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    Warbler in England today

    Nice one - thought it likely to have been the Cheshire bird, but was just checking that you hadn't struck gold and found one in Worcs!!
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    Warbler in England today

    Where were the photos taken may I ask?!
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    Moth trap for sale!

    Now sold!
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    Moth trap for sale!

    I have a 125v Mercury Vapour trap complete with electric kit, £75.00. Please PM me if interested. Thanks Steve
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Thanks for checking it out again Nick et al, I've not been able to get up there today. I'm resigned to it being just a Chiff.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    For a Chiff it has very pale bare parts (wholly orange lower mandible, legs are pale particularly on the underside of the tarsi), looks quite long-winged, overall plumage tone dull green on the upperparts, with a dirty yellow wash restricted to chin/throat. In all probability it will turn out to...
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Indeed - I remember finding 3 near my high school (it was something like 1991) when, as you say, Waxwings inland were much more irregular than these days. Needless to say, being a fairly clueless schoolboy birder at the time, they blew my mind!!! It does seem like such a big change; makes me...
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    As we now know, the Belvide bird is the Pool Hall individual, so I think it's likely that the Tox bird is actually the Blithers bird relocating (having turned up the day after the Blithers bird disappeared).
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    More Black Redstarts! A pair of adult birds reported at the bottom of Loomer Road, Chesterton today - anybody know more specific location details?
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Yes, sorry that's who I meant.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Ooops! You are now officially the new Manty ;) That's Short-toed Lark and now Grotfinch turning up whilst you go away!
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    Birding In Staffordshire

    Definitely lots about. Had 4 together over the 'burbs of Basford Park Road today. Several hundred observed moving through Norfolk coast recently too.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Silverdale Country Park A Jack Snipe flushed fron the Void today (+ 16 Golden Plover over)
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Yep, well done Steve - forget birding regularly at Gailey, or anywhere else for that matter, for a long while ;)
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    Staffs patches

    The area is quite easily viewable from the canal towpath and public footpaths.
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    Birding In Staffordshire

    ;) I thought as much - very subtle :t:
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    Staffs patches

    The meadows between Burston and Aston (near Stone) could also be a good spot for you to keep an eye on Dean. They regularly flood, attracting wildfowl and waders (several Blackwits recently). I made a few visits at the back end of last year and had Dunlins, Green Sandpiper, Mandarins, Barnacle...
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    Birding In Staffordshire

    fingers cross Bill? cross Chris? Chris cross? :-O
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    Staffs patches

    Yep, I can highly recommend that course of action...it's delivered me such gems as Uttoxeter Quarry, Hales and Madeley SW...I'm a patch finding genius baby! ;)
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    Staffs patches

    Coal Brook, Hales!! There's only really me that visits it with any regularity, and even then it's barely monthly. As you probably know, this year it's already had Green-winged Teal, Tundra Bean Goose and Hawfinch, plus 'padders' including Pink-footed Goose, Mandarin, Greenshank, Green Sanpiper...
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Yep, still there at 09:30. I had brief flight views as it was flushed by a dog walker :C fortunately the egret went back down on the edge of the main lake. Another nice patch tick pour moi :t:
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Patch mega :t: although barely scarce these days ;) Despite recently becoming a country park and suffering from the accompanying increase in disturbance, the Void area is actually having a pretty good last 6/7 months when you think about it...Red-backed Shrike, Black Redstart, White-fronted...
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    Excellent find indeed! Over the past 12 years or so, that particular fence line has had nothing better than a sodding Stonechat, and now it gets this and a Black Redstart in the same Spring, grrrrrr. Sigh.
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    Rare and Scarce Birds in Staffordshire

    I think Cambs has had one too.
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    Birding In Staffordshire

    Coal Brook, Hales A quick visit y'day produced; Greenshank 1 Mandarin 3 Teal 1 Oystercatcher 2
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