The weather conditions produced some nice birding in Staffs today including a good movement of Arctic Terns Belvide Resv 35x Arctic Tern, Little Tern at 11:11 to 11:30 only, 3x Common Tern, 2x Kittiwake, 14x Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Scaup, 17x Swift Blithfield Resv 60x Arctic Tern between BTP and the causeway at 13:30, (JAl), Female Common Scoter this am (GJM)  -  49x Arctic Tern still at 17:30, Common Scoter still at 17:50, 2x Yellow Wagtail, Lesser Whitethroat, Mandarin, (RPo)  -  Sandwich Tern, Swift, (AM) Branston GPs 28x Arctic Tern on Ashy pit, 18x Bar ..read more

Seisdon village 2x Whinchat, Yellow Wagtail over, (GCl) Belvide Resv 2x Whimbrel north shore, 4x Swift,  Branston GPs 2x Swift, (AM)  -  4x Little Egret, Mandarin, 24x Shelduck, Scaup(m), Goldeneye, 3x Curlew, 6x Oystercatcher, 2x Dunlin, Green Sandpiper, Ringed Plover, 2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x White Wagtail, House Martin, 5x Cetti's Warbler, 4x Reed Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, 5x Redpoll, (DSc) Pool Hall 12x Wheatear in ploughed fields below Pool Hall, (GCl) Burslem Park 7x Goosander, (JBr) Dingle Lane (near Rudyard) Greenfield farm - Redstart, 6x Tree Pipit, (GBr) M ..read more

Belvide Resv Slavonian Grebe off Chappell hide, Marsh Harrier thru, WMI site near Calf Heath 3x Wheatear, 6x LRP, Ringed Plover, Shelduck, (SRi) Aqualate Osprey thru NW at 10:00 , Cuckoo, 3x Grasshopper Warbler, Garden Warbler, Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Egyptian Goose, 4x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, (KHa) Berryhill Ring Ouzel still, 7x Wheatear,  Curlew east over 20 foot pool at 06:36, (STu)  - Curlew over at  07:15, (PWi)  -  Green Woodpecker at 10:10, (IBu) Sideway Cetti's Warbler still, (RGi) Uttoxeter Quarry 3x Whimbrel, 2x Common Sandpiper, Reed Warbler, 2x Sedge ..read more

Middleton Lakes White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail, Ringed Plover, 4x LRP, 4x House Martin, 4x Shelduck, (SPA) Stoke on Trent Lordship Lane - Dunlin, (RGi) Endon - Denford Lesser Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, 3x Whitethroat, Mandarin, Green Woodpecker, (DCo) Radford Meadows Stafford 21x Little Egret, Gropper, 6x Blackcap, (RBr)  -  4x LRP, 2x Oystercatcher, 5x Dunlin, 4x Yellow Wagtail, 10x Shelduck, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 150x Sand Martin, (RSw) Chasewater Shag still, 14x House Martin, 150x Sand Martin, (CMa, DGl) Codsall Long Birch - Wheatear, 3x Yellowhammer, (PCo) Berryhill 2x Ring ..read more

Middleton Lakes Grey Plover, GW Teal, ad Med Gull, LRP, 2x Redshank, 2x Avocet, Gropper, Pochard, 4x Reed Warbler, Sedge Warblers, Whitethroats, (SPA) Berryhill 2x Ring Ouzel, (female and male), Whinchat, 9x Wheatear, (RTo) Pool Hall 5x Wheatear, (GCl) Whitemoor Haye Gropper still, (SCo) Sideway - South Hanford farm area Cetti's Warbler, 2x Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, (RGi) Baggeridge Reed Warbler on Fishermans pool, (DBa) Cannock Chase 3x Cuckoo, Tree Pipits, (GSt) Doxey Marsh Marsh Harrier, (RSt ..read more

Brindley Ford Whinchat in scrubby field SE of the football pitches, Lesser Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, 2x Cetti's Warbler, 6x Goosander flying towards Ford Green, (CBo) Berryhill 2x Ring Ouzel in paddocks on north side of the Palletstacks track, Whinchat at the Palletstacks mound,(NDP)  -  In addition Lesser Whitethroat still on bottom track, 8x Wheatear, 2x Stonechat, (RTo) Botteslow Flash Common Sandpiper at 08:57,  (RTo)  -  still at 14:45, (IBu)                               ..read more

Belvide Resv Whimbrel, Arctic Tern,  Pool Hall Brambling, (GCl) Chatterley Whitfield Whitethroat, Grasshopper Warbler, Cetti's Warbler, (CBo) Loggerheads Brambling, 6x Greenfinch, 8x Siskin, (JSt) Baldwins Gate Brambling, (RWh) WMI site near Calf Heath 4x LRP, Common Sandpiper, c40 Pied Wagtails and at nearby Gailey a Common Sandpiper, (SRi) Branston GPs Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, 3x Whitethroat, 2x Sedge Warbler, 10x Yellow Wagtail, 7x White Wagtail, 2x Dunlin, Curlew, 5x Ringed Plover, 2x Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 6x Oystercatcher, 8x Little Egret, Scaup, 2x Goldeneye ..read more

Wetley Moor Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Tit, Stonechat, Whitethroat, c30 Willow Warbler, 7x Linnet, (DCo) Shoal Hill Common 6x Willow Warbler, 3x Blackcap and at Otherton  a Wheatear, (SRi) Uttoxeter Quarry Sandwich Tern, 2x Whimbrel flew west with 2x Curlew, 4x Common Sandpiper, Lesser Whitethroat, (RPo) Stanley Pool 2x Common Sandpiper, (GBr) Wombourne White Wagtail, Yellow Wagtail and Wheatear in ploughed field opposite Garden village, (WN) Trescott Opposite Garden centre on Bridgenorth Road - Corn Bunting, Yellow Wagtail, White Wagtail, Whitethroat, (GCl) Pendeford Hall Lane- i54 ..read more

Returning Staffs 2024 arrival Middleton Lakes Osprey lingered over JW for 5 mins 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 left of lookout, (DHu) Radford Meadows Stafford Sedge Warbler, Whitethroat, 3x Cetti's Warbler, 3x Little Egret, Curlew, Mandarin, 30x Shoveler, 3x Shelduck, 8x Gadwall, (RSw) Whitemoor Haye Grasshopper Warbler reeling, 3x Wheatear, (SCo) Belvide Resv 2x Spoonbill from 10:45 to 11:27 only Amerton flood/Sheep meadows east of Stafford ..read more

Pendeford Hall Lane Common Sandpiper, 2x LRP, 2x Goosander, (JDu) Stanley Pool Common Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, (GBr) Berryhill 8x Wheatear still, 2x Whitethroat, 2x Stonechat, 3x Swallow, (RGi) Branston GPs 2x Sandwich Tern and Greenshank on Ashy pit, Marsh Harrier thru south, (JWo) Middleton Lakes Curlew, 5x Common Sandpiper, 2x Dunlin, Redshank, LRP, (DCo) Endon - Denford Green Sandpiper along the brook, 2x Whitethroat, drake Wigeon, STW Wheatear, 2x Oystercatcher over, Ashes pool 2x White Wagtail, (DCo) Belvide Resv 15x Common Sandpiper, 3x Wheatear, female Scaup, Common ..read more