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2007 RNHS Annual Report RNHS 42nd Annual Report 2007 The RUTLAND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY was founded in February 1965 and now has over 300 members. The objects of the Society are to further the cause of Natural History, to study, record and help preserve Rutland’s wildlife in particular, to meet and exchange information with other bodies, and to encourage young people to take an interest in wildlife and its conservation. The Society organises monthly field outings to places of interest both inside and outside the County, holds indoor meetings on the first Tuesday of each month between October and April, publishes a newsletter, Fieldfare, six times a year and an Annual Report, and maintains a website (www.rnhs.org.uk). NB Sightings are documented; Recorders or Secretary may be contacted for details. Contents List of Recorders and contributors inside front cover Officers, Committee and Recorders 2 Chairman’s Report 3 RNHS Website Report 4 Treasurer’s Report 5 Climatological Summary 7 Amphibian and reptile Report 8 Bird Report 10 Bird notes 10 Wader and Wildfowl counts 17 Beaumont Chase Farm counts 19 Rookery Survey Report 21 Botany Report 28 Roadside Verge Nature Reserves 32 Entomology 38 Lepidoptera Report 38 Orthoptera Report 50 Plant galls Report 53 Insects and others 55 Glow-worm Report 61 Mammal Report 63 Bat Report 67 Mycology Report 72 RNHS indoor and field meetings 76 Items for loan to RNHS members 84 Site abbreviations inside back cover Cover drawing: Chris Park Printed by Express Printing, Wellingborough RNHS 42nd Annual Report 2007 Rutland Natural History Society www.rnhs.org.uk President Sir Clifford Boulton 2 Main Street, Lyddington, LE15 9LT 01572 823487 Chairman Ann Tomlinson River House, 9 Aldgate, Ketton, PE9 3TD 01780 721622 [email protected] Hon. Life members Sir David Davenport Handley, J. R. Stapleton, Mrs J. Stapleton, P. Rudkin, C. R. Jones, G. Kirk Hon. Secretary Linda Worrall 6 Redland Close, Barrowden, LE15 8ES 01572 747302 Hon. Treasurer Derek Lee 9 Main Street, Lyddington, LE15 9LR 01572 82279 [email protected] Hon. Auditor Canon R. Tovey Committee Members Mrs L. Biddle, Mrs J. Harris, J. Nourish, A. Lear, F. Lee Membership Secretary Graham Worrall 6 Redland Close, Barrowden, LE15 8ES 01572 747302 Programme Secretary Dawn Whitefield 34 Braunston Road, Oakham, LE15 6LD 01572 723991 Website and Publicity Peter Scott 15 Ancaster Way, North Luffenham, LE15 8LH 01780 720724 [email protected] Fieldfare and AR Editor Hendrina Ellis Old Hunt’s Maltings, Water Street, Stamford PE9 2NJ 01780 482048 [email protected] RECORDERS Amphibians and reptiles Dr Charles Gallimore The Stone House, Reeves Lane, Wing 01572 737343 [email protected] Bats Jenny Harris 41 Woodland View, Oakham, LE15 6EJ 01572 755274 [email protected] Birds Terry Mitcham 30 Sutherland Way, Stamford, PE9 2TB 01780 751268 [email protected] Botany Graham Worrall 6 Redland Close, Barrowden, LE15 8ES 01572 747302 Butterflies and moths Jean & Ron Harvey 4 Clarkesdale, Great Easton, LE16 8SP 01536 770259 [email protected] Glow-worms Linda Worrall 6 Redland Close, Barrowden, LE15 8ES 01572 747302 Insects and others Gill Chiverton 20 Victoria Rd, Stamford, PE9 1HB 01780 753820 Mammals Linda Biddle 21 Waverley Gardens, Stamford 01780 762108 [email protected] Mycology Linda Worrall 6 Redland Close, Barrowden, LE15 8ES 01572 747302 Orthoptera Phil Rudkin 10 Brooke Avenue, Stamford 01780 762998 [email protected] Plant galls Roy Lemmon 87 Empingham Road, Stamford, PE9 2SU 01780 762051 [email protected] RNHS 42nd Annual Report 2007 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2007 I am pleased to present my report for 2007. 2007 saw the final year of the rook survey (see page Our year has been full of the pleasant and interest- 21), and with the retirement of Alan and Joy ing things for which our Society, which continues to Paterson as coordinators, and several others of the maintain a membership of over 300, is justly famous. rook counters, your Committee felt it best to bring Despite the strange weather conditions, with a very this exercise to a close. A great deal of important and dry early Spring, and a very wet late Spring and fascinating information has been gathered, and we Summer, our outdoor walks have visited many will consider further one-off surveys to consolidate varied sites, farm, woodland and nature reserve, and in future. I would like to express the Society’s thanks have always been well-attended. Our indoor meet- to Alan and Joy, and all their helpers, for their ings have continued to pull in record numbers, not efforts. surprising if one considers the range of subjects that I told you at the last AGM that the 2006 Annual has been covered – including ancient and modern Report would be the last edited by Patrick Mann birds, plants, fungi, lichens…. after