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Martin and Liz Will Run the Quiz Again Next Year, but After Welcome to the Autumn issue of our newsletter. Find the programme for the new season, book your place at the next quiz and browse the news... Dear supporters, five successful years they will take a Our nature talks on the third well-deserved rest, so we need Wednesday of each month (second in someone to step forward to take it on. December) remain the mainstay of We’d like one or two organisers to our group. Our speakers often shadow the team for the 2019 quiz so comment on the good number of as to be ready to take over in 2020. people that come along (usually 40- Let me know if you’re interested and 60), and this of course reflects the I’ll tell you what’s involved. quality of speakers, some of whom We’re also looking for more helpers to have quite a keen following. If you’re join our committee, which is smaller than it’s ever new to the area, or to the RSPB, you’re very been. It’s not a big commitment, we meet about welcome to come along and find out how every other month, and more people would help to entertaining our evenings can be. spread the work and perhaps introduce new ideas. For our nature walks, we’re lucky to have a choice The reserves run by the RSPB, the Wildlife Trusts of a wide variety of nature reserves within an hour and others do a great job of providing safe places or so’s drive, from the marshes of the Thames for nature, as do many of you in your gardens. We estuary, via the freshwater reedbeds of Stodmarsh also need to be vigilant about developments that and the heathlands of the Weald to the shingle threaten our special places. By the time you read beaches of the south coast. For the first time we this, the consultation about housing development at also made use of our local reserve at Tudeley Lodge Hill, that nightingale favourite, will have Woods for a bleary-eyed but sharp-eared dawn closed. Many of us have commented on proposed chorus walk, complete with breakfast. It’s been developments at Newhaven Harbour that threaten good to see new faces coming along, from complete the nature reserve at Newhaven Tide Mills. Closer beginners to experienced birders, along with our to home, a proposal for housing development on a friendly regulars. Everyone’s keen to share their greenfield site adjacent to Haysden country park knowledge, and when you’re birding in a group of has raised concerns. It’s undeniable that more six to 12, someone’s going to spot things that you housing is needed, but is this the right place for it? A might have missed in a smaller group. consultation is due in October, so when details All these special places need management and it’s appear it’s important that we, as local citizens, thanks to supporters like you that the RSPB has the review it and make our views known. necessary funds. But it’s not only about funds: the Have a great birding autumn and winter, and I hope majority of the RSPB’s work is undertaken by to see you at one or more of our events. volunteers, working on reserves and in offices. Your local group relies entirely on volunteers, to whom we’re very grateful, but our group of helpers is Best wishes, getting smaller and so each of us is taking on more tasks. For example, our quiz team of Alan, Geoff Martin and Liz will run the quiz again next year, but after Nightjar surveys at Tudeley Woods RSPB reserve produced mixed results this year. The first survey The RSPB has acquired a new reserve in Wiltshire, provided excellent displays of wing clapping males, the charity’s first in the New Forest. females flying overhead, and ‘churring’ from six Franchises Lodge comprises almost 1,000 acres of different locations that indicated a minimum three woodland that has largely been inaccessible to the pairs (based on timings). The second survey ended public for many years. It is described as a ‘secret up with nothing seen or heard, although consolation forest’ that gives a home to a wide range of birds was taken from the fantastic number of glow worms including lesser spotted woodpecker, wood warbler, seen on the heath. At the time of writing, a third visit hawfinch, spotted flycatcher, firecrest and redstart was planned to get the full picture on these special (pictured), alongside other wildlife. The RSPB says nocturnal birds. Two years ago there were no it will be focusing on maintaining the existing nightjars recorded at all on the heathland areas of broadleaf woodland, enhancing areas of wood the reserve, so the possibility of three pairs was pasture and recreating open heath. very encouraging, especially as they were displaying in the areas volunteers had been managing over the last two winters. ● Long-time Tudeley Woods volunteers Jean and Brian Nobbs