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    Kingfishers

    A K/f today on the Bourn Brook by Eastern Rd sports field.
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    Kingfishers

    Dipper this afternoon on the Bourn Brook r/o Cadnam Close and the Copper Fox PH ,some distance from their regular haunts.
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    1 KF today by the Uni sports field plus peregrine on the Clock Tower ,probably a male.
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    I see on Birdtrack someone has recorded a dipper on the Rea at Wychall Reservoir ,King's Norton. Could this be a fourth bird in addition to the ones at Cannon Hill Pk and on the Bourn Brook ?
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    Kingfishers

    Two dippers at 1245 on the Bourn Brook nr to the Uni/coffee shop ,exactly where I'd been talking to Kate two hours previously. Also peregrine on the east face of the Uni Clock Tower.
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    yes,the singing/chasing behaviour must be connected .The young male could be flexing his muscles and perhaps two older females are slapping him down.
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    Kingfishers

    I'm flummoxed by the behaviour of the dippers. You'd think that a singing bird was on a feeding/ breeding territory intent on keeping other birds out. A singing bird may allow a potential partner into his territory but why are they in a group of three. This becomes more complicated when you...
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    Kingfishers

    On Monday a dipper was in a different location along the Bourn Brook, near to the large boulder about 100m from New Fosse Way. After that I could n't resist twitching the black redstart in Stirchley so walked up and was lucky to find it straight away on the wall outside the house with the...
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    Kingfishers

    Once the Chad Brook passes under Bristol Rd it enters private land until it reappears by Harborne Rd ,Edgbaston, so there is no way of knowing whether the habitat is good for dippers. Beyond that it looks very much like the stretch by Costa Coffee but there are no regular kingfishers here as the...
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    Kingfishers

    I think that side channel is actually the start of Chad Brook which has its source in Lightwoods Park, Bearwood. Further upstream it is wider and deeper than it is there.
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    Kingfishers

    Hello Jason ,I won't say I told you so but today there were three dippers together on the Bourn Brook by the University near to the footbridge and coffee shop. Two grey wags by Austin Webb Boulevard and earlier on a K/f on the Rea behind the Nature Centre.
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    Kingfishers

    For your info ,Kate has submitted a short article on the dippers plus photo for the next West Midland Bird Club Newsletter; to have this species so close to the centre of Birmingham is quite newsworthy.
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    Kingfishers

    It seems like a lifetime ago now but I did see dipper on New Year's Day 2017 along the stretch of the Bourn Brook by the Uni ,which does raise some interesting questions ; how long-lived are dippers, are any of the current birds the one from 2017, if so has it been there all the time as a...
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    Kingfishers

    The sightings of dipper by yourself and also the one in July come from well spread out locations so I'm wondering if there's more than one.
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    Kingfishers

    On which stretch of the Bourn Brook is this grey bridge ?
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    Kingfishers

    yes, the old BBC site is now home to the Dental and Skin hospitals.
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    Kingfishers

    Thanks for the heads-up, I checked out the area but could n't find dipper. This species is quite easy to see as long as you have a clear and unobstructed view of a stretch of watercourse, which isn't always the case here. I checked out the new permissive path along the Bourn Brook running...
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    Kingfishers

    Where was the dipper ? It's very early for a wintering bird so this might be one of breeding pair.
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    Kingfishers

    One KF today on the Bourn Brook by the blue bridge behind Reservoir Rd and another along the stretch by Birmingham University plus grey wag. The City Council have erected another blue bridge ( not yet in use ) across the Bourn Brook close to Harborne Lane. We'll have to be more specific in...
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    Kingfishers

    Thanks, did n't know that.
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    Kingfishers

    Where's the " dental hospital" ? The only one I know is in the middle of town off Steelhouse Lane . Yesterday I saw two kingfisher along the Bourn Brook on the stretch behind Reservoir Rd and one by the University.
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    Kingfishers

    Kingfisher today again by the blue bridge along the Bourn Brook plus a very close heron . I notice that contractors with heavy machinery are removing a lot of large trees at the Harborne Lane end of this section of brook ; the question is why and who commissioned the work.
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    Kingfishers

    Today ,July 30th, a single kingfisher again on the Bourn Brook by the blue bridge,also heron,goldfinches,a green woodpecker calling and two very tatty large skipper butterflies.
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    Kingfishers

    kingfishers Kingfisher yesterday by the blue bridge and fem, grey wag feeding a juvenile on the Selly Oak stretch of the Brook by Aston Webb Boulevard.
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