Rob S
@rbstrng.bsky.social
Birding, music, Walsall FC.
Birding since 2014. Ultra-local Midlands twitching only, usually to see birds found by Stuart Hares. UK 'life' list 245.
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs project
Birding since 2014. Ultra-local Midlands twitching only, usually to see birds found by Stuart Hares. UK 'life' list 245.
https://archive.org/details/aadamjacobs project
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Got 2 tickets for anyone who wants them to see the wonderful Širom in Bishops Castle this Thursday (20th). Poor planning on my part means I can’t get there now
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Got 2 tickets for anyone who wants them to see the wonderful Širom in Bishops Castle this Thursday (20th). Poor planning on my part means I can’t get there now
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Happy 50th anniversary to a classic album
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Happy 50th anniversary to a classic album
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November 16th
I know it's a Sunday. It's no bloody excuse! One week from now get off your bum and down to The Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham.
www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/event/gwenif...
I know it's a Sunday. It's no bloody excuse! One week from now get off your bum and down to The Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham.
www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/event/gwenif...
November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
November 16th
I know it's a Sunday. It's no bloody excuse! One week from now get off your bum and down to The Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham.
www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/event/gwenif...
I know it's a Sunday. It's no bloody excuse! One week from now get off your bum and down to The Kitchen Garden Cafe in Birmingham.
www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk/event/gwenif...
Clifton Pits update - drake Ring-necked Duck still present, centre of main pit.
#worcsbirds
The white goose is a domestic Greylag, obviously.
#worcsbirds
The white goose is a domestic Greylag, obviously.
Clifton Pits - Barnacle Goose and as-yet-unidentified white goose with the enormous Greylag flock. Can't see anything more interesting sadly.
Weedy fields to the south are full of finches, including several nice Brambling wheezes.
7 Fieldfare
#worcsbirds
Weedy fields to the south are full of finches, including several nice Brambling wheezes.
7 Fieldfare
#worcsbirds
November 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Clifton Pits update - drake Ring-necked Duck still present, centre of main pit.
#worcsbirds
The white goose is a domestic Greylag, obviously.
#worcsbirds
The white goose is a domestic Greylag, obviously.
Clifton Pits - Barnacle Goose and as-yet-unidentified white goose with the enormous Greylag flock. Can't see anything more interesting sadly.
Weedy fields to the south are full of finches, including several nice Brambling wheezes.
7 Fieldfare
#worcsbirds
Weedy fields to the south are full of finches, including several nice Brambling wheezes.
7 Fieldfare
#worcsbirds
November 2, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Clifton Pits - Barnacle Goose and as-yet-unidentified white goose with the enormous Greylag flock. Can't see anything more interesting sadly.
Weedy fields to the south are full of finches, including several nice Brambling wheezes.
7 Fieldfare
#worcsbirds
Weedy fields to the south are full of finches, including several nice Brambling wheezes.
7 Fieldfare
#worcsbirds
Egyptian Vulture on the clifftop (it's there if you look, honest) - Barranc d'Algendar, Menorca this morning.
18 in flight together at 10.20am was a spectacular sight, alongside 6+ Booted Eagle and several Red Kites.
18 in flight together at 10.20am was a spectacular sight, alongside 6+ Booted Eagle and several Red Kites.
October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Egyptian Vulture on the clifftop (it's there if you look, honest) - Barranc d'Algendar, Menorca this morning.
18 in flight together at 10.20am was a spectacular sight, alongside 6+ Booted Eagle and several Red Kites.
18 in flight together at 10.20am was a spectacular sight, alongside 6+ Booted Eagle and several Red Kites.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Lidl car park, Ciutadella, Menorca 12.15 pm - Kestrel 2, Red Kite 5, Booted Eagle 8, juv Egyptian Vulture, Crag Martin.
Would visit again.
Would visit again.
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Lidl car park, Ciutadella, Menorca 12.15 pm - Kestrel 2, Red Kite 5, Booted Eagle 8, juv Egyptian Vulture, Crag Martin.
Would visit again.
Would visit again.
Bartley Reservoir - 3 Common Scoter, found by @stuhares.bsky.social
NFY for me.
NFY for me.
October 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Bartley Reservoir - 3 Common Scoter, found by @stuhares.bsky.social
NFY for me.
NFY for me.
Highbury Park, Moseley - single Redwing this morning, my first of the autumn.
October 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Highbury Park, Moseley - single Redwing this morning, my first of the autumn.
Reduction in birds visiting our garden. Not sure why.
October 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reduction in birds visiting our garden. Not sure why.
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Ticket sales for Morrissey in Milwaukee seem to be going well
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ticket sales for Morrissey in Milwaukee seem to be going well
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Minor operation today. All fine but a general anaesthetic.
How anyone can tut at NHS staff, how anyone can link it negatively with migration things, how anyone can fail to see that it’s the best thing about this place and that they are the best of us. These people are morons. Literally morons.
