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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Red kite over Salwarpe this afternoon
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Dave, Will keep track of your sightings. Hope it turns up some good stuff and you have a memorable time.
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Two swallows low over top end of Salwarpe this evening, I think that means its summer!
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Be careful out there - some strange things going on in Salwarpe!
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    New BOCC list published, though a small number of red list species dropping down to amber is great news these are outnumbered by those going up a category. Always a great peice of work that is used to inform ecological impact assessments (well, when they are done properly anyway). Endangered...
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Noticed a rather large grasssnake floating in canal in Salwarpe (by bend beside cottages). Fished it out to measure. 112cm long - a bit of a whopper, average length is published as 75-80cm with largest ever in UK being 1.8m. Some damage around neck (though snakes do tend to have quite a long...
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Two big black birds stuck together at Coney meadows today. Struggled with ID but after extensive checking of guides and the internet I have settled on them being 'vel-crows'. Sorry about that, have a good Christmas all. Triturus.
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Woodchat There was a huge uproar about 'general licences' a couple of years back, Wild justice headed up by Chris Packham, Mark Avery (ex big wig at RSPB) and Ruth Tingay launched a legal challenge to DEFRA on the matter. In essence if you 'wanted/needed' to shoot/control 'pest' bird species...
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Morning all. I know most of you will be looking upwards as many of our migrant birds return but it is equally exciting if we look down as many of our native plants are developing fast. Check out these learning and ID resources for plants https://www.speciesrecoverytrust.org.uk/resources I...
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Swallows arrived at Salwarpe yesterday. Two birds, does that make a summer? Also last week on 2 consecutive days had two sightings of a peregrine in area around village hall. Last encounter was pretty noisy and distinctive as it was being mobbed by 3 crows.
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    A very sorry looking sparrowhawk was perched in the rain in the small ash tree on Copcut lane by the Maize maze yesterday. Tawny owls very vocal last night and this morning opposite Salwarpe village hall.
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Noctule bats over Salwarpe Over the last few evenings we have had some really good shows put on by Noctule bats over the field next to Village hall, over the road and The Villa. Two possibly three spending quit a bit of time foraging at around 10pm.
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Spot on Woodchat, the structures and operation of them are pretty neutral, in the wrong place they can lead to habitat loss but they most often are designed to retain existing features such as hedgerows and streams. There are opportunities to do some positive management around the edges and...
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Don't know - the applicant is http://intelligent-alternatives.co.uk/ They may well focus on certain geographical areas in their searches so this may well be the case. if you look at the plans you will see its a big area.
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    Coney Meadow and Adjoining Areas

    Lapwing flying low around the 'maize maze' field off Copcut Lane (Salwarpe) this morning around 8.30am. Also you may be interested to see the following is likely to come up for planning soon. https://plan.wychavon.gov.uk/plandisp.aspx?recno=93794 A 39ha solar farm on fields in flood plain...
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