The site has attracted interest from bird-watchers since the 1920s, when the ornithologist Arnold Boyd began visiting it and publishing reports in the magazine British Birds, although he did not reveal its location, as he called it "Bellfields" .

Blithfield Reservoir is a large raw water reservoir in South Staffordshire, England, owned by South Staffordshire Water. Parts of the shoreline and surrounding woodland are only available to birdwatchers under a permit scheme, operated by the West Midland Bird Club....

Branston Water Park was originally an open cast gravel pit and is now home to many species of plants and animals, both common and nationally rare. The reed bed is particularly important to wildlife as it is one of the largest in Staffordshire....

A delightful oak woodland, especially in spring and early summer when lots of migrating birds come to breed at the reserve, including pied flycatcher, redstart and wood warbler. 

Brandon Marsh is a 200-acre nature reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the banks of the River Avon, near to Coventry...

Coombe Country Park is a country park located in Warwickshire, England. Although the park is geographically in Warwickshire, it is only 4.5 miles (7.5 km) east of Coventry city centre and is managed by Coventry City Council....

Draycote Water is a reservoir and country park near the village of Dunchurch, 6 km south of Rugby in Warwickshire, England, owned and operated by Severn Trent Water.....

The area which is now Kingsbury Water Park was previously the site of gravel extraction pits that were operated by the Midland Gravel Company. The lakes were created from the craters left behind after the gravel had been taken out......

Marsh Lane Nature Reserve

Up to February 2016, the site list stood at 199. Birds of particular note in this time include Bonaparte’s Gull, Hoopoe, Spotted Sandpiper, Grey Phalarope, Black Kite, Rough-legged Buzzard, Spoonbill.....

Middleton Lakes is a mosaic of wetlands, meadows and woodland in the heart of the River Tame Valley. Several kilometres of trails lead visitors through a variety of rich habitats, alive with a variety of birds including grey herons, kingfishers and lapwings.

Sandwell Valley RSPB reserve (grid reference SP017913) is a nature reserve, run by the RSPB, in Sandwell Valley, to the north of West Bromwich, in the Sandwell borough of West Midlands in England.....

Ancient woodland reserve managed by the Staffordshire Wildlife Trust. Dipper and Grey Wagtail are present on Cotton Brook flowing through the heart of the reserve.....

The location of the lakes, at the meeting point of three rivers makes it an ideal stop off point for migrating birds. Different birds use the reserve at different times of the year. In winter ducks such as mallard, teal, wigeon, goldeneye and shoveller...

Doxey has attracted a variety of rare birds in recent years including river warbler, marsh warbler, purple heron, cattle egret, spoonbill, European bee-eater and bluethroat

The woods lie on the northwest spur of the Lickey Hills. Beaconwood was cleared and replanted with oaks about 120 years ago whereas plantations on the Winsel date from around 1930....

Worcestershire’s premier bird-watching reserve, Upton Warren attracts a range of birds but is particularly good for waterfowl and waders.
The reserve consists of a series of freshwater and saline pools, created by land subsidence resulting from local brine extraction.

This reserve consists of a series of dry and marshy fields with small alder and willow woods, reed beds and drainage ditches – all with different flora and fauna.

The original Birds of the West Midlands, produced for the West Midland Bird Club's 50th anniversary, was highly acclaimed at the time. Now, as part of the Club's 75th Anniversary celebrations we are pleased to announce The New Birds of the West Midlands. This long-awaited publication reviews the many changes that have occurred in the birdlife of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands over the past twenty years or so.

• ASIN : B0000CIJ2W
• Publisher : Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (1 Jan. 1951)
• Unknown Binding : 
• 16 pages

• Publisher : City Museum & Art Gallery (1 Jan. 1982)
• Language : English
• Paperback : 47 pages
• ISBN-10 : 0905080149
• ISBN-13 : 
• 978-0905080147

Publisher : West Midlands Bird Club; 1st edition (1 Jan. 1987)

• Language : English
• Paperback : 163 pages
• ISBN-10 : 0950788112
• ISBN-13 : 978-0950788111

Publisher : Sandwell Valley Naturalists' Club (1 Nov. 2000)

• Language : English
• Paperback : 128 pages
• ISBN-10 : 0951153226
• ISBN-13 : 978-0951153222

• Publisher : Malvern Hills Conservators (30 April 2008)
• Language : English
• Hardcover : 167 pages
• ISBN-10 : 0955819407
• ISBN-13 : 
• 978-0955819407

• ASIN : B0016L8LK8
• Publisher : Palmer-Smith; Reprint. edition (1 Jan. 1968)
• Paperback : 
• 42 pages

• ASIN : B0008CG4KA
• Publisher : Printed by Vyse & Hill; 1st edition (1 Jan. 1893)
• Language : English
• Hardcover : 146 pages