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2011 Tcm9-289385.Pdf Yell Ramna Stacks & Gruney Fetlar Mousa Loch of Spiggie Sumburgh Head Noup Cliffs North Hill Birsay Moors Trumland The Loons and Loch of Banks Onziebust Mill Dam Marwick Head Brodgar Cottasgarth & Rendall Moss Copinsay Hoy Hobbister Durness Dunnet Head Eilean Hoan Broubster Leans Loch na Muilne Forsinard Flows Priest Island Troup Head Vallay Edderton Sands Balranald Nigg and Udale Bays Ardmore Culbin Sands Loch of Strathbeg Fairy Glen Loch Ruthven Meikle Loch Eileanan Dubha Corrimony Ballinlaggan RSPB Abernethy Insh Marshes The Crannach Fowlsheugh Coll Glenborrodale RESERVES The Reef Loch of Kinnordy Skinflats Tay Inversnaid Colonsay Vane Farm 2011 Oronsay Inner Clyde Fidra Fannyside Smaull Farm Lochwinnoch Inchmickery Loch Gruinart/Ardnave Baron’s Haugh The Oa Horse Island Bogside Flats Aird’s Moss Rathlin Ailsa Craig Coquet Island Lough Foyle Ken-Dee Marshes Wood of Cree Kirkconnell Merse Crook of Baldoon Campfield Marsh Larne Lough Islands Mersehead Geltsdale Belfast Lough Lower Lough Erne Islands Portmore Lough Mull of Galloway & Scar Rocks Saltholme Haweswater St Bees Head Aghatirourke Strangford Bay & Sandy Island Lyth Valley Hodbarrow Leighton Moss & Morecambe Bay Bempton Cliffs Carlingford Lough Islands Hesketh Out Marsh Fairburn Ings Marshside Read’s Island Blacktoft Sands The Skerries Dove Stone Tetney Marshes Valley Wetlands DearneV alley – Old Moor and Bolton Ings South Stack Cliffs Dee Estuary Beckingham Marshes Conwy Eastern Moors Malltraeth Marsh Langford Lowfields Morfa Dinlle Coombes & Churnet Valleys Freiston Shore Titchwell Marsh Lake Vyrnwy Frampton Marsh Snettisham Sutton Fen Mawddach Woodlands Middleton Lakes Mid Yare Valley Nene Washes Berney Marshes & Breydon Water Ynys-hir Sandwell Valley Ouse Washes Lakenheath Fen Ouse Fen (Hanson-RSPB project) Dingle Marshes Carngafallt Minsmere Fen Drayton Lakes Snape North Warren Gwenffrwd/Dinas The Lodge Fowlmere Havergate Island & Boyton Marshes Stour Estuary Wolves & Ramsey Woods Ramsey Island HighnamWoods Old Hall Marshes Otmoor Wallasea Island Grassholm Cwm Clydach Nagshead Rye Meads South Essex Marshes Church Wood Cliffe Pools Newport Wetlands Northward Hill Winterbourne Downs Rainham Marshes Nor Marsh & Motney Hill Shorne Marshes Great Bells Farm Normanton Down Seasalter Levels Elmley Ham Wall Farnham Heath Harty Marshes Chapel Wood Barfold Copse Tudeley Marshes Lydden Valley Greylake Blean Woods Isley Marsh West Sedgemoor Woods Broadwater Warren Garston Wood Dungeness Fore Wood Aylesbeare Common Adur Estuary Lewes Brooks Exe Estuary Arne Pulborough Brooks and Amberley Wildbrooks Labrador Bay Bracklesham Bay Radipole Lake Wareham Pilsey Island Lodmoor Meadows Langstone Harbour Hayle Estuary Brading Marshes Grange Heath Marazion Marsh Stoborough Heath Locations of RSPB reserves Featured reserves 1 RSPB Reserves 2011 A review of our work COMPILED BY JANE SEARS AND JO GILBERT Contents Our vision 3 Introduction – Stepping up for nature 5 Reserves and wildlife – a review of 2010 7 Progress towards bird species targets 8 Other wildlife 12 Land acquisition 14 Condition of RSPB-managed SSSIs/ASSIs 15 Saving nature 17 Conserving black grouse at Geltsdale 18 FAME – understanding seabird feeding behaviour 22 Management for eels on RSPB nature reserves 26 100 years of protecting Welsh wildlife 30 35 years of management for wildlife at Elmley Marshes 34 Breeding purple herons and little bitterns – whatever next? 38 Restoring lost habitats 43 Winterbourne Downs – a landscape in the making 44 Wet grassland restoration at Lough Beg – realising the “country of the mind” 48 Working with Scottish Natural Heritage through Area Framework Agreements 52 Connecting habitats at Loch Leven NNR 56 Restoration and expansion of Scotland’s Atlantic woodlands – our Celtic rainforests 60 Vallay island nature reserve 64 Reserves and people – a review of 2010 69 Bringing backstage to the fore 70 Moving the mountain – South Essex Marshes 72 Fifty years of the RSPB at The Lodge 74 Volunteering at the ends of the earth 78 Young people show their “green talents” at Sandwell Valley 80 The local value of seabirds 82 Benefiting the environment 85 From birds to briquettes – using waste on the Exe Estuary reserve 86 Supporting partners around the world 90 Fuelling the recovery of the aquatic warbler in Poland’s Biebrza Marshes 92 Management planning in Badhyz, Turkmenistan – the “Serengeti of Central Asia” 96 Thank you to our supporters 100 2 RSPB RESERVES 2011 3 Mark Sisson(rspb-images.com) Our vision Our vision is to help achieve a wildlife-rich future by doubling the area of land managed as RSPB nature reserves by 2030; protecting our most special places for birds and all wildlife; and redressing past losses through habitat restoration and creation. Our reserves will be