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KOS News the Newsletter of the Kent Ornithological Society KOS News The Newsletter of the Kent Ornithological Society Number 519 March 2019 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker by Chris White ● News & Announcements ● ●Patchwatch – Knole Park ● Spotted in the Garden ● Grebes – Five a Day● ●Bird Sightings: -January and February● ● Fifty Years Ago● 1 KOS Contacts – Committee Members Newsletter Editor: Norman McCanch, 23 New Street, Ash, Canterbury, Kent CT3 2BH Tel: 01304-813208 e-mail: [email protected] Membership Sec: Chris Roome, Rowland House, Station Rd., Staplehurst TN12 0PY Tel: 01580 891686 e-mail: [email protected] Chairman: Martin Coath, 14A Mount Harry Rd Sevenoaks TN13 3JH Tel: 01732-460710 e-mail: [email protected] Vice Chair.: Chris Roome, Rowland House, Station Rd., Staplehurst TN12 0PY Tel: 01580 891686 e-mail: [email protected] Hon. Sec: Brendan Ryan, 18 The Crescent, Canterbury CT2 7AQ Tel: 01227 471121 e-mail: [email protected] Hon. Treasurer: Mike Henty, 12 Chichester Close, Witley, Godalming, Surrey GU8 5PA Tel: 01428-683778 e-mail: [email protected] Conservation & Surveys: Murray Orchard, 1, Gatesbury Way, Puckeridge, Ware, Herts SG11 1TQ Tel: Home 01920 822955 Mobile 07776 238645 e-mail: [email protected] Editorial & Records: Barry Wright, 6 Hatton Close, Northfleet, DA11 8SD Tel: 01474 320918 e-mail: [email protected] Archivist: Robin Mace, 4 Dexter Close, Kennington, Ashford, TN25 4QG Tel: 01233-631509 e-mail: [email protected] Website liaison: vacant Indoor Meetings organiser: TBA Outdoor Meetings organiser: Ray O’Reily 44 New Road, Cliffe, Rochester, Kent ME3 7SL Tel: 07831-362502 e-mail:[email protected] Ordinary Members: Editor Kent Bird Report: Keith Privett 6 Tritton Close, Kennington, Ashford, Kent TN24 9HN Tel: 01233 335533 e-mail: [email protected] Andy Appleton 34 Pennine Walk Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 3NW 01892 513542 e-mail: [email protected] 2 Editorial I am pleased to present this edition of the newsletter, as it contains contributions from members and other birders within the county. This is as it should be, relieving the membership of having to read endless drivel written by my own fair hand! Seriously, the newsletter is a vehicle for the society to communicate with its members, but it is also a place for members to share their observations and experiences. Anyone with a tale to tell can contact me for guidance or assistance, all contributions will be gratefully received. A most important communication in this issue is the announcement of our forthcoming AGM in April, an agenda is attached at the end of the newsletter. Each year we see a small and loyal cohort of committed members turning up for the AGM, but by no means are they fully representative of the wider membership. On occasions we hear criticism of the way the society functions, usually as grumbles when birding. If you are at all dis-satisfied as a member, then attend the AGM and put yourself forward to get more involved. I know that most officers are keen to share the workload and new blood is always welcome. Back to birding; spring always brings issues surrounding disturbance of breeding birds, sometimes by birders, sometimes by other people who claim an interest in birds but seem motivated by other goals. We all need to be vigilant, but mindful that criticism is sometimes not received in the spirit it is given. I think we are moving steadily towards a situation where the sharing of information regarding scarce breeding birds will become less common and it is only a matter of time when the same ‘protectionist’ view extends to rarities also. At a personal level I do not see there is any obligation to share information to the widest possible audience, we need to be mindful of the issues involved. We need also to be aware that records on public forums can be shared widely through other social media, sometimes by people not involved in the original record. It is a sad inditement on our modern digital age that the spectre of “suppression” is now a realistic weapon in the fight to protect birds in the wider landscape. And no mention of B****T! Good birding Norman 3 News and announcements English Farm Woodland Bird Survey – a new BTO survey for 2019 The following is extracted from the BTO Home Page. Click on ‘Volunteer surveys’ (top banner) and then select ‘Farm Woodland Survey’ under ‘More surveys’ in the left-hand column. Please explore the links for details of the survey as those below may not work. Since 1988, over 22,000 farm woods have been planted in England. The woods are mostly small, between 1 and 5 hectares in size, which will make survey coverage quite quick and straightforward. These farm woods were planted in a wide variety of settings, ranging from complete isolation through to alongside existing established woodland. This provides a very interesting natural experiment to assess how well birds have colonised these new woodlands on farmland. A new survey for 2019 plans to provide data on how birds have colonised woods planted in farmland. 