Wednesday 24th September 2025

Coombes Valley RSPB

Golden Plover flew over visitor centre at 09:20, (PBe)

Ford Green NR

Juv Shag on the lake also a Wigeon, (JJo)

                                                                By Steve Gibson

Rudyard 

Little Stint, 2x Ringed Plover, Redshank, Dunlin, 10x Lapwing, 3x Curlew, 3x Wigeon, 91x Teal, Common Gull, (SGi)

Knypersley Resv

79 PFG east at 10:25, 2 fem Wigeon, 22x Mandarin, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

Little Egret, 13x Teal, 3x Wigeon, 13x Mandarin, 9x Goosander, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Caspian Gull, 3x Common Gull, 4x Common Sandpiper, Curlew, 17x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, Redshank, 21x Ringed Plover, 11x Ruff, Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Little Grebe, 2x Stonechat, 19x Stonechat, (SE, HF)  -  Marsh Harrier, 4x Ruff, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, c15-20 Egyptian Geese, (NCo)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Curlew, Dunlin, Snipe, Lapwing, 2x Little Egret, 5x Goosander, 14x Pochard, 36x Shoveler, 58x Wigeon, 42x Gadwall, 66x Teal, 10x Egyptian Geese, 12x Little Grebe, 19x GC Grebe (6juv), Red Kite, 9x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Redpoll, 2x Linnet, (JWo)

Gailey Resv

2x Gadwall, Shoveler, 4x Wigeon, 7x Teal, fem Goosander, (SRi)

Tuesday 23 Sept 2025

Newcastle

c50 PFG over SSW this am, (STu)

Kings Bromley

Great Egret, Little Egret, (RBe)

Radford Meadows

50x Lapwing this afternoon, (IWi)

Branston GPs

4x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 9x Curlew, 3x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, 3x Goosander, 169x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 155x Shoveler, 95x Gadwall, 145x Teal, 95x Little Grebe, ad Common Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, 6x Redpoll, 5x Siskin, 25x Linnet, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Stonechat, (JWo)

Monday 22nd September 2025

Westport Lake

Ad Med Gull 06:45 to 07:00 only, (KSt)

Stanley Pool

50+ PFG over NW at 08:05, male Stonechat, (GBr)

Middleton Lakes

Green Sandpiper, 2x Great Egret, (SPA)

Rudyard

Little Stint, 2x Ringed Plover, Wigeon, 87x Teal, 2x skeins of PFG over, (SGi)

Branston GPs

2x Whooper Swan, ad Med Gull, 17x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, Ringed Plover, 2x Lapwing, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Water Rail, 2x Red-crested Pochard, 198x Pochard, 12x Wigeon, 108x Gadwall, 91x Shoveler, 197x Teal, 85x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Hobby, 4x Stonechat, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 25x Linnet, 6x Skylark, 60x Mipit, 3x Cetti;s Warbler, (JWo)

                                                      Whooper Swans by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew Sandpiper, 52x Ringed Plover, 11x Dunlin, 10x Ruff, Greenshank, Redshank, 7x Common Sandpiper, 2x Caspian Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Pintail, 5x Wigeon, 3x Wheatear, Common Gull, (SE, HF)

Ramshaw Rocks

4x Stonechat, (Laxmi)

Cannock Chase

Mixed flock of Redpolls and Siskins by Womere Pool, (JTu)

Doxey Marsh

8x Redshank flew thru at 18:00, 11x Shoveler, 5x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (CAFH)

Baldwins Gate

Skein of PFG over south at 19:50, (RWh)

Sunday 21st September 2025

Belvide Resv

Juv Honey Buzzard thru SE  at 07:35, c25x PFG flew south at 10:30, c250x PFG way out east at 11:00, 3x Red Kite, 7x Ringed Plover, Greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 13x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 

Uttoxeter Quarry

4x Dunlin, 4x Ringed Plover, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, (RPo)

Blithfield Resv

Blithe Bay - 3x Curlew Sandpiper (5 as per GJM), 5x Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, c115x Ringed Plover, 10x Dunlin, 2x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Wheatear, - Tad Bay Bar-tailed Godwit, 2x Greenshank, 3x Redshank, 9x Ruff, Spotted Flycatcher, (PAn)  -  In addition 2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Yellow Wagtail, 60x Linnet, (DBa, IGr)

Tittesworth Water

110+ PFG south at 09:00, Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, 3x Common Sandpiper, Red Kite, 2x Goosander, 11x Mandarin, Wigeon, Red Kite, 3x Grey Wagtail, (TE, JOa, LH), 

Botteslow Flash 

4x Little Egret, 2x Snipe, (RTo)

Berryhill Fields

3x Wheatear, 2x Redstart, 6x Stonechat, Redpoll, 9x Skylark, 30x Mipit, 8x Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, 10x Small Copper, (RGi)

