x Lapwing, 2x Stonechat, 44x Skylark, 11x Yellowhammer, Green Woodpecker, Tree Sparrow, (BHa)

Westport Lake

53x Goosander at 13:30, (BCa, LCa)

                                                              By Brain Carthy

Ford Green NR

Ring-necked Parakeet this am over the main pool, (BCa, LCa)

North Staffs Moors

Female Marsh Harrier at 12:30, (NMK)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

1w Kittiwake

Tucklesholme - Branston Leas

6x Little Egret, 10x Pochard, 52x Wigeon, 14x Gadwall, 86x Teal, Goosander, 12x Stonechat, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

5x Stonechat, 5x Cetti's Warbler, (DB)

Burston

2x Red Kite, 2x Snipe, (MJL)

Chasewater Gull roost

2x Caspian Gull, 2x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, 16x Common Gull, 

Tuesday 8th November 2022

Middleton Lakes

Female Red-crested Pochard on Dosthill NR, 3x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, Shelduck, Great Egret, (MSm)

Whitemoor Haye

Hen Harrier again over field south of Fine Lane 13:10 to 13:20 and again at 13:28, (BHa)  -  also 25x Grey Partridge, 60x Golden Plover, 250x Lapwing, 17x Egyptian Geese, Barn Owl, Yellowhammers, Green Woodpecker, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

                                                           Hen Harrier by Rob Bendelow

                                                       Grey Partridge by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, Pink-footed Goose, 2x Ruff, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 

Alvecote

Great Egret, Goosander, Shelduck, (MSc)

Fradley - Alrewas

6x Little Egret, 61x Lapwing, (BHa)

Monday 7th November 2022

Middleton Lakes

13x Golden Plover, 3x Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 2x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Goosander, Stonechat, (MSm)  

Whiston area

Red Kite circling low over field next to the Windy Arbour/Ellaston Rd crossroads on the A52, (GSt)

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe still, Marsh Tit, Red Kite, Cetti's Warbler, (DWa)

Croxall

Cattle Egret in field near the village, (BGe)

Westport Lake

24x Goosander on the main pool, (BCa, LCa)

                                                                  By Brian Carthy

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, (BGe)

Whitemoor Haye

Fem/juv Hen Harrier at 13:38, (RBe)  -  and again for 8 mins from 16:15 viewed from level crossing, (CEc,)

                                                         Hen Harrier by Rob Bendelow

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 2x YL Gull, 2x Stonechat, 

Sunday 6th November 2022

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe still this morning, (IGr)

Doxey Marsh

100x Golden Plover, 2x Great Egret, 20x Greenfinch, Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (DM)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Spoonbill this am, (NDP)  -   also 3x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 6x Dunlin, 3x Green Sandpiper, 2x Redshank, (RPo)

Knypersley Resv

4x Water Rail in Osier beds, 2x Mandarin, (GBr)

Berryhill

4x Stonechats from the Palletstacks, (BMo)

Tittesworth Water

8x Mandarin, 53x Wigeon, 2x Pochard, 2x Snipe, 300x Fieldfare, 2x Willow Tit, Brambling Siskins, (JOa, LH, KH)

                                                                   By Sylvia Hill

Branston GPs

c300 Golden Plover, 240x Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit, 14x Dunlin, 3x Ruff, Redshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Snipe, 11x Curlew, 2x Green Sandpiper, 110x Pochard, 4x Goldeneye, 54x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 4x Water Rail, 9x GBB Gull, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Redpoll, (DSc)  -  additional SMPs 2x YL Gull, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Peregrine, 6x Greenfinch, (JWo)

                                         2 Dunlin with Golden Plovers by Dave Scattergood

Yoxall

2x Little Egret over, (BGe)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

22x Mandarin, 7x Goosander, (TEy)

                                                          Mandarins by Terry Eyre

Whitemoor Haye

Fem/imm Hen Harrier at 15:50, (MBr)

Cuckoo Bank

Male Merlin, 3x Brambling, 11x Stonechat, 24x Redpoll, 9x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, 2x Woodcock, 

