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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Those corn buntings must be the last ones in the West Mids county; the only other site I'm aware of was at Minworth where they have disappeared. This site also used to have tree sparrow ,skylarks, grey partridge and yellow wagtail and is about to be developed as an industrial site. It's very...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Glad to know you'll still around and you're sounding as miserable as the rest of us.
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    One of my pals has been birding here for over 40 years and has recorded 184 species including fulmar and a lot of wader species. But there's also hundreds or possibly thousands of visits where he has seen nothing but a few gulls ,mallards and crows.
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    From Scotland Lane nr the picnic site the occasional wader can be picked up on the opposite and quite distant shoreline, particularly on an obvious concete ramp almost at mid-point on the shoreline . A closer view can be had by going round to the dam on Genners Lane and looking down the...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    Your local patches to the south and west of Stourbridge seem to coincide greatly with those of the late lamented Eric Phillips and his comrade in arms Kinver Jim. From 1995 onwards I met Eric at a number of sites and I can remember one of his stories where he confronted the gamekeeper on the...
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    I believe China banned the sale of wild animals at their " wet markets" a few weeks ago. Also I find it hard to believe a big female gos would be chased off a nest by a crow.
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    Withymoor - Amblecote, Stourbridge.....

    farmland birds Too right Laurie, every week I do a walk somewhere across fields using public footpaths and apart from winter thrushes it is very hard to find regular farmland birds.
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