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Two Pictures from Group Member Chris Courtney. a Redwing and Firecrest Two pictures from group member Chris Courtney. A redwing and firecrest. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a registered charity: England and Wales— No. 207076, Scotland No. SC037654 What’s On—Dates for your Diary. For details of how to find out more about events please look at our website. THESE ACTIVITIES ARE ONLY PROVISIONAL. Please check website or contact a committee member to find out if an activity will be taking place. Planned activities will be cancelled or changed to comply with guidance from the Government or the RSPB. Until further notice please bring your own refreshments. Thank you. Date Event Time Meeting Place 23 June Field Meeting: Nightjar Walk (date subject 7.00 p.m. Car park at Upper to confirmation), earlier time for general 8.30 p.m. Hollesley Common, birding walk, later time for nightjars only, TM355471 walking easy but can be uneven. (SM) 29 June Mid-week Walk: Christchurch Park (SM) 10.30 a.m. Soane Street entrance 8 July Indoor Meeting: AGM followed by Antarctica 7.30 p.m. Rushmere St. & The Falkland Islands with Barry and Andrew Church Patricia Hall, group members. Hall, The Street, Rushmere, IP5 1DH 18 July Field Meeting: RSPB Hollesley or Boyton 9.00 a.m. Car park at RSPB (depending on conditions—transfer by car if Hollesley, necessary) for geese, waders & wildfowl, 4- TM370448 5hrs, easy walking but can be muddy & exposed. (TK) 27 July Mid-week walk: Bourne Park (SM) 10.30 a.m. Stoke Park Drive car park 24 Aug. Mid-week walk: Chantry Park (SM) 10.30 a.m. Hadleigh Road entrance car park 9 Sept. Indoor Meeting: Alaska—Bears, Eagles, 7.30 p.m. Rushmere St. Whales & More with Derek Howes Andrew Church Hall, The Street, Rushmere, IP5 1DH 19 Sept. Field Meeting: Tinker’s Marsh, Walberswick, 9.30 a.m. Ferry Road car walking easy, 3-4 hrs. 3-4 miles. (CC) park, pay & display £3 for 4 hrs. TM500748 28 Sept. Mid-week Walk: Holywells Park (SM) 10.30 a.m. Stable block off Cliff Lane 14 Oct. Indoor Meeting: Common Buzzards with Zoe 7.30 p.m. Rushmere St. Smith, Peregrine Project Officer Andrew Church Hall, The Street, Rushmere, IP5 1DH 2 ORWELL OBSERVER Summer 2021 24 Oct. Field Meeting: Iken & River Alde for 9.00 a.m. Iken Cliff car park, waders & wildfowl, 3hrs. 3miles, walking TM398562 easy but muddy in places. (TK) 11 Nov. Indoor Meeting: Wolves Wood & Stour 7.30 p.m. Rushmere St. Andrew Estuary with Rick Vonk Church Hall, The Street, Rushmere, IP5 1DH 21 Nov. Field Meeting: Abberton Reservoir 10.00 a.m. Visitors’ Centre at Essex Wildlife Trust Reserve for Layer-de-la-Haye, wintering duck, grebes and sawbills, Colchester, TL962177. 3hrs. 3miles, walking easy, with use of car between sites, EWT non-member charge applies if hides are visited. (TK) 9 Dec. Indoor Meeting: Christmas Social 7.30 p.m. Rushmere St. Andrew Evening (please check website regarding Church Hall, The refreshments) followed by Tim Kenny Street, Rushmere, IP5 group member. 1DH 12 Dec. Field Meeting: Melton & River Deben 9.00 a.m. Melton Riverside car for waders & wildfowl, 3hrs. 3miles, park,TM288503 easy walking but can be muddy and exposed. (TK) Walk leader’s or event organiser’s contact details:- (SM) Stephen Marginson [email protected] 01473 258791 (CC) Chris Courtney [email protected] 01473 423213 (MC) Mick Cook 01473 682239 (TK) Tim Kenny 01394 809236 Little & Large? The gull-billed tern with common terns at Alton Water. Picture—Barry Hall 3 ORWELL OBSERVER Summer 2021 TIM’S TOP TEN… LIFETIME MINSMERE MOMENTS reetings pop pickers. It’s your children, and one of five school kids in the G outgoing Group Leader here with a whole county, to win this treasured prize. new feature I’m calling Tim’s Top Tens. The certificate is still somewhere and all Each edition will see me counting down these years on, it remains one of my my top tens of four decades of birding, proudest achievements in life. whether it be places, species, experiences… if it’s wildlife related, it’s in. 9 – ‘Marsh Harrier, Left of the Power Station!’ I’m going to start with my favourite place It is 1982. I was nine, my favourite to go birding, the RSPB reserve at football team were one of the most feared Minsmere. My first visit was in 1982 as a in Europe, and my burgeoning interest in nine-year-old, and I’ve been going back ornithology was being encouraged by my ever since. In 2014 I became a wildlife mother. She took me and my elder sister guide and once the pandemic is over with, for what was to be my first trip to I’ll be going back to do some more. So if Minsmere and we crowded into the Island you’ll indulge me, let me take you on a Mere Hide which, in those days, was very personal journey down memory lane much smaller than the spacious glass- and relive my top ten Minsmere Moments. fronted structure you see today. An old gentleman in glasses suddenly shouted 10 – Champion Birder 1984 words oft repeated by my mother at this In 1984 I was selected to enter a contest particular location; ‘Marsh harrier, left of Minsmere was running which they called the power station!’ And there it was, my the Bird Recognition Awards. The first marsh harrier. Back in those days, selection process involved my teacher these were rare birds. In fact just eleven and headmaster, Mr. Oram, showing me years earlier there has been just a single pictures of 25 species, and when I got 24 pair breeding in Britain, at Minsmere. of them right, I was in. The one I got wrong was the chiffchaff, which I had Much later on in life, I related this tale to said was a wood warbler, and I got it on Adam Rowlands, friend of the group and the second attempt. Then, being the for many years the main man at show-off I have always been, I gave Sir Minsmere, and he named the old man the scientific names, and scored 13 on with the glasses as John Denny. It turns those. Bear in mind I was eleven. He out Mr. Denny spent almost every day in must have though me a right smart Alec. the Island Mere Hide watching the On the trip to Minsmere, we were shown harriers and commentating ten birds to identify by sight, and two by enthusiastically on them to anyone sound. My friend Lee Bowers was given present. Adam told me the story of John eleven and a half, the half point being Denny relaying the movements of a because he mistook a swift for a swallow marsh harrier to a hide packed with (which I still think is a bit generous), and I twitchers there for another species, and got the full twelve. This earnt me a uttering the line ‘Marsh harrier, now certificate and a handshake from the then above the purple heron.’ warden Jeremy Sorenson. It transpired I was one of only two primary school (Continued on page5 ) 4 ORWELL OBSERVER Summer 2021 (Continued from page4 ) that I secretly dread. ‘People are complaining that they can’t get into the 8 – Collared pratincole, 19 July 2014. hide, can you limit people to fifteen Since records began. It’s a phrase you minutes each?’ hear on the weather when it’s been particularly extreme. For me, records Just as this message came through, one began on 7 April 1993. This is when I of the periodic disturbances that happens started my life list, which I why I can on the Scrape occurred and up went the pinpoint dates with such certainty from birds, including our rarity. Five minutes that day onwards. Each life tick has a later, I had a radio call that the bird had date next to it. been spotted from the public hide, information I shared with the assembled The first Springwatch from Minsmere had public. finished two months previously but the volunteering bug had well and truly kicked I have never seen the East Hide empty so in, and I found myself on duty one quickly. Thirty seconds later, I was alone Sunday during a particularly fruitful wader in there. migration season. And what should turn up but a collared pratincole, the wader 7 – The Dance of the Adders. Spring that, with its light graceful flight and 2015 forked tail, appears to think it’s a As well as birds, I also love reptiles. And swallow. in 2015 what is now called the Adder Trail became popular as the best place A rarity such as this radically changes the on the reserve to find our only venomous demographic of a hide and the role of the snake. The path, delineated by blue wildlife guide. Most of the time you are rope, was frequented by many visitors, chatting to visitors about the birds, what most of whom had never seen adders they do, where they come from, and before. assisting in identification. These are visitors who are perhaps watching birds It was a bright spring day and a crowd of for the first time so any piece of about thirty visitors were gathered as the information you give them is greeted with males, fuelled by testosterone and the genuine interest. But when a rarity hits, pheromones of the females, started their the twitchers come. For want of a better ritual combat. No biting, that would be a expression, the hide is suddenly filled bad idea for a venomous snake, but with birding ‘know-it-alls’ who are there wrestling, with the first snake to have his for the rarity, and as such the volunteer head pinned to the floor being the loser.
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