Stanley Pool

43x PFG southeast at 07:50 also 48x PFG southeast at 08:35, Willow Tit and 8x Skylark over (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Green Sandpiper, 149x Lapwing, Snipe, 9x Gadwall, 15x Pochard, 9x Shoveler, 8x Little Grebe, 15x GC Grebe, 3x Great Egret, 82x Egyptian Geese, 9x Greenfinch, 2x Yellowhammer, Grey Wagtail, 3x Siskin, (SCo)  -  Spotted Flycatcher, 2x Green Sandpiper, (Ochruros)

Branston GPs

SMP2 only - 2x Red-crested Pochard, 100x Pochard, 2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 12x Siskin, (JWo)  -  Newbold pit Greenshank, 4x Green Sandpiper, Red Kite, 4x Chiffchaff, (Ochruros)

Westport Lake

2x Med Gull (ad +1w), (KSt)

Chasewater

3x Common Sandpiper, (Ochruros)

Tucklesholme

Great Egret, (Ochruros)

Saturday 20th September 2025

Rudyard

Little Stint, 5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 65x Teal, (SGi)

Uttoxeter Quarry

Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, 2x Wigeon, (RPo)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 8x Green Sandpiper, 7x Common Sandpiper, 4x Great Egret, 23x Little Egret, 2x Red-crested Pochard, 146x Pochard, Pintail, 90x Shoveler, 151x Gadwall, 120x Teal, 4x Wigeon, 72x Little Grebe, YL Gull, GBB Gull, Hobby, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 12x Linnet, 2x Siskin, 42x Skylark, Whinchat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

                                                     Green Sandpiper by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

06:45 to 10:30 - 2x Great Egret, 6x Wigeon, 15x Goosander, 2x YL Gull, 50x Ringed Plover, LRP, 12x Dunlin, 4x Redshank, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 9x Ruff, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Wheatear, Siskin and Redpoll over, (SRi)  -  Admaston Reach 8x juv Curlew Sandpiper, Tad Bay Bar-tailed Godwit still, (JKl)

Stanley Pool

3x Little Egret, 3x Willow Tit, (GBr)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Cetti's Warbler, 36x Teal, Little Egret, Greenfinch, (MKe, JKe)

Ilam

2x Dipper on the the Manifold, (JDr)

Belvide Resv

7x Common Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 18x Ringed Plover, 5x Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 9x Common Tern thru, 11x Great Egret,  

Friday 19th September 2025

Middleton Lakes

Sanderling on west scrape, 2x Ruff, Green Sandpiper, (GG)

Chasewater

Avocet briefly then flew south at 09:03, also a Swift, (ICW)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still in NE corner of the dam, 

Westport Lake

Hobby over west at 14:15, (AR)

Rudyard

2x Goosander over the lake, (Laxmi)

Gailey Resv

Juv Knot, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Sandpiper, 9x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 5x Ruff, 49x Ringed Plover, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret, 2x Common Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 5x Wigeon, 6x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, (SE, HF)

                                                   Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

Little Stint, Dunlin, 2x Curlew Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 2x Ringed Plover, Dunlin,  8x Common Sandpiper, Snipe, 7x Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 5x Lapwing, 3x Great Egret, 9x Little Egret, Pintail, 23x Goosander, 2x Red-crested Pochard, 123x Pochard, 77x Shoveler, 114x Gadwall, 4x Wigeon, 130x Teal, 77x Little Grebe, YL Gull, 3x GBB Gull, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Grey Wagtail, 2x Siskin, 120x Mipit, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo, CEc, Dean)

Whitemoor Haye

Juv Common Tern, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 5x Great Egret, 9x Pochard, (SCo)

Thursday 18th September 2025

Tittesworth Water

8x Snipe, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 31x Mandarin, 5x Teal, 4x Goosander, (SGi)  -  12x Mandarin, 3x Goosander, 8x Snipe, 2x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 4x Teal, (JOa, LH)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, juv Knot

Enville

4x Hawfinch south, also 24x Siskin, c900 Swallow/House Martin, (ICW)

Rudyard Resv

5x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, Wigeon, Shelduck, 98x Teal, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

Curlew Sandpiper, Curlew, Knot, Dunlin, Ruff, Ringed Plover, Lapwing, Sandwich Tern over, Wheatear, (NFB)

Whittington STW

14:15 to 16:15 - 750 Swallow SW, 2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, 2x Peregrine, (MDJ)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Hobby, Green Sandpiper, 5x Little Egret, 5x Goosander, 6x Pochard, 16x Wigeon, 26x Shoveler, 24x Gadwall, 30x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 17x GC Grebe(+6 juv), 9x Cetti's Warbler, 30x House Martin, Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Baldwins Gate

9x Pink-footed Geese at 18:00,  (RWh)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew Sandpiper still, Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Curlew, 3x Great Egret, 12x Little Egret, Pintail, 50x Teal, Hobby, Green Woodpecker, Yellow Wagtail thru,  2x Grey Wagtail, 50x House Martin, 10x Linnet, (DSc)

