All being well, I'll be on Radio WM at about 4.50pm this evening, wearing my RSPB hat, to talk about the Hoopoe at Walsall. -- Andy Mabbett (personal post,...
Andy Mabbett
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Oct 9, 2006 2:43 pm
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In message <efoqpb+q2su@eGroups.com>, Dave.a.saunders <sndrsdas@...> writes ... The Express & Star ran a story: ...
Mike West, West Midland Bird Club secretary and a former Trustee, and a volunteer for the RSPB and a number of other projects and conservation organisations,...
... I went up to Sandwell Saturday morning and saw the hide was out of order, there were two Cormorants stood really close to it too and I wanted to try out my...
Info - the hide at Coombe Abbey has now been repaired and is open to the public. ... order, there were two ... new zoom lens :(. Really ... kind of stuff,...
Members of the RSPB's Walsall Local Group are "looking" forward to a talk by Professor Graham Martin, of the University of Birmingham. He is visiting the group...
Walking along the canal by the ICC at 11am this morning (Tues 24 Oct). Opposite the Sealife Centre, I met some people who were feeding bread to the ducks,...
I took some rubbish out at half-ten tonight, and while I was in my garden, heard Redwings passing overhead. Time to dig out my winter hat and gloves :-( -- ...
Are you sure it was not a mandarin duck as they are very similar in appearance ? ... _________________________________________________________________ Windows...
I'm told that there are Goosander on Forge Mill Lake at Sandwell Valley. I don't have numbers or dates. -- Andy Mabbett Webmaster & Trustee West Midland Bird...
Hi all, I had x3 Scaup in Sandwell today a Male & 2 Female on Forge Mill the birds looked wary and where only on the water seconds before departing west. Good...
as i have a few days off would like to see some good flocks of wintering birds been told norfolk but dont want travel that far realy i live on staffs west mids...
Hi Locally, Belvide and Blithfield are really good for birding, or you could take a trip to Cannock Chase, the White House car park and the Marquis Drive...
Heather Corfield
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Nov 2, 2006 11:53 pm
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Whitemoor Haye and Croxall and Barton pits are good wintering smew (sometimes over 6), redshank, snipe, pochard, gadwall, shoveler, teal, corn bunting, tree...
i have herd of this place but were about is it as i would like to visit i live in burntwood staffs do you need a permit thanks steve [Non-text portions of this...
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Nov 6, 2006 11:10 am
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Very, very quiet at Sheepwash over the last few weeks, hardly anything about - have never known it so quiet. Only notable was 4 teal (although only single...
In message <57e.78e6787.327f096b@...>, wigggo13@... writes ... Which place? (It helps if you quote the relevant bit of the post you reply to, as I have...
Hi all, Late news from yesterday 6th November i had a First winter Male Ring Necked Duck on Forge Mill the bird was found at 16:30 in with a small group of...
I am pleased to tell you that the RSPB Walsall Local Group's 2007 programme, as it currently stands, is now available on the group's website. Indoor meeting...
Hi All This may have been reported already, if so apologies. There's a large roost of Pied Wagtails in a Plane tree at the bottom of Bull Street opposite...
ANDREW SIMONS
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Nov 27, 2006 9:09 pm
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They also roost in and on the car park above the indoor market ... large roost of Pied Wagtails in a Plane tree at the bottom of Bull Street opposite...