wonderful places, rich in wildlife, where everyone can enjoy, learn about and be inspired by the wealth of nature. Working with neighbouring landowners, we will help enhance the quality of the surrounding countryside through our Futurescapes programme. Increasingly, we will focus on restoring land of low ecological interest to that of high quality. We set challenging targets, but more is needed given the size of the task facing all of us. Golden eagle 4 RSPB RESERVES 2011 INTRODUCTION 5 Ian Hughes(RSPB) Introduction Stepping up for nature So, collectively we failed nature. to create the political impetus for importance for biodiversity to The commitment to halt the loss of strong conservation legislation, Favourable Condition. Further west, biodiversity by 2010, made by EU effective frameworks for strategic near Sheffield, the RSPB has entered member state governments, was planning, and the right mix of into a formal partnership with the not met. regulation to prevent damage to National Trust to jointly manage the nature – and incentives and advice Eastern Moors under lease from the For England at least, there was a silver to stimulate action by companies, Peak District National Park, again lining: the target to have at least 95% communities and individuals. seeking to restore ecosystem function of SSSIs in Favourable or Unfavourable- in an area of dramatic beauty, for Recovering Condition was achieved by In making a difference through our own biodiversity and people. the end of 2010, as intended. The RSPB actions, the RSPB will seek to build on played a full part in this success. Of the partnerships established with a wide Not all partnerships are at such a large remedies that fell to us to implement range of organisations, both in the scale. In North Uist, for example, we on our nature reserves, we delivered public and private sectors. Some are are delighted to be working with 99.9% by area. The overall percentage obvious, some surprising; some are Angus MacDonald at Vallay island, of the RSPB’s land that met target long standing, some newly forged. All where his management of the island condition was lower, at 93.7%, are valued. In 2010, several important for beef production has dovetailed because many external problems new partnerships came to fruition, seamlessly with habitat restoration for affecting our reserves, such as diffuse some having been in gestation for corncrakes. Since 2002, numbers of pollution and coastal squeeze, remain several years. singing corncrakes have increased unresolved by statutory regulators. from the occasional bird to more than In Essex, the Wallasea Wild Coast 15! A personal highlight for us during But there is hope for the future. At the project is now well underway, in 2010 was visiting Vallay, meeting 2010 Nagoya biodiversity summit, partnership with Crossrail and the Angus, and learning at first hand how world leaders promised to do better. Environment Agency. Essex County this has been achieved. A renewed target was set to halt Council granted planning permission, biodiversity loss and begin its and the Crouch Harbour Authority has Given that you are reading this, the restoration by 2020 – a commitment given other essential consents for the chances are you will have helped the that UK Environment Secretary, project. Arable farmland at risk from RSPB do something special, in a small Caroline Spelman, played an important flooding will be restored to inter-tidal or big way; through donations of personal role in brokering. The RSPB mudflat and saltmarsh, facilitating money or time, or through political or has since launched its Stepping Up For adaptation to climate change through moral support or practical work. Nature campaign, to support attainment beneficial use of spoil from the Whatever you’ve done, and might soon of this target. We will encourage Crossrail project. do, thanks for stepping up for nature. individuals, communities, companies, and local and national governments to In the Peak District, the RSPB’s do more for biodiversity and the natural partnership with United Utilities has environment, on which we all entered a new phase through Gwyn Williams ultimately depend. establishment of a moorland nature Head of Reserves & Protected Areas reserve at Dove Stone, east of Halting biodiversity loss will require Oldham. This will continue work to co-ordinated action by us all. Individual restore peat bogs, to reduce water commitment will need to be discoloration from peat and return Martin Harper Our uplands are covered with miles of drains. Blocking these improves conditions for wildlife complemented by government action – protected areas of international Director of Conservation and prevents the loss of carbon. 6 RSPB RESERVES 2011 7 Danny Green(rspb-images.com) Danny Reserves and
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