Wednesday 17th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, 

Doxey Marsh

4x Arctic Tern thru at 10:01, (AHa)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew Sandpiper, 12x Curlew, 9x Green Sandpiper, 6x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 3x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 2x Ringed Plover, 14x Lapwing, Snipe, 2x Great Egret, 18x Little Egret, 210x Pochard, 74x Shoveler, 104x Gadwall, 7x Wigeon, 142x Teal, 6x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 78x Little Grebe, Green Woodpecker, 2x Hobby, Cetti's Warbler, 3x Grey Wagtail, 58x Linnet, 80x House Martin, (JWo, SBI)

                                                             Hobby by Jon Woodcock

Blithfield Resv

Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, 112x Ringed Plover, 19x Common Sandpiper, 6x Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Redshank, Caspian Gull, Common Gull, Hobby, Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 4x Wheatear, (SE, HF)

Whitemoor Haye

6x Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 2x probable Common Tern, possible Merlin, (SCo)

Tuesday 16th September 2025

Belvide Resv

2x Grey Phalarope off the dam, Arctic Tern,  Osprey thru south, 

Branston GPs

Juv Arctic Tern, 2x Curlew Sandpiper still, Ruff, 2x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 7x Green Sandpiper, 5x Common Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, 14x Curlew, 2x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 144x Pochard, 12x Mandarin, 92x Gadwall, 64x Shoveler, 2x Wigeon, 115x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 67x Little Grebe, YL Gull, GBB Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Tree Pipit, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Doxey Marsh

Ruff until 10:15 only, 3x Great Egret, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Hobby, (RRa)

Blithfield Resv

Juv Arctic Tern, 2x Black Tern, 5x Curlew Sandpiper, 96x Ringed Plover, 20x Yellow Wagtail, (GJM)  -  3x Black Tern and juv Arctic Tern this evening, (JKl)

Chasewater

Juv Arctic Tern, Little Egret, 5x Swift, (ICW)

Alvecote

Great Egret, 14x Wigeon, 22x Lapwing, 3x Little Grebe, (MSc)

Gailey Resv

Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, (SRi)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3x Great Egret, Little Egret, Wigeon, (SCo)

Monday 15th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

Knot in Blithe Bay, Bar-tailed Godwit, Black-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper, Curlew Sandpipers, 2x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 2x Black Tern,  (GJM, MDJ, ICW)  -  Late pm Little Stint, 9x Dunlin, c50 Ringed Plover, 2x LRP, 3x Curlew Sandpiper, Great Egret, (DBr)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, Black-necked Grebe, 3x Greenshank, 4x Ringed Plover, Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 10x Great Egret, 7x Little Egret, 4x Swift, Goshawk, Hobby, 2x Red Kite, 2x Peregrine, 

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, 2x Common Sandpiper, Redshank, (GBr)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew Sandpiper still on Newbold pit, 7x Curlew, 5x Greenshank, 5x Common Sandpiper, 8x Green Sandpiper, Oystercatcher, Dunlin, 98x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, Pintail, 2x Red-crested Pochard, 2x Goosander, 234x Pochard, 86x Gadwall, 84x Shoveler, 132x Teal, 2x Wigeon, 5x Egyptian Geese, 64x Little Grebe, 4x YL Gull, 2x GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 12x Linnet, 3x Grey Wagtail, 100x House Martin, (JWo)

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x LRP, 2x Green Sandpiper, Peregrine, Hobby, Garganey, Pochard, 8x Wigeon, 2x Goosander, 2x Great Egret, (DCo)

Rudyard

3x Yellow Wagtail, 48x Lapwing, 129x Teal, 10x Goosander, 28x Linnet, (SGi)

Coven

29x Mistle Thrush, (JDu)

Sunday 14th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

Early am - Bar-tailed Godwit, Wood Sandpiper, 13x Curlew Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, 2x Black Tern, Swift, (MPR, GJM)  -  also 6x Dunlin, c50 Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtails, (PAn)  -  Addtl/updated counts 7x Common Sandpiper, 12x Dunlin, 3x Greenshank, 70x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Gull, Little Egret, 2x LRP, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Wheatear, (SE,HF) - 3x Black Tern and 20x Lapwing at 16:45 from causeway, (DSc)

                                                   Bar-tailed Godwit by Steve Edwards

Whitemoor Haye

Early am - 6x Great Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, (MBr)  -  Ruff, 2x Greenshank, Ringed Plover thru, 2x Common Sandpiper, Hobby, (ICW)  -  In addition 8x Little Egret, Snipe, 6x Siskin, (SCo)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, 9x Great Egret, Hobby, Peregrine, 4x Common Sandpiper, 

Stanley Pool

Barn Owl in boatyard at 06:15 Greenshank flew north at 11:35, 2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Tittesworth Water

26x Mandarin, 2x Goosander, 5x Teal, Oystercatcher, 2x Common Sandpiper, Peregrine, 100x Siskin, c1000 House Martins/Swallows thru south, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

