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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Hi Laurie, just remembered I posted a pic of woodlark on Lesvos on my gallery, (page 6) if you would like to view. Can't believe it was 8 years ago tho I remember it v clearly. I had stopped car to photograph a Black headed Bunting when woody landed on rocks next to me with a beak full of food...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Hi Laurie, interesting notes on the treatment of "million" and woodlarks. Did you know that the area surrounding the heronry at checkhill was designated sssi because of this species? I spoke to the farmer who said he hadn't seen woodlark for over 20 years. I keep a close watch around area as my...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Three mistletoe thrush on football pitch behind school drive allotments. Flock of twenty plus long tailed tits working the hedgerow and resident flock of house sparrows. More interestingly is a heads up on what could become a battle to save the farmland and pool bordering Corbett hospital and...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Taking doggo for her daily constitutional this morning I was looking at the numerous sky trails overhead (at this point we were on football pitch behind school drive allotments Amblecote) and thinking just how busy a channel we are when I became aware of a cronking from over by Corbett hospital...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Buzzard circling over Merry hill centre this afternoon. Must have been after a bargain!!
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Strangely I too was down that way,as I am most days (so not so strange then). The Muscovy has been dead for months and I can't understand why it hasn't been eaten or decomposed more, just lying in state in its mausoleum. It pushed its luck once too often and took a severe beating off the...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Four Buzzards wheeling and mewing above Amblecote/Wollaston this morning. On local walk this morning had 3 seperate male blackcaps, pair of chiff chaffs with nesting material in beaks. I am busy packing for my annual pilgrimage to Lesvos but must say this weather is very welcome. Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Sadly I can report that the Muscovy duck that had made the Stourbridge arm of canal its home over the past few years has died. It is lying in state in the little grotto that it favoured, unfortunately it is inaccessible without a boat so can't retrieve it for burial. It gave many people pleasure...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Pair of male goosander alternating between river Stour and canal near Wordsley junction. I initially inadvertently flushed them when I looked over bridge to see if Dipper was present (it wasn't). They flew off downstream towards fishing pools and then a few minutes later flew back towards me...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    A walk as described in last post done this morning. Very few birds about, perhaps they all hunkering down ready for storm Barbara to arrive. Did a count of water birds on Stourbridge arm of canal between Wordsley junction and Coalbrookdale bridge where I exit. Totals of 64 mallard, 15 moorhen...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Another of my regular walks we do is from my home is round through Richardson estate and turn left at Harrop Way This takes one over the river stour and is a public footpath. Follow this through to another estate and after about 100 yards turn right through a patch of grassland. You are now off...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    One of the walks I do with doggo is around the football field behind Amblecote allotments there is a good boundary hedgerow and at the top end borders the most urban of farm fields currently empty of cattle. At the other end is the stream that rises as a spring at the top of Collis...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Had a cormorant flyover at the bottom of brettell lane at 8.30am roughly on a trajectory from direction of fens pools flying towards Mary Stevens? Regards Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Lovely to see 4 buzzards taking advantage of clear blue sky yesterday and wheeling around over amblecote constantly calling at around 2pm. Regards Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Obviously I meant mistle but iPad inserted the kissy stuff and I posted without checking. Made me chuckle tho. Oh dear a further edit, I meant Rowan not Acer. Never mind eh.D Blooming eck, I meant stile....obviously
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    I had a walk round the perimeter of bunkers hill wood yesterday from Whittington lane in an anti clockwise direction even tho the big hill at the far end is a lung buster. Within a couple of hundred yards I was rewarded with a flock of 15-20 mistletoe thrushes on top of the first big acer on...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    A pair of goosander as in male and female at mary stevens park 7am this morning. Nothing much else of note other than the rain was almost horizontal!! Regards Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Hi Laurie, bit thin on ground around stourbridge arm of cut. No dipper. However given your penchant for other masters of the sky at 12.20 a pair of Sikorskies flew over in tandem. Great sound. Given their trajectory I wondered if they might have been going to Shrawardine.? Regards Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Just thought, if you look on pages 9 & 10 of my gallery (link below) there are some pics of said siskins.
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Hi Laurie, I was down MSP yesterday and had 3 grey wags. They flew up from by the sluice end into the overhanging trees then as me and my faithful hound walked round they then flew backdown by the sluice. On your point about siskins I live alongside the Stourbridge arm of the cut and have had a...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Hi Laurie,sounds like you had a good time in Espana. Think you gonna notice a difference now you back. The odd buzzard overhead maybe. Notice you thinking of Lesvos next Spring. Having been the last 3 years I can highly recommend it. If you have a look at my humble gallery ( there are better...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Hi Laurie, i have enclosed 2 pics, one a crop of first of dipper seen at Bells Mill this morning.Bit far off for my compact but i guess better than no pic at all. Regards Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    A first venture out after a long lay off through a combination of injury and recent prostate op saw me bimble along the Stourbridge arm of the canal towards wordsley. The first half of walk unremarkable except for a group of 45 mallard by the cottage/house/bungalows ( on return they had...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Interestingly i Had what is probably the same Carbo on Saturday. Of all places it was a flyover at Bunker Hill Woods. I had just congratulated myself on what was a pretty unusual bird to have on my patch list. I wondered where it was going to land. and now i know. Regards Dennis
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Had a walk slip slide around Fens pools yesterday. Plenty of tufted,BHGs,pair of Mutes, pair of Bullies, coot and moorhens, Mallards.Big flock of House Sparrows in a bush soaking up the sun and I was amazed that they let me walk right past them. Little grebe on middle pool and I boosted my year...
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