Biodiversity WG (Wetlands Committee) June 2025

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by Sabine Eckert

Hello, we might not have been orchids next to the West Pavilion, but another orchid has moved in. I think it wants to be a Pyramidal when it grows up. Sabine Sent from Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

2 weeks, 1 day

28 May 2025 - Biodiversity Working Group Minutes, Actions & Appendices

by Sustainability

Dear all, Please find the Minutes, actions & appendices from our last Biodiversity Working Group meeting held on 28 May 2025. Our next meeting on 27 Aug 2025 will be held as an in-person "Walk & Talk" session on the Campus grounds - further information will be shared nearer the time. Please could our external group members inform us if you plan to join this meeting so that we can include you on our Security Visitor Portal. NB. If at any point you would like to be removed from this working group, please email sustainability(a)sanger.ac.uk<mailto:sustainability@sanger.ac.uk>. Kind regards, The Sustainability Team Estates and Facilities Management The Sanger Institute | Wellcome Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1RQ United Kingdom e: sustainability(a)sanger.ac.uk<mailto:sustainability@sanger.ac.uk> w: http://www.sanger.ac.uk [cid:image001.png@01DBDF80.FC7F7120] P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

2 weeks, 2 days

Bird survey this week

by Sabine Eckert

Hello, Attached the results of my bird survey this week, from Tuesday. A bit windy, but still plenty of birds around. Noteworthy: - 2 little grebe chicks, by now adult-sized but still stripey, on the Wetlands - Spotted flycatcher observed building nest in the usual place, on the pipes of the Morgan data centre - Great Spotted Woodpecker nest in the big G-Block/West Pav oak, chicks getting vocal - Two starlings briefly seen flying, but I haven't seen them foraging on the lawn this year. - No reed or sedge warblers, but reed buntings - Garden warbler - Two possible sightings of kingfisher at bend of the river, but not calling and being elusive (nest site?) - Dead buzzard on the track to the sewage works. Cause of death unknown and probably several days ago. Picture available. - Nuthatch heard briefly but on the Hinxton side, so not recorded. Here's the transcript from the map: 03/06/2025 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A R BC, GC, CH, WR R, GO, GS fam, rabbit SG, nest of GS PW C B BT fam, WR C WR GS, B, R, BT fam 10RO, GT, SD, 2B female with 1 nest, SF with 1 nest WR, B, PW juvenile, PW 2C 2SL C GT, WP squirrel, 2GT 2LI, WO 3LI, B male WP, WP 2WP D WP WR, C WR PW BT fam BT fam E 2GO WP, B male, 2GO, B female, GT fam GO, GW, BC, BT fam, RB female R, RB male, WP, WP 4 SI 2GO F WR, B CC, 2TU male, 1 TU female, 2LG chicks B female, RB male, MH, LG adult CC, WP, WR 2GR, WP R, R, BC G KT, 2C GT fam WP, 4MG 2C., B WR, 2SI H 2CC. 2GT fam, WP B, J, 4WP, G MG, WR 10SL 10 HM, 2SI, BT fam BC, WR, SG KT I WP, LT fam WR, B, PW juvenile, PW Thanks, Sabine

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