2x Curlew Sandpiper still to 19:00 at least, 17x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 12x Lapwing, Oystercatcher, 3x Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, Pintail, Wigeon, 130x Gadwall, 70x Shoveler, 140x Teal, 130x Pochard, 2x Red-crested Pochard, 5x Goosander, 40x Mandarin,  Peregrine, 2x Green Woodpecker, c150x House Martin, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Grey Wagtail, 20x Linnet, GBB Gull, (DSc)  -  14x Mistle Thrush, 3x Redpoll, (JWo)

Saturday 13th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

06:30 to 12:30 - 18x Black Tern, Common Tern, 2x Wood Sandpiper, c110 Ringed Plover, 2x LRP,  17x Curlew Sandpiper, 10x Dunlin, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Great Egret, 1w Caspian Gull, 5x YL Gull,  9x Goosander, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, sev Yellow Wagtail, 2x Wheatear,  (SRi)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope NE corner of the dam to 15:00 at least, 5x Greenshank, 7x Redshank, 2x Swift, Marsh Harrier thru,  

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Water Rail, 4x House Martin, (GPr)

Uttoxeter Quarry

3x Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Wigeon, 40x Teal, 52x Shoveler, YL Gull, Little Egret, (RPo)

River Sow Meadows Baswich-Milford

Common Sandpiper along the canal, 2x Stonechat, Cetti's Warbler, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

1cy Pintail, 3x Ringed Plover, LRP, 3x Snipe, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier over North pit, and a fly past Bittern at Dosthill, (MSm)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Branston GPs

7x Curlew Sandpiper (2 on Newbold pit and a further 5 flew thru west),  3x Green Sandpiper,  2x Greenshank, 3x Common Sandpiper, 8x Ringed Plover, Curlew, Great Egret, 24x Little Egret, 80x Pochard, 15x Shoveler, 50x Teal, juv Whinchat, c100 Sand Martin, 20x House Martin, 3x Grey Wagtail (DSc)

                                                 Curlew Sandpipers by Jon Woodcock

Croxden Quarry

Adult Med Gull at 18:45, (RPo)

Whitemoor Haye

Garganey still, Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, (TPe)

Rugeley

Upper Birches Peregrine, 41x House Martin, (AFi)

Alrewas NMA

Oystercatcher, 2x Snipe, 30x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, Green Woodpecker, (JWo)

Friday 12th September 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x Whinchat on west side of JW, Garganey, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, Greenshank, Bittern, Pochard, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr)

Blithfield Resv

20x Curlew Sandpiper, 92x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 2x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, 5x Common Sandpiper, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Caspian Gull, Common Gull, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 16x Black Tern, 2x Great Egret, 3x Wheatear, 15x Yellow Wagtail, (HF, SE)

                                                        Wheatear by Rob Bendelow

Middle Mayfield

Swift over this am, (BRe)

Alvecote

Great Egret, Little Egret, 60x Shoveler, (MSc)

Weaver Hills

Wheatear, 60x Linnet, 2x Skylark, (TEy)

Gailey Resv

2x Common Sandpiper, Stonechat, (JIs)

Doxey Marsh

3x Great Egret, 2x Cattle Egret, c60x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper,  Peregrine, (DBr)

Branston GPs

13x Curlew, 3x Greenshank, 2x Dunlin, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 28x Little Egret, 141x Pochard, 62x Shoveler, 96x Gadwall, 7x Wigeon, 151x Teal, 10x Mandarin, Barnacle Goose, 7x Egyptian Geese, 81x Little Grebe, 1w Caspian Gull, 4x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Peregrine, 2x Hobby, Wheatear, Whinchat, 2x Stonechat, Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, (JWo, CEc)

Tixall Wide Great Haywood

East Anglia tagged Marsh Harrier, (DHa)

Thursday 11th September 2025

Middleton Lakes

Ruff, Greenshank, 3x LRP, Ringed Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Garganey, Pochard, Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA) 

Branston GPs

2x Red-crested Pochard still, 11x Curlew, 2x Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 10x Lapwing, 6x Snipe, 3x Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, 2x Goosander, 147x Pochard, 42x Shoveler, 102x Gadwall, 137x Teal, 4x Wigeon, 10x Mandarin, 9x Egyptian Geese, 85x Little Grebe, 3x YL Gull, GBB Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 7x Siskin, 30x Linnet, 3x Grey Wagtail, (JWo)

Whitemoor Haye

3x Great Egret, 2x Greenshank, 5x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Hobby, 7x Siskin south, (ICW)

Tittesworth Water

23x Mandarin, 6x Goosander, 4x Teal, Oystercatcher, Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Gull, (JOa)

