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Local Wildlife News, Produced by the Greenways Project to Promote the Activities of Local Conservation and Community Groups Local September - December 2014 A news and events diary from wildlife and conservation groups in Wildlife the Ipswich area News Majestic Millennium Wood - see page 20 Produced by the Suffolk Coastal ... where quality of life counts Fungal Foray A Welcome to The Fifth Kingdom Saturday Oct 4th and Saturday Oct 18th 10:00am – 12:30pm Sutton Heath south car park ( B1083 to Sutton village) Grid Ref: TM306475 Booking event: £4 adults, £2 under 18s, pensioners and students. A beginners guide to Fungi. Ranger led Fungal Forays for all the family. Find out much more about the weird and wonderful world of fungi. To book a place on this event please contact: 01394 444619 or e-mail [email protected] Welcome Welcome to the autumn and winter edition of Local Wildlife News, produced by the Greenways Project to promote the activities of local conservation and community groups. After a long, hot summer, it’s now becoming a little autumnal and the lovely long 5 © Jill Brook evenings are shortening. In the wildlife year, focus shifts from watching to getting on with habitat management! Throughout the winter months there are dozens of opportunities to join any of the local groups to help maintain and improve wildlife habitat on your doorstep! The Greenways Project will be holding its usual three ‘Megabash events’, including Belstead Brook Park on Sunday 16th November (see events listing). Purdis Heath and Martlesham Heath will follow in January and February. 9 Contributions We are always happy to receive articles of anything up to 600 words, photographs of local wildlife or conservation work and local sightings or wildlife ‘snippets’ – so please do send in anything which may be of interest to: Greenways Project, Stable Block, Holywells Park, Cliff Lane, Ipswich, IP3 0PG. 01473 433995. [email protected] Mailing lists – Please note We are aware that some who are members of several conservation organisations may 15 © S. Corley well receive more than one copy of the newsletter. If this is the case we would be very grateful if you could pass on the spare copy to someone who will appreciate it and contact the Greenways Project on 01473 433995 or [email protected], stating which organisations you are a member of, so that we can ensure that you receive just one in the future. If on the other hand you don’t currently receive LWN regularly, but would like to, please consider joining one of the groups that distributes LWN to its members (i.e. Suffolk 18 Wildlife Trust, Ipswich Wildlife Group, RSPB etc). © Mark Hamblin (rspb-images.com) Remember, for those who don’t receive a copy, LWN is available online at www.greenlivingcentre.org.uk/iwg James Baker 1719 Contents Page Björn Schulz Suffolk Wildlife Trust 4 20 © Ipswich Wildlife Group 8 Local Wildlife News is published by Greenways Countryside Project. Landguard Partnership 9 Editor: James Baker [email protected] Greenways Countryside Project 10 Tel 01473 433995 IBC Wildlife Rangers 13 Production Editor: Colin Hullis [email protected] Friends of Christchurch Park 14 Tel 01473 728674 Artwork production: Chris Saunders Portal Woodlands Conservation Group 15 [email protected] Tel 01473 721550 Suffolk Ornithologists’ Group 16 Printed by PJ Print RSPB Ipswich Local Group 18 [email protected] Tel 01473 276010 Friends of Holywells Park 19 Printed on recycled paper Friends of Belstead Brook Park 20 The opinions expressed in Local Local Wildlife News Snippets 21 Wildlife News are not necessarily those of the Greenways Project. Events Diary 22 3 Ipswich Group Newsletter Chairman: David Munday 01473 217310 [email protected] Secretary: Wendy Brown 01473 259674 [email protected] Treasurer: Tony Clarke 01473 741083 [email protected] Newsletter Editor: John Ireland 01473 723179 [email protected] Group contact: [email protected] We are the Ipswich Group of the Suffolk Wildlife Trust. We offer an interesting range of monthly meetings with guest speakers which take place usually on the third Wednesday of the month at 7.30 p.m. in the hall of St Margaret’s Primary School, Bolton Lane, Ipswich. Trust members and non-members are equally welcome. During the summer months we offer a variety of trips, some local, others by coach. Details of these and our monthly meetings can be found in our ‘Diary’ section which follows, or on the SWT website, www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org. Chairman’s Letter Greenways Project 20 year Anniversary the short distance up Bolton Lane or to find alternative Details are to be found elsewhere in this edition of Local parking. To those of you on our e-mail list, please pass Wildlife News, but I wanted to add my congratulations on these details to anybody you know who comes to for this great achievement