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Chelmsford & Central Essex Local Group News CHELMSFORD & CENTRAL ESSEX LOCAL GROUP NEWS The RSPB is a registered charity in England & Wales 207076, in Scotland Summer 2020 SC037654 WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO Sue McClellan the land lies. If you’d like to be added to our During these strange times when many of our mailing list, please email Louise on usual events aren’t happening, it’s tricky to know [email protected] with your request. how to introduce this newsletter. I’ll start by In the meantime, we thank you for your saying, happily, that many RSPB reserve trails continued support and hope that you stay virus- and car parks (where applicable) including at free and busy. Minsmere and Wallasea are open, and the Sue McClellan Meetings Secretary majority of staff who have been on furlough July 2020 leave will be returning to work at the end of September. Clearly, these are good signs in that the organisation is taking big steps towards GETTING OUT AND ABOUT returning to normal – whatever that will mean in Louise Fuller the future. We can’t bring you reports of our walks as we As for local groups, we have been told that no haven’t been able to hold any, but it is pleasing indoor or outdoor events may take place for the to hear that some members have been able to remainder of this year. Disappointing though it take exercise and watch birds at the same time. is, we weren’t surprised to hear it. Not only does Members Win and David Simmonds tell us “It this mean that we won’t see many of our regular was great to be able to visit Old Hall Marshes on supporters for at least 10 months, it will also Tuesday and even more to hear a turtle dove impact negatively on our income. We’ll just behind the car park. have to sell more raffle tickets next year! Some readers (a few, maybe) will be wondering when As we walked round, we came across Kieren we’ll hold our AGM, previously scheduled for [site manager] and he was keen to talk. He said April this year. Goodness knows; we’re waiting that the little terns had tried to nest at the end to hear from the RSPB’s legal team. opposite West Mersea, but bad weather at the end of April or predation has meant they had not On a more positive note, you may be interested been successful. in some garden activities that the RSPB is encouraging people to try via its website The work carried out along the short path to www.rspb.org.uk/get-involved/activities/give- create more scrapes and islands has attracted nature-a-home-in-your-garden/ Whether you godwits in summer plumage, oystercatchers, have a garden or balcony, a little spare time or avocets and nesting common terns. We also lots, there’s likely to be something that you could saw a hare being chased by newly released do to help various kinds of wildlife and keep cattle in Flying yourself occupied. At the time of writing, 50,442 Field, but no activities had been recorded as completed swallows. Kieren across the UK so perhaps you could add to that said few have come impressive figure. It would also be great to hear this year as their about what you’ve achieved if you’d like to send flight over Europe us a story – with or without photos. coincided with storms. Swifts, None of us can plan or predict what lies ahead however, were not in terms of group activities before we get the go- affected as they fly higher.” SWIFTS ahead to resume our monthly talk and walk programme. What we can do though is keep Let us know where you have been and what our supporters informed as soon as we hear you have seen! from the government and RSPB HQ as to how The RSPB is the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, inspiring everyone to give nature a home LITTLE TERNS some cases placed above beach level on old crates to reduce the risk of flooding. Stuart Anderson Five volunteers were camped next to the Little terns are one of the UK’s smallest and breeding site and mounted a 24 hour watch. rarest seabirds feeding mainly on sand eels and They used a thermal scope and warned off young herrings. They are a summer visitor and predators, such as foxes, crows and gulls with a migrate here from Africa to breed, travelling torch or waving their arms – now that is some 5,000km. They are about 22-25cm in dedication! We later learned that the little terns length with a distinctive yellow bill with small enjoyed their most successful season in almost black tip and can have a lifespan of 22 years. 