Middleton Lakes

9x Great Egret and 45x Little Egret in the riverside roost, 

Furnace Grange Trescott

4x Snipe, Goosander, (IMo)

Westport Lake

27x Goosander, 8x Siskin, (KSt)

Saturday 5th November 2022

Knypersley Resv

2x Brambling by warders tower, 5x Mandarin, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Pintail, Pochard, Goldeneye, 18x Golden Plover, Snipe, (MSm)

Doxey Marsh

Great Egret, Goosander, 16x Snipe, 30x Shoveler, 20x Gadwall, (DM)

Gailey Resv

4x Pochard, Goldeneye, 2x Shoveler, (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Scaup still, 2x Ruff, Dunlin, 6x Mandarin, 

Coven

200x Fieldfare over, (JDu)

Radford Meadows

54x Pink-footed Geese over SW at 09:15, 322x Golden Plover, 263x Lapwing, 3x Snipe, Pintail, 17x Shoveler, 150x Wigeon, 200x Teal, Little Egret, 2x Stonechat, (RSw)

Whitemoor Haye

136x Golden Plover, 550x Lapwing, Dunlin, Snipe, 9x Wigeon, Goldeneye, 2x Pochard, 3x Shoveler, 8x Gadwall, 94x Teal, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 12x Egyptian Geese, 52x Stock Dove, 2x Tree Sparrow, 2x Siskin, (SCo)

Alrewas

84x Wigeon, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  NMA Great Egret, Little Egret, (JWo)

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe this afternoon, (PJor)

Tittesworth Water

42x Snipe, 44x Wigeon, 2x Pochard, 3x Goosander, 2x Willow Tit, Common Gull, 7x Siskin, (SGi, IB)

Catholme

Green Sandpiper, Green Woodpecker, 12x Gadwall, (JWo)

Friday 4th November 2022

Middleton Lakes

Garganey still, 2x Goldeneye, Goosander, Great Egret, 7x Snipe, 3x Stonechat, Green Sandpiper thru, Peregrine, (MSm, SPA)  -  Lesser Spotted Woodpecker over North pit, (Rob)

Carmountside Flash

5x Ring-necked Parakeet over, 30x Teal, (COs)

Whitemoor Haye

Merlin, 28x Golden Plover, 2x Great Egret, this am, (IWh)  - Dunlin, 280x Lapwing, 2x Pochard, Snipe, (MSc)

Hixon airfield

185x Skylark, Stonechat, Peregrine, (RCB)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

Great Egret, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, 70x Fieldfare, (BHa)

Croxall Lakes

2100x Wood Pigeon over south, 300x Fieldfare, Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, (BHa)

Ipstones

Red Kite over 12:00, Dunlin, (SCh)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

900 -1000x Pink-footed Geese over east at 16:45, (TEy)

Branston GPs

270x Golden Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 15x Curlew, 11x Dunlin, 2x Redshank, 3x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 5x Goldeneye, 96x Pochard, 2x YL Gull, 6x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 24x Redpoll, 70x Linnet, 2x Greenfinch, 2x Stonechat, (JWo)

                                                         Goldeneye by Jon Woodcock

Cheadle

500-600x Pink-footed Geese over east in three skeins at 16:44 (Tony)

                                                                   By Tony Durkin

Berryhill

3x Redpoll, (IBu)

Aqualate

Slavonian Grebe, (SGo)

Thursday 3rd November 2022

Tittesworth Water

51x Wigeon, 28x Mandarin, 43x Snipe, 2x Common Gull, 2x Willow Tit, (SGi)

Tucklesholme

Black-tailed Godwit, 3x Snipe, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Goosanders, 8x Stonechat, 40x Linnet, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Fradley - Alrewas 

5x Grey Partridge, Peregrine, 53x Lapwing, Little Egret, 60x Fieldfare, (BHa)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

2x Little Egret, Snipe, (BGe)  -  Great Egret over 14:45, (JTu)

