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| Author: | Dave Bradbeer [ Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:48 pm ] |
| Post subject: | My Cleethorpes allotment ( Carr Lane ) |
Common Redstart this morning + distant Swift sp over, presumed common?!, has been up to 4 Wheatear in recent days, Chiffy and Blackcap singing, unusually 4 Jay still, been present all winter, Short e Owl last Saturday, Green Woodpecker heard in the nearby cemetary on 9th, excellent record for there, * The allotments consist of quite a large area with plenty of habitat and are slap bang in the middle of residential Cleethorpes. |
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| Author: | Stephen Lorand [ Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: My Cleethorpes allotment ( Carr Lane ) |
Your reference to the cemetery in Cleethorpes certainly stirred my early memories, Dave. Back in the early 1950s, I was taught by my mentor, the late Len Watkinson, that migrants could be found quite regularly, in the appropriate seasons, in Cleethorpes cemetery. This fact meant that in order to see good birds, it was not always necessary to cycle to my boyhood dream habitat at Tetney marshes. Cleethorpes was, of course, less built-up in those days, but even so the cemetery was well-confined within the growing urban sprawl. Despite this, the quiet and pleasantly green habitat regularly produced the likes of warblers, Tree Pipits, Redstarts, Pied and Spotted Flycatchers. Most migrant numbers were much larger then, but it still makes one wonder how many interesting migrants descend into other urban properties, scraps of habitat and gardens of non-birders only to be irretrievably lost and unrecorded. |
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