23rd June 2010

Red Kite – Devizes - Mike & Rita Burstow

NIGHTJAR, WOODCOCK - Savernake – Bob Philpott

WOS wins a grant from OPAL

WOS has been successful in its bid for a grant from OPAL – the Open Air Laboratories Network. We are to receive £2,800, of which part will be used to fund bird ID charts for the new hide in the extended Langford Lakes Nature Reserve; and part will be used to stage two public events at the reserve where we hope to encourage children and adults to take up birdwatching and maybe become WOS members. We will be using some of the money to buy binoculars and a birdsong recorder for use at these events.

OPAL is a partnership between the Natural History Museum, the Field Studies Council, the National Biodiversity Network, the Met Office and a number of British universities, and is headed by Imperial College, London. Their aim is “to create and inspire a new generation of  nature lovers by getting people to explore, study, enjoy and protect their local environment.” OPAL received £11.75 million from the Big Lottery Fund in 2007, and they are allocating grants to wildlife and natural history groups around the country.

22nd June 2010

QUAIL – SPTA east – Nigel Pleass

21st June 2010

Spotted Flycatcher – Lower pertwood – John Osborne

Little Owl – Birdbush – Christopher Nicholson

Spotted Flycatcher – Stanton Park, Swindon – Malcolm Royal

 14 Yellow Wagtail, 12 Corn Bunting – Winterbourne Monkton – Phil & Graham Deacon

20th June 2010

2 Cuckoo (male & calling female) – Nightingale Wood, South Marston – Phil & Graham Deacon

2 Cuckoo (male & calling female) – CWP68d – Matt Prior

4 Little Egret, Common Tern – Langford Lakes – John Osborne

Grasshopper Warbler, Corn Bunting – Wick Down – Malcolm Royal

NIGHTJAR, WOODCOCK - Savernake – Malcolm Royal

QUAIL, 3 Whinchat, Tree Pipit – SPTA east – John Powell

4 Red Kite – Ogbourne St George – Sue & Trevor Clayson

Cetti’s Warbler – Coate Water – Sue & Trevor Clayson

Common Spotted Orchid – Marlborough - Sue & Trevor Clayson

Chris Packham: We should embrace a new age of biodiversity

Britons are losing touch with the natural world around them, wildlife presenter Chris Packham has warned.

Full story:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/biodiversity/7840423/Chris-Packham-We-should-embrace-a-new-age-of-biodiversity.html

19th June 2010

4 Nightingale (3 singing males, juvenile), 2 Grasshopper Warbler, 12 Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Red Kite – SPTA centre – Phil & Graham Deacon

Red Kite – Baydon – Felicity Cobb

4 Common Tern – CWP97 – Sue & Trevor Clayson

OYSTERCATCHER, 4 Common Tern, 2 Wigeon – CWP74 – Sue & Trevor Clayson

PEREGRINE – CWP95 – Sue & Trevor Clayson

4 Common Tern, 20 Red-Crested Pochard – CWP68a – Sue & Trevor Clayson

MANDARIN, Shelduck, Cetti’s Warbler, Green Sandpiper, 4 Lapwing – Coate Water - Malcolm Royal

Red Kite – Cricklade – Nigel Pleass

SMEW (male), Redshank, 6 Gadwall - CWP95, (Smew asleep on island) - Nigel Pleass

QUAIL – Rockley – Paul Crowley

2 NIGHTJAR, 3 WOODCOCK, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, Hobby, Red Kite, Cuckoo, Grasshopper Warbler – seen on WOS trip to Downton and Alderbury Common – Steve Davies

WHITE STORK - reported in flight over Woodfalls, Salisbury mid-afternoon. No further information

9 Red-Crested Pochard (adult & 8 ducklings), 4 Bee Orchids - CWP301 – Sue & Trevor Clayson

Bee Orchid - Sue Clayson

18th June 2010

2 MANDARIN (female & duckling) – Coate Water – Graham Cox

Fly Orchid, Frog Orchid, Lesser Butterfly Orchid - Morgan’s Hill – Tony Martin

17th June 2010

2 NIGHTJAR - Alderbury Common – Andrew Carter (NB. Andrew will be leading as WOS field trip that will include this site on Saturday evening – see Events page)

QUAIL - Castle Combe racing circuit – Roger Gillespie

QUAIL, Barn Owl – Ogbourne St Andrew – Malcolm Royal

16th June 2010

Cetti’s Warbler, Kingfisher, 3 Common Tern – CWP6 – per CWP Website

Red Kite – Zeals – Alison Rymell

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