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    Bumble Hole & Warrens Hall LNR

    There is a volunteer group at the Bumble Hole that you may wish to join. I know one member is a birder.
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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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    Kingfishers

    A K/f today on the Bourn Brook by Eastern Rd sports field.
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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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    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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    RSPB Middleton Lakes

    I've only been there once this year so I can't comment on the success or failure of breeding waders but I did see a report from yesterday saying " redshank and avocet conspicuous by their absence ". From what I believe the lagoons are all linked to the River Tame by a sluice gate as part of a...
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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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    Woodgate Valley CP & Quinton Meadows

    2 yellow wagtails today in the horse paddocks by the Visitor Centre plus 2 pied wags, jay chiffchaff and mistle thrush.
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    sheepwash urban park

    On Google Earth it looks like there's a fence at the end of Macdonald close; the best access starts at the junction mentioned in the previous post, at John's Lane/Temple Way.
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    Bartley reservoir

    and a common sand about 3.30pm.
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    sheepwash urban park

    park at Temple Way/St.John's Lane,Tividale and walk up the track. The lagoon has a fence round it but if you walk round to the embankment on the east side you can get an unobstructed view.
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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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    Kingfishers

    Dipper this afternoon on the Bourn Brook r/o Cadnam Close and the Copper Fox PH ,some distance from their regular haunts.
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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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    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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    Kingfishers

    1 KF today by the Uni sports field plus peregrine on the Clock Tower ,probably a male.
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    Kings Norton Nature Reserve

    WC as in woodcock ? If one was heard it must have been during the breeding season, which makes it more interesting .Wintering woodcocks don't call.
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    Kings Norton Nature Reserve

    I've visited the reserve three times in the last few weeks in search of somewhere else to go and have been really impressed; it has some brilliant wet woodland with lots of rotting trees and I'd be surprised if it did n't have LS woodpecker 20-25 years ago . The chances of that species being...
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    Kingfishers

    I see on Birdtrack someone has recorded a dipper on the Rea at Wychall Reservoir ,King's Norton. Could this be a fourth bird in addition to the ones at Cannon Hill Pk and on the Bourn Brook ?
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