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    Shropshire Birding

    The numbers: Cormorant 5 Grey Heron 1 Pheasant 1 Mute Swan 12 Canada Goose 4 Mallard 8 Goosander 2 Shelduck 1 Black-headed Gull...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Some statistics and comments: Up to the end of 2012 (last count on 24th December) I recorded a total of 47 species. The largest count in a single day was 20 species on 15th November. The smallest count was 1 on 24th December, when admittedly the whole journey was carried out in darkness. The...
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    Shropshire Birding

    My drive to work This might be of interest to somebody, or maybe not. Like many birdwatchers who also drive, I keep half any eye on the birds seen whilst going from place to place. I’ve seen a few reasonably interesting birds on my most regular drive to work, from the north side of Shrewsbury...
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    Shropshire Birding

    See this link from the shropshirebirds site ... http://www.shropshirebirds.com/venus_pool/VenuspoolOS.htm I would guess that it's about 10-15 minutes walk from Cross Houses and there are definitely bus stops there. Might be worth having a chat with any birders in the hides. you could get a...
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    Shropshire Birding

    "Comon Snipe?" Went to Polemere NR this afternoon for the Green-winged Teal. Not easy to see because it was in the trees at the far side of the pool and invisible from the hide but we eventually got a convincing view from the road. At about 3 p.m. a flock of about 20 Golden Plovers arrived...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Very high water levels in Venus Pool after the last lot of rains and an unusual number of wildfowl there too, with three species of white swans and at least seven types of duck yesterday p.m. A Pink-footed Goose had been reported on Friday but we couldn't locate it. There were also about 25...
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    Shropshire Birding

    A Tawny Owl this morning at about 07:45 over the A49 by the Shrewsbury Sewage works takes my 'drive to work' list up to 48 (since May) and also means that owls now constitute 25% of my UK 2013 list, since landing at Liverpool JLA yesterday tea time.
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    Shropshire Birding

    Waxwing and Goosander pics 17 Goosander again from Grey Friars Bridge, coming for bread. One little lad seemed quite delighted to see them and exclaimed "Look there are some new ducks! Look at their hairstyles!" A few of Julie's pics, the Goosanders cropped a bit more than I'd like, but they...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Also a few just west of the River Severn on Telford Way at about 12:45 (perhaps the same birds we saw later a few miles away) and a flock of about 40 (Julie's estimate from a moving car, though we went past them three times to be sure) on the A5124 at about 15:30 - just west of the railway line...
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    Shropshire Birding

    And a few more briefly on the banks of the severn by the crown pub near Patrick's goosanders.
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    Shropshire Birding

    Shrewsbury waxwings _ over 100 on ainsdale way? Drive? Near the unipart office.
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    Shropshire Birding

    There again this morning at 08:28. Should anyone be travelling between Shrewsbury and Telford over the next couple of days then they are in an obvious spindly tree on the north side of the A5 a few hundred metres after the bridge at the Telford end of the long, straight section of the A5. Drive...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Total now stands at 47 species, with two this week - incredibly no Sparrowhawk until yesterday morning.
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    Shropshire Birding

    Neither species on my list, Patrick. The 'study' starts when I wash up my breakfast cereal bowl in Shrewsbury and ends when I walk through the office front door in the centre of Telford. My solution to the "gull problem" is simple. BH Gulls are usually easy. If I see more than one large gull...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Hi Patrick It’s always nice to have over-wintering Blackcaps in the garden. I think there’s only been one winter since I moved in in 1999 when I haven’t seen them. Something of a coup this morning on my drive to work. I’ve been keeping a ‘home-to-work’ list since May. I was hoping that there...
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    Shropshire Birding

    No Waxwings on Sundorne Rd when I passed this a.m. at about 07:40, although it was barely light. The Mistle Thrush was in one of the rowans which had very few berries left. Hopefully the Waxwings have moved on and left it a few.
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    Shropshire Birding

    Oh, and two Blackcaps in my garden, just after my earlier post - the first was chased off by a second which I think was also a male. I've had single males and females together some winters (don't often see them before Christmas) but can't remember seeing two of the same gender at the same time...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Thanks Spotter. Well done with the Brambling, Rhys. Had a look for some at VP this p.m. but no sign.Several Gadwall and plenty of Snipe, though less than 70. I counted 150 Waxwings at about 12:00 on Sundorne. I took photos of the two trees that the bulk of them were in in rapid succession and I...
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    Shropshire Birding

    And a male Blackcap in my garden just - first of the "season", although that's mainly because I'm seldom here in daylight. He's probably around a lot.
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    Shropshire Birding

    Shrewsbury Waxwings A few pics that might have been better had it not been raining ...
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    Shropshire Birding

    There seem to be plenty of Waxwings in Shrewsbury at the moment. I went to watch the Sundorne Rd birds at about 09:30 this morning. I counted 69 but I suspect I missed a few. I got a snap of the main tree they were waiting in just as some were flying off and I can count 60 in it, plus there were...
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    Shropshire Birding

    Typical! I've been looking for Waxwings for years on Sundorne Rd, about 4 or 5 times a week during the season, then I have a few days out of the county and a load of them turn up, as per Jim Almond's update on Shropshirebirds.com . We had a quick look at 15:30-ish and estimated that there were...
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    Shropshire Birding

    An interesting folow-up to my post #636 (complete with typos), an otter was seen last week very close to the spot mentioned in the earlier post, between Frankwell and the town centre. It would be nice if the species has got to the point where it is seen frequently in towns (assuming that it is...
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    Shropshire Birding

    We saw Waxwings in both Northampton and Shrewsbury. The tree that they were feeding on in Centurion Park didn't look as though it would last much longer, especially given that the flock had increased to at least 28 by yesterday p.m. Others were seen (not by us, though we looked) around the...
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    Shropshire Birding

    BTW - a few years back there was a large flock of Waxwings for a few days around the car park at the back of the shops in Heath Farm (and also in the trees and bushes around the Steam Wagon pub. Some of the berry bearing bushes have been removed from the car park but might still be worth a look...
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