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    Worst thing to happen to you when Birding?

    6 of us went out to the Gambia in 1984 & the 700 tonne boat did capsize, 4 people drowned out of 90 people on board but 3 of them were our group from Coventry but only 2 bodies were recovered in Crocodile infested waters. We did spend 6 hours on the upturned hull of the boat till we were...
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    Over-wintering Hoopoe in Britain

    I seem to recall putting 17 hours in for that bird & still dipped it. Mike.
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    Over-wintering Hoopoe in Britain

    One near Mansfield was around for a while but died during a cold snap. Mike.
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    Birding Morocco (safety and other questions)

    When we landed at Tangiers 11pm, we picked up the Hire car which was empty so by the time we left the Airport around midnight we went looking for a Petrol station, we got ripped off for Petol as we had to use Sterling as we could not get any local currency before we entered the country. As there...
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    Birding Morocco (safety and other questions)

    A week in Morocco in March 93 was nothing but trouble from the moment we landed, the worst place been Merja Zerga for the S B Curlews. Taking on Hassan as a guide we arrived at the Marshes & around 50 Men & youths surrounded us & Hassan told us to pay them to guard our car otherwise they would...
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    World Yearlist Record Attempt

    So after a big year & you do another year birding round the world but not species seen in your big year how many new species could you see '1000, 1500 or 2000. Obviously it would cost a lot more as you would have to Island hop for endemics but it could put you in the top World listing rankings...
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    100000 Woodcock shot every year in the UK

    I think in mid Warwickshire Woodcock has gone as a breeding bird, in recent years I have surveyed woods where I used to get them roding but not any more. In winter in woods with limited access to Dogs & Mountain Bikes I can see half a dozen birds or even into double figures in a couple of hours...
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    Willow Tits in Britain - inbreeding & partial albininism

    They are quite fragmented in Warwickshire now, this is the first Year I haven't seen one in the county but I will have to have a look at the ones coming to feeders in North Warks'. Mike.
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    Pub Night

    A few of us meet every other Thursday in the Queens Head in Cubbington around 8pm & this Thursday the 6th will be the night. Mike.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Warwickshire

    Had a look for the Yellow-browed at Earlswood today but no sign in blustery conditions, there were 1 or 2 Chiffchaff & a few Goldcrest with a Tit flock. Mike.
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    Scottish Independence

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2752029/Another-blow-No-vote-First-banks-threaten-flee-independent-Scotland-appears-Loch-Ness-Monster-relocated-south-border.html
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    Sow Thistle

    This was my thought, I saw Marsh Sow-thistle in Norfolk last year at Holme when I was working on the sea defences & a few weeks ago at Strumpshaw Fen on the way back from the Great Knot. There were about 30 plants when I first noticed them on Wednesday driving by, on Thursday I had a quick look...
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    Sow Thistle

    Please can anyone identify these? The plants were over 2 metres tall thanks
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Warwickshire

    Just been Dennis.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Warwickshire

    Dennis Woodward told me today that a fisherman tried to throw him off site today at Seeswood Pool while trying to see the Night Heron. Mike.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Warwickshire

    Should have been mega alerted on my pager, far better than all those Pied-billed Grebes they mega'd in Ireland the other year, but not to uncommon in North Warks or for that matter most other species on the British List have been recorded in the area. Mike.
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    Norfolk birding

    Typical, if it hadn't been a Bank Holiday I would have been working in those road works & all I've had there is a Nightingale & Lesser Whitethroat, back there tomorrow to supervise some Newt fencing going in & a nesting bird survey & I will be stuck in those road works as well on the way there &...
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    Hedge Flailing

    The problem these days is flail instead of laying, for a lot of farmers hedges are just a pain, while surveying large areas of Warwickshire the most common code I wrote down for hedges was 'J22' which stood for Defunct Hedge meaning poorly maintained & gappy (ie not creating a corridor for...
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    and yet another list: What New World Warblers (Parulidae) have you seen

    Was on 40 species in 1991 & I am still on 40 species in 2014. Mike.
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    Has Birding World Folded?

    Thanks for that stitch, didn't see that page, I will give them a bell. Mike.
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    Has Birding World Folded?

    Having had my last Birding World, no mention of a refund as I only resubscribed in late September as been skint at the mo' I can not renew my BSBI subscription or think about subscribing to British Birds so anybody know owt. Mike.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Warwickshire

    Was watching the Starling roost at Brandon tonight & a Merlin did a couple of passes over Newlands & missed a passerine, also 2 Sparrowhawks & a Kestrel. Mike.
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    Has Birding World Folded?

    I will certainly be taking up that offer as soon as I get some pennies off customers, I subscribed to BB from 84-89 then BW came out & I couldn't afford them both so BW it was as it was upto date news & not historical as in BB in the eighties. Mike.
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    Has Birding World Folded?

    A refund would be nice, I can put it towards a British Birds subscription. Mike.
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    Demise of Birding World ???

    I shouldn't need to contact them, they should be contacting 'us' the subscribers. Mike.
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