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Contents Wildlife News in Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull Warwickshire County Council Wildlife News in Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull May 2008 Wildlife News attempts to be a comprehensive Contents directory for all natural history groups, sources of • News items – page 2 wildlife expertise and planned activities in the • Warwickshire, Solihull and Coventry sub-region. To Calendar of Events – page 6 publicise your group or activities, or tell us about • Courses – page 22 someone who’d like to receive a copy, please contact Warwickshire Museum. Press dates are 10 April, 10 • Working Parties – page 23 August and 10 December. • Ongoing Surveys and Projects – page 25 Address correspondence to: Senior Keeper of • Museum-based Natural History Education Natural History, Warwickshire Museum, Market Resources – page 26 Place, Warwick CV34 4SA. Alternatively ring Steven Falk on 01926 412481, or E-mail: • Contact details and meeting arrangements [email protected] . for groups and organisations – page 27 This newsletter can also be accessed directly via • Useful local web sites – page 33 the web at: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/rings . • Where to send your site and species data and seek expertise – page 34 • Bibliography of key Warwickshire books and journals – page 38 1 Wildlife News in Warwickshire Coventry & Solihull, May 2008 ___________________________________________________________________ NEWS ITEMS and Ponds, Lakes & Reservoirs. We will also be identifying opportunities to enhance the biodiversity of three habitats of particular public interest – Parks & First report of our Local Biodiversity Action Plan Public Open Space, Churchyards & Cemeteries, and Gardens. Projects that protect the animals associated with all these habitats, such as the Hedgehog, Common Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull’s Local Biodiversity Toad , bumblebees and bats , will be part of the Action Plan has just produced the first progress report programme. of its conservation effort since the plan was completed in 2006. A major success has been the Parish Ruth Moffatt, LBAP Co-ordinator Biodiversity Action Plan, a booklet of ideas to help people start wildlife projects on their doorsteps. Distributed to all parish clerks, Women’s Institutes and A new BSBI survey of Warwickshire’s wild plants in libraries a year ago, it is now being used as a guide to 2008/09 – help invited conservation in many of our local communities. Copies Bran may be downloaded from the website: This an opportunity to help bring our plant records up to www.warwickshire.gov.uk/biodiversity date, and to learn more about identifying and recording or purchased from Ruth Moffatt on 01926 412197, E- wild plants, everything from horsetails to horse- mail: [email protected] chestnuts. It will be based on the 24 (or so) ten- kilometre squares of the ‘Biological’ County of Warwickshire, which includes Coventry and Solihull. Birmingham has already been surveyed. This is part of a national study organised by the Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI), 10 years after the New Atlas of the British Flora. The recording of the commonest plants, like daisies and hawthorn, will be centred on at least one nature reserve in each ten-kilometre square. Some reserves have not yet had a complete inventory of the plants growing there. We hope that each area will be visited three times, in spring, summer and autumn either during this year or next year. If you are interested in helping, please mention which area you could visit when you contact: Barn Owls – increasing steadily © Steven Falk James Partridge, 85, Willes Road, Leamington Spa, CV31 1BS or E-mail [email protected] , the BSBI In terms of successes, Barn Owls are doing well, already recorder for Warwickshire (VC38) exceeding our target for restoring the breeding population to 60 pairs by 2010. In good years for small mammals such as field voles, the bird breeds well, with nest box schemes helping their recovery. Another success has been the formation of the South Warwickshire Orchard Group to restore local fruit orchards and create and sustain interest in their products. On the down side, we are concerned at the continuing decline in species and habitat loss in the region, with wildflower meadows now at an all-time low. Water Voles could be extinct in a few years owing to the predations of mink and loss of habitat. The Adder may already be extinct . In our Focus 2008 programme, we will be concentrating our efforts on four habitats where progress has fallen well short of our targets – Disused Industrial & Railway Land, Roadside Verges, Meadows Wasp Orchid © Phill Clayton 2 Wildlife News in Warwickshire Coventry & Solihull, May 2008 ___________________________________________________________________ New Beetles of Warwickshire CD Update on the Warwickshire’s Wildflowers boo k Following on from the 2002 publication of the finest Much work has taken place over the winter to county beetle atlas ever produced ‘ An Atlas of transform Pam Copson’s incomplete manuscript into a Warwickshire Beetles ’, the dynamic