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Summer Birds! the Barn Swallows and Pied Wagtail Were Photographed by Allan Baldry and the Long-Eared Owlets by Barry Hall FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR INDOOR MEETINGS FROM DECEMBER 2016, and about receiving this magazine—Please see pages 10 and 28 Summer Birds! The barn swallows and pied wagtail were photographed by Allan Baldry and the long-eared owlets by Barry Hall The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a registered charity: England and Wales—No. 207076, Scotland No. SC037654 GROUP LEADER’S REPORT from Chris Courtney s our summer season begins to fade our group programme of indoor talks, A we once again start to look forward to with a fine selection of quality speakers the onset of all that lovely autumn colour. as you have come to expect. Beginning, Over the next weeks the chlorophyll in most topically, with the perennially the leaves will no longer be replenished, fascinating theme of unravelling the as the daylight and warmth diminishes, mysteries of bird migration with Leuin leaving behind the carotene, which now Evans of the BTO. We continue with a appears in tones of yellow. The dissection of the birder him/herself with anthocyanins which, depending upon the an examination of the ‘Birding Bug’ in acidity of the tree’s sap, produce shades October, while in November (in a of red orange and purple. Nature is departure from the published wonderful! But it can of course be programme) we look forward to enjoyed simply on an aesthetic level welcoming the RSPB’s Suffolk Area without the need for a degree in Manager and friend of the Ipswich Group, chemistry! Ben McFarland. Likewise at this time, we start to look out Ben has been very supportive of our for passage migrants as they once again Swifts ‘n’ Sparrows project, but will also head south for the winter, as whinchats, be giving us a privileged insight into the warblers and wheatears, redstarts, latest conservation initiatives and wrynecks and ring ouzels all start priorities of the RSPB in our region, turning up at local migration spots such which will also be a great opportunity for as Landguard. However, despite not members to ask questions about our being coastal, Ipswich, being positioned local reserves and RSPB policies. on the Gipping and the Orwell estuary, is situated along a natural migration flyway, December brings me on to an important so our parks and riverside areas are all announcement, as after careful worth keeping a keen eye on as they will consideration your committee has turn up a smattering of migrants, decided that due to changes being including occasional waders along the applied to next year’s contractual Gipping while overhead honey buzzards arrangements for hiring the hall at have been recorded during September Sidegate School, it is with great regret over the town. that we have had to find a new venue for our indoor talks. Please see page ten for Without doubt, one of the most wonderful further information. The arrangements things about being a birder is that birds offered by the school were non- can and do turn up absolutely anywhere negotiable, and I think you will agree, at any time. Personally, I am always, on would have rendered practically some level, tuned in to the natural world, impossible the future planning of our with at least a part of my brain (much to indoor annual programme. the frequent consternation and annoyance of my wife) automatically The committee and Judy Cook in tuned in the attempt to identify every particular set about an exhaustive search avian sight and sound I encounter! September also sees the resumption of (Continued on page 3) 2 ORWELL OBSERVER September 2016 (Continued from page 2) House sparrow. PictureLesser—Liz whitethroat. Cutting Picture—Chris Courtney for new premises, with availability, appropriate catering, audio-visual facilities, sufficient capacity, convenient location and parking and all at an affordable cost! Fulfilling these criteria proved to be no easy task, as in addition we also wanted to try to retain the same second Thursday in the month and also not to move too far, so as to minimise the disruption to our members. Happily, I am pleased to announce that as from December this year our new home will be the hall adjoining St Andrew’s Church in Rushmere. There is Redstart. Picture— a large, suitably lit car park with disabled Chris Courtney spaces at the front of the church. The hall is smaller than our current venue so we will be a little cosier on the occasions of our more popular meetings. It is a really lovely space, so I do hope you will be able to embrace this necessary change as a positive one, following our many happy years at Sidegate as we now head into a