4 What is required? Surveyors need to be able to identify birds by sight and sound, and ideally they will have had experience with other BTO surveys or bird territory mapping. This survey will cover many of the 46 farm woodland sites previously surveyed in 1999, as well as up to 2000 other farm woods, which haven’t been surveyed at all. The sites are small, so it should be possible to cover a number of woodland plots in a morning; each plot should take around 20 to 30 minutes to survey, depending on size!Four morning visits are required between 15th March 2019 and 15th July 2019, to record all in and around the farm wood plot. Registrations will be recorded on site maps, using Common Bird Census species and activity codes, mainly to accurately plot all individuals and help avoid double counting. A summary of the number of territories detected will then be determined from each survey visits.Some basic, but essential, habitat recording will be required for farm woods, to record the features such as tree species, boundary type and mammal activity. Please see the Methods page for further survey details. How to sign-up for the survey It is now possible to register for the survey. You will be able to view an interactive map of farm woodland locations, summarises by 1-km squares, from which you can select the sites you would like to survey. Request a square link https://app.bto.org/batmap/squares/FarmWoods 5 Some squares may only have single farm woods, whereas others will have many, so we would encourage you to pick squares with multiple farm woods if possible. Once a location has been selected, we will then need to contact the landowner to request permission to survey the site, which isn’t guaranteed, and then provide contact and visit details to the surveyor. Further information More detailed survey information, including instructions and recording is in preparation and will be available in early 2019. You can contact the survey organisers Daria Dadam and Greg Conway -- via [email protected]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ NCC Seabird Count 2015/19 – survey of urban gulls in Kent 2019 This survey was introduced in the November Newsletter. Full details of the Seabird Count can be found at http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-7413 It’s time to prepare for this year’s survey of our urban nesting Gulls. This will be no mean feat as Kent has huge numbers of roof nesting Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls, not just on houses in our coastal towns but inland too, particularly on factory roofs in industrial estates. Details of the survey have now been issued by the JNCC National Organiser. I will be contacting last year’s local organisers to help again, and to spread the word and enlist volunteers to assist in their areas. There are two arms to the survey in Kent: a survey of ‘repeat sites’, which are those where Gulls were surveyed during the last seabird census, and a survey of randomly selected squares, aimed to assess the expansion of breeding ranges since the last census. For the former, it will be required to count breeding Gulls in Whitstable, Herne Bay, Birchington-Ramsgate, Folkestone, Greatstone-Dymchurch and Ashford (I’ve no idea why other areas such as Dover and Canterbury are not included as the Atlas suggests that Herring Gulls at least were nesting in these locations at the time of the last census). For the random squares, a total of 182 1km squares have been selected across Kent using a stratified random sampling approach. This means that all squares will contain potential nesting habitat but not necessarily breeding Gulls, and that some known colonies may not be included. Covering such a large number of squares for the national survey will be challenging, but I would like to ensure that we get good coverage of all known sites in the county so 6 that that Kent population estimates of our breeding Herring and Lesser Black- backed Gulls (combined with last years survey of natural sites) are as accurate as possible. This will mean covering areas that might not be included in the randomly selected squares. Survey packs are available (Word and Excel files) which contain background details, survey instructions, health and safety advice, recording forms etc. Initially I will supply these to the local organisers who can then send out further to volunteers as required. I can also supply direct to volunteers in areas not covered by the local organisers. These packs contain the list of randomly selected 1km squares with a map link so that volunteers can print out a map of the square they wish to cover or have been requested to cover.
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