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    Bartley reservoir

    It's been a hard slog trying to find any migrants. Today I did see a lesser whitethroat briefly along the reservoir boundary fence. It had been singing from cover intermittently in the brisk wind and showed after 25 minutes . A common sand was on the shoreline but it might still be the one...
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    Bartley reservoir

    Great spot Carl. Last week on one day ( Tuesday I think, following overnight rain) a chap had gropper, whinchat and wheatear on the south side.
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    Bartley reservoir

    A brief walk along the dam today brought a common sandpiper,7 pied wags and 1 grey.
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    Bartley reservoir

    In mid-October there was a flock of house sparrows plus 2 tree sparrows,reed bunting and yellowhammer feeding on a stubble field adjacent to the reservoir on the Frankley Lane side. Just when it looked things might be getting interesting the inevitable happened ; the farmer ploughed the field...
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    Bartley reservoir

    yesterday whinchat and wheatear on fenceposts in the field near the church which you can look down on from the top of the mound.The spot fly you saw was probably a new one.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Checked out yesterday morning the area around Frankley church and waterworks on the Worcs/B'ham boundary and found 2 spot flys and 2 willow warblers. The construction work at the waterworks has finished and Severn Trent have made an obvious attempt at habitat creation outside the boundary fence...
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    Bartley reservoir

    The oystercatcher had gone by lunchtime and there was a male reed bunting on the south side but still no whitethroats or lessers. Prior to that I'd been over to Waseley Country park 3 miles SW of Bartley. I'd checked it out over the winter and saw great potential for migrants with lots of...
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    Bartley reservoir

    and a common sand about 3.30pm.
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    Bartley reservoir

    2 LRPs on the concrete ramp on the southern shoreline late this afternoon, a spot where they've been seen before. The water level has dropped leaving a small amount of exposed shingle shoreline so there's the chance of more waders if it remains like that.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Tonight at Bartley , 2 goldeneye, 4 gt. crested grebe, greenfinch and song thrush singing, female stonechat, 70 woodpigeon flew over to the NE, woodcock flew out of a hedge rather than off the ground, buzzard.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Pintail is a mega for Bartley.
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    Bartley reservoir

    The wintering common sand today on the southern shoreline. In the scrubby/grassy area a pair of stonechat ( not present since December), the first reed bunting and meadow pipits ( 6 ) of the year so it looks like there is some migration starting to happen.
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    Bartley reservoir

    At the rezza today little grebe off the dam, common sand showing very well at the south end of the dam, 3 goldeneye, c20 gt.crested grebes, jay. and a liitle egret on the walk home just off Barnes Hill.
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    Bartley reservoir

    The one here in October must be stopping for the winter. SR saw one here a few times last winter but it was quite elusive, spending a lot of time on the wet flashes near to the church. So you were n't chased off by the police today ?
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    Bartley reservoir

    A few people have been doing the gull roost at Bartley in the evening and in recent weeks have picked up Caspian and Mediterranean gulls, but last week they were moved on by the police who were presumably enforcing the Covid regulations so I don't know whether the birders have returned.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Merlin is quite possible as at this time of year they are on the move looking for winter territories. Even if it was , it won't stop here where there are n't any flocks of skylarks/pipits/finches/buntings anywhere nearby.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Bartley Reservoir I thought the drizzle and fog might bring down something interesting so checked out Bartley this morning and could only find 5 female/imm type goosanders, my first of the autumn. Also seen today jay, pheasant, 2 pied wags and 1 grey wag both along the dam .where there was a...
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    Bartley reservoir

    The brook flowing through Manor Farm park, Merritts Brook, has its source inside Frankley Waterworks not the reservoir but it is only a few hundred metres between the two sites so you could be right. There is no stream flowing out of Bartley Res but there may have been one going north-east...
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    Bartley reservoir

    Today at Bartley, a common sand on the south side, kingfisher by the inlet , garden warbler on berries near the pool across the road from the T junction. By the waterworks construction site a kestrel ,whinchat, meadow pipit and c 10 linnet.
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    Bartley reservoir

    you're right Chris, the shelduck and wigeon are new arrivals. Don't know if they'll stop.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Between Frankley church and the Waterworks are a set of fields leased by Severn Trent from the local farmer in order to complete a major construction project and as such they have been left to "re-wild" . There are a few fences which look the perfect place for a passage yellow wag or whinchat...
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    Bartley reservoir

    The water level is back up, covering the inviting shingly shore line. Any passing wader now has the option of the concrete fringe. This afternoon a juvenile little gull briefly off the dam in high winds. I called a pal and frustratingly when he arrived after 15 minutes we could n't relocate it...
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    Bartley reservoir

    Could n't find last night's BN grebe this morning but still common sand by the Sailing Club and the visibility overall was dreadful .In view of the weather I was not hugely surprised to find an Arctic skua was found at lunchtime.
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    Bartley reservoir

    Paid another visit this morning and there may be some truth in the old adage that rain brings birds down ,plus the fact that the water level is down exposing some attractive shingly shoreline in the south western corner which held common and green sand with an oystercatcher on the grass above...
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    Bartley reservoir

    2 dunlin today at Bartley Res on the east side viewed from the dam, so still waders migrating through.
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