Hazleslade LNR

6x Goosander on pool also Woodcock over, (BCh)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, Red Kite, 3x Stonechat, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (DB)

Wednesday 2nd November 2022

Blithfield Resv

Grey Plover, Curlew Sandpiper, 13x Ringed Plover, (GJM)

Middleton Lakes

2x Pintail, Garganey, Pochard, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)

Endon - Denford

Little Egret, 3x Stonechat, 24x Wigeon, (DCo)

Tucklesholme

3x Snipe, 6x Little Egret, 59x Wigeon, 28x Gadwall, 6x Pochard, 2x Egyptian Geese, 2x Cetti's Warbler, Greenfinch, (JWo)

Croxall Lakes

2x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 3x Greenfinch, (JWo)

Tuesday 1st November 2022

Middleton Lakes

Garganey on east scrape, 5x Pintail, Goldeneye, 3x Goosander, 7x Snipe, 2-3x Great Egret, (MSm)

Gun Moor

10x Stonechat and 8x Snipe on east side of moor (ALa)

Enville

Male Hen Harrier south at 10:23 over Sheepwalks, 2x Red Kite, 5x Goosander, (IWh)

Tucklesholme

2x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 2x Egyptian Geese, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston GPs

5x Pink-footed Geese on Ashy pit sheep fields, 182x Golden Plover, 225x Lapwing, 5x Ruff, 3x Redshank, 10x Dunlin, 16x Curlew, 9x Snipe, Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, Water Rail, 6x Little Egret, Pintail, 97x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 63x Little Grebe, 2x YL Gull, Common Gull, 6x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 9x Greenfinch, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                    Pink-footed Geese by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Water Pipit from Chappel hide,

Newcastle

c70 Pink-footed Geese over Westlands mid am, (GSa)

Barton Marina

14x Pochard, 20x Wigeon, (JWo)

Monday 31st October 2022

Middleton Lakes

Ruddy Shelduck on JW north, flyover Crossbill, 18x Golden Plover, 8x Snipe, 3x Pintail, 2x Goldeneye, 2x Great Egret, 4x Stonechat, (MSm)

Endon - Denford

30x Snipe, Jack Snipe, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

2800x Wood Pigeon thru SW early am, (GJM)

Audley

c1150 Wood Pigeon over Ryehills 07:10 to 07:25, (JHu)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Spoonbill in front of Gazebo hide this afternoon, 

Elford

Possible Rough legged Buzzard reported, in meadow off the A513. (BGe)

Alton - Oakamoor

7x Goosander alongside the railway this afternoon, (JTu)

Branston GPs

2x Green Sandpiper, 7x Snipe, 6x Curlew, Water Rail, Goosander, Shelduck, 7x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 24x Greenfinch, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

 

Sunday 30th October 2022

Cannock Chase

c20 Waxwing over shooting butts flying fast SW at 11:10, (TMG)

Cuckoo Bank

18x Waxwing flew south over central belt, Short-eared Owl flew high north, 40x Stonechat.

Knypersley Resv

Willow Tit, 7x Mandarin, (GBr)

Gailey Resv

3x Pochard, 2x Goldeneye, 1w Common Gull, Siskin, (SRi)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, Rock Pipit thru, 

Alvecote

12x Snipe, Green Woodpecker, (MSc)

Furnace Grange Farm Trescott

Green Sandpiper, 4x Snipe, 2x Little Egret, 200x Fieldfare, (IMo, GCl, CVa, ADe)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, Little Egret, Pochard,

Tittesworth Water

53x Wigeon, 8x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, Willow Tit, (JOa, LH)

Silverdale CP

2x Stonechat, (PCa)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 45x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 12x Common Gull, 3x Red Kite, Peregrine, 3x Goldeneye, 4x Egyptian Geese, (HF, SE)

Endon STW

Barn Owl at 17:10, (DCo)

