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Warden's Report with Steve Budden TUNBRI F DG O E S D W N E E L I L R S F A N S D N O R U M ST M HALL CO COMMON GROUND cg Registered Charity No. 1013975 COMMON GROUND Warden’s Report with Steve Budden ooking back over previous and remove the fish, great care and sensitivity to a strong recovery of weed Lreports, I always seem storing them in tanks whilst minimise damage to both this year. This means that we to be complaining about the work took place. However, the fish and the invertebrate will need to carry out further difficulties in getting on with when we started draining, we population of the pond. In weed clearance on a regular work because of poor weather; soon realised that the volume fact, whilst I am sure that basis, but this will be at a obviously, this report is going and density of the weed in the some fish were tangled in the much lower level and will be to start in the same way. pond meant that it would be weed and lost, we only saw far simpler to accomplish and impossible to extract the fish three dead fish throughout cause much less disruption. The incessant rain last year and had to re-think. In the the operation. We finished up caused problems with most end, the only thing we could removing a far greater volume Overall, I am delighted with tasks, not least the de-silting of do was to leave about half the of weed than I expected but the result for the pond and Brighton Lake. We carried out water in the pond and then still left a reasonable amount of course the one positive the work there last October, gradually and slowly start to of both weed and silt in thing I can say about last when we still thought that remove weed, allowing the fish there to repopulate the pond year’s weather, is that it filled there would surely be an end to move away from the work quickly. up again very quickly. On to the rain soon. My main area and giving each bucketful the down-side, a sixteen worries at the time were to do of weed plenty of time to We now have a very much tonne digger and a five tonne with how we would keep the drain back into the pond clearer pond and we have dumper can cause a great deal fish alive whilst the pond was before removal. This obviously given it another hundred years of mess when they have to drained. slowed the whole job down of life; we have probably also work on saturated ground. but the contractors were very released a big flush of nutrients Most of you will have seen the Our plan was to drain the lake professional and worked with into the water and I expect continued on page three >> No. 59 The Society founded for ‘... the conservation, maintenance, preservation and peaceful enjoyment for the benefit of the Winter 2013 public of the Commons by such means as the Society in consultation with the Conservators for the Commons thinks fit’. Corporate Sponsor birding journal NEWS! by Bettina Cassidy NEWS | NEWS | NEWS | NEWS | NEWS No.15: Great Tit Latin name: Parus major cg Words from the Chairman Size: Small, robin-sized Sound: Numerous, but usually “teacher-teacher” or “tink” nowflakes are falling as I write this. These may be a relief from Sthe dank and dark that has been the norm for what seems like ’m guaranteed to see tits on the paying them a lot more attention an eternity. The wet conditions have been a positive encouragement ICommon, and a lot of them – lately, but you really shouldn’t have blue ones, great ones, coal ones, to read things like that as an incen- to growth on the Commons. The Friends’ work parties, under Steve long-tailed ones and perhaps even tive to go out and admire them. The Budden’s directions, have been applying themselves this winter to a willow or a marsh – but due to Great Tit is a handsome, boldly- judicious clearance on both Commons. One of these sessions was their abundance, tits don’t tend to marked bird, noticeably burlier than directed at meeting feedback from last year’s AGM about opening be something that I pay much at- other tits, and easily identifiable by up a view around a part of the Race Track. tention to. It’s a great shame that its solid black cap, and distinctive familiarity has bred such indiffer- black line down its yellow chest. It’s This years’ AGM will be held on Monday, March 11th at St Paul’s ence, and even more of a pity that one of our most athletic birds, as Church Centre in Rusthall Road, Rusthall TN4 8RE at 19:30. I it’s only in the face of bad news you’ll know if you’ve ever watched hope you will be able to come along, as your feedback is always that I’ve been its acrobatics around a birdfeeder. welcome, and the meeting is not just routine AGM-type business, forced to Admittedly it can be a hard bird to but also features a talk by the Warden. revise my love, as it enjoys bullying its cuter view. and more popular cousin, the Blue The last time members came together was the lunch in October Tit away from the food...come on, at the Royal Wells. There were 59 of us, so many thanks for your there’s enough for everyone! support – a lunch seems to be preferred to a dinner – and the Royal Wells looked after us all exceptionally well. We also valued the I have to say that I find the Great feedback you gave to the table hosts. Thanks particularly go to Steve Tit’s repertoire of calls very baf- Budden and Professor Michael Holman for their sessions which fling. Its most common call is the prompted lively discussion. Members at the lunch expressed their two-note “teacher-teacher”, but typically a group of Great Tits will broad support for Michael in his Water in the Wells project, subject have 39 calls on top of to the detailed proposals, particularly for a fountain or similar that (each male av- feature on Brighton Lake. Dame Helena Shovelton kindly, and eraging 4 to himself, most ably, dedicated our two oak tree plantings to mark the Jubilee. and the ability to sing them in 3 different I have referred in previous Common Grounds to the work we are tempos, just to add to the doing under the auspices of the Commons Conservators with Kent confusion). I’ve often had to High Weald Partnership to support making the Commons more follow very alien-sounding calls in accessible, especially for school children. Your committee has agreed woods, compelled to find out what to use some of our funds to support this commendable initiative on earth can be making that noise, (up to a maximum of £3,360 as a one-off commitment). We are Recently, airborne to find that nine times out of ten seeking to involve other contributors: charitable, local authority, insects from central it’s a Great Tit, but it’s heartening to community trust and lottery related. As I write, Rusthall Primary Europe have brought know that even the most seasoned a particularly nasty ornithologist can be left flummoxed. School is likely to be the first school to incorporate this initiative strain of Avian Pox to The most compelling theory for the into its curriculum. our shores. Avian Pox causes tu- Great Tit’s large repertoire is that mours to grow around a bird’s eyes the male deliberately uses numerous I welcome your comments on topics appearing in this issue of and beak, making it difficult for calls to fool rivals into thinking his Common Ground or more generally on other points, at any time. the bird to feed. This can affect patch is more populated than it is – Thank you. PS To speed up delivery and reduce costs we are no many species - pigeons, sparrows the more alpha the male, the bigger longer using envelopes for hand delivery of Common Ground. and starlings are particularly sus- his repertoire. ceptible - but the effects are usual- [email protected] and 01892 542862. cg ly mild enough for the population Mercifully the Great Tit is one of to bounce back. Unfortunately, our cannier birds, and its ability to Corporate Sponsor there’s just something about the adapt and thrive means that there poor old Great Tit’s physical are plenty of them. It was one of the makeup, and this particular strain few species to increase its population THE of pox, which means it’s less able in spite of climate changes over the to recover, and the poor birds are last ten years, so despite the Pox, let’s ROYAL suffering very badly. hope there will always be enough Great Tits around to, ahem, fly in WELLS Having found that out, I’ve been the face of extinction. cg HOTEL << continued from front page Terrace Walk, which now damage around the pond, and extends from the garden of course with the unremitting centre to the top of the path SNOW! FUN OR nature of the rain up until that comes up from the rear the end of the year, we have of Brighton Lake. We will NOT SO FUN! had no chance to carry out be carrying out a planting any remedial work.
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