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“Long to reign over us”

Having got my Diamond duty out of the way and blearily skimming the article in the link, I note that we need double the normal summer rainfall to alleviate our drought, following our wettest April for over a century.

In http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17875456, it is said that ‘groundwater levels are at an historic low’ and that winter rainfall is best to replenish the aquifer.

Should we now wish for a washed-out summer ? We could co-ordinate prayer sessions at a certain time each day, to suit all- or do the same with traditional rain-dances from around the world in the evening. This would add a multi-cultural dimension and help with obesity and fitness levels.

Lyster (http://www.bto.org/science/migration/tracking-studies/cuckoo-tracking/lyster) flew 1350km (800 miles) in two days ! Anyone would think he was on a twitch. The homing urge to return to Norfolk is, indeed, overwhelming. And the accuracy: within 10km of where he was tagged- all without a GPS. Avian, rather than Evian, therefore.
 
I note that we need double the normal summer rainfall to alleviate our drought, following our wettest April for over a century.


Thames Water, which is part-owned by an Australian bank and the Chinese government, announced yesterday that recent rain has merely delayed the need to impose tighter water rationing.
'It is likely that the current temporary use ban, or 'hosepipe ban', will need to remain in place for the rest of the year. April's rain has provided a short-term boost to river flows, allowing Thames Water reservoirs to reach 100% capacity, but this situation is temporary'

Have you ever heard such a load of pseudo-scientific clap-trap?
 
Lightthiscandle said:
I note that we need double the normal summer rainfall to alleviate our drought, following our wettest April for over a century.


Thames Water, which is part-owned by an Australian bank and the Chinese government, announced yesterday that recent rain has merely delayed the need to impose tighter water rationing. 'It is likely that the current temporary use ban, or 'hosepipe ban', will need to remain in place for the rest of the year. April's rain has provided a short-term boost to river flows, allowing Thames Water reservoirs to reach 100% capacity, but this situation is temporary'. Have you ever heard such a load of pseudo-scientific clap-trap?
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I couldn't agree more that press releases and the media in general specialise in clap-trap of all kinds, but I'd be interested in any of your sources that would disprove that statement, which does seem to be based on data discussed recently in such as New Scientist.
MJB
PS An Australian Bank is much more likely to know the problems of drought than any in UK, don't you think?
 
First of the Spring (For me!)

I would say that an Australian bank is unlikely to know any more about drought than you or I: it's a bank, not a hydro-geology laboratory!

Funny that the former editor of New Scientist got the boot for being an AGW critic....

Just record shots: but two 'nice' birds to photo this am...
 

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Great birding today at the patch. Had 2x common sandpipers ,a grasshopper warbler and 5x whitethroats and descent numbers of sedge, blackcaps and reed buntings & a fly over peregrine Was super! This evening I moved onto surlingham marsh and had a nice cuckoo , common buzzard , my first reed warbler of the year and a ringtail hen Harrier over .as I left a grasshopper warbler was reeling. Look forward to many more evenings like this over the coming month.
Shaky
 
Whitlingham CP 03/05/12

Had walk around the great broad, large numbers of swifts and swallows feeding over the water along with a dozen common terns.Nice to see a couple of singing lesser whitethroats and a garden warbler.There was a nightingale singing from the scrub where the main path runs along the river side opposite the Broadland sailing club house,I could still hear it singing as I walked down the other side of the broad about midday.A cuckoo perched up briefly in the tallest willows and i also had a pair of bullfinches, 2 common sandpipers,2 treecreepers and several blackcaps.
 
I have just been watching some beautiful live footage the female Peregrine with her two tiny chicks on the Norwich Cathedral video stream here. There are still two unhatched eggs there too.

Ron
 
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Hi, a friend of mine is having a birding weekend in Norfolk around the 26th May. One of the birds he would dearly love to see is a Montagu's Harrier. He doesn't know where to start looking and information about them is rather scarce. Could anyone PM me with any useful information ? My friend is a discreet birder.
 
Male Pied Fly, male Whinchat and male Redstart on the Point today
(missed a reported Wood Warbler!)
details of the birds seen on my blog below
 

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