Welcome to this new mailing list - please post your sightings, comments or questions about birding in the West Midlands - the list will only grow and develop...
The RSPB Walsall Local Group presents: Wendy Conway "Two Legged, Four Legged, Furry & Feathered" (A talk about birds, animals, people and landscapes; from...
Had a male Blackcap in the garden this morning, feeding on bacon fat. Only the third one I've ever seen in the garden, the last being a female about a ...
Andy Thomas ... I contacted this guy last winter, but he is based in Scotland and only able to get down occasionally. He was booked to come to visit me, but...
At lunchtime today I visited The Leasowes in Halesowen to look for the albino magpie, which has been there since at least November. Even before I'd parked the...
I have a late, third- hand, report, of a Kingfisher, seen last Sunday morning on the lake at the rear of Wm. Wheat & Sons garden centre, on Old Chester Road at...
Chris Beer - Whales and Dolphins. At the Salvation Army Citadel, St. Chad's Queensway. Doors open 7pm meetings start at 7:30pm. Non-members welcome, entrance ...
I paid a brief visit to Fens Pools in Brierley Hill today. Apart from the usual there was a male Goldeneye on Middle Pool and a pair of Gadwalls on Grove Pool,...
A Waxwing was reported in Netherton at 13.30 today, by Kwiksave. I was there at 16.00 and it was showing well on a TV aeriel across the road. -- Andy Thomas...
The Waxwing was still by the Kwik Save in Netherton at 9am this morning, map ref SO946871. However, it is mobile. I saw it mobbed by a Magpie when it was on...
The telephone hotline caries this evening a report of ~300 Golden Plover, seen circling over the Dunlop factory at Castle Bromwich. -- Andy Mabbett Webmaster &...
A pair of Collared Doves have just been getting very friendly, in the tree outside my living room window. Have any of you seen other signs of approaching...
The following "readers letter" appeared in the febuary/03 issue of Saga Magazine.If it is factual, it makes exciting reading!! Quote: In the feature "Sky's the...
Andy, Why "Where to watch birds in Herefordshire"-Wyken Slough is in Coventry,Therefore either W.Mids or Warwickshire, depending on how old you are! We will...
I'm grateful to the staff at Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve, who invited me to assist in their monthly Snipe Count this morning. Walking across the Marsh (which...
Andy Mabbett wrote: Have any of you seen other signs of approaching spring? Late yesterday (26th Jan) at Ladywalk seemed just like a warm, spring evening; with...
The West Midland Bird Club hotline reports that four Whooper Swans were seen flying over Walsall, this morning, heading towards the Arboretum. It's also...
The West Midland Bird Club is pleased to announce the launch of a new Branch, serving Coventry & Warwickshire. The inaugural meeting will be held on Wednesday...