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  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 Staffordshire

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

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    A pair were at Wall Farm NR in Shropshire on Monday morning. Also from the release scheme, but I understand they are different to the birds that were over Aqualate. Different ring combinations you see.
  6. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Stop picking on my mate Manfred, I've grown quite attached now.
  7. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    The Great Crane Robbery After all the excitement and palpitations at Aqualate on Sunday afternoon, I wondered if this was going to happen. http://www.thegreatcraneproject.org.uk/blogs/damon-bridge/manfred-takes-trip Turns out that one of the Aqualate Cranes is a released bird from the Great...
  8. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Aqualate Thanks very much Ian, it certainly got the adrenaline pumping! The Garganey was smart too, straight in front of the hide. Just to give a sense of distance the Cranes were, and getting higher and higher in the sky, here's an original picture plus the same one hugely cropped. So if...
  9. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    In addition to Nick's directions. At the Forestry Commission gate and turn right, there is a pile of stones. From that pile of stones, turn right and it eventually turns into a quite narrow, twisty, turny path as it heads to the top of the hill. I had about an hour with Andy this evening, no...
  10. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    We'll exchange one of them for that Buff-bellied Pipit ;)
  11. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Or maybe not?
  12. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Thanks John Taking photos of them was an after-thought. But thinking about it, if I had done and they'd seen me, then that might've caused a confrontation too. But I have sent an email to Staffordshire Police Wildlife Crime Unit. Just see what comes of it. The matter is also going to be...
  13. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Was this in Den Engel, the Belgian bar in Leek? B (: B (: B (:
  14. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I've passed the incident details to Kevin too. :t:
  15. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I wasn't sure how illegal it was either. I didn't really want to confront them, because they're the ones with guns.
  16. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Gailey Great White Egret at the second attempt today. Shortly afterwards, sadly I had to witness the Oystercatcher being shot by one of five "top marksmen" stood on the causeway, between the sailing lake and fishing lake, which was then collected by their dog swimming out. :-C Being left...
  17. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    West Midlandshire, doesn't count! ;) I wasn't even born in 1974.
  18. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Happy new year all! Well, for tomorrow anyway. If you're after a bit of birding inspiration for 2014, maybe this will help, The Ballad of Terry and Lou: http://lalarinho.webs.com/gyrcrakesvideos.htm
  19. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    This was the Tameside bird from December 2009. Looks like a Whinchat to me.
  20. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Despite telling AB to take his camera to work, alas no. See what happens this weekend. That's the trouble at this time of year with so little daylight. And I was with you at the time of the Tameside bird. In fact I think I have a digiscoped pic of that bird somewhere. But I'm off to bed now.
  21. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Alas I dipped that Whinchat yesterday afternoon. Mandarin counts to do, RC Pochards to find and all that (much better than all those sea duck) 3:-). No chance for me until the weekend, as long as all the Ivory Gulls have scarpered. But it definitely is one :t: And not unheard of either at...
  22. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Having seen the Aqualate bird and the Belvide pics, I'm going stick my head above the parapet, I think that's a different bird. I wonder what young Ian of Aqualate thinks?
  23. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Yes, remarkably my comment got through last night! 3:-) Didn't see that Greenland White-front at Whitemoor Haye personally, but I do remember of it and the really wild Barnacles around the same time.
  24. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I bet it wasn't so ugly today????? ;)
  25. Richard Powell

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Well I told you it was there at the time. I seem to remember it was at Fisher's Mill that afternoon, most of which is in W*rwickshire. Too complicated for some of us, but not a problem if you're doing a regional year list ;).
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