It was very dark and a bit damp at the reserve today, but a very busy hide with many visitors (I hope the WT realizes how important this reserve is to the many birders and general visitors from the Midlands, Cheshire and West Wales!).The Common Snipe pair were still on site but difficult to see in the only habitat not destroyed by casual scrub clearing.
A single male Pochard was seen to the far left rear of the lake, and the male Great Crested Grebe was on duty as shown in Phils lovely photo.
Good points well made - am amazed the snipe have bother to hang around given that their habitat was pretty well destroyed over the past couple of years (and no I won't mention the favoured kingfisher perch that was ripped out 16 months ago - oops I just did!!)
ReplyDeletePerhaps those of us who spend more time at the reserves and hence know them better than anyone could have a advisory role to play in the maintenance programme? Just a thought...
The thoughtless destruction of wildlife habitat is something that has always really annoyed me.
ReplyDelete"Perhaps those of us who spend more time at the reserves and hence know them better than anyone could have a advisory role to play in the maintenance programme? "
Sounds sensible that,Mark.
shame they did not clear the reeds that stop the kids seeing the reserve out of the window, Kids are the future in conservation and it can't be fun looking out the window and only seeing the reeds
ReplyDeleteThanks Nigel - leave it with me - I'll make the proposal
ReplyDeletePhil - I think there's a management issue here - reed beds need managed the same as any plant so let me ask what the policy is!
Look what you've started Brian..... ;-)