Fwd: RE: Birds at the Arboretum

["Tony Lawson" <>]

I too have been on an arboretum survey. The figure is no surprise to me. The list of birds seen is in the first edition of the NAC magazine.

 

I have been at the arboretum most weeks for the last 4 years, helping at the STEP site. I have been keeping an eye out for the birds seen from our site (we are on the edge of the arboretum, and I include birds seen in the adjoining woodland and rural lease). I have seen many of the birds on the list and a few that are not on it – eg brown goshawk. What is pleasing is that the numbers of species and the numbers of each species are steadily growing as the forests grow – some forests have done extremely well due to the favourable rains in the last 4 years. (STEP created an ephemeral wetland because of all the water on its site and it stayed wet until the dry period from late spring last year.)

 

Tony

 

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Hi David

 

Chris Davey is away and he would know more as he has coordinated Arboretum surveys, but I have been involved in a couple of the surveys which began very early on when the plantings were just beginning.  I think 60 species is quite possible but the numbers of each species may have been rather low (quite possibly just one bird).  The most unusual species I have seen there were WF Chat (I think about 17).

 

Sue

On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:16 PM, David McDonald <> wrote:

Hi, can anyone shed light on this please?
Regards - David