trio of Steve Lane, fully-fledged book. It will essentially consist of a series Richard Wright and Trevor Forsyth have now produced of habitat chapters (covering woodland, hedges, wetland an updated account of local beetles in the form of an & water courses, permanent grassland, arable land, interactive CD. It is an astonishing piece of work, heathland & mire, disturbed land and the built providing species accounts for over 2,100 species. environment) plus a fully up-to-date species checklist Within these accounts you will find basic information on which furnishes national and local rarity status. The each species, an updated distribution map (to the end of latter is based upon the checklist that you can currently 2007) and, for 1,150 species, a useful colour find attached to the RINGs home page: photograph. Many species also have a bar chart to show www.warwickshire.gov.uk/rings . The book will be their local flight period/relative abundance on a weekly generously illustrated with photos (mostly from local basis. Species are arranged by family and for each naturalist and wildlife photographer John Roberts), and family there is a county checklist of species and often will act as a snap-shot and celebration of the modern an indication of the relative abundance of each species. Warwickshire flora, but with reference to changes such There are also useful accounts on how to collect as species gain, species loss, and habitat change too. We beetles, the habitats and other features of remain on target to have the book published by the end Warwickshire, plus downloadable and printable text of the year. files. This is a truly impressive piece of work, and congratulations are due to Richard, Steve and Trevor. Steven The CD sells for £10 plus £1 p&p, and can be obtained directly from Richard Wright at 70 Norman Road, International Biodiversity Day , 22 nd May 2008 Rugby CV21 1DN. To celebrate International Biodiversity Day , the Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull Local Biodiversity Action Plan is encouraging people to ' Do One Thing ' for the environment or local wildlife: FOR THE ENVIRONMENT • Using energy efficient light bulbs reduces your electricity bill. They produce the same amount of light as standard light bulbs by using a fraction of the electricity. • Switch off appliances and lights - the UK has set a target to reduce CO 2 emissions by 20 % by 2010. Almost half of the UK's emissions come from things we do everyday, such as leaving the TV on standby. • Cut down on your heating costs – shut doors , draw curtains, draught proof doors and windows and turn down the central heating thermostat. • Save water - only heat what you need, switch off the tap while doing your teeth and put ‘clean’ waste water onto the garden and patio plants. • Start a compost heap or buy a composter for all garden waste, including grass cuttings, prunings, leaves, hedge trimmings and vegetable waste from your kitchen. Your local council may help you get a composter. Composting instead of sending green waste to landfill sites helps reduce greenhouse gas An Agapanthea ‘longhorn’ beetle © Phill Clayton emissions. • Recycle paper, card, plastic, metal and glass - the average person in the UK throws out their body 3 Wildlife News in Warwickshire Coventry & Solihull, May 2008 ___________________________________________________________________ weight in rubbish every 3 months. Most of this could The current status of some scarcer local butterflies be reprocessed but instead is sent to incinerators or landfill. • Walk or cycle to help to cut back on greenhouse gas The latest newsletter of Butterfly Conservation emissions. Road transport is responsible for around a Warwickshire (the new name of our local branch) gives a fifth of the UK’s CO 2 emissions. useful summary of changes in the population number of some of our scarcer butterflies over the past 3 years FOR OUR WILDLIFE that is worth repeating in Wildlife News: • Take up gardening - the one place where you can make a small but real difference. No pesticides or • Dingy Skipper – has increased from 31 colonies peat and leave areas of long grass for grasshoppers to 37 over the past 3 years, most of the and young amphibians. Plant and encourage native increase being in the Kineton area flowers, choosing ones which produce large seed • Grizzled Skipper - remains at 39 colonies heads and nectar-rich flowers to attract insects, • Wood White - remains at 2 colonies particularly white ones for night insects. • Green Hairstreak - remains at 11+ colonies • Look after your wildlife and make space for more (Sutton Park’s population can be interpreted as - by putting up bat roost boxes, bird nest boxes, several colonies) bee ‘hotels’ and black sunflower seed holders for • Brown Hairstreak - 2 unconfirmed breeding birds and voles. Create a dead woodpile in a damp sites shady area to encourage beetles and hedgehogs. • Small Blue – down to 3 colonies from 4 Make a pond with gentle slopes and emergent native • White Admiral – 24 colonies to 26 vegetation for cover, with no fish that will eat other • Dark-green Fritilary – remains at one colony wildlife.
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