Birding In Staffordshire (1 Viewer)

[Rob Jones]

Birdsongs and calls

I've been recommended this site for bird sounds. I've found it brilliant for a novice like me to help ID birds i'm not sure about or haven't a clue about. :-O

I'm amazed sometimes at what's about that I can't see!

http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/

 

[Steve Turner]

Doxey Marshes

2 Black-tailed Godwit present this evening.

Steve

 

[Adam M]

after seeing springwatch and with them calling the invasion of painted lady butterflies 'a once in a lifetime event' my dad wants to go and see some this weekend. are there any sites in staffs with good numbers of them??

adam

 

[Neil-T]

I've been recommended this site for bird sounds. I've found it brilliant for a novice like me to help ID birds i'm not sure about or haven't a clue about. :-O

I'm amazed sometimes at what's about that I can't see!

http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/

Just been on there Rob, great find mate, thanks a lot.

 

[KayD]

Cannock Chase last night - 2 Churring Nightjars, a roding Woodcock, 1 Hobby, Tree Pipit heard singing, Cuckoo calling non-stop and a Green Woody.

Birders be careful when you walk past that Katyn memorial car park :eek!::eek!::eek!:

 

[carlj]

Adam, anywhere, seems to be the answer to that one. Couple of dozen at Radial, similar amounts at River Trent just around corner. Pretty much anywhere with nectar t sustain them seems to be favoured at moment. However, the forthcoming forecast may have them bedding down.

One thing I did note, from the Springwatch report, was the egg laying - nettles, and lots of them, seem to be popular.

Peek here
http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/

Carl

 

[Rob Jones]

after seeing springwatch and with them calling the invasion of painted lady butterflies 'a once in a lifetime event' my dad wants to go and see some this weekend. are there any sites in staffs with good numbers of them??

adam

There was one at Apedale on tueday evening, :-C

Deeside birders had a count of 6500 the other day!

 

[terryeyre]

painted lady

plenty of painted lady butterflies around dimmingsdale adam

 

[bull's birder]

I've been recommended this site for bird sounds. I've found it brilliant for a novice like me to help ID birds i'm not sure about or haven't a clue about. :-O

I'm amazed sometimes at what's about that I can't see!

http://www.xeno-canto.org/europe/

That's great Rob, will come in very useful mate
Cheers
Craig

 

[minkstone]

For those who are interested in butterfly's saw a large number of small blues at the old blue circle quarry the boundary near cheadle.

 

[Neil-T]

For those who are interested in butterfly's saw a large number of small blues at the old blue circle quarry the boundary near cheadle.

Hey you!!! stick to your local patch and stop encroaching on mine. Only joking mate. Did you find out what they were?

 

[carlj]

Hey you!!! stick to your local patch and stop encroaching on mine. Only joking mate. Did you find out what they were?

Prob'ly Cupido minimus aka Small Blue

Sorry Neil,
Couldn't resist!

Carl

 

[Neil-T]

No problem Carl, I see you as our resident Butterfly expert as I know very little about them. Still not seen any Dragonflies about, seem later this year than last.

 

[minkstone]

Prob'ly Cupido minimus aka Small Blue

Sorry Neil,
Couldn't resist!

Carl

yes you are right Carl i did some research when i got back,sorry Neil once a poacher always a poacher.

 

[carlj]

Wouldn't count myself as an expert, more of an obsessive

We've had plenty of Small Blues and Skippers down the River Trent at Stoke, which for a tiny strip alongside industrial estates and the A500, ain't half bad.

Jessops Mark has broad-bodied chasers (Libellula depressa) emerging from his pond over last few weeks, but the expected Brown Hawker (Aeshna grandis) on the river is a little coy!

 

[Rockbirder]

Family party of Wllow Tits at Croxden this morning.

Andy.

 

[coloz]

night jars

Hi i was wondering if anybody knows if the nightjars are back at hanchurch thanx.

 

[Rob1991S-O-T]

paddyfield warbler captured and ringed at hilbre island shows stuff is still moving around

i wonder where that will dissapear to

also
dragonflies i think were definatly later this year coming out of water but have had 5 spiecies of dragon and 2 dam this year so far

 

[Rockbirder]

Three Shires Head.

Hey up folks, a stroll round the head with the missus and the canine shite dispensers produced naff all. Just a single Redstart. No Wheatears, Whinchats, Stonechats or Ouzels. One or two pairs of Curlews and lappys around Knotbury.

Andy.

 

[Rob Jones]

Hi i was wondering if anybody knows if the nightjars are back at hanchurch thanx.

I was up there last night. Didn't see or hear any. Mind you I may have been at the wrong place! Did see something unusual on the way up there from Stableford. A very brief sighting of something resembling a Pied Flycatcher but bigger than one of them. Difficult to stop and pull in along that lane. Did though have a scan around but didn't see it again.