More Wind & Rain and a Climate Change Conference!

This weather is starting to get really annoying! Not much birding since the last post but I have helped the Friends of Glasgow's LNRs with their nest box work and managed a few sightings of note.

We started at Hogganfield Park LNR and enjoyed a mixture of sleety showers, wind and some sunshine! All of the nest boxes were cleaned out and two more boxes erected

Spot Box no. 8

It was nice to see a clump or two of primroses....

….whilst a pair of Canada Geese and an Oystercatcher took advantage of the 'biohavens'...

From Hogganfield Park LNR we moved to Bingham's Pond where two boxes were cleaned and a new one erected....

On Tuesday, I attended  a conference at the SEC on Sustainability & Climate Change and it proved that some people do care

I eventually managed some 'proper' birding at Bingham's Pond yesterday, for just one hour, and recorded a respectable 22 species.

Others have managed out, despite the weather, with some recent sightings in Greater Glasgow, courtesy of the SOC Clyde Grapevine, including: 

Two Yellow-legged Gulls (an adult and sub-adult) and a  3^rd-winter Iceland Gull at the Balgray Reservoir gull roost. 

There have also been some reports of Blackcaps - a female in a Bearsden garden and also at the feeders in Holyrood Crescent Pleasure Gardens, Kelvinbridge; with a male in an Ormonde Drive, Netherlee garden.

Glasgow Ecological Emergency Public Consultation Questionnaire

Hi

I've been off on holiday and then come down with man flu, so not much to report, BUT Glasgow City Council has decided to seek views in respect of the ecological aspects of the Climate and Ecological Emergency which they declared in May 2019. 

A working Group has drafted a report on Climate Change and now another working group has been formed to assess the ecological aspects of the emergency. The Group will focus on the following themes:

• Local Biodiversity Action Plan and the Glasgow Open Space Strategy
• Land Management
• State of Nature

To assist with the development of any recommendations, they want to hear your views about what they should do, how ambitious they should be, and what resources they can draw upon.

Please, please take the time to participate, show your concern and offer your views.

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EE2020/