How anyone can tut at NHS staff, how anyone can link it negatively with migration things, how anyone can fail to see that it’s the best thing about this place and that they are the best of us. These people are morons. Literally morons.
September 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Minor operation today. All fine but a general anaesthetic.
How anyone can tut at NHS staff, how anyone can link it negatively with migration things, how anyone can fail to see that it’s the best thing about this place and that they are the best of us. These people are morons. Literally morons.
How anyone can tut at NHS staff, how anyone can link it negatively with migration things, how anyone can fail to see that it’s the best thing about this place and that they are the best of us. These people are morons. Literally morons.
On the nail.
The lifeblood of lower league football are a plague of 14 year olds in Stone Island jumpers and 60 year old men who are, or just strongly resemble, Fall fans. No in-between.
September 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
On the nail.
Clifton Pits - Long-tailed Duck still on northern put #worcsbirds
September 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Clifton Pits - Long-tailed Duck still on northern put #worcsbirds
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If you're into birdwatching, the fish restaurant at the edge of playa de fabrica, on the eastern Algarve, is a great spot.
September 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
If you're into birdwatching, the fish restaurant at the edge of playa de fabrica, on the eastern Algarve, is a great spot.
Further proof the #bbc has absolutely lost the plot - Countryfile is giving airtime to second home owners whining about Welsh Government tax policies.
September 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Further proof the #bbc has absolutely lost the plot - Countryfile is giving airtime to second home owners whining about Welsh Government tax policies.
Upper Bittell - Greenshank, 7 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Caspian Gull, Spotted Flycatcher. Plenty of Swallow and Sand Martin.
More sailors than water now
#worcsbirds
More sailors than water now
#worcsbirds
September 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Upper Bittell - Greenshank, 7 Ringed Plover, 2 Common Sandpiper, Snipe, Caspian Gull, Spotted Flycatcher. Plenty of Swallow and Sand Martin.
More sailors than water now
#worcsbirds
More sailors than water now
#worcsbirds
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+ WREN'S NEST // LIVE AV SET // TICKETS +
The UK premiere of our new AV ghost story project will take place in Birmingham in Nov. Sharing the bill will be the wonderfully talented friends @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social and @swllws.bsky.social.
More info and tickets : www.hiddenbritain.co.uk
The UK premiere of our new AV ghost story project will take place in Birmingham in Nov. Sharing the bill will be the wonderfully talented friends @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social and @swllws.bsky.social.
More info and tickets : www.hiddenbritain.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
+ WREN'S NEST // LIVE AV SET // TICKETS +
The UK premiere of our new AV ghost story project will take place in Birmingham in Nov. Sharing the bill will be the wonderfully talented friends @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social and @swllws.bsky.social.
More info and tickets : www.hiddenbritain.co.uk
The UK premiere of our new AV ghost story project will take place in Birmingham in Nov. Sharing the bill will be the wonderfully talented friends @waysideandwoodland.bsky.social and @swllws.bsky.social.
More info and tickets : www.hiddenbritain.co.uk
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Many thanks to the 20 sites who participated in yesterday's #westmidsalldayer - 4 sites managed to break the 100 mark with Blithfield narrowly pipping Belvide to the post. I'll pull together a list of all the species seen across the sites (usually c140 species). Well done all 👏
September 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Many thanks to the 20 sites who participated in yesterday's #westmidsalldayer - 4 sites managed to break the 100 mark with Blithfield narrowly pipping Belvide to the post. I'll pull together a list of all the species seen across the sites (usually c140 species). Well done all 👏
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Another fantastic win. Another clean sheet. Excellent start to the season.
The ref was definitely his father’s son
The ref was definitely his father’s son
September 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Another fantastic win. Another clean sheet. Excellent start to the season.
The ref was definitely his father’s son
The ref was definitely his father’s son
Bartley update #WestMidsAllDayer - 57 species by 10.30am
Biggest surprise so far - 8 Shoveler
Most obvious miss so far - given the nature of the site, it's got to be Ring-necked Parakeet
@pmandrews1973.bsky.social
Biggest surprise so far - 8 Shoveler
Most obvious miss so far - given the nature of the site, it's got to be Ring-necked Parakeet
@pmandrews1973.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Bartley update #WestMidsAllDayer - 57 species by 10.30am
Biggest surprise so far - 8 Shoveler
Most obvious miss so far - given the nature of the site, it's got to be Ring-necked Parakeet
@pmandrews1973.bsky.social
Biggest surprise so far - 8 Shoveler
Most obvious miss so far - given the nature of the site, it's got to be Ring-necked Parakeet
@pmandrews1973.bsky.social
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First play. Looking forward to this @prolapseband.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
First play. Looking forward to this @prolapseband.bsky.social
Well done Grimsby Town.
August 27, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Well done Grimsby Town.