of 20 years working for the our meetings. Please do not let this deter you from community. From small beginnings the Project has attending, as we have an excellent programme of talks become a major force in practical conservation in and booked for the season. around Ipswich under the strong guidance of James Baker the Project leader. I should also like to thank the September Meeting local Councils and many Councillors for their faith and Just a reminder for those of you who get your Newsletter support which has been forthcoming even in difficult early, our first meeting of the new season is on times when it would have been so easy to slash their Wednesday 17th September. Sadly Simone Bullion is Greenways budgets unable to be with us due to an International Conference but I’m delighted to welcome Leonie Washington, Parking at St Margaret’s SWT’s Community Wildlife Adviser who is talking about Building work is due to be carried out at St Margaret’s “Tracking down our Ipswich Hedgehogs”. School Hall in the near future. This may mean that the school car park will not be available for our evening Dave Munday meetings. It seems likely, at the time of printing, that (Chairman) parking will still be available for our 17th September meeting. The situation is fluid so if you are on our e-mail © Dave Fincham list it will be a good idea to check a few days before the meeting or if you are not, to contact any member of the committee. If you do not already receive e-mails about future events and would like to do so please contact Steve Pritchard at [email protected] Once started, building will continue for several months. The nearest car park is at the bottom of Woodbridge Road where the Caribbean Club used to be and opposite the back of the Regent. It will probably be a good idea to set out a little earlier to allow you to park and walk Dave Munday 4 Ipswich Group Newsletter Hickling Broad 31st May 2014 © Jill Brook Such was the popularity of this trip that our group, the other hides. visiting this National Nature reserve, had to be divided Here we saw pied into three parties for the boat trips. On the way to the wagtail and young, landing stage we passed through woodland with many coot, moorhen, nestboxes and along a boardwalk where common great crested lizard was seen and three species of dragonfly: scarce grebe, little egret, chaser, black tailed skimmer and the local speciality, swallow, a party Norfolk hawker. Our guide, David, pointed out recently of long tailed tits, completed work to improve water quality and control, reed, sedge and funded by Landfill Tax. We also saw one of several tunnel strident Cetti’s traps, designed to record footprints of visiting species. warbler, skylark, oystercatcher, pheasant, jackdaw, carrion crow and a tinkling charm © Diana Brendish of goldfinches. We also heard one water rail and a duet between © Jill Brook Avocets - synchronised preening We were looking forward to the silence of an electric boat but the engine had broken down so we had to compromise with an outboard motor. Nevertheless the wildlife was abundant on what is the largest of Norfolk’s Broads, being about a mile long, three quarters of a mile wide and with an average depth of about four feet. We were soon seeing a marsh harrier mobbed by a black Swallowtail butterflies headed gull, a heron and common tern. John pointed out long booms at the foot of some reedbeds, to deter a distant cuckoo and another booming bittern. On the grazing greylag geese. A quiet entry into the back of way back a large patch of flowering white clover was a hide led to a sudden increase in species: lapwing attracting many foraging bees. From inquiries made of redshank, wigeon, shoveller, pochard, shelduck with four others we added peacock and speckled wood butterfly, young, egyptian goose, plus an avocet with one juvenile. Chinese water deer and saw an impressive photo of a The raft intended for nesting terns had been taken over swallowtail nectaring on thistle. Hopefully this iconic by black headed gulls and the first swallowtail of the species was seen by everyone and for at least one day flew past at some speed. Swifts were screaming person it was a ‘first ever’. overhead and a pair of marsh harriers, John told us, had a nest in the reedbed they were circling, one of nine Refreshments were taken at the nearby Pleasure Boat nests on the reserve. Inn and some wandered down to the waterfront, seeing a very large flock of greylag geese and a pair of swallows The tall Observation Tower had been a challenging and nesting in a boathouse. Perhaps the success of our day almost vertical climb on our last visit, in 1986, but now it can be measured by the fact that, even as we waited allowed easier access to a superb panoramic view right near the car park for the last boat trip to return, a hobby across to the coast.
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