Branston GPs

15x Curlew, 200x Lapwing, 160x Golden Plover, 3x Redshank, 2x Ruff, 2x Green Sandpiper, 8x Dunlin, 7x Snipe, 60x Little Grebe, 6x Little Egret, 7x Egyptian Geese, 35x Wigeon, 87x Pochard, 3x Goldeneye, 2x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Siskin, Redpoll, (DSc)

Saturday 29th October 2022

Alrewas

Willow Tit this am, (SCo)

Belvide Resv (WMBC members only)

Imm Scaup still, 2x Ruff, 3x Dunlin, 13x Golden Plover, 5x Snipe, 3x Pintail, Great Egret flew east, 2x ad YL Gull, 12x Greenfinch, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

150x Golden Plover, Common Sandpiper, Pintail, 22x Shoveler, 43x Pochard, 58x Wigeon, 126x Teal, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, Dipper, Cetti's Warbler, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

52x Golden Plover, 417x Lapwing, Grey Partridge, 183x Teal, 13x Pochard, 74x Wigeon, 22x Gadwall, 13x Shoveler, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, 10x Goldcrest, 18x Egyptian Geese, Tree Sparrow, (SCo)

Tittesworth Water

54x Mandarin, 37x Wigeon, 6x Goosander, Common Gull, (SGi, IB)

Cuckoo Bank

14x Stonechat, 3x Brambling, 21x Redpoll, 8x Siskin, 137x Stock Dove, 

Endon - Denford

Green Woodpecker, Little Egret, Stonechat, 25x Siskin, (ALa)

Radford Meadows

52x Wigeon, Goosander, 242x Lapwing, 4x Stonechat, (RSw)

Branston GPs

180x Lapwing, 12x Golden Plover, 15x Curlew, 2x Redshank, 4x Ruff, 6x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, 8x Snipe, Water Rail, 3x ad YL Gull, 7x GBB Gull, 7x Egyptian Geese, 20x Wigeon, 45x Shoveler, 2x Goldeneye, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, 6x Siskin, (DSc)

                                                        Stonechat by Dave Scattergood

Staffs

Friday 28th October 2022

Wetley Moor

9x Stonechat, 2x Snipe, (ALa)

Fradley - Alrewas towpath

Brambling, 3x Grey Partridge, 19x Skylark, 40x Fieldfare, 90x Redwing, (BHa)

Kings Bromley (A515 layby)

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Snipe, (BHa)

Tittesworth Water

54x Mandarin, 36x Wigeon, 5x Siskin, 650x Jackdaw, 35x Redwing, (SGi)

Whitemoor Haye

Yellowhammer, Stonechat, 210x Lapwing, (MSc)

Croxall

Ruddy Shelduck, 15x Little Egret, Stonechat, (MSc)

Milwich

Red Kite at 10:15, (SBe)

Thursday 27th October 2022

Tittesworth Water

14x Snipe, 37x Mandarin, 7x Goosander, 24x Wigeon, (JOA, LH)

Rudyard Lake

51x Snipe, Dunlin, 4x Wigeon, (SSe)

Alvecote

Stonechat, 4x Snipe, (MSc)

Tucklesholme

Pintail, 68x Wigeon, 5x Pochard, 28x Gadwall, 7x Goosander, 4x Snipe, 2x Common Gull, 2x Stonechat, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 3x Ringed Plover, Stonechat, (GWi)  -  c150 Wigeon, (JTu)

Wednesday 26th October 2022

Endon to Denford

Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 16x Snipe, Little Egret, 20x Wigeon, Peregrine, (DCo)

Blithfield Resv

Little Stint, 2x Ringed Plover, 38x Dunlin, 3x Curlew, Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Stonechat, (GWi)

Cheddleton

Red Kite over at 14:00.

Berryhill

Jack Snipe this evening, (IBu)

Middleton Lakes

3x Pintail, 10x Goosander, 2x Stonechat and 42x Little Egret and 8x Great Egret in the riverside roost, 

Sandon Hall

2x Red Kite over at 15:30, (MKe)

Brankley Pastures

30x Yellowhammer, 2x Redpoll, 2x Siskin, 120x Stock Dove, (JWo)