Flew over Coombes Valley at 11.40 this morning heading south. Worth keeping your eyes open for!! Cheers, Nick Nick Chambers Warden, RSPB Coombes and Churnet...
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I have at last found seven springs and stepping stones!!! Between seven springa and brockton coppice birds of note: male pied flycatcher by pools to right of...
single raven passing over Walton Heath, Stone, Wed. 5th. May p.m. Mobbed by local carrion crows and jackdaws. Headed towards Stone town, then northwards....
Apologies for the recent spam problem experienced by these groups. Unfortunately, it co-incided with an unannounced change by Yahoo, to the way groups o0erate,...
Croxall east lake 7 common terns 4 oystercatcher 2 male shoveler (r females nesting??) 2 redshank 5 pairs of lapwing canada with 5 young kingfisher 1 blackcap ...
Hi All Living in the Staffordshire Moorlands I am unfamiliar with Whitemoor Hayes (I know its near Alrewas!). Can Paul or anyone else please advise on the best...
Hi Grahame i dont know the legalities of access to the whole site so not sure what to advise!! It is a working quarry so not sure on their views on us going...
Hi Directions for Whitemoor Haye are as follows; Leave the A38 on the A513 signposted Tamworth, at the first island turn right onto Barley Green Lane, the pool...
I have just found this, on the RSPB website: <http://www.rspb.org.uk/policy/waterwetlands/Livingwetlands2004/2004winner.asp> Aston Hall Farm, at Stone in...
Obliging WOOD SANDPIPER on east lake 2nite at 6pm. Also redshank, LRP, ringed plover, c tern, oystercatcher and yellow wagtail. At whitemoor haye on main lake...
does anyone know any more about (sightings there/access) the large recently extracted gravel pit to the west of the Tame east of the distribution centre/A38...
Hi It seems that like always the gravel company is granting fishing on what and still is the main breeding pits for Black-headed Gull and formerly Common Tern....
2 hobbies circiling and bombing each other over handscare flash, then flew north. 1 peregrine there too, circling 50m then flew low south towards armitage. 2...
In message <c8nqne+tdil@eGroups.com>, p1jenks <paulj1@...> writes ... Perhaps a Grasshopper Warbler? -- Andy Mabbett Webmaster & Trustee West Midland...
did think possibly gropper, but wasnt continuous reel, more a continuous unoiled wheel/motion type sound!!!deff a bird, and not sure 'squeek' is the best way 2...
I always think part of Blackcap song, usually towards the end of each burst, sounds like a squeaky wheel. It's one of the ways I separate Blackcap from Garden...
Hi all Was this bufflehead an escaped bird? from andrew _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free....
andrew crumpton
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Reports are coming in of a Squacco Heron at Blithfield Reservoir. The area is likely to be busy, so please park sensibly and with consideration for our...
No sign of Squacco Heron at Blithfield Reservoir today. Bufflehead still showing well at Whitemoor Haye (as of 13.15) if a bit mobile at times (it was at...
Evening I was on the M54 about a mile west of the Wolverhampton/Stafford junction on Thursday evening (c 5:30 p.m.) when I saw 4 birds flying away from the ...
chris cameron
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Jun 1, 2004 9:58 pm
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Hi all Can anyone plz give me directions to drayton bassetts please thanks _________________________________________________________________ Want to block...
andrew crumpton
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Jun 7, 2004 4:18 pm
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I sent an e-mail to the Rutland project last October and recently received this request. Can anyone help ??? Hi there . We are again hearing reports of an...
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The West Midland Bird Club is pleased to announce a forthcoming book, 'The New Birds of the West Midlands': ...
Just to let you all know I'm able to obtain the following quality titles by Helm, Poyser etc at very good prices. If anyone wants to place an order contact me...
Here's a radio programme to watch out for: Living World BBC Radio Four Sunday August 22, 2004; 6.35 am Nightjars Brett Westwood ventures out into the heathland...
1 juv marsh harrier flying low over field by farm at Whitemoor Haye, past airfield and then over mounds at gravel pit south of the main lake, flying south. ...