Sunday 13 May 2012
Edderthorpe Flash
Shelduck 3, GCGrebe 1, Avocet 1, Ringed Plover 1, Dunlin 3 north, Common Tern 3, Cuckoo 1. The Flash has been a bit limp since the devastating flooding at the end of April, but with the water levels now starting to get favourable and birding coming to the business end of the spring for rarities, hopefully Edderthorpe will do a Man City and snatch glory at the very end!!
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Fingers crossed that you are right. Edderthorpe was looking easily the best site in the valley until the floods.
But Edderthorpe is not the only site that is under water. The same problem still applies to The Mere. There's acres and acres of good mud and shingle habitat submerged under all of that water on The Mere. I just cannot understand what target breeding and passage species the RSPB are hoping to attract on The Mere. It should be alive with breeding avocets and oystercachers etc etc at this time of year i.e. creating a huge extention to the wader scrape. In my opinion the Mere should be used throughout spring to attract more breeding and passage birds.
The Wader Scrape is finally looking good though.
Water has gone out of the old lake at Edderthorpe. But it looks like the farmer hasn't been able to put any crops in here this year. This particular site at the moment looks like a nature reserve waiting to happen. It would be great for the valley if we could get hold of Houghton Washland.
Houghton and Edderthorpe working side by side would be one hell of a nature reserve.
The Environment Agency own all of the land from the old lake and the willow wood right down the valley to Middlewood Hall at Darfield.
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