new phase in our continuing story. I was much heartened upon making a ‘recce’ visit with other committee members back at the start of May, when exploring the churchyard I spotted a beautiful dancing male orange-tipped butterfly, followed shortly after by the rattling song of a lesser whitethroat, coming from the bottom hedgerow. I took these signs to facility on our website and specify be a good omen! whether you are offering or requiring a ride and we will add you to the list. In view of this move, we will be trying to encourage car-sharing where possible Finally, many thanks to everyone who and to help link up those with cars and helped with our Swifts ’n’ Sparrows spare seats with those needing transport. surveys. The sparrow questionnaire continues running till the end of the year, We will be putting up a list at the next few so look out for a full report in the January meetings for those offering and requiring edition of the magazine. lifts. Alternatively, please send through your contact details via the ‘Contact Us’ Happy autumn birding, 3 ORWELL OBSERVER September 2016 A SEABIRD CRUISE AROUND BRITAIN’S SMALLER ISLANDS (Pt. 2) from Richard Stewart ontinuing our May 2015 voyage the buzzard mobbed by crows, and one of C next venue should have been Rathlin our leaders regaled us with two verses of Island, but more stormy weather meant The Mountains of Mourne. The Giant's that our journey, and that of the regular Causeway was next, admittedly ferry, had to be cancelled. Inch Wildfowl impressive but too full of visitors striking Reserve in County Donegal was the peculiar poses to get 'selfies.' inland substitute. From higher ground Consequently when they climbed to the near the entrance we looked over a large tops of the basalt pillars, guards in bright stretch of water, with grassy areas and orange jackets vigorously blew on reedbeds. whistles to tell Redshank, Puffins. Picture—Barry Hall them to get tufted duck, down, as a black-tailed strong wind godwits and could have about 50 mute blown them into swans were the sea below. observed and We just sat in a later three sheltered corner whooper and watched the swans, a few antics as there staying to breed. was little wildlife Along a around: a few sheltered lower primroses, path there were early purple many singing orchids and a song thrushes kestrel trying to and willow hover. warblers, plus swallows, dunnock, chaffinch, woodpigeon, wren, Iona has, for well over a thousand years, blackcap, sedge warbler, long-tailed been an island of spiritual retreat and tits, reed bunting and goldcrest. settlement. In sunny weather we opted Sandwich terns were seen distantly but for the morning service in the Abbey, with the best 'spot' was from Tready Hide. My the floral display composed entirely of the wife Marie stayed there because her toe island's wild flowers. En route we heard a was still painful and she and a few others corncrake in a boggy part of a field but saw an otter. A second mammal, the just couldn't see it. Perversely the other brown hare, was observed running group had good views of one in the front across a field and a few butterflies garden of an unoccupied cottage, with emerged in sudden sunshine, with an one person getting video footage. orange tip egg being found on lady's However our walk to the beach included smock. Our short time meant most of this a superb male hen harrier being mobbed extensive reserve wasn't explored. The by crows, then six whimbrel, a great return journey gave views of a common (Continued on page 5) 4 ORWELL OBSERVER September 2016 (Continued from page 4) ground level as these magical birds called to each other, flew in with food for northern diver off the rocks plus dunlin, their young, pulled up further nesting ringed plover, meadow pipit, a calling material or continued digging their cuckoo, hooded crow, turnstone, nesting tunnels, some with very dirty common gull, starlings and plenty of breasts. Such was this seabird house sparrows. A pair of wheatears preoccupation that we had no time to and a small flock of greylag geese visit the 'black houses' where the former completed the list of sightings. It was of residents lived until 1857. course disappointing not to see a corncrake but thankfully Iona's birds are Saint Kilda was next, the main reason for now thriving. Corncrake numbers were our being on this cruise, but that was so as low as two breeding pairs in the early exciting and memorable that it needs a 1990s but have now risen to between separate article. To be continued…… twenty and thirty pairs. Fingal's Cave was next, passed with appropriate music on board and sighting Birketts Solicitors of three black guillemots plus two 'bonxies' (great skuas).
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