Blithfield Resv

15x Black Tern, 9x Curlew Sandpiper, 88x Ringed Plover, 18x Dunlin, 6x LRP, Common Sandpiper, 1st winter Caspian Gull, 2x Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 150+ House Martin, (RPo)  -  This evening 2x Great Egret, 1st w Caspian Gull, sev YL Gull, 17x Black Tern, 3x Common Tern, 90x Ringed Plover, 16x LRP, 10x Dunlin, 17x Curlew Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, (SRi)

Rudyard

Yellow Wagtail, 33x Lapwing, 161x Teal, Peregrine, (SGi, IB)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 3x Little Egret, 8x Goosander (juv), 15x Wigeon, 8x Shoveler, 43x Gadwall, 2x Egyptian Geese, 4x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Wednesday 10th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

c35x Black Tern and a juvenile Arctic Tern this am, (MPR, GJM)  -  15x Curlew Sandpiper, (HF, SE)  - Also Dunlins, Ruffs, Ringed Plovers, LRPs, Black-tailed Godwits, Greenshank, (PJo)

Stanley Pool

Common Sandpiper, also 1249x Swallows south from 07:30 to 08:45, (GBr)

Rudyard

Red Kite over at 10:06, (Laxmi)

Branston GPs

2x eclipse drake Red-crested Pochard, 3x Greenshank, 8x Curlew, 7x Green Sandpiper, 3x Snipe,  3x Common Sandpiper, 3x Great Egret, 17x Little Egret, 172x Pochard, 44x Shoveler, 122x Gadwall, 5x Wigeon, 242x Teal, 2x Mandarin, 9x Egyptian Geese, 61x Little Grebe, 4x Water Rail, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, Swift, (JWo)

                                                   Red-crested Pochard by Jon Woodcock

Belvide Resv

2x Black Tern, 

Tucklesholme

2x Greenshank, 2x Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, 2x LRP, 6x Little Egret, 6x Goosander (juv), 19x Wigeon, 16x Shoveler, 42x Gadwall, 20x Teal, 2x Egyptian Geese, 14x GC Grebe (3juv), 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Whittington Hall Lane

2x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Peregrine, (THi)

Tuesday 9th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

11x Curlew Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 7x Ruff, 3x Greenshank, 80x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 50x Dunlin, Curlew, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, 3x Wheatear, 20x Yellow Wagtail, GBB Gull, 7x YL Gull, (RBr)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP (juv), Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, 14x Goosander (juv),  8x Wigeon, 56x Gadwall, 4x Shoveler, 20+ Teal, Red-breasted Goose, 3x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Grebe, 16x GC Grebe (5juv), 6x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Branston Leas

Hobby, Green Woodpecker, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo)

Monday 8th September 2025

Blithfield Resv

13x Curlew Sandpiper, (HF, SE, GJM)  -  13x Common Sandpiper, 2x Greenshank, 21x Dunlin, 4x Ruff, 63x Ringed Plover, 10x Curlew, Whimbrel, 5x LRP, 4x Wheatear, Great Egret, 4x Little Egret, (HF, SE)  -  2x Ruddy Shelduck, 2x Egyptian Geese, 20+ Ringed Plover, 16x Dunlin, 8x Common Sandpiper, 13x Curlew Sandpiper, Red Kite, (CMa, RF)  -  18:40 12x Curlew Sandpiper Admaston Reach, (JKl)  -  Additional evening counts Redshank, Pintail, c25x Dunlin, GBB Gull, 12x Goosander, c85 to 100x Ringed Plover, 5x Wheatear, (PAn, SRi)

                                                    Curlew Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

                                                    Curlew Sandpiper by Rob Bendelow

Knypersley Resv

24x Mandarin, 2x drake Pochard, (GBr)

Belvide Resv

2x Glossy Ibis, 

                                                           Glossy Ibis by Clive Wood

Doxey Marsh

Glossy Ibis from main hide at 15:40, (AHa), - later at the Octagonal hide before flying off NE at 16:30, (GPr, AHa)

Stanley Pool

Little Egret, 2x Hobby, (GBr)

Whitemoor Haye

Garganey, Curlew, Greenshank, 4x Great Egret, YL Gull, (TPe)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Whinchat, 3x Stonechat, Great Egret, Little Egret, 2x Wigeon, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DBa, KMa, CEv, PBe)

Branston GPs

2x Greenshank, 11x Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 5x Green Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 5x Snipe, 4x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret. 19x Mandarin, 219x Pochard, 4x Wigeon, 56x Shoveler, 94x Gadwall, 101x Teal, 11x Egyptian Geese, 83x Little Grebe, GBB Gull, YL Gull, Peregrine, 2x Stonechat, 2x Grey Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, 30x Linnet, 2x Greenfinch, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Common Sandpiper, LRP, Lapwing, Little Egret, 5x Wigeon, 6+ Cetti's Warbler, 2x Yellow Wagtail, (JWo)

Sunday 7th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Glossy Ibis still to 11:00 only,  2x Black Tern and 4x Black Tern dropped in at 11:05, 5x Little Stint to 13:16 only, 

