This note, by a then-prominent member of the Club, first appeared in ‘British Birds’ volume 22:7 (page 169), in December 1928.
Bird and place names were spelt as shown. For their current status, please see our county lists.
Curlew-Sandpipers in Staffordshire.
On September 16th, 1928, Mr T. A. Coward and I watched three Curlew-Sandpipers (Calidris testacea) feeding on a patch of mud and sand at Gailey Pool.
The Curlew-Sandpiper has also been recorded once previously in Staffordshire — in 1923 — also on September 16th; I saw it then on another large reservoir in the south-west of the county (cf. British Birds, Vol XVII., p.142).
A. W. Boyd
Reproduced by kind permission of British Birds 
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Thanks to Eddie Chase of Birmingham Central Library for copying the original, from their collection.
Ornithology in Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire & the West Midlands county, since 1929.
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