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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 NOVEMBER 2012 NEWSLETTER http://www.rspb.org.uk/groups/basingstoke Contents: From The Group Leader Notices Sparrow Stuff! ‘Highlights’ From Another Group What’s Happening? November’s Outdoor Meeting December’s Outdoor Meeting October’s Outdoor Meeting Local Wildlife News Quiz Page And Finally! A million voices for nature Charity registered in England and Wales no. 207076 From The Group Leader Welcome to November. The change in the hard copy Newsletter last month, did you notice the change? It was in colour for the first time for those that didn’t, and if yes, what did you think of it? On typing away now there’s been one positive response to date. As always, I / we need to know what you think of the Newsletter, the Indoor and Outdoor Meetings Programme, the Programme itself, our guest speakers and so on so as to be able to manage future communications and events that are tailored to your input. So, do please talk to us! Apologies for not being present at this Indoor Meeting, I’m currently out of the country but will be back for the Outdoor Meeting on Sunday – a site that’s high on many locals ‘most- visited’ sites, Pagham Harbour, once a Local Nature Reserve but now under the care of the RSPB! Our donation this year went to Intertidal Habitats, Sunday being the ideal opportunity to see where and how such donations are being used. For the twitchier among you, a Hooded Merganser is still present at the time of typing, as is a Black Brant among the more expected Dark-bellied Brent. We’ve seen Black Brant on previous trips to West Sussex but have yet to see the sawbill anywhere, this being the 1st for Sussex! The dodgy duck! Alan Lewis Whether we see this neat little Nearctic hobo or not, the day spent out about this most recently acquired RSPB reserve should be more than worthwhile, as it's been so often in the past. See you there! Peter E. Hutchins Notices Christmas Social On 19th December the annual Christmas Social will take place! For those that have not attended previously you will find the format less formal and the opportunity to mix with other Group Members much more to the fore than at other Indoor Meetings. An evening of informal quizzes, a buffet, raffle, ‘slide’ presentations by members and topical tunes will hopefully help put you in a more than festive mood! If any of you have any ‘slides’, real or digital, that you’d like to share with the Group, do please contact a Committee Member and make them aware of this prior to the meeting. The food and drink – please do bring something along to contribute to the buffet, eat what you can when you’re there and then take home what’s left, if anything! Subscriptions Just a final reminder that these were due in September! Gerry, the Treasurer, you will find at this and forthcoming Indoor Meetings being ever- present and more than happy to help you out with this little task, that in so many ways helps both the Local Group and RSPB to continue functioning. The last Committee Meeting, earlier this month, found the membership of the Local Group having already reached 65 this year, a very pleasing increase on the previous year’s total. Newsletter Mailings Thank you to those that have continued to forward their mailing addresses – more trees saved and more time to do other things now!!! Keep them coming, as they say, “The more the merrier!” Wouldn’t it be good to make the Group paper-less / free? We’re getting there with now less than 30 Newsletters needing to be printed off on a monthly basis Local Group Website The following area of the 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. If you could pen a few words about a local site that you enjoy visiting we could then gradually add these to the website so as to give other locals an idea of where to go to see birds about the Borough, or even that little bit further afield. Nothing huge, dramatic or specific, just a quick summary of where, what you might see, when to go and what you particularly enjoy about visiting there would be more than appreciated. Eastrop Park has been added to the website, so if you didn’t see this in a recent Newsletter it’s now on line for your perusal and, hopefully, use. Bird Food We are happy to supply any bird food to you at any time, just call on 01256 – 770831, 07895 – 388378 or mail us on [email protected] and we will arrange delivery to you. If you have any requirements that are not listed, please do let us know and we will ensure that they are available when you, or your birds, need them. Bird Food Pricelist: The below are examples of just a few of the items that we can supply. Please do enquire after anything else and we will provide you with a cost, time of delivery etc. As both of us are currently working in / about Basingstoke delivery can be expected to be completed within a day of an order being received – can you get that service anywhere else? Prices vary according to the seasonality of the foods, where we are able to source them from, and so on, but a few for reference are: Wild bird Mix 40p/lb. or 88p/kg Sunflower Hearts £1.10/lb or £2.42/kg Peanuts £1/lb. or £2.20/kg Niger £1/lb or £2.20/kg Black Sunflowers £1/lb or £2.20/kg Fat Squares £1 each Fat Pecker Balls 25p each Also available are a range of birdboxes and feeders. A variety of items will be available at most Indoor Meetings but if there is something ‘missing’ that you want, please do let us know. Peter & Alison Sparrow Stuff SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT Urban noise 'killing baby house sparrows' By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News The UK's house sparrow population has been declining since the 1970s Noise in urban areas could be increasing the mortality rate among young house sparrows, a study has suggested. Researchers say the noise could stop adult birds hearing the hunger calls from their dependent offspring. In their study, the team found that birds nesting in noisy areas were less effective at feeding their chicks as those that nested in quieter places. The findings have been published in the journal Plos One. Scientists from the University of Sheffield reached their conclusion after carrying out a study on Lundy, a 445-hectare (1,100-acre) island located 19km (12mi) off the North Devon coast. 5 Co-author Julia Schroeder explained that the project happened more-or-less by chance. "When I first went to the island, which is very remote and quiet - apart from gulls and shearwaters - I entered a barn and it was very loud," she recalled. The barn contained an electricity generator, yet sparrows were still choosing to nest in the building, so Dr Schroeder wondered whether the conditions affected the songbirds. "I found that there was a reduced fitness - a reduced reproductive output from the nest boxes located in the noisy area," she told BBC News. So she decided to test her findings against classic hypotheses on how noise could affect birds. "The main hypothesis regarding breeding output is that it affects mate choice decisions," she explained. Steep decline However, the study's findings did not fit the existing hypotheses. "In our case, we saw that the birds did not feed the chicks as well as the birds in the quiet area - this was a novel idea that had not been shown before," Dr Schroeder said. "Obviously, chick provision is strongly linked to chick survival because if they do not get fat then they die." In detail: House sparrows 6 Scientific name: Passer domesticus UK population declined by an estimated 71% between 1977 and 2008 While numbers have continued to decline in England, Scotland and Wales have recorded an increase in recent years There are up to an estimated 3.7 million pairs in the UK The young fledge the nest after about 14-16 days, but are unable to feed themselves for a further week Noise seemed to interrupt the communication between the young birds and their parents. "The only difference we found from normal behaviour was in the provisioning behaviour," she observed. "Chicks that were reared in the noisy barn were lighter when they fledged. So this is why we have said that we think that the provisioning behaviour of females is a factor." Between the mid-1970s and 2008, the UK's sparrow population declined by 71% - with some of the sharpest declines occurring in towns and cities. Dr Schroeder and the team suggested that the noise from the generator on Lundy was comparable to car noise in urban areas. "There are lots of studies on great tits and urban noise, but these tend to focus around mate choice, where the male advertises its quality to the female. But the idea that the communication between parents and offspring could be affected in cities is fairly new." 7 In 2007, another study by researchers at the University of Sheffield published in Biology Letters found that urban-based robins were choosing to sing and communicate at night in order to avoid noise during the day.
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