each received their 40 years volunteering badge at a recent South East regional meeting. RSPB chief executive, Mike Clarke, presented them with their golden eagle badges and thanked them for their hard work and dedication over their combined 80 years of volunteering. Brian and Jean’s phenomenal effort has spanned reserve management, involvement with local groups and raising money through wildlife talks. An appeal has been launched in a bid to raise Two reserves have been damaged by fire during £500,000 to help fund the project. this year’s hot, dry summer. In June, the South Head at St Bees in Cumbria, lost Following the very cold spring which delayed the an estimated 30 nests of birds like stonechat, linnet and whitethroat but luckily the seabird colony return of summer migrants this year, the warmer remained unaffected. weather appears to have given wildlife a boost at Dungeness. Common terns have been recorded on Later in the month, the headline-making fire on the islands in Burrowes Pit while surveys have Saddleworth Moor spread to the neighbouring Dove located two bittern nests at the ARC end of the Stone reserve. Around 200 hectares of land were reserve. However, at the time of writing, it is too destroyed, equivalent to about 300 football pitches. early to determine how successful the breeding Fortunately, the blaze did not reach the main areas season has been. of blanket bog that the RSPB has been restoring on the higher plateau. Meanwhile, wardens report a very successful count of Sussex emerald moth larvae. The Sussex emerald moth only exists on the RSPB Dungeness Pulborough Brooks RSPB reserve is seeing reserve and the Dungeness peninsular so the RSPB dividends from the hard work put in at the site. This is collaborating with different organisations in the year, 41 lapwing chicks successfully made it to Sussex emerald moth Partnership to try to bring juvenile stage, giving a productivity of two chicks per these moths back from the brink of extinction. This pair. This is an improvement on last year’s year, eight caterpillars were found on designated productivity of one per pair. plots of wild carrot and ragwort which are their main Redshank, too, had a good year, fledging ten chicks food sources, representing the second highest (up from seven in 2017). count since the partnership began. Quiz night COME AND TEST YOUR GENERAL KNOWLEDGE WHILST Raising MONEY FOR THE RSPB AND ENJOYING A FISH & CHIP SUPPER! WE PROMISE, No bird questions!! Teams of six recommended Prize raffle Tickets £15 per person Quiz Night 2019 Booking Form Please enclose a £20 deposit for a table or £5 deposit for tickets and remember your SAE. Deposits are non-returnable. Contact name………………………………………………………..…...Tel………………...………... Email address ……………………………………………………………………..……………………. Address…………………………………………………………………………..………………………. …...……………………………………………………………...…… Postcode ……………….……... How many tables (6 people per table)………………..or individual tickets………………….. Meal choice(s): Fish & chips………………………….Ploughman’s……………………….... Balance to be paid by 31 January 2019 with confirmation of numbers and meal selections. In 2012 we volunteered at the London Olympics, as Games Makers and as London Ambassadors. We thoroughly enjoyed it – for a few weeks London seemed like one big multinational party – and afterwards we were offered other volunteering opportunities. One was for the RSPB’s regular event on the South Bank in the summer, showing passers-by the peregrines roosting on the tower of the Tate Modern gallery (the old Bankside power station chimney). We were aware that this happened; we had stopped once or twice to look through the telescopes and chat about the birds. A couple of RSPB staff members run the event, under a gazebo, with some tables displaying the tower, the juveniles screeching their demands information about the RSPB and pin badges for for food at the adults, who sometimes responded sale. The volunteers set up three or four telescopes with a food-pass, dropping bits of prey for the and tripods next to the stand, and do much of the juveniles to practise catching in mid-air. We’ve also talking to interested passers-by, handing them on to watched them take pigeons – on one occasion the staff members if they sound as though they directly over the heads of the unsuspecting might be interested in joining the RSPB! commuters on the Millennium Bridge – and they Getting involved as volunteers appealed to us, so, in regularly bring prey back to the tower to pluck it, July and August 2013, we did our first ‘shifts’ at the throwing showers of feathers off the ledges. Tate, for several hours, about once a week, and As well as many ‘locals’, some of whom come back we’ve done it every year since then.
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