Lincolnshire Bird Club News
The Lincolnshire Bird Club makes every possible effort to ensure that the information published on its website is accurate and up to date, but does not accept any responsibility for errors or omissions and reserves the right to make amendments at any time and without prior notice.
The Lincolnshire Bird Club makes every possible effort to ensure that the information published on its website is accurate and up to date, but does not accept any responsibility for errors or omissions and reserves the right to make amendments at any time and without prior notice.
Friday, January 30, 2004
The Lincs Bird Club meeting at the Eagle
The Lincs Bird Club meeting at the Eagle public house, Boston on Tuesday 3 February will feature an illustrated talk on the Falkland Islands by Jim Scott, site manager of RSPB Snettisham, who has recently returned from a six week trip surveying some of the islands abundant birdlife. This is a change to the previously advertised speaker. The talk will commence at 8pm and is a real bargain at £1. Please e-mail me if you'd like directions to the Eagle.
John Badley, [John.Badley@rspb.org.uk]
Water Pipits at Tetney 30.1.2004
There are now 4 Water Pipit at Tetney, ranging between lock gates and pipeline over haven, also getting in the small grass field with bunker, + male & female Hen Harrier, Merlin, Peregrine, 300 Wigeon, 2 Pintail and Kingfisher.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Free entry to all WWT centres for World Wetlands Day - February 1 & 2
The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust is celebrating World Wetlands Day 2004 in a big way. Everyone loves a free day out and, for the first time in its 58 year history, each of WWT’s nine centres across the UK will be offering free entry to all visitors on Sunday 1 and Monday 2 February. With a whole host of activities and a nationwide competition with some very special prizes, this really is a free day out that shouldn’t be missed!
See http://www.wwt.org.uk/about/news.asp?ArticleID=188 for more details.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Elliot Morley, mudflats and birds
Elliot Morley MP, Minister for the Environment, today launches a new book called Estuarine Waterbirds at Low Tide, the distillation of seven years of observations by 600 volunteer birdwatchers.
Elliot Morley, himself a keen birdwatcher and one of the volunteers who has contributed to Estuarine Waterbirds at Low Tide by counting birds on the Humber Estuary, will be presented with his copy of the new book on his local patch at Far Ings LWT Nature Reserve (note 7) by Dr Andy Musgrove of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO).
See http://www.bto.org/news/news2004/waterbirds_5.htm for details.
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Modern farming and Birds
Modern farming in Europe has reduced the numbers of 24 common bird species by a third in a quarter of a century, a report by European ornithologists says.
See the BBC Website for update http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3403505.stm
Monday, January 19, 2004
Help prevent illegal bird trapping in Cyprus
Each year an estimated 12 million birds are illegally trapped while on migration through Cyprus. The RSPB, BirdLife Cyprus and the authorities in Cyprus are trying to address this problem.
You can help to stop this illegal hunting by sending a letter of protest to the Cyprus High Commission
Letters of protest should be sent to:
Cyprus High Commission, 93 Park Street, London, W1Y 4ET
The Scunthorpe Museum Society
Diary of Events for January via Howard Robinson.
All meetings are in the Museum on Oswald Road & start at 7.15. Visitors are welcome.
Ornithology Section Monday 19th January
Roy Harvey, presents his large screen video projection of "Birds of The Gambia"
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
2004 - the 25th anniversary of Big Garden Birdwatch
Do you want to be part of the world's biggest bird event? If so, it couldn't be easier with the forthcoming 25th Big Garden Birdwatch in January 2004.
In recent years, Big Garden Birdwatch has become a tremendously popular and successful event, with as many as 314,000 people watching their local birds in 2003. During this amazing event, more than 4.5 million birds were seen from 101 species.
The RSPB hope the 2004 event will be just as popular and that, with your help, more people than ever will be birdwatching on 24-25 January. Our brand new webform will be online here in January.
For more information visit the RSPB website http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/
Monday, January 05, 2004
Some of our harriers are missing.
The hunt is on this Christmas and New Year to track down one of England' s rarest breeding birds of prey.
Hen harriers, from the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire, are fitted with coloured wing-tags, and may be spending the winter in Eastern England. The RSPB has asked birdwatchers in the eastern counties to look for these specially marked hen harriers over the Christmas and New Year period. Sightings will provide important information on where hen harriers go over the winter and how well they survive.
Birdwatchers seeing hen harriers should have a close look at the wings, and if there are coloured tags on them to note the colour of each one and, if they can, the number or letter on the tag. Even sightings where only one wing tag is seen are useful.
Reports of sightings, together with information about the wing-tags, date of sightings, location and habitat, should be made to David Sowter by ringing: 01772 749220 or 07957 265797 or email: davidsowter@freenet.co.uk
Received from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
Winter River Bird Survey January 2004
We regret to inform you that the Winter River Bird Survey due to take place in January 2004 has been postponed.
We have unfortunately encountered problems regarding the process of random selection of river sections for the survey. In many areas, the criteria used to choose sections for surveying has led to an unexpected bias towards small watercourses rather than major rivers and due to potential access problems and the questionable value of covering these sections – both in terms of the number of birds likely to be using these areas and effort expended (as well as counter satisfaction of surveying these areas) – we have been looking in to ways of overcoming these problems.
Jenny Worden, Research Officer, Waterbird Monitoring Unit, The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. GL2 7BT
Saturday, January 03, 2004
American Robin, the 1st-winter female still on Estate Road 5 near junction with road to Coldwater factory TA251106 to the west of Grimsby.
Friday, January 02, 2004