Doxey Marsh

11x Greenshank over south at 08:40, Caspian Gull, (GPr, RRa, WeBS)

Blithfield Resv

240+ Ringed Plover movement 06:30 to 10:30, , Curlew Sandpiper and Turnstone briefly then flew south, fem Marsh Harrier NE. (MPR, GJM)  -  4x Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 10x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 6x Ruff, 5x Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, 72x Ringed Plover, 20x Dunlin, 7x LRP, 2x Common Sandpiper, 6x Yellow Wagtail, 2x Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Caspian Gull, (HF, SE)  -  This evening 4x Curlew Sandpiper, 70x Ringed Plover, 7x LRP, 20x Dunlin, 10x Greenshank, 4x Redshank, 5x Curlew, 4x Ruff, 2x Wheatear, 2x Great Egret, (SRi)

                                                  Curlew Sandpipers by Steve Edwards

Radford Meadows Stafford

Peregrine, Hobby, 2x Snipe, 81x Lapwing, 4x Swift, Whinchat, 4x Stonechat, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, high flying flock of 8x Grey Heron SW, (RSw)

Middleton Lakes

4x Ruff (possibly 7), Ringed Plover, 5x LRP, Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 2x Garganey still, (MSm)

Westport Lake

7x Shoveler, 7x Teal, 3x Little Grebe, 6x GC Grebe, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Swift, (KSt, WeBS)

Gailey Resv

Cetti's Warbler, juv Shelduck, (SRi)

Tittesworth Water

24x Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Common Gull, 20x Siskin, Swift, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Branston GPs

3x Black Tern on Ashy pit to 13:00 at least, 8x Egyptian Geese, Newbold pit Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 3x Green Sandpiper, 10x Mandarin, 3x ad YL Gull, (DSc)  -  3x Black Tern (2ad+juv), 3x Greenshank, 3x Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Green Sandpiper, 11x Curlew, 9x Snipe, 11x Lapwing, 2x Great Egret, 14x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 3x Wigeon, 9x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, Peregrine, Hobby, Red Kite, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 5x Willow Warbler, Stonechat, Siskin, Grey Wagtail, 14x RLP)

                                                        Black Terns by Jon Woodcock

Tucklesholme

Juv Black Tern, (TWy)  -  Juv Black Tern still at 17:25 also Red Kite, Wigeon, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Alvecote

3x Little Egret, 6x Little Grebe, 40x Shoveler, (MSc)

Branston Water Park

Wigeon, 20x Gadwall, 2x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Saturday 6th September 2025

Belvide Resv  (102 species Alldayer count)

Glossy Ibis from 07:00, 2x Lesser Scaup, Black Tern, 2x Greenshank, 17x Ringed Plover, Wood Sandpiper, Pintail, Osprey thru south at 11:53, 2x Whinchat, Redstart, 9x Great Egret, 10x Little Egret, Goshawk, 

Whitemoor Haye (72 species Alldayer count)

3x Great Egret, 11x Little Egret, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, 118x Lapwing, 2x Hobby, Yellowhammer, 31x Egyptian Geese, 26x GC Grebe, 19x Little Grebe,  12x Pochard, 2x YL Gull, 3x Common Tern, c60 Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, (SCo)  -  This afternoon juv/1st win Caspian Gull, ad YL Gull, 2x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, Snipe, 3x Great Egret, Hobby. (TPe)

Blithfield Resv (103 species Alldayer count)

Marsh Harrier, Greenshank, Ruff, Black-tailed Godwit, Caspian Gull, Great Egret, Hobby, Spotted Flycatcher, Wheatear, Tree Pipit, Crossbill, (PAn)

Berryhill

Black Redstart around the shed mid morning, (IBu)  -  Early am Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, Redstart, Tree Pipit,  (RTo)

Middleton Lakes (96 species Alldayer count)

Glossy Ibis flew in to  JW north at 11:55, (SPA)

Stanley Pool

Ring-necked Parakeet, Little Egret, Ringed Plover, (GBr)

Tucklesholme

Greenshank over, 3x Curlew, 3x imm LRP, 4x Wigeon, 8x Goosander on river, 2x Little Egret, (@Ochruros)

Branston GPs (101 species Alldayer count)

Osprey, Peregrine, Hobby, 8x Curlew, 2x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, Ringed Plover, 3x LRP, 11x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 15x Lapwing, 4x Great Egret, 27x Little Egret, 6x Water Rail, 7x Goosander, 232x Pochard, 39x Shoveler, 109x Gadwall, 3x Wigeon, 123x Teal, 12x Mandarin, 69x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Barn Owl, Green Woodpecker, Whinchat, Stonechat, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Tree Pipit, 2x Spotted Flycatcher, 4x Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, 4x Siskin, 4x Redpoll, 25x Linnet, 5x Greenfinch, 5x Swift, Grey Wagtail, (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, PFo, MCa).  -  Newbold pit Great Egret, 6x Little Egret, 2x Green Sandpiper, (@Ochruros)

