1 February 2006 A Press Release from the BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION RECORDS COMMITTEE The 32nd Report of the BOU Records Committee The BOU Record...
Hi Rob, Thanks for the info, I may get chance to have a look in the next week. Nice to know that it's survived through some harsh weather in recent weeks. It...
hi just spent half of sunday walking all round staffordshire branston area looking for this juv long tailed duck,looked on all three pools at branston,for the...
Hi Les, the Duck was on the working gravel pits, not the 'public water park' pits.They can be found, by walking south west along the canal, from the water...
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Feb 6, 2006 10:04 am
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Hi Rob/Les, Surfbirds has 1 pic of the Branston GP LT Duck. It is at the link below, although if lots more pics are added in the next cpl of days the link may...
Apologies to Kevin! I don't know him so thought it would be improper of me to namedrop him like we were lifelong friends. A lot of my birding is done out of...
Hi, just to inform anyone interested, that there will be a work party at Belvide Reservoir Bird Reserve, this Saturday 11th Feb. Meet in the car park, off ...
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Feb 8, 2006 8:54 am
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Presently, British Waterways are installing paths in the 'Clay Pits' woodland, adjacent to Gailey Reservoir in Staffs( the woodland is directly opposite, the...
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Have joined the list and am receiving e-mails, but don't have any means of accessing the members' area. Help appreciated! Thanks! ...
Julie Mitchell
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Feb 8, 2006 9:56 pm
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Re access problems to members' area -problem now sorted! _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN Search Toolbar now...
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Does anyone have directions for the Yellow-browed Warbler at Weeping Cross? Has it moved from the baswich canal area? Graeme Graeme Lyons Ecologist and Moth...
Sorry for late reminder . . . Keith Offard is talking to WMBC Staffs Branch tonight on the "Identification of Raptors" - usual time, usual place (that's ......
Park in Baswich lane, walk east along the canal to Stoneford Bridge, over bridge, under railway line, up the bank to your left, into Pine Plantation.Still in...
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The perimeter track that provides access to the Gazebo and Bryant bird hides at our Belvide Reserve <http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/belvide/> is closed...
There are many fine map services available on-line, free (e.g. Google, StreetMap, MultiMap, OS Get-a-Map). So please give co-ordinates, or a URL, when...
Hello The Staffs Branch of WMBC is hosting its AGM tomorrow evening (Friday 10th March), the main event though will be the talk on Aqualate Mere by the Site...
May I draw your attention to the fact that we have appointed a new County Bird recorder for Staffordshire, Nick Pomiankowski, and congratulate him on his new...
...in the 19th Century! I have just added an article about Walsall's Victorian poet John Kilbourn and his most famous work, 'The Nightingale at Great Barr', to...
hi andy when i got got up and read e-mail earlier half asleep just saw nightingale at barr beacon on my list,wow i though get the telescope start the car only...
The last bird reported on this mailing list was the Long Tailed Duck at Brandon - almost two months ago! Are there no birds in Staffordshire, this spring? -- ...
Last night at Doxey Marshes(5.30 to 6.30) Chiff-chaff 3 Willow Warbler 1 Swallow 2 through Dunlin 1 LRP 2 Redshank 3+ Water Pipit c10 in fine breeding plumage!...
Can anyone advise me as to when there might be a "guided birdwatch" at Doxey or are there occasions when it would be a good time to turn up to find experts...
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On the subject of Doxey, do you need a permit to gain entry to the reserve/hides? Cheers, Matt Reed...
Hi No you do not need a permit to visit Doxey. There is an all metal hide and two or three raised viewing area's on site. Martyn Yapp ... From: matt_j_reed ...
hi my name is steve i was at doxey a few weeks ago although it was a bad day it rained and it has run down from the days i went when i first started...
5 April 2006 A Press Release from the BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION RECORDS COMMITTEE and BRITISH BIRDS RARITIES COMMITTEE Rufous-tailed Robin (Luscinia...