upstarts1979
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Jarad has just phoned with a male ruff on Flashes and c300 Lapwing. Let autumn commence.:t:
Jarad has just phoned with a male ruff on Flashes and c300 Lapwing. Let autumn commence.:t:
Paulso where have they been hanging out till now? And how do they know there is water on the flashes without flying over and finding out, which they havnt been doing or someone would have noticed 300Lapwing just passing over.
How do they know?
Ruff and 2 green sand today
Also the sewage field has been mowed.
WORK PARTY AT FLASHES TOMORROW START AT 10AM
By way of encouragement to attendance, I will be bringing a wee flask of sloe gin made from last years rescued sloes from a work party at the Warren 8-P
Will we be drinking it before, or after the workB john
A perfect work party day, with more done than we ever imagined thanks to all the folks that turned up.. and a Little Egret = my 131 for the year!
Will let John give summary if he's got the energy. In the meantime a few pics per the Flickr link below as I CBA to fiddle with the size to attach em!
Cheers
Gert
Great pics Gert , just gonna have a shower and do something on here after,
suffice to say, Thanks to everyone Today, this was by far the most well attended work party ever. Phil will probably add a bit in the meantime.
B John
Yes a great Day...(missed out on most of the cake , managed to get a bit of Simon's (hairy birder) though.)
More details on the habitat creation
The 'delta channels' were dug out (originally started last month), Then the 'keyhole' channel was de-silted, the spoil was piled up around the 'grassy knoll' where it will hopefully grass over and halt the erosion in this area.
After this the 'hide channel' was extended again the spoil used to shore up the eroding banks.
In the 'central area' the drainage ditches were de-silted and the spoil used to create small muddy islands. Other small pools next to the grassy knoll, were de-silted.