Hello everyone,
Sorry about the technical issues, Zoom via the Firefox browser doesn’t seem to work as well as I’d been led to believe.
A few comments.
Birds
I did see a turtle dove feeding on the very south of the wetlands where Andrew had been spreading the seed, so that has worked. I’ve seen the pair on the wires to the west of the land between the wetlands and the campus. They’ve also been in the trees the other side of the railway in Stephanie’s back garden, but I’m not sure if they actually nested there. No sign of them in the last few days.
Butterflies
Early on there were tortoiseshells, common blues and some orange tips. More recently there have been Biblical numbers of meadow browns, and also many small heaths and skippers. As mentioned quite a few marbled whites, also some gatekeepers, speckled woods, ringlets, commas, red admirals and a few brown argus and peacocks. No painted ladies yet. Oh and of course plenty of small whites. I’m not so up on moths, but in the last couple of days there have been loads of six spot burnet moths.
Plants, by which I mean orchids
Not a single orchid on the north side since the work was done. There were quite a few bee orchids there in the past, and some pyramidals. Also not a single bee orchid on the far south bank this year, and only a couple of pyramidals. There were, however, quite a few orchids on the south edge of the south pond. Early on a couple of southern marsh orchids, which the muntjaks got. Later quite a few bee orchids on the east side, and some pyramidals on the west, and a spotted in the middle. The best place this year was the little path through between the lakes. As you come from the far side, for me, towards the railway, just after a few saplings that are right on the path, there were bee orchids to the right, then a clump of four spotteds, further to the right in amongst the tall growth was a fabulous spotted orchid, probably close on two feet tall. A little further on, on the left was a fabulous pyramidal orchid that has only just gone over. There were also a couple of southern marsh orchids and spotted orchids further on. I’m not sure if it was the work on the north side, or the very dry May that meant there were no orchids this year. I’m a little concerned that if that centre part gets the same treatment we’ll not see orchids there next year.
Sarah, I’ll try to get something put in the Icene about permitted paths and dog fouling. I’m not sure how many people are reading it at the moment though, as it’s on line only.
Thanks everyone, and thank you for co-opting me.
Dave.
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We rescheduled the Wetlands Conservation Group Walkround to Tuesday 21st July 2020; although it will not be possible to physically walkround, would you be prepared to attend the meeting by Zoom conference call?
If everyone is able and willing to meet via Zoom on Tuesday 21st July 2020, I will set up the call, then send the invite with call details and Agenda.
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When: 21 July 2020 13:00-14:00 (UTC+00:00) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London.
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Rescheduled from 12th May to 21st July due to Covid-19.
Rescheduled time to follow on from the Wetlands Guided Walk.
Now to meet at the Wetlands Bridge at 1pm noon
Rescheduled from 12th May to 21st July due to Covid-19.
Rescheduled time to follow on from the Wetlands Guided Walk.
Now to meet at the Wetlands Bridge at 1pm noon
Hi,
As promised at the meeting please see below a bit of information about the Paludiculture project beginning at the great Fen project.
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And also attached is a leaflet offering opportunities to come out and help with the planting!
The Winter Walk around the Wetland was very successful!
There were 26 attendees and considering the time of year we saw quite a lot. I got most of the group smelling otter spraint, which is always a highlight for me! We also found green woodpecker droppings and saw a pigmy shrew!
All the best.
Iain
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Hi All,
The Wetlands work planned for this week was postponed due to water levels and potential for flooding in the wetlands.
We would like to try and get the 3 days work in before Spring but that window is closely rapidly, in advance of our meeting next week does anyone have any thoughts on when we cannot do the work from due to wildlife, ground nesting birds in the area described below?
The work will be:
- Tree roots removal on the southern edge of pond 1 (large pond) and west side of pond 4 (the one with all the trees at the side of it) - these areas are right next to eachother to reduce disturbance to the rest of the Wetlands and are also near the summer walk between the ponds and only just across the main path from the plant material collection area.
- Vegetation removal of boundary on the southern edge of pond 1 - again same area as above.
Therefore, the disturbance will be approx. 20m into the Wetlands along the summer path between the ponds from the permissive path, and some disturbance to the path (that we will clean up to make access possible straight after the works along the permissive path). As it is a much smaller area than the works last year I am hopeful that the disturbance will not impact on the wider area and ecosystem.
Your thoughts very welcome please.
Thanks,
Sarah
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Rescheduled Meeting
Please join us on the first Wetlands Meeting of 2020
Apologies, we have been forced to cancel and reschedule the Wetlands Conservation Group Meeting from Tuesday 25th February 2020 and this will now be held on Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at 11am in Morgan N3-47. We will provide refreshments and nibbles.
Sorry for any inconvenience but this will be prior to the Wetlands Winter Walk at 12 noon.
Please send items for the Agenda to Lorraine.moore(a)sanger.ac.uk<mailto:Lorraine.moore@sanger.ac.uk> by the 26th February 2020.
Thank you
Lorraine & Sarah
