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Recent content by Richard Powell

  1. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Maybe it's best if the "To feed or not to feed" discussion is left for the rare bird thread, rather than this one? And whatever your opinion is on the subject, I think it's been done to death by now. :flyaway:
  2. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Happy new year all! B (: B (: B (:B (: And good riddance to 2014 for Staffs rarities? 8-P Apart from the Pacific Golden Plover at Middleton of course. Lesser Scaup at Tittesworth, a couple of Roseate Terns at Belvide. Can't think of much else? Hopefully now we're all safely in 2015 it'll be...
  3. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Yes I did, last weekend, with exactly the same thoughts. Absolutely zip! :-O Well, apart from a flock of Golden Plover and some Red Grouse. But I don't think that's any reason at all to give up on the moors, far from it. Birders may well want a shufty at Gib Tor, just to the north of the...
  4. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Warwickshire

    Brilliant, typical Nuneaton. Come on Mr Hutton, it's time for a big-up of the Nuneaton massive! :-O In a past life I've spent many a miserable time in Nuneaton. Either breaking down in a car as a student, or Nuneaton Borough giving Burton Albion a good thrashing (mainly).
  5. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Or, to be a bit more S-Pacific...... What a cracking record, and another rare wader for Middleton/Drayton Bassett.
  6. Richard Powell

    Unique birding event as rare Mediterranean wader breeds for the first time in Sussex

    I forgot about this thread. I admit I was a little flippant and cynical, but I still don't see why the big announcement couldn't have waited until any eggs had hatched. Just takes away one huge risk if you ask me. Then by all means, go the whole hog. And I do know about the observation of...
  7. Richard Powell

    Unique birding event as rare Mediterranean wader breeds for the first time in Sussex

    So when the egger appears, what do the the 24 hour Home Guard do exactly? The cold steel, they don't like it up 'em? Or perhaps they have an AK47? Call me an old stick in the mud, but I am concerned by the publicity that has now surrounded both pairs of Stilts. But of course, I hope they're...
  8. Richard Powell

    The Natural History Of Staffordshire: Fauna and Flora

    Mayfly This cracking Mayfly landed on my scope this afternoon. Quite a large hatching of them at Uttoxeter Quarry today.
  9. Richard Powell

    Pipit spp, Worlds End , Wales ,UK , in May

    "I have no idea who any other contributors of this thread are." And this is no longer true, because I know Mr Archer is. Anyway, I'm off to bed.
  10. Richard Powell

    Pipit spp, Worlds End , Wales ,UK , in May

    As strange as this may sound. I'm not part of Bird Forum staff. I have no idea who any other contributors of this thread are. However John, you know who I am and where I go birding. So if there is anything to say, please say it to my face.
  11. Richard Powell

    Pipit spp, Worlds End , Wales ,UK , in May

    With a prescription from your quack, no problem.
  12. Richard Powell

    Pipit spp, Worlds End , Wales ,UK , in May

    To bang one's cranium against?
  13. Richard Powell

    Upton Warren

    No need for a rant then !;) You see, we're all here to help. My psychology surgery is open 3 days a week.
  14. Richard Powell

    Upton Warren

    At the end of the day, this does sound like a website still under development. Perhaps Upton Warren should be completely excluded from it?
  15. Richard Powell

    Upton Warren

    Perhaps you should contact Kevin Clements directly?
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