Bird flock makes new UK record.................

[El Annie]

The UK’s largest ever single flock of avocets has been recorded in Dorset. A record number of 1,150 avocets have been reported on a nature reserve in the county. The Dorset Wildlife Trust reserve on Brownsea Island, which is leased from the island’s owners, The National Trust, is one of the most important wintering sites for avocets in the UK. In 1997, 700 avocets were recorded on the reserve for the first time making the site of international importance for birds, with numbers growing ever since.
More information - WildNEWS

Port gets time to plan more bird feeding grounds...........

The High Court yesterday adjourned legal proceedings between Coastwatch Ireland campaigner Karin Dubsky and Drogheda Port Company over measures to provide adequate feeding grounds for wintering birds in the river Boyne estuary. Mr Justice de Valera yesterday adjourned the case to May 6 to allow the port firm devise proposals to provide a further area of feeding grounds. Ms Dubsky has alleged DPC is in breach of an undertaking to the High Court to provide such feeding grounds. The company says it has partly fulfilled the undertaking by restoring a polder in a special protection area it infilled when carrying out dredging works.
More information - Irish Newspapers

From today's conserv@tion - http://www.habitat.org.uk/news1.htm

Annie :)