30 years. The 34 breeding pairs had 54 They breed in loose colonies on sandy beaches fledglings leaving the beach to start their long with shingle, shells and low grass. They are migration to West Africa giving a production ratio however very sensitive to disturbance, high tides of 1.59 chicks per pair. and adverse weather. The site is also situated next to a very strong Numbers have been in decline since the 1980s colony of Arctic terns which may help in keeping and there are thought to be about 1,900 predators at bay. Anyone like me who has been breeding pairs left in the UK, 2.2% of the world attacked by an Arctic tern knows what a painful population. experience that can be. LITTLE TERN TAKING A BATH IN A FRESHWATER STREAM AN ARCTIC TERN LOOKING NOT VERY HAPPY! Essex had been a stronghold for the little tern Back in Essex there are several projects under but the sites where they can now be found are way including an RSPB initiative in alliance with few. In June 2019 a small group ventured out the Harwich Haven Authority. This will, if on an RSPB boat trip from Mersea Island to successful, involve recharging a beach at view RSPB Old Hall Marshes from the water. It Horsey Island with sea-dredged sand and had been reported that the little terns were gravel. This will increase the surface area of the nesting with one nest containing three eggs. On beach and raise the height thus increasing the the trip we saw three little terns but we don’t nesting opportunities of little terns together with know whether any chicks successfully fledged. ringed plovers and oystercatchers. Other sites where they may breed in limited Stuart Anderson May 2020 numbers are Essex Wildlife Trust sites in the Colne and Blackwater estuaries. However the Both photos: Stuart Anderson most productive site accounting for at least 75% of the Essex population is Horsey Island in SHARE OUR SHORES Hamford Water National Nature Reserve. This is a privately owned island with limited public Louise Fuller access. Some 33 pairs produced 11 young that As a follow-up to Stuart’s article, I fledged, a productivity of 0.33 chicks per pair. can report that Essex Wildlife Trust The week following the boat trip Christine and I and the RSPB have worked visited the National Trust’s Long Nanny site in together in 2020 on a project to Northumberland. The NT Ranger we spoke to protect our coastal wildlife. The told us that the previous year, 2018, was a intention was that, as the population disaster. Storm Hector with its torrential rain of Essex grows, we must ensure we and high winds decimated the colony and no are sharing the shore with our fledglings survived. We saw numerous nest breeding wildlife, to enable little sites on the beach, carefully numbered and in terns, ringed plovers and OYSTERCATCHER oystercatchers to grow up without disturbance. 2 The project has three main elements – creating the ideal habitat for beach-nesting birds, monitoring the populations, and working with the RSPB GOODS public to raise awareness of how we can all FROM THE RSPB CATALOGUE AND allow Essex’s coastal bird populations to thrive. Five sites dotted along the Blackwater and WEBSITE Colne estuaries were chosen – EWT’s Colne Point and Fingringhoe Wick nature reserves, FREE DELIVERY TO YOUR DOOR Tollesbury Wick spit, Bradwell Shell Bank and POSTAGE FREE the RSPB’s Old Hall Marshes reserve. These are all “no go” zones for landing boats as they FOR FULL DETAILS CALL are protected for wildlife. They provide the perfect home for Essex’s most-threatened JEAN WILCOX beach-nesting birds. 01245 262452 AND SUPPORT THE CHELMSFORD GROUP NATURE WATCHING IN LOCKDOWN (PART 2) Alan Thorpe A Sign of the Times Over the last six months we have acquired a new language with an assortment of medical LITTLE TERN DECOYS ATTRACT THE BIRDS TO THE POTENTIAL NEST SITE acronyms and an associated new type of Throughout spring and summer areas of prime behaviour. Most of us were unfamiliar with habitat for these birds are roped off, using blue words and terms such as coronavirus, Covid-19, ropes and signage to make it clear where PPE, lockdown, self-distancing, self-isolation, access is not permitted. shielding and others. Unfortunately, they have now become commonplace and we are informed Members of the public were requested to know that we have to accept this and much more as where the sites were, and to avoid them; to ‘the new normal’. respect the zoned-off areas; to avoid disturbance by boat; to back away if they The impact that this virus is having on society disturbed a breeding species; and to raise was brought into sharp focus when I received an awareness and report bad behaviour.
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