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  1. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    No sign of the Bean Geese at 2pm at Whimore today. Adult Yellow-legged Gull on the flood with other gulls.
  2. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Any sightings of harriers on the moors.....aka Swallow Moss.....yet this autumn/winter?
  3. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Sat in the hide at Aqualate for three hours this afternoon and you could have heard a pin drop on the opposite side of the mere it was so quiet. It was full of wildfowl but little else. At 4pm the heavens opened and 3 Black Terns dropped in, plus a few hundred hirrundines. But that was about as...
  4. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I see someone has been a bit silly at Branston GP by wandering off the main paths to try and get better photos of the Great White Egrets. I cannot believe the guilty person is an experienced birder, because an experienced birder would have known what would happen if he got too close...
  5. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    On Twitter at the moment......Staffs fire crews at Hilton Park services on the M6 trying to release an 'eagle' that has become trapped in a pigeon net. Any ideas?
  6. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I also had an adult Med Gull in the ploughed field at Whitemoor Haye. Not much at Blithfield apart from a Greenshank in Blithe bay, and 4 Common Terns. Doxey had 2 Ruff.
  7. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    That bird seems to be doing the rounds.
  8. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    There doesn't seem to be much in the way of news coming out of Blithfield these days. Is anyone doing it regularly?
  9. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Was expecting a nice quiet stroll round Westport this afternoon hoping to see the Smew. As it happened the Smew had gone, and I think half of Stoke on Trent was out walking round there, or fishing. It was packed.
  10. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Superb male Hen Harrier appeared at 5.15pm. It was in view for ten minutes or so, mainly hunting on the centre part of the moss; those parked along the top road would have had best views. No Red Grouse were seen or heard today; 500 Fieldfares flew to roost. And a stoat in its pure white winter...
  11. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Those early editions of the WMBC annual reports always had the observers initials next to all the sightings. Who were the Gailey regulars in the fifties, sixties and seventies?
  12. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Yeah, just a shame about the Ruddy Duck, I used to love seeing them. Can't think of the last time I did see one. Just hope the Spanish are happy now :C
  13. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    It had a Gloucestershire twang more so than a Scandinavian one, and definately not a Norfolk one ;)
  14. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Have the Aqualate Cranes been seen or heard anywhere else in the area since Sunday? When I was on the car park at Belvide tonight I could have swore I heard a Crane calling in the distance to the south, seriously.
  15. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Not much at Gailey this morning. A 1st winter Great black-backed Gull was as good as it got.
  16. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Gailey this morning: Great Northern Diver on the sailing lake. 25 Grey Herons 37 Cormorants
  17. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    You need to spend more time there, Ian, you're slipping :king:
  18. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Disturbing article here in todays Eastern Daily Press for those of us that do a lot of birding in North Norfolk. http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/politics/some_north_norfolk_coast_flood_defences_may_not_be_reinstated_following_surge_1_3235825
  19. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    As you look at the map the Sherbrook valley is just to the left of the marker. In fact if you stand on the top of Sherbrook valley near the Katyn or Glacial boulder and look across you might be able to see the trig. point through your bins.
  20. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Is that meant to be Trig. point. If it is, I usually park on the opposite side of Sherbrook valley near the Katyn memorial, walk down into the valley, and up the opposite side towards the shooting butts and the trig poit is up that way. However there are parking areas closer to the Trig point on...
  21. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Something isn't quite right about this. Shooting low across the water, shooting so close to a main road, shooting at a time when other activites are taking place, no signs up saying that shooting takes place. I think if this was legal the fishermen at least would have some knowledge as to who is...
  22. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I've never known it have so much coverage, it's got to the stage where there's almost always someone there.
  23. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Gailey this afternoon........the Great Northern Diver and Great white Egret still on the sailing lake. And an Oystercatcher on the island.
  24. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    If they go by the old county boundaries then birds seen at Netherton reservoir, Saltwells wood and Bumble Hole will come under Worcs. Although totally surrounded by Staffs, Dudley was an annexe of Worcs. So if anyone has got the Netherton Hill birds on their Staffs lists......Gerramoff!!! 3:-)
  25. steve_zodiac

    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Birders who tick Scottish Crossbills, Common Crossbills and Parrot Crossbills in Speyside.......doesn't it make you wonder if they really know what they're watching? But you're right, we still have much to learn about Crossbills :stuck:
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