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  1. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Must be catching, I had a couple of hours to kill Saturday morning, just a part lap of PHP and the Embankment. Water Rail EPP was good, have not seen one down there for years. 4 Teal, 1 Goosander and a couple of Herring Gulls dropped in. I still need Pheasant, mmm feeling a twitch coming on soon.
  2. M

    sheepwash urban park

    16th is good for me. I don't do hard luck stories, apart from the one where I found myself a Sheepwash regular in the 80's B (:8-P3:-)
  3. M

    sheepwash urban park

    When is the next Sheepwash get together then?
  4. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Strange I had a flock of 40 Jackdaw over Sainsbury's in Oldbury this morning, seemingly arriving to see the exit block by mist over Turners Hill, they circled a couple of times and then moved on. Took me years to see jackdaw down there.
  5. M

    sheepwash urban park

    I am afraid that is one for the Geoff and Dave's. I think they bred on Autobase one year, I seen to remember that the area was always devoid of cars just beyond the fence by the tunnel for many a year. Can you do me a favour Baggieshep and find out if anyone has still a complete set of reports...
  6. M

    sheepwash urban park

    It seems that everything I post on the Sheepwash Forum is either misinterpreted or misunderstood so I don't think I will bother to add anything in the future. Not sure why you think I am knocking the site, you may have to explain that one. Sheepwash is still a premier West Midlands wetland...
  7. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Its sort of a Urban site sort of statement, bit like Lapwing really, Little Egret on estuaries and Lapwings in the countryside springs to mind of course.
  8. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Eagle Lane refers to another site on the other side of Great Bridge. The area you have circles is correct, there are quite a few ways to get into Sheepwash, Anne Close was my preferred, parking prior to the school entrance where an obvious gate leads you down to the main path close to where you...
  9. M

    sheepwash urban park

    The calls of European Serin are diagnostic and should not really cause too much confusion, they can be found here. http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Serinus-serinus
  10. M

    sheepwash urban park

    When John moved to Devon I believe he was instrumental in finding the Semi-palmated Plover at Dawlish Warren, an awesome birder and one that I longed to be like when I first came onto the regional scene and spent many a long hour with him whilst trying to find birds at what was then Dosthill...
  11. M

    sheepwash urban park

    With calling fly-overs like Rock and Water it is very difficult in the split seconds you have to seperate them on call, although they are seperable quite easily I have found, however I can say that now having some experience behind me and like you back then, it was all together different. What...
  12. M

    sheepwash urban park

    The Good Old Days I have recently started to get my act together with adding my scribbled birdnotes into the brilliant Bird Journal software, a fairly mammoth task being as my first ever written notes were in 1989, however it was 1991 when just having my first car I could get to Sheepwash...
  13. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Of course I remember you Mark, nights in the Star & Garter and all, did you ever tell ya mates you were a birdwatcher? Good times then tbh. Cutting my teeth at Sheepwash I certainly did, much better without all the trees back then, but lets face it we never got to see Jays, GS Woodpeckers and...
  14. M

    sheepwash urban park

    It's just clicked this series of posts and I am wondering if it all refer to me asking a perfectly reasonable question about an image of drake Eider, it would have been nice to see what I had missed at Sheepwash, there was never any intention of questioning the record and your birding...
  15. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Any photographs....
  16. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Remember doing Sheepwash when there was little in the way of trees, very good for waders then on passage. Alas council tree planting for quick fix has turned into a haven of youths, drinkers and dog walkers...
  17. M

    sheepwash urban park

    I wouldn't bet on it. Shoveler, Wigeon and Water Rail all noted in the last week.
  18. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Scaup I am not convinced that this is a Greater Scaup if this was the bird. Small and small tuft on rear crown.
  19. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Cheers Laurie, off on trip with Ian to Turkey next Saturday. I used to do Sheepwash before work, loved it. My best find there was Long-tailed Duck.
  20. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Arr Laurie I know who you are now. Nice to see back down there. Alas I don't get there very often now, but still realise the big potential it still has Of course Sheepwash has a fine history withrarities (Purple Sandpiper and Pom Skua before my time), remeber this one...
  21. M

    sheepwash urban park

    For Sheepwash standards that is not seasonally quiet, the fact there is a couple of species of waders is really noteworthy these days.
  22. M

    sheepwash urban park

    Arctic Tern - Sheepwash Juvenile Arctic Tern on Pumphouse Pool this morning, sitting on the western rocky islands, leaving every so often to feed.
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