[BCCd to various WMBC, SandNats and other contacts; plus mailing lists. Apologies for duplicates.] Short notice I know, but I have just received this, which...
This morning I looked out of the back window and saw a juvinile jay sitting on the garden fence. Not totally unsuprising but having a CV 1 postcode unusual I...
I have seen jays in Willenhall (CV3) which is somewhat less unusual being close to the edge of the (sub) urban area of the city and also in the Hall Green area...
Willenhall doesn't suprise me being close to the 'country' and what's left of Willenhall Wood. I used to work there and a number of years ago regularly saw...
Dear All, on a recent trip to the Isle of Wight I frequently observed many small parties of Stock doves in the fields. This reminded me of how long it was...
Hi Pill, I see one or two stock doves almost every day in the Shrewley area. They vie with jackdaws for nesting holes in the oak tree in the field beyond my ...
Phill Robbins's enquiry about stock doves reminds me of my own concern about mistle thrushes, which I voiced here last year. I believe I spotted one on my...
I'm pleased to report that the cuckoos came to Shrewley again this year (really, between Shrewley and Rowington in the vicinity of a local landmark named High...
Last Friday, 12th June, I was driving south on the M42 north of the M6 and had just crossed the county border into Warwickshire--can't pinpoint the location...
Found a juvenile Siskin on the niger feeder in our garden in Warwick this morning. We get them regularly in winter but I've never seen one in the garden in...
Hello Hugh, I havn't noticed any cuckoos in the Hampton Magna area either this or last year. We do have a regular pair of Mistle thushes by the station. I...
Hi Hugh, Cuckoos have been closer to you than you thought. One laid its egg in a blackbirds nest, in a garden hedge only a couple of feet from the footpath on...
Ah--I remember a day when a male was heard by many villagers, calling very close to the village. Sigh: I've never seen a cuckoo-parasitised nest! Thanks for...
Glory be! One of my "disparus" has made a brief (?) but welcome reappearance in Shrewley. Today (25 June) an adult spotted flycatcher turned up in the trees...
Hi Everyone, This is not sighting post (I am afraid..sorry). While taking in the sights at Brandon the other week, my trusty scope which has lasted me over 25...
I have several times mentioned here the so-called New Forest of Arden as the area between Shrewley and Rowington that was acquired in the mid-1990s for what is...
Hi Roland,It depends very much on your budget and whether wt is important.My opinion is to go for a 2nd hand mark 1 swarovski 80 HD with 20-60 zoom eyepiece.I...
Chris & Jen Cook
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Jul 20, 2009 11:41 pm
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The British Ornithologists' Union Records Committee (BOURC) has accepted the following to Category A of the British List: Pacific Diver Yellow-nosed Albatross ...
Noted On Kingsbury Water park Canal pool a female Tufted Duck with a brood of 15 Ducklings, could a female Tufted Duck cover 15 eggs or has she fostered...
Hi John 15 is an exceptional number of ducklings for one female and she may well have 'fostered' some. I have monitored Tufted Duck families for years and they...
In stark contrast, the mallard broods in the G.U. canal between Rowington and Hatton have mostly been rather small this year, including at least one singleton....
Isn't it great how birds can surprise and delight at totally unexpected moments? Coming along the London road on the bus out of Coventry tonight I could see a...
Appears I made an error in counting the female Tufted Duck on Canal pool has 16 Ducklings all the same age and she has not lost one duckling yet which is...
Sunday I bought a book at a carboot sale called Nature Atlas of Great Britain published in 1989 stating Ryton/Wappenbery Wood has the Country's largest...
My VistaPrint Electronic Business Card I remember it well cycling to Wappenbury wood in the eighties for Nightingale, then they disappeared from there, so I...
Also Kingfisher showing well from calton hide. took photo of the greenshank and kingfisher from the hide. http://www.pbase.com/phil_satch/birds_2009...
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