Returning Staffs 2024 record

Middleton Lakes

2x Avocet, 2x Redshank, 3x Oystercatcher, 8x Snipe, Great Egret, 2x Blackcap, RB Goose (presumed escapee), (SPA)  –  Green-winged Teal still, 

Branston GPs

Brief visit Ashy pit this am, Imm Marsh Harrier hunting again,  male Scaup, 10x Shelduck, 12x Shoveler, 4x Goldeneye, 12x Curlew, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 20x Lapwing, Redshank, 2x Blackcap, (DSc)  – 10x Curlew, Redshank, Ringed Plover, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, 2x Oystercatcher, Scaup, 2x Little Egret, 4x Egyptian Geese, (CMa, RF)  –  Marsh Harrier, Little Gull, Scaup, 2x Black-tailed Godwit, Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 3x Redshank, 16x Curlew, 9x Oystercatcher, 4x Ringed Plover, 3x Little Egret, 45x Goldeneye, 6x Pochard, 28x Shoveler, 14x Gadwall, 27x Wigeon, 24x Shelduck, 40x Little Grebe, Common Gull, 4x Blackcap, 2x White Wagtail, 3x Cetti’s Warbler, 150x Sand Martin, (JWo, George)

Knypersley Resv

2x Mandarin, 16x Chiffchaff, Blackcap, (GBr)

Berryhill

4x Swallow late morning, (CSi)

Whitemoor Haye

Slavonian Grebe, Merlin, 

Blithfield Resv

2x Yellow Wagtail, 2x House Martin, Swallow,  38x Sand Martin, all perched on the fence along from Admaston Reach, also Red Kite over, (PFo)

Trentham Gardens

20x Sand Martin at 17:00, (NMK)

Stafford

Red Kite at 07:50 near County Showground, (GHa)