Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Uttoxeter Quarry: bn grebe still, redshank, gwe, pochard and 3 Cetti’s 1130
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Good mix of birds at black bank vismig today including a few brambling and redwing and the first woody push of the autumn #staffsbirds #vismig 070
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 02/10/202617 redwing passed through Black Bank this morning, first of the autumn here #vismig #staffsbirds @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 080
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Reasonable variety of birds on Vismig at Black Bank this morning, best being 3 brambling S and 9 pinks nw at 7:15 #vismig #staffsbirds @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 041
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A couple of decent Vismig days at Black Bank today and yesterday, highlights today being a late swift and tree pip, yesterday a good mipit passage #staffsbirds #vismig 060
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Nice one! Wondered if one might turn up in Staffs - lucky to have trapped them down south. It’s a smart looking moth 111
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Nice to find 5 newly arrived whinchat at Berryhill fields this afternoon. Also a redstart and 7 stonechat still present #staffsbirds #patchbirding 0101
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 31/08/2026At Berryhill early morning there were 3 Whinchat still, green woodpecker and a redstart. Some of the stonechats appear to have moved on with just 6 in view #staffsbirds 040
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A good morning at Berryhill fields this morning with @robgilb91.bsky.social produced 3 Whinchat, wheatear, 13+ stonechat, 3-4 redstart, ringed plover over, 2 swift, lesser whitethroat, spot fly, yellow wag #staffsbirds 180
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Berryhill Fields this morning resulted in 2 Whinchat, 3 redstart, green woodpecker, lesser whitethroat and 13 stonechat #staffsbirds 040
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Highlights today at Berryhill Fields were a Whinchat, 15+ Stonechat and a willow warbler #staffsbirds 050
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Good trapping here at Stoke with a tatty tree lichen beauty (lifer), 3 Cydia amplana, 2 smw, beet moth, dbm, sallow kitten and 6 striped rustic the highlights amongst the masses of moths 1100
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Lesser Stag Beetle in my Stoke garden this evening. Is it common in Staffs? First time I’ve seen one 120
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 10/08/202644 sp in Stoke best being garden dart (first in garden since 2002), small ranunculus, 2 rd pearl, ot pearl, cb sallow and gold spot. C. 50 wasps didn’t help 2130
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 02/08/2026At Berryhill fields this morning: clouded yellow, green woodpecker, redstart, 9 stonechat and a small copper #staffsbirds 060
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Sallow kitten and Birds Wing the best of last nights trapping in Stoke on Trent along with 3 SM Willow and a Rusty dot pearl. A hummingbird hawk moth in the garden earlier was also welcome 2150
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A recent holiday at Seasalter Kent gave me a new macro - channel island pug (first found in the uk in 1984). Ear moth sp and dog’s tooth best of the rest plus a couple of day flying jersey tigers #teammoth 0140
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Buff Mompha, mompha epilobiella was a lifer and nfg last night 150
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Highlights from trapping at Swineholes Wood last night were satin beauty, oak eggar (with beautiful snout) and scalloped shell. 1110
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Bordered straw the highlight from last night trapping in S-o-T #teammoth 0100
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Lots of common moths in the trap last night including a plague of box tree moths. A bilberry tortrix was nfg though 120
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 31/05/2026A bit of migrant action in my Stoke trap last night: small mottled willow, silver Y, 3 DBM. Also NFG brindled tortrix (ptycholoma lecheana). Plus poplar hm, 2 lime hm and common swift part of 56:32 050
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The small piece of “waste” ground at the car wash by Sainsbury’s Stoke on Trent once again producing some goodies this year 080
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 06/05/2026A lone wood anemone flowering at Bearda this morning 010
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The lure also attracted a yellow dung fly 🤷🏼♂️ 010
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Two of 5 large red-banded clearwings to lure at 3 locations on Cannock Chase this afternoon. 140
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 24/04/2026A week’s holiday in Poole, Dorset produced 2 moth lifers despite the cold clear skies every night - ringed carpet and great prominent 🙂. Back up cast included maidens blush, streamer, 2 slow worms, bluethroat, firecrests, wt eagle, dartfords, whimbrels, med gulls etc. 0100
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 12/04/2026At Berryhill Fields pallet stacks this morning, I’ve just found a male ring ouzel 👍 #staffsbirds @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 0120
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 09/04/2026A smart male ring ouzel showed nicely this morning on the moors, never get tired of seeing them! 090
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 08/04/2026An early pied flycatcher was a nice surprise this morning, in north Staffs #staffsbirds 0110
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 27/03/20264 wheatear at Berryhill Fields pallet stacks area this morning along with the Cetti’s #staffsbirds @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 070
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 13/03/2026A morning visit to uttoxeter quarry produced a white-front, sand martin and 12 oystercatcher all on the main lake #staffsbirds @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 040
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Pleased to find 3 willow tit at Deep Hayes CP this morning as I failed to find any last year. Also green woodpecker, red kite, 4 mandarin, tawny owl and 2 redpoll (lesser) #staffsbirds 0131
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Angle shades caterpillar my first moth of the year, in the garden 040
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 16/01/2026My first visit of the year to uttoxeter quarry produced a whooper swan, green sand, 2 golden plover, 5 goldeneye, red kite and 900+ lapwing 1130
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 17/11/20252 hours Vismig at Black Bank Stoke this morning produced 21300 woodies sw, 250 pinks east at 8:55 and 185 pinks sw at 9:20. #staffsbird @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 0100
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Finding a Firecrest in my back garden in Stoke this morning was a nice surprise! My second garden record after one in 2003(ish). Thanks for the pic @philj61.bsky.social @staffsbirdnews.bsky.social 2181
Nick Pomiankowski @nickpom9.bsky.social · 07/11/2025A white-point nfg was the highlight in my Stoke trap last night along with December moth, 6 lbam and 3 ruddy streak #teammoth 0171
