News
Saturday, 16 August 2008
August Newsround
At Fishers Green there are still some common terns on the rafts, mostly just loafing about but last weekend I saw at least one youngster that was still being fed by its parent. A pair of Great crested grebes were feeding two well grown young at the back of the lake, viewed from the Bittern Information Point hide.
Green sandpipers, greenshanks and Little egrets have been seen recently either on the Goosefield or on the weir. Sadly, the Crannum hide was vandalised and burnt down recently, LVRPA is deciding whether to replace it or not. This hide gave good views over the Goosefield and also over the farm fields. The new Grand Weir hide should be opening in September.
At Hall Marsh scrape recently, there has been both green and common sandpipers, with 50+ lapwings.
This week there was a dunlin at Rye Meads RSPB reserve, from the Tern hide, with twenty little grebes seen, and up to eight green sandpipers from the Ashby hide, well worth a visit.
2008-9 Programme and Newsletter
Your committee, and other group members, have now enveloped all the programmes and newsletters, ready for sorting and delivering by volunteers to RSPB members in our delivery area. If you cannot wait for your copy, you can pick one up at Rye Meads! Don't forget, you can book your coach seats with Barrie now.
The 100 Club
The two winners were drawn for August:
1st winner (£16) was Mr M Braithwaite, 2nd winner (£8) was Mr T Wisbey.
The total amount raised by the 100 Club since we began is now over £2,000. Why not join our club, or perhaps take up another number? Membership is open to anyone aged 18 or over, half of the money received is paid as prizes and the rest is donated to the RSPB. The cost is £12 plus £2 joining fee (pro-rata)for the first full year, then £12, paid by standing order, for subsequent years. (If you join from September, the cost will be £9.00 - £7 plus £2 joining fee)
If you would like to join, please contact Geoff Brown, on 01992 468031 or by e-mail at se_herts_rspb@yahoo.co.uk - he will gladly forward the forms to you.
I hope to meet you at one of our coming events, we welcome back Dave Cottridge in September with his talk about vagrants - see the Events pages for more details,
Terry Smith
Group Leader