                                              Willow Emerald Damsefly by Jon Woodcock

Doxey Marsh (75 species Alldayer count)

Cattle Egret, 2x Great Egret, Stonechat, 2x Gadwall, 2x Water Rail, (RGi)

Cuckoo Bank (51 species Alldayer count)

Whinchat, female  Goshawk, drifting east, (GHa)

Friday 5th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Glossy Ibis to 09:30 only, Grey Phalarope, 2x Lesser Scaup, 

Stafford

3x Rose-ringed  Parakeet at Exeter Street at 08:00, (MBo)

Branston GPs

Osprey, 2x Red Kite, Peregrine, Hobby, 3x Greenshank, 10x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, 4x Curlew, 3x LRP (juv), Snipe, 4x Water Rail, 3x Great Egret, 21x Little Egret, 26x Shoveler, 254x Pochard, 103x Gadwall, 87x Teal, Wigeon, 12x Mandarin, Red-breasted Goose, 4x Egyptian Geese, 86x Little Grebe, Common Tern, 2x YL Gull, Whinchat, 2x Swift, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Reed Warbler, 2x Greenfinch,  (JWo, DSc, CEc, Dean, MCa)

Whitemoor Haye

Osprey south at 10:50, Great Egret, 4x Common Tern, (ICW)

Radford Meadows Stafford

2x Whinchat, 5x Stonechat, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 4x Swift, 150x House Martin, 8x Gadwall, 25x Teal, Snipe, 49x Lapwing, Little Egret, (RSw)

Blithfield Resv

Clowded Yellow on the dam wall grassy bank, (RBe)

                                                                   By Rob Bendelow

Doxey Marsh

Cattle Egret, 5x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, Caspian Gull, Pochard, 4x Water Rail, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Little Grebe, 3x GC Grebe, Reed Warbler, (RSt)

Thursday 4th September 2025

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still Lesser Scaup,

Tittesworth Water

26x Mandarin, Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, (JOa, LH)

Middleton Lakes

4x Hobby, Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 9x LRP, Peregrine, 7x Wigeon, Great Egret, (PAn) - Great Egret, Little Egret, Water Rail, Garganey, Common Tern, Black-tailed Godwit, Ruff, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, LRP, Green Woodpecker, Hobby, (RBe)

                                                               Hobby by Rob Bendelow

Gailey Resv

Eclipse drake Lesser Scaup on sailing lake to 17:40 at least, (SRi)

Fordhouses

Osprey over south, (Foz)

Alvecote

Swift Old Orchard, (TPe)

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 9x Green Sandpiper, 4x Common Sandpiper, 3x Lapwing, 10x Curlew, 3x Great Egret, 20x Little Egret, 2x Water Rail, Goosander, 143x Pochard, 10x Mandarin, 67x Gadwall, 26x Shoveler, Wigeon, 93x Teal, Red-breasted Goose, 5x Egyptian Geese, YL Gull, 86x Little Grebe, Peregrine, Hobby, 6x Swift, 150x House Martin, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 2x Reed Warbler, 2x Grey Wagtail, Greenfinch, (JWo, DSc)

Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Blithfield Resv

54x Common Tern dropped in on Admaston Reach this am, (GJM)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, Sandwich Tern, Whimbrel thru, 

Middleton Lakes

2x Great Egret, 2x Greenshank, 8x LRP, Ruff, 13x Snipe, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 4x Common Tern, Hobby, 2x Garganey, 3x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, (SPA)

Tucklesholme/Branston Leas

Red-breasted Goose (of unknown origin), 6x Curlew, 2x Common Sandpiper, 3x LRP (juv), Common Tern, 10x Little Egret, 10x Goosander, 8x Wigeon, 32x Gadwall, 4x Egyptian Geese, 6x Little Grebe, 19x GC Grebe (5juv), 5x Cetti's Warbler, (JWo) - 

Branston GPs

18:30 to dusk, Red-breasted Goose on Newbold pit, Great Egret, 16x Little Egret, 11x Egyptian Geese, 130x Pochard, Goosander,  Peregrine, 11x Curlew, 5x Green Sandpiper, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, ad YL Gull, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Dimmingsdale (Alton)

100+ Siskin feeding on Birch seeds, (TEy)

Whitemoor Haye

Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, (TPe)

Gailey Resv

Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, 2x Common Tern (ad+juv), (SRi)

Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Westport Lake

Arctic Tern this am, (KSt)

Middleton Lakes

2x Garganey, Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 12x LRP, Hobby, (MSm)

Belvide Resv

Grey Phalarope still, Greenshank, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Lesser Scaup and Garganey still, 

Stafford

Red Kite over MOD, (RSt)

Tucklesholme

6x Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 2x Wigeon, Red-breasted Goose (unknown origin with no visible rings), 2x Egyptian Geese, (TSl)

