This video from England is called Gibraltar Point and its birds.
From Wildlife Extra:
Sixty years since Britain’s first local nature reserve was declared – Gibraltar Point
August 2012. Sixty years ago today, on 1 August 1952, Gibraltar Point became the first Local Nature Reserve in England to be declared by a Local Authority under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act.
The designation recognised the special significance of Gibraltar Point as a new type of nature reserve and of the successful partnership between the former Lindsey County Council and the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust.
Long recognised as an important wildlife site
Gibraltar Point on the Lincolnshire coast had long been recognised as an important place for wildlife. In 1915 it was included in the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves list of wildlife sites that were ‘worthy of preservation’ and in 1948, was first named a nature reserve in a landmark agreement between the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust and County Council. But the statutory designation of 1952 gave it official national recognition.
Ted Smith, one of the founding members of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust said: “At that time the popular concept of the nature reserve was of a place with a fence round it to keep people out. Gibraltar Point was different. The first priority was to protect its nationally and internationally important wildlife and natural features, but it would also be open to the public for the quiet enjoyment of nature and used for education and research.”
“By 1952 the Gibraltar Point reserve was flourishing and was widely regarded nationally as a model of its kind. Schools and universities were using it for teaching and research and the number of visitors was already in the tens of thousands. It was a fitting recognition of its success that in August 1952 it became the first Local Nature Reserve in England.”
Today, Gibraltar Point remains a flagship nature reserve of the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. It is a fantastic place to visit at any time of year and the events programme helps visitors experience some of the wildlife highlights.
Arctic photographer Subhankar Banerjee considers why conservation on land has been a success while waters are in danger: here.
Grand Old Man is the corniest of clichés, but perhaps we may deploy it for once in the case of Ronald Blythe, since he is widely seen as the doyen of writers about the natural world in England, and now he is 90: here.
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Winners And Losers Of Wet Spring Revealed
Posted on August 16, 2012
The results of our annual Make Your Nature Count survey show the number of gardens with baby thrush species in them this spring was down by as much as 27 per cent compared to last year.
Sightings of baby blackbirds, robins and song thrushes – all members of the thrush family – were down on last year. The drop may be a result of wet and cold weather in the early part of the breeding season making it harder for adult birds to find enough food for their chicks. With adult birds spending longer away from the nest searching for food, chicks would also have been more exposed to the cold.
More than 78,000 people took part in the survey during the first week of June and logged the birds and other wildlife species they saw in their gardens. House martins were down by almost a quarter and swifts were down by around 10 per cent compared to last year. Swifts are already on the amber-list of conservation concern and there is concern that it has been a devastating breeding season in the UK this year.
Dr Daniel Hayhow, RSPB Conservation Scientist, says; ’Each of the 78,000 people involved in Make Your Nature Count has helped to give us data on a scale that just wouldn’t be possible if we tried to collect it in any other way. It’s really useful as a snapshot of how UK wildlife fared this summer and a number of species may have had tough time in the cold and wet weather.”
Last year Make Your Nature Count results reported a good year for breeding song thrushes and this year’s results confirmed that, with sightings of adult song thrushes up by 12 per cent on last year. Adult blackbirds were also seen in good numbers, recorded as the most widespread bird across the UK and were seen in more than 90 per cent of the gardens surveyed.
Grey squirrels were the most common wild mammal seen and were reported from more than two thirds of gardens, with hedgehogs in almost half of gardens.
Ten per cent of gardens were recorded as having slow worms in them at some point, but only four per cent of participants’ gardens have them regularly. This was the first time slow worms have been included in the survey, and will provide us with a baseline count of slow worms in Britain’s gardens, which we can measure against in future years to monitor their fortunes.
http://animalblog.co.uk/2012/08/16/winners-and-losers-of-wet-spring-revealed/
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