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  1. monkeyman

    Cetti's chit chat

    In Saturday's Times, Derwent May wrote his Feather Report on this elusive warbler. He finished off the article with "It is well worth keeping an ear open for them this weekend. I hesitate to say an eye: that might only give you pain." Well, yesterday my new chum Reader took me to Upton Warren...
  2. monkeyman

    Magpies

    I have no problem with natural selection or "survival of the fittest" but when I see a Magpie rob a blackbird's nest, I must admit to feelings of anger and loathing towards that bird. Nine forty-five this morning. A cacophany loud enough to wake the dead! Looking out the kitchen window I...
  3. monkeyman

    Hay Head Wood, The Dingle and Cuckoo's Nook

    The day stared well for us. The Blue tits are getting bolder and examing the new nest box.They even poked their heads inside today! They came to the box three times while we watched. Later I saw by first butterfly over the gardes. It was too afr away to see properly, but I'm assuming it was a...
  4. monkeyman

    Cannock Chase, Staffs

    Ali and I had arranged to take JohnJ and his partner, Ros, for a wee trip around the Chase today. The weather was not too brilliant, but the rain held off apart from the few odd spits and the wind was very fresh from the northwest! John and Ros arrived at our place at 11.30 and we had coffee...
  5. monkeyman

    You Have Got To See This!

    Check out February's Birdwatching pp2-3! Our Nigel has an absolutely stunning photo of a Shoveler published there! Well done, that man! Nigel, how about putting it here for our colonial cousins? Al :t:
  6. monkeyman

    And death swooped from the sky

    Working at my computer, I happened to glance out of the window. The sky is a beautiful shade of winter blue and the sun is setting in dazzling pink and gold to my right. We have a lot of pigeon fanciers around here and I was idly watching a flock of "tumblers" about four hundred yards to the...
  7. monkeyman

    The Swag & Swan Pool

    Situated between Aldridge and Shelfield (off the A461 Walsall-Lichfield Rd) on Stubbers Green Road. The Swag is the larger of the two pools and is used by Aldridge Sailng Club. They were created by the extraction of gravel in the area. In winter time large flocks of gulls roost there, mostly...
  8. monkeyman

    Get a plug

    January's Birdwatching came this morning and there on page 18 is a nice little plug for this Forum! :t:
  9. monkeyman

    A finch at last!

    After moaning about not having finches in the garden, a coulpe of weeks ago, what should appear this morning but a male chaffinch! However, he didn't stay long and flew off after about ten minutes without trying the feeders. We were blessed 'though with half a dozen Blue tits, a pair of coal...
  10. monkeyman

    Bird ID templates

    It's difficult to ID a bird from a description alone, as we've been finding this week! So I've knocked up a couple of templates for members to use. All you have to do is save them to your hard disk and then pull them into your favourite paint package and colour 'em in! Or you can print them out...
  11. monkeyman

    Fidgety sparrows

    I had just replenished one of our feeders about 10 this a.m. and stood looking out the kitchen window. The sparrows, unusually, took longer to come back to feed today. They hung about in next door's privet, then on our trellis and then flew across the garden into their favourite place, the...
  12. monkeyman

    View from a hill

    Took the dogs out this afternoon down Goscote Valley about amile from home. No sooner had we stepped onto the common that a Green Woodpecker flew up. Linnets were feed on birch mast whilst blue and longtailed tits floated about. Blackbirds and chaffinches were in profusion with the odd...
  13. monkeyman

    Urban Safari

    New and revised with pictures from my colouring book! Check out www.birdforum.net/monkeyman Thanks to Ollie! 20 Nov 2002: Fixed a Contents page! I will add the articles as I go along, so keep checking it out (hopefully about one per week!) And again, thanks go to our technical wizard for...
  14. monkeyman

    Bullfinch

    Got a spectacular view of a male bullfinch yesterday at Mill Lane LNR in Walsall. The reserve is only half a mile from home and it's the first time I've seen one there. Bullfinches seem pretty scarce these days and it's the first one I've seen since March!
  15. monkeyman

    The Monkey's Tale

    Please check out "An urban safari" above for the latest version!
  16. monkeyman

    Why?

    Has everyone got something about Staffordshire? There is no entry in the Midlands Sightings for it! (Even Birdwatching have stopped reports from here!) Has it moved? Is there a blach hole north of the A5? Or is it the M6 toll that's the problem? Does this mean that my lifer Nightjars don't...
  17. monkeyman

    Belated hello

    Sorry folks, I didn't introduce myself when I signed up on Saturday! Very rude of me. My real name is Al Stewart, I'm 46, married for the second time with six sprogs between us ('though thankfully all departed the nest or living with exs!) and live in North Walsall in the Black Country. To our...
  18. monkeyman

    A good year?

    With only six weeks or so 'til the end of the year, my wife and I have managed seven lifetime ticks in 2002 plus a first osprey at Rutland for my wife. Any non-twitchers beat that? Here's our list: Great Grey Shrike (Newark, Notts) Woodlark, Redstart, Pied Flycatcher (photo soon on the...
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