Basingstoke Local Group Website Is Currently Very Much Under Populated and It Would Be Appreciated If You Could Help out with Respect to This: Places to See Birds
BBAASSIINNGGSSTTOOKKEE LLOOCCAALL GGRROOUUPP FEBRUARY 2012 NEWSLETTER http://www.rspb.org.uk/groups/basingstoke Contents: From The Group Leader Notices The Local Big Garden Birdwatch What’s Happening? Henri Pittier National Park: The Road To Ocumare February’s Outdoor Meeting March’s Outdoor Meeting January’s Outdoor Meeting Local Wildlife News Quiz Page A million voices for nature Charity registered in England and Wales no. 207076 From The Group Leader Welcome to February. As the winter continues, the weather certainly having been wintry lately, some of you have raised, once again, the issue of birds being, or not being, about your gardens. What have you noticed happening over these last few months? Are ‘your’ birds still with you, have they all disappeared to pastures, or at least bird feeders, new and have any being acting in a manner that you wouldn’t expect? Several reports behavioural peculiarities have been received including birds harassing windows, as well as each other. Has your bossy Blackcap returned for a winter of defending the easy pickings you so readily provide, or have Mistle Thrush taken over the local Mountain Ash again? Birds with aberrant plumage have also been headlining recently, have you seen the BTO website relating to this? If not, it’s worth a look, if only to see just how many ‘dodgy’ birds there are out there! We can but hope that the wintry climate soon changes and that warmer winds from the south bring both pleasanter conditions and many migrants – by the time of the Indoor Meeting it will be but a fortnight, if that, before the first Wheatear and Sand Martin appear again on our shores; definitely something to look forward to! The Groups’ Outdoor Meeting at West Wittering / East Head towards the end of March should provide the first migrants for the Group, though I’m sure that many of you will have these on your ‘year list’ prior to this; please do let us know when you receive your first summer visitors, especially if they seem particularly early for you area.
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