Sand Martin - colony (1 Viewer)

kisiel1992

Active member

• Jul 29, 2019

• #1

Hello dear friends!

I found substitute habitat for sand martins. Does anyone know or saw sth like this?

https://www.gdos.gov.pl/pierwsza-taka-kompensacja-przyrodnicza-2

They wrote there they will call them with speaker with voice and will take lot of season when they will use it.

Make it sense for you?

 

T

trw

Well-known member

• Jul 29, 2019

• #2

kisiel1992 said:

Hello dear friends!

I found substitute habitat for sand martins. Does anyone know or saw sth like this?

https://www.gdos.gov.pl/pierwsza-taka-kompensacja-przyrodnicza-2

They wrote there they will call them with speaker with voice and will take lot of season when they will use it.

Make it sense for you?

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What a brilliant idea!
We're destroying so many habitats something so simple as this must surely help.

 

kisiel1992

Active member

• Jul 29, 2019

• #3

I had destroyed colony - about 150 holes... Were digging during the breeding period and stopped of course but idk how many destroyed and thinking about this to making this one for future

 

delia todd

If I said the wrong thing it was a Senior Moment

Staff member

Opus Editor

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• Jul 29, 2019

• #4

Yes, I have seen something like this on a UK reserve.

Also huge Oil drums on a pole with holes in seemed to work as well. I don't know what the inside was like, maybe just filled with sand.

 

Nutcracker

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• Jul 29, 2019

• #5

There's one like this at RSPB Saltholme on Teesside, very successful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE9ej_Y-9NQ
Built in 2013: https://community.rspb.org.uk/place...e-blog/posts/progress-on-the-sand-martin-bank

 

Mike Crawley

Emeritus President at Burnage Rugby Club

• Jul 30, 2019

• #6

There's a set up like this on a private industrial (with a decent sized mere next to it) site were I used to work.
Because it's close (within yards) of the water it had Kingfisher burrows too (used a few times).
Sadly, despite the fact it was used in the early days (early 2000's), I believe that it isn't used any longer.