many years of service in this role. Once again Our wildlife recording activities, which are the the Annual Report has been an excellent publication cornerstone of our work, have continued energeti- and our thanks go to Patrick. Hendrina Ellis will be cally through the year, building on what is now over taking up this baton for 2007. We also express our 40 years of wildlife information – a unique data thanks to Chris Park for his beautiful cover illustra- source. The extreme weather conditions of the past tion. year have had their effect, with both unusual species Others who need to be especially thanked are appearing and detrimental impacts on invertebrates Shirley Hope for organising our refreshments and and breeding birds. Time will tell whether these Norman Gordon for his skill in sorting out our things are indeed ‘climate change’-induced, but our sound system. Without these two, our indoor meet- records will be an important part of interpreting ings would not be so successful. And of course many these developments. thanks to Mike Iannantuoni for the beautiful posters Whilst our activities have carried on regardless, which have publicised our indoor meetings through- there have been some changes within the Society out the year and which, I’m sure, play no small part and the people who ensure it functions efficiently. in bringing in the crowds. Last year we welcomed three new people onto your My final thank you tonight is saved for Mary Committee: Gill Chiverton, Hendrina Ellis and Peter Nourish, who is retiring at this AGM after five years Scott, and we are extremely pleased to have their as Programme Secretary. Throughout this period, help in keeping the Society on track. As you already Mary has worked tirelessly to produce an exciting know, Hendrina is our excellent Fieldfare editor and and informative series of indoor talks and outdoor Peter has taken on the role of publicity officer, in- events. Nothing has been too difficult for Mary, cluding website maintenance. Both have brought an and they have always been a huge success. She also enormous amount of energy and skill to their work, reinstated the idea of taking Society members off and the Society is benefitting considerably. for a day trip, when we went last summer to see I would like to pay tribute to all members of your the orchids in the Peak District. We couldn’t help Committee who have worked so hard over the year the weather, but it didn’t stop our enjoyment. Even and who have had to put up with me as Chairman; before she retires, she has started the ball rolling for and if others will forgive me, a special thank you to yet another excursion. We are sorry to lose her and Graham Worrall, membership secretary, and Derek are heartily grateful for all her efforts. I am extreme- Lee, treasurer, both indefatigable, and without ly pleased to announce that Dawn Whitefield has whom the Society would not function anything like volunteered to take on the role, and I know that we as well. have an excellent replacement. Thanks also go to our hardworking Recorders, who The Society has continued to be active at county and not only gather in our records but interpret them vice-county level in acting as advocate for Rutland’s skillfully and professionally. Last year we broadened wildlife, but I am sorry to have to end my report on our coverage by expanding into Orthoptera and a less positive, and indeed downright depressing Cecidology, and by splitting out the many different note, in contrast to the triumphs I have just men- categories of insects. In this context many thanks go tioned. to Jean and Ron Harvey, Phil Rudkin, Roy Lemmon First, I should report that we continue to work with and Gill Chiverton, who, between them, are build- the Leicestershire Environmental Records Centre, ing significant new categories of recording. otherwise known as Holly Hayes, to ensure Rut- RNHS 42nd Annual Report 2007 land’s records are properly maintained at vice-coun- strictures as the Natural Environment and Local ty level and properly utilised. This is not an easy Communities Act. However when the Society tried task and we have over the past year been involved to discuss this matter at the Rutland Environment in no less than three new initiatives, but so far with Group, this discussion was denied. Sadly this lack little to show for it. We continue to persevere. of commitment at a level that is supposed to cham- Second, I have reported in past years on the Soci- pion local democracy only served to underline the ety’s involvement with the environmental theme inadequacies of the system and led your Committee group of the Local Strategic Partnership, the Rutland to the conclusion that our efforts are best utilised in Environment Forum, now known as the Rutland protecting Rutland’s wildlife via other channels.
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