Birding in Worcestershire (2 Viewers)

[rollingthunder]

A friend and i located 4 nests from the new bridge to where Dowles entered the Severn last year if it is of any help - this was over half a dozen visits during the breeding season.

Good Birding -

Laurie

 

[zomerset]

Hi ya mate.... I'm from Sheldon originally, a real Brummy & found my way over here 😳....so no reason why they can't be related to the Rea birds. The Drayton Dippers aren't the easiest to see, so you did well.
Have you seen the Wyre Forest Dippers? Like yours, they're really showy. I think there's 4/5 there.
All the best.
Ian

Yes thanks Ian visited there a few times to see the Dippers. Saw a Kingfisher a few years back as well.

 

[zomerset]

I did indeed but i think it was a non-breeding Winter wanderer.

Might i add - you have a bloody good memory mate!

They still breed on the Lutley ‘Gutter’ afaik (betwixt Colley Gate n Halesowen) and i used to see them regularly by the Red Lion PH @ Wombourne. The most local to me are on the Stour between Wordsley Basin and the new fishing pools at Bells Mill - had a calling bird only a coupla weeks ago. There is a footbridge that crosses the river which is a good spot to look for feeding birds when the river is low and has Goosander in the Winter.

Good birding -

Laurie -

Thanks Laurie!
I'll check out Lutley sometime. Thanks!

 

[zomerset]

I did indeed but i think it was a non-breeding Winter wanderer.

Might i add - you have a bloody good memory mate!

They still breed on the Lutley ‘Gutter’ afaik (betwixt Colley Gate n Halesowen) and i used to see them regularly by the Red Lion PH @ Wombourne. The most local to me are on the Stour between Wordsley Basin and the new fishing pools at Bells Mill - had a calling bird only a coupla weeks ago. There is a footbridge that crosses the river which is a good spot to look for feeding birds when the river is low and has Goosander in the Winter.

Good birding -

Laurie -

Hi Laurie,
Thanks again for the River Stour locations!
I checked 2 of them.
First a calling Kingfisher & then I saw it stop by a bridge.
Second location, a 2 tone calling Kingfisher probably to its mate at what looked like a good nest site.
Great!

 

[Tardebigge Birder]

Hawfinch at St Bartholomew's Church, Tardebigge this morning

 

[Tardebigge Birder]

Tardebigge: 2 Hawfinch at St Bartholomew's church this morning but very mobile

 

[Dick-E-Dipper]

A couple of photos taken last month by my Daughter in Eckington of the line-upof Starlings ready for their murmuration over Gwen Finch Wetlands/John Bennett Reserves at Nafford.

A counters challenge?

Richard

 

[Tardebigge Birder]

Tardebigge: House Martin along High House Lane this morning

 

[zomerset]

A good Saturday morning yesterday.
A Dipper at Belbroughton.
Then 2 chasing further along the Belne Brook. They went high up through trees. Then another Dipper from under a bridge.
A Kingfisher calling its mate on what looks like a fishing lake section.
I checked again this morning & saw 2 Dippers.

 

[zomerset]

2 Dippers along the Belne Brook last weekend several times

 

[zomerset]

2 Dippers along the Belne Brook yesterday.

 

[zomerset]

2 Dippers along the Belne Brook at the weekend. Very quick up & down.

 

[zomerset]

Belne Brook fledgling Dippers this morning;

 

[zomerset]

Saturday; Dippers along the Belne Brook (I guess adults, no sign of juveniles)

 

[zomerset]

Good to find a Dipper yesterday along the Belne Brook. I think it was a female & resting. Then it started feeding and I saw it catch 2 bites.

 

[zomerset]

Sunday Belne Brook Dipper.

 

[zomerset]

Last week on the Belne Brook at first no Dipper. Then I looked closely and a Dipper in the valley, heading downstream. I walked up the brook and another Dipper heading upstream.

 

[zomerset]

Last Saturday, early morning Dipper on Belne Brook.

 

[toadoftoadhall]

Little egret at Diglis weir this afternoon.

 

[zomerset]

Belne Brook Dipper from last weekend.