                                                Red-breasted Goose by Tony Slater

Branston GPs

Greenshank, 6x Green Sandpiper, 2x Common Sandpiper, 15x Snipe, 6x Curlew, 5x Lapwing, Great Egret, 19x Little Egret, 4x Water Rail, Goosander, 159x Pochard, Shelduck, Mandarin, Wigeon, 22x Shoveler, 108x Gadwall, 94x Teal, 7x Egyptian Geese, 92x Little Grebe, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, 6x Swift, (JWo)

Blithfield Resv

This evening 18:30 till dusk Great Egret, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Hobby, 8x YL Gull, 1st S Caspian Gull, Golden Plover, 3x Ringed Plover, 13x LRP, 3x Dunlin, Greenshank, Common Sandpiper, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 8x Ruff, (SRi)

Monday 1st September 2025

Middleton Lakes

Earl am 2x Curlew Sandpiper, 2x Ruff, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 16x LRP, Hobby, Peregrine, Whinchat, (SPA)  -  Osprey fishing over reedbed pool, Greenshank, 2x Curlew Sandpiper, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Ruff, Garganey, Whinchat, (JKl)

Stanley Pool

2x Redstart, Swift, (GBr)

Radford Meadows Stafford

Male Whinchat, 4x Red Kite, 52x Lapwing, (RSw)

Belvide Resv

Juv Grey Phalarope from west end hide, Marsh Harrier, 2x Great Egret, Little Egret, 3x Greenshank, 2x Lesser Scaup, Garganey, Ringed Plover, 5x Stonechat, 

                                                   Grey Phalarope by Steve Edwards

Branston GPs

2x Wheatear, Whinchat Stonechat, 5x Greenshank, 3x Curlew, 4x Green Sandpiper, 3x Common Sandpiper, Lapwing, Ringed Plover, 2x LRP (Juv), 3x Snipe, Great Egret, 25x Little Egret, Water Rail, 4x Mandarin, 2x Shelduck, 139x Pochard, 126x Gadwall, 26x Shoveler, 162x Teal, 108x Little Grebe, Common Tern, YL Gull, Green Woodpecker, Peregrine, Hobby, 24x Swift, Yellow Wagtail, 2x Grey Wagtail, 2x Greenfinch, 2x Linnet, Cetti's Warbler, RLP, (JWo)

Stafford

3x Ring-necked Parakeet over Bodmin Av at 13:24, (AHa)

Alvecote

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 20+Shoveler, (MSc)

Sunday 31st August 2025

Middleton Lakes

2x juv Curlew Sandpiper on west scrape at 07:25, 2x Ruff, 4x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Green Sandpiper, 6x Snipe, 14x LRP,  2x Garganey, Great Egret, 4x Swift, Hobby,  (PAn)

Rudyard

Black-tailed Godwit this am, (GBr)  -  Black-tailed Godwit, 5x LRP, Common Sandpiper, Little Egret, 39x Teal, 2x Stock Dove, (SGi)

Blithfield Resv

06:45 - 12:00 Great Egret, 2x Red Kite, 2x Hobby, 8x YL Gull, 1st S Caspian Gull, 8x Common Tern, 9x Ringed Plover, 16x LRP, 3x Dunlin, 4x Greenshank, 2x Green Sandpiper, 5x Black-tailed Godwit, 6x Ruff, Snipe, 2x Swift, Reed Warbler, (SRi)  -  Additional Common Scoter, Whinchat, 2x Ruddy Shelduck, Curlew, Common Sandpiper, 10x Yellow Wagtail, Little Egret, Peregrine, (SE,  HF)

                                                    Common Scoter by Steve Edwards

Tittesworth Water

27x Mandarin, Goosander, 2x Teal, 3x Common Sandpiper, 2x Oystercatcher, Curlew, Grey Wagtail, 30+ Linnet, (JOa, LH, TE, KH)

Doxey Marsh

2x Great Egret, 2x Little Egret, 9x Shoveler, 3x Gadwall, Teal, 17x Lapwing, (CAFH)

Branston GPs

Not SMPits Great Egret, 8x Little Egret, 70x Little Grebe, Mandarin, 100x Gadwall, 16x Shoveler, 40x Teal, 60x Pochard, Hobby, 4x Curlew, 120x Lapwing, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Common Tern, 5x Sand Martin, 20x House Martin, Grey Wagtail,, Whinchat, Stonechat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)  -  additional Greenshank, 100x Lapwing, 6x Little Egret, 2x Hobby, Peregrine, 21x Swift, (JWo)

Tucklesholme

2x Little Egret, 2x Little Grebe, Wigeon, 20x Gadwall, 2x Pochard, Cetti's Warbler, (DSc)

Whitemoor Haye

2x Great Egret, 5x Little Egret, 15x Common Tern, 2x Snipe, 2x Green Sandpiper, 18x Lapwing, 16x Little Grebe, 9x GC Grebe, 59x Stock Dove, 4x Egyptian Geese, 3x Pochard, 2x Green Woodpecker, (SCo)