Arrival of Returning Staff 2024
Middleton Lakes
Osprey lingered in JW for 5 min at 08:30, Green-winged Teal still, 3x greenshank, 3x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, ringed plover, 2x Common Sandpiper(SPA, MSm) – Garganey pair to the left of the lookout, (DHu)
Radford Meadows Stafford
Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Cetti’s Warbler, 3x Little Egret, Curlew, Mandarin, 30x by the way 3x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, (RSW)
Whitemoor Hay
Grasshopper Warbler rotating, 3x wheat, 6x oyster catcher, 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper19x archer2x Golden eyes20x Yellowhammer, Yellow Wagtail, 3x Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Willow Warbler, Cetti’s Warbler, 4x Little Grebe, 2x GC Grebe, Red Kite, 6x Martin’s house, (SC)
Alrewas Meadows
Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Cetti’s Warbler, Sedge Warbler(SC)
Belvide Resv
2x Spoonbill from 10:45 to 11:27 only
Amerton flood/Sheep like east of Stafford
3x wheat, 2x oyster catcher, 4x White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail(RSW)
Berryhill
Pipit tree in short, (IBu) – 8x Willow Warbler, 2x blackcap, 2x swallow, 4x wheat, 2x stonechat,
Doxey Marsh – Wellies require many paths that are still flooded
Man Ring Ouzel outside the Rugby club, LRP, 4x Sedge Warbler, Great Egret, 3x Little Egret(MBo)
Uttoxeter Quarry
2x Cattle Egret (site tick), from 12:15 to 13:17 then fly south, 5x Curlew, Common Sandpiperstuttering Grasshopper Warbler, 2x Cetti’s Warbler, 2x whitethroat, 2x Blackcap2x Goosander5x Shelduck, (RPo)
Cattle Egrets by Richard Powell
Branston GPs
Osprey north over Ashy’s pit at 07:40, too Garden WarblerMan Scaup, (PFo) – Green Sandpiper, 2x ringed plover, 2x Curlew, 8x Yellow Wagtail, 6x White Wagtail, 2x Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, 1 w usually Gull2x Cetti’s Warbler, (DSc)
Croxall
2x White Wagtail, Dunlin4x LRP(TPe)
Blithfield Resv
Curlew done, 2x Oystercatcher, Goldeneye10x Shelduck(MJa)
Endon – Denford
Sedge Warbler, 4x Oystercatcher, Green Wood Woodpecker, Mandarin, Goosander, (DCo)
Tittesworth Water
Osprey, Green Woodpecker, 2x Common Sandpiper, 12x swallow, (SGi, IB)
Trentham Gardens
Dipper2x Mandarin, Blackcap(STu)
Tucklesholme
2x LRP, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler(JPa, MPa,)
Ramshaw Rocks
Cuckoo, (NMK)
North Staffs Moors
6x redstart, 2x Wheatear(NMK)
Chasewater
Common Sandpiper, Whitethroat, Swallow(CMa) – Shag, GN Diver5x Willow Warbler4x blackcap, 4x greenfinch, 5x GC Grebe(MBe)
Calf Heath WMI site
Common Sandpiper, 2x oyster catcher, 2x ringed plover, 4x LRP, Shelduck, 2x YL Gull(SRi, KCl)
Cannock Chase
30x crossbill, 6x Stonechat, Whitethroat, 4x Willow Warbler(Wife, Lda)
Biddulph Moor – Horton Valley
2x Curlew, (SHi)
