Roger Hebb wrote:
A visit to msq produced nothing of interest in birding terms,no waders no raptors,just a couple of very distant buzzrds,loads of butterflys,i was tripping over them,i have to say,birding has gone down the tubes in the last ten years,the lack of birds is quite frankly dissappointing,worrying to say the least.
let me give a few examples
in spring and autumn/waders;
greenshank was not common but fairly regular-not anymore,lucky to get one
sanderling about the same
curlew sandpiper similair
common and green sandpipers getting rarer by the minute/curlew sandpipiers often turned up not anymore,turnstones well down,
artic terns-forget it!!!used to be regular!!!
grasshopper warbler-one or two every year-not anymore!!
bearded tits,some every year-not anymore!!
temminks stint,little stint,uncommen but found ocassionaly/but mega rare now!!
nightingale-forget it!-used to get them,
hobby not as mamny sightings even osprey sightings are down,thou i did get one there this year briefly
ive most probably left out others i cannot think of right now,sorry to spin a tale of woe,but these are the facts,hirundines ,each year the numbers are dropping at msq,.
no body on this site has mentioned the obvious decline in birds,it rather surprises me
the rspb is doing a wonderful job,if you are not a member ,please join and hopefully the above issues can be reversed intime
Roger hebb.
Roger,
Stop moaning! Nothing stays the same unfortunately that's what life is all about.
What has the RSPB got to do with MSQ or am I missing summat, shouldn't you be advising people to join the LWT instead? At least you finished on a positive note!
Another site near me used to have lots of waders etc incluing Temmincks but in recent years they have declined it's the way of the world. We have to live with it.
Regards
John
PS: be thankful we still have places like MSQ as a nature reserve where people can visit...
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John and Roger should now meet up and smoke the great hookah pipe of peace - but not at MSQ. I would suggest somewhere out of the wind, eg. in front of the hide at the Visitor Centre at Far Ings - hookah pipes should be readily available in nearby Barton on Humber. Perhaps Graham could be persuaded to take a commemorative photograph of the occasion to be posted on the web. Then we could all join you both for a celebratory fry-up in the Car Park : nothing to do with wildlife/birds, I know, but we would only be following a (most welcome) precedent .......and, anyway, there's not a lot about at the moment.