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Upton Warren (64 Viewers)
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biking birder 2010
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With a bit of effort i'm sure that we could score 8 - male cettis.
Stone Snapper
Warrener till i snuff it
lovely shots Celia was great to see u yesterday :t:
Stone Snapper
Warrener till i snuff it
Decided to sell my canon 550d 150 -500 sigma and 18-270 Tamron lens battery grip and 3 batteries few extras if interested let me know cheers
Thanks Vern...Great to see you too, also enjoyed the other gentlemen's company all afternoon.
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Work party.
Today's work party tackled 'Swampy Bottom' which is the area just before the Chestnut tree on the right hand end of the causeway. The whole area was overgrown and a large number of fish fry were trapped in the small pool.
The whole area was pollarded and the channel dug out to connect to the main pool. Also branches were removed to create a fly through for Kingfishers.
Some pictures enclosed so you can see the lovely mud you missed.3
Today's work party tackled 'Swampy Bottom' which is the area just before the Chestnut tree on the right hand end of the causeway. The whole area was overgrown and a large number of fish fry were trapped in the small pool.
The whole area was pollarded and the channel dug out to connect to the main pool. Also branches were removed to create a fly through for Kingfishers.
Some pictures enclosed so you can see the lovely mud you missed.3
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upstarts1979
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A few more pics.3
Hi Bob great pics and great work by the team...........just sorry I couldn't be there with you all mate:t:John
Today's work party tackled 'Swampy Bottom' which is the area just before the Chestnut tree on the right hand end of the causeway. The whole area was overgrown and a large number of fish fry were trapped in the small pool.
The whole area was pollarded and the channel dug out to connect to the main pool. Also branches were removed to create a fly through for Kingfishers.
Some pictures enclosed so you can see the lovely mud you missed.3
Great pics, Bob.
I couldn't stop myself taking the register: Paul M (gaffer), Bob O, Bob P, Bob R, Charles, Dave, Janet, Janette, Keith, Ray, Terry, Tony and a newcomer, Jim. We hope you enjoyed it, Jim, and that we'll see you again.
Ps. If anyone does see a kingfisher fly along that channel between the causeway and the main Moors pool please post on here.
Peter
Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Today's sightings: Pintail still at the Moors Pool and Little Egret, plus Little Egret at the Flashes (Edward Betteridge via WorcesterBirding).
Actually, Phil, we saw double: 2 pintails and 2 little egrets at the Moors, 30+ teal mostly male, about 10 snipe on the newly-cut promontory until a sparrow hawk landed (as photographed by Dave), greylags then took over that spot; also a curlew, a flock of lapwings, kingfisher, and very audible Cettis by Soggy Bottom and the East hide. Sorry about the vague numbers but we were having lunch.
Peter
Stone Snapper
Warrener till i snuff it
Also the hides on the west side were swept out and cleaned and all the feeders filled to the brim
Stone Snapper
Warrener till i snuff it
Rob guest has just had male and female pintail (eclipse male )
Male Bullfinch showing well on both feeders at both west side hides. Also a siskin seen by myself and one other. At least 3 cettis possibly 4/5 singing between east and west, including from the hides. Thanks for everything mate.
John Sirrett
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Today's Tally 55 species: more or less as it happened Mute Swan, Mallard, Coot, BH Gulls, Cormorant, Goldfinch, Robin, Rook, Jackdaw 300+, Carrion Crow, GC Grebe, Blue Tit, Goldcrest 2, Bullfinch 2m, Chaffinch 1, Blackbird 20+migrants, Redwing 5, Pied Wagtail, Snipe 19 flashes, 8+ moors, Moorhen, Teal 70 flashes, 50 moors, Grey Wagtail 3, Magpie, Woodpigeon, Lapwing 76, Stock Dove, Meadow Pipit 5, Cettis Warbler 5 heard, Raven, Shoveller 53, Buzzard, Reed Bunting 5, Song Thrush 1, Pintail 5, Little Egret 2, Great tit, Greylag Goose 28, Canada Goose 190, Water Rail 6, Kingfisher 2, Little Grebe 8, Dunnock, Grey Heron, Mistle Thrush 3, Greenfinch 20+, Curlew 14, Collard Dove, Jay, Sparrowhawk, Green Woodpecker: 150 plus larger gulls mostly LBB and Herring, one adult Yellow Legged Gull, 3 adult or near adult Common Gull, dark LGB potentially Scandinavian intermedius: Starlings 350 murmuration circled reed beds at dusk on moors no sign of Bittern. (For the avoidance of doubt, this is what I saw not what I found.) JS (Come back soon Des.)
Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
Some good sightings there John; the best autumn for many a year for Pintail. I wonder if the various sightings of Yellow-legged Gull over the last few weeks relate to the same individual?
PS What did a week on Scilly yield?
PS What did a week on Scilly yield?
Abbeybirder
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What has happened to Des as I used to love to read his updates and miss them very much like so many people on here.
Phil Andrews
It's only Rock and Roller but I like it
He's not gone far (only Australia
). Think he will be back in time for a visit next Wednesdaystoneycurlew
Member
A close up video of the bittern at Upton Warren....
http://youtu.be/44BCSSR6i2E?list=UUSJaRBsqUEFGxxC3XVyjPrA
http://youtu.be/44BCSSR6i2E?list=UUSJaRBsqUEFGxxC3XVyjPrA
