WOS Executive Committee Meeting

Title: WOS Executive Committee Meeting
Location: Crown Centre Devizes
Start Time: 19.30
Date: 2012-04-18

Charles Martin: The Bird People of St Kilda

Title: Charles Martin: The Bird People of St Kilda
Location: Crown Centre, Devizes
Description: This talk describes the lifestyle of the St Kildans and their dependence on the island’s vast seabird colonies. It is based on Charles’ time on St Kilda as a member of the Scottish National Trust’s work party. Start time 19.30.
Admission £2 to include refreshments.
Start Time: 7.30pm
Date: 2012-02-16
End Time: 10.00pm

12th December 2011

YELLOW-LEGGED GULL, 5 Goosander, 2 Kingfisher, 9 Shoveler, 2 Water Rail, Little Egret, Rad Kite, 600 Lesser Black-Backed Gull. 38 Gadwall, 3 Teal, 36 Cormorant – Langford Lakes (morning) - Mike Trew

4 YELLOW-LEGGED GULL, 900 Lesser Black-Backed Gull, 273 Black-Headed Gull – Langford Lakes (afternoon roost) – Rob Turner

8 Little Egret – Warminster – Mike Trew 

Work Party on Cleveland Scrapes

Title: Work Party on Cleveland Scrapes
Location: Cleveland Scrapes (Lake 74)
Description: Views onto the recently-created Cleveland Scrapes (Lake 74) are becoming increasingly encroached by the growth of vegetation upon the scrapes as well as at Twitcher’s Gate. Several local birders have asked if this situation can be remedied. On Sunday 11th December, the CWPT’s Volunteer Rangers will be on Cleveland Scrapes to clear vegetation growth along the shoreline visible from Twitcher’s Gate. This work will improve views onto the scrape and will improve the current situation. We also plan to do some work at Twitcher’s Gate too, if we can involve sufficient people to create 2 teams.
We’d like to invite local birders to support this work and come and help. The more people who help, the more we can improve views onto the scrapes. You’ll also get to see the scrapes and lagoons in situ and see why they are able to attract the numbers of species that they do!
Clearly this is a temporary situation and a temporary fix until we can develop more permanent solutions. But the success of this will depend upon how many people may support this work.
If you’d like to support this work, please let me know so that we can plan teams and provide sufficient tools etc.
We will be meeting at the Ranger Compound, adjacent to Twitcher’s Gate (north shore of Lake 74, off Cerney Wick Lane) at 10am. Please bring wellington boots, lunch and refreshments. We’ll provide the mince pies, tools, and gloves.
Please contact Gareth Harris, Biodiversity Manager, Cotswold Water Park Trust 01793 752730 or gareth.harris@waterpark.org

Date: 2011-12-11

Great Ridge Wood and Boyton Down, near Sherrington

Title: Great Ridge Wood and Boyton Down, near Sherrington
Description: This will be a walk through mixed woodland and chalk down and farmland. We should see a wide variety of birds at this time of the year including some early migrants such as Redwing and Fieldfare. The walk is about 5 miles long and the meeting will probably last until the early afternoon so lunch should be brought. Meet at the end of the tarmac road coming up from Sherrington at ST 955369
Leader Frank Lowe.

Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2011-10-26

Cornwall Long Weekend

Title: Cornwall Long Weekend
Description: This is a repeat of the very successful trips of autumns 2007 and 2009. We will again be based in the Penzance/St Ives/Hayle area which will give us easy access to prime bird watching areas such as the Hayle Estuary, Porthgwarra and St Ives Head. We should see a wide variety of birds depending on weather conditions. Sea watching should reveal shearwaters and skuas, whilst the estuaries and marshes should hold good numbers of wildfowl and waders. There are many small valleys in the area which should provide some interesting passerines with always the chance of a rarity.
Members will need to book their own accommodation in the area, and, as with past long weekend trips, we will aim to meet up in the evening to make the most of the trip. As perhaps not everyone will want to come for all four days, we will have some prearranged meeting places for at least the first two days
The leader will be Granville Pictor (tel 01722 325408, mob 07767731650), and if those planning to go could contact him in good time, he will provide details of the meeting places and other details of the trip

Start Date: 2011-10-06
End Date: 2011-10-09

Great Ridge Wood and Boyton Down, near Sherrington

Title: Great Ridge Wood and Boyton Down, near Sherrington
Location: ST955369
Description: This will be a walk through mixed woodland and chalk down and farmland. We should see a wide variety of birds at this time of the year including some early migrants such as Redwing and Fieldfare. The walk is about 5 miles long and the meeting will probably last until the early afternoon so lunch should be brought. Meet at the end of the tarmac road coming up from Sherrington at ST 955369
Leader Frank Lowe.

Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2011-10-26

Cornwall Long Weekend

Title: Cornwall Long Weekend
Location: Cornwall
Description: This is a repeat of the very successful trips of autumns 2007 and 2009. We will again be based in the Penzance/St Ives/Hayle area which will give us easy access to prime bird watching areas such as the Hayle Estuary, Porthgwarra and St Ives Head. We should see a wide variety of birds depending on weather conditions. Sea watching should reveal shearwaters and skuas, whilst the estuaries and marshes should hold good numbers of wildfowl and waders. There are many small valleys in the area which should provide some interesting passerines with always the chance of a rarity.
Members will need to book their own accommodation in the area, and, as with past long weekend trips, we will aim to meet up in the evening to make the most of the trip. As perhaps not everyone will want to come for all four days, we will have some prearranged meeting places for at least the first two days
The leader will be Granville Pictor (tel 01722 325408, mob 07767731650), and if those planning to go could contact him in good time, he will provide details of the meeting places and other details of the trip

Start Date: 2011-10-06
End Date: 2011-10-09

Avian malaria

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/15/avian-malaria-british-birds

Fonthill Bishop

Title: Fonthill Bishop
Location: St 935315
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2011-09-21

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