Anderby Creek Bird Hide opening - 25th June 2010

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:19 pm

Anderby Bird Hide opening - 25th June 2010.

The new bird hide at Anderby Creek, will be opened on 25th June 2010 by John Walker :lol:

and Mark Tartelin.

The event will commence at 12.30 in the Creek car park with Liam Robbinson playing sea shanty inspired tunes as he leads everyone up to the Round and Round House bird hide.

The grazing marshes at Anderby Creek have great conservation potential and it is hoped the bird hide will become a very popular place.

Information from Gill Henshaw

Geoff Williams · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:41 pm

I had a look at this hide two weeks ago,it was locked then but it has a great view.It just needs something to look at,like a pool or some wader scrapes.

Andrew Chick · **Posted:** Wed Jun 23, 2010 2:21 pm

If anyone does attend the opening, then a few images of John Walker dancing to a sea shanty for the LBC Album would be most welcome.........

:lol:

Andrew

Phil Espin · **Posted:** Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:47 pm

The hide has a great view of the sea and it may well become our top sea watching venue. It has commanding views and should be good for watching visible migration. It must get stacks of Bee-eaters per year! Anderby Creek is very underwatched and hopefully the hide will encourage more people who may well turn up some good birds. When LWT gets the arable land its recently purchased between Anderby Creek, Roman Bank and Wolla Bank back into grazing marsh it should be even better. This is a visionary project and all concerned in its successful execution have my congratulations and respect.

Incidentally if anyone would like to spend some quality time there I can recommend an excellent 2 person holiday flat in Anderby Creek. Call Syd on 01754 871 325 for details.

John Walker · **Posted:** Sun Jun 27, 2010 7:15 am

Hello all, The L W T now owns the fields to the west of the new hide and
planning, and water level surveys are currently underway to create wet grassland with raised water levels and possibly extending the current
borrow pit, and creating some small pools and shallow ditches with the aim of providing habitat for breeding, wintering and migratory wetland species. As has been said the new hide has commanding views and is
a very welcome asset to the area.The cloud bar and view deck is also a good watch point and only a few metres from the car park. Regards John.

Colin and Sheila Jennings · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:17 pm

A Note from David Quinton - davidq@bizorg.co.uk

Hello

I've just been reading this thread and wonder whether anyone realises that there are plans, soon to go to Appeal, for a 6 x 420' tall turbine wind farm a few hundred metres inland from the Bird hide?
http://www.awag.org.uk.

It is rumoured that the developers, N-Power, have made donation/s to the Wildlife Trust and that the Trust has now withdrawn their previous objection to the proposal.

Thanks,

David

Phil Espin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:48 pm

We were down at Anderby a couple of weekends ago and had a look at the hide. It provides a fantastic panoramic view from the top though it does not seem to have been designed by anyone who has spent any time seawatching from a hide.

Some locals asked us to sign a petition against the windfarm and we refused. If you want electricity you have to put up with the mechanism by which it is generated, windfarms are more acceptable to me than a nuclear power station on our door step, even if the patch at Dunge does attract some good seabirds. I reckon there should be wind turbines in every parish in the UK unless there is a really good reason that there shouldn't be e.g breeding Golden Eagles on Lewis.

To be fair the locals at Anderby said they were looking at the possibility of solar electricity generation in the village, but they are having difficulty getting any funding. I haven't looked at the figures but I assume even with subsidies its not as cost effective as large scale wind generation.

If the LWT have greenmailed N - Power for more cash for wildlife good luck to them.

Dean Eades · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:19 pm

We need a lot of wind turbines Phil , The wind turbines which have been put up on the Lincs coast it will take 100 years to get back the Resource, never mind maintenance, waste of time ....

This should happen to all of them

Check out these links

http://www.blencathra.net/wind-power-facts.php

http://www.ch-art.co.uk/facts.html

Dean...

Phil Espin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:31 pm

Nice one Dean, pity you weren't there to get a snap of Chernobyl, or the Gulf of Mexico.

Dean Eades · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:38 pm

Very good point Phil, but nuclear power station are the only way forward I'm afraid

Dean...

Phil Espin · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 5:05 pm

So where would you put one in Lincs? On the Trent maybe?

My view is that we need as wide a mix as we can get of different generating capacity using renewables as far as possible and generating as close as possible to the place where electricity is being consumed.

Wind generators are alot easier to put up and take down than nuclear power stations. Biomass generation is steady and reliable and there are still lots of tidal/wave opportunities to look at. A lot more energy conservation and energy use reduction is needed. There are massive losses in long distance transmission which is one reason why generating locally is important.

Geoff Williams · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:49 pm

You can't beat coal powered power stations,cheap and easy to run. And with global cooling on the way,we will need as much CO2 in the atmosphere as possible.

The Lincolnshire Bird Club

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