Page 22 - Hunstanton Town & Around - May 2015

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Nature notes with Joanna trees down, caged the sheep and narrow roads at night!
cows, stopped all the birds The verges will be full of early
Spring is busting out all over! nesting what an HORRENDOUS wild flowers; Bluebells will be
world it would be. Farms are beginning to carpet the woods,
Today is the 10th April and the holiday homes so the displaced actually factory floors and not replacing the yellow and white of
forecast is for it to be the hottest Swallows wont even be able to play grounds for us to roam, and Aconites and Snowdrops.
day of the pleasant after Easter sneak into open garages. the pressures of producing food The Rookeries will be slowly
spell, then we will be plunged Swallows tend to be site faithful are pushing wild life to the edges. calming down as their young
back into blue, i.e. more seasonal and many pairs will return this If we appropriate even the fledge and you will see family
temperatures!! Oh well may be it year to find the site gone! Moving margins they are pushed even parties feeding in the fields,
will warm up again soon! to near by farms wont be easy, as further. Oh dear what a rant! But young Rooks lack the bald patch
The warmth has really moved residents will claim good sites it is in spring that these things by their bill and can look more
everything on, the hedgerows are and many barns are being sealed become apparent, and as I note like Carrion Crows, however
really turning green now and by against the thieves who are things I realise how much less there are usually parents near by
the time you read this, (as long as raiding farm equipment. May be there is to see each year as to help with identification. If you
there is no horrendous weather) this is a plea to home a Swallow, pressures build up! are lucky and not fussy there
they will be very green and the if you live around the farms leave Back to the positive, Chiffchaff could be House Martins nesting
May blossom will be starting to a garage window open a little and are appearing, Wheatears are under your eaves and in the older
show even if it is only in bud if Swallows move in get someone being reported and there is an houses in Town and Village
form. to build a tray under their nest so increase in bird song. The Swifts will be back and holding
Winter migrants are fairly well the droppings don’t spoil you car! numbers of birds on my feeders is screeching parties up and down
on their ways back to breeding House Martins and Swifts face slowing as nesting becomes the streets. What a glorious sound
grounds, Fieldfares and the same problems, the number of important, Blackbirds are busy of summer that is! Skylarks are
Redwings are no longer grazing people trying to stop Martins building or feeding their first already mounting the skies with
the fields, Pinkfeet are gone nesting on their houses seems to broods of the year, the Hares are song and this will increase. What
except for small numbers which be increasing, I know they make still boxing and racing, I am still a joy to hear, we had lost Skylarks
sometimes stay with us all year. a mess, but I am afraid country seeing around 100 spread out in the lower fields where I lived
The flocks of Starlings are no living is messy!! across my route, each trip I make, before, silage cutting messed up
longer invading my feeders and Swifts need to nest under eaves Bumble Bees are droning around, nesting for many ground nesters!
there aren’t many about town. On inside a ‘cave’ and houses are swarms of small flies are dancing Butterflies will be around;
the summer migrant front things sealed against drafts etc. whether in the air and the ants are starting already there are early sightings
are starting to appear, reports of it so good for us to be sealed in is to invade my house again!! By of Small Tortoiseshell and
Swallows, Sand Martins and another discussion. the time you get the Magazine we Brimstone (the lemon yellow
House Martins are cropping up, The pictures of idyllic views should be seeing Blackcap, glories) Peacocks and Red
even from my son in the Dales, he with well placed cows and sheep Whitethroat and other small birds Admiral should also follow. If
has seen his first House Martin. I are false, cows pooh and churn up around the area hedgerows, also there hasn’t been too much
have one big worry about these the gateways when its wet, sheep the first fledglings from early spraying of insecticides we could
birds, where will the Swallows die when chased by dogs, leaves broods will be learning about life. hope for a good butterfly year.
find to nest? There are more and fall from trees and make a mess There should be leggy Leverets This has been a mix of doom
more old barns being pulled of lawns and drives, at least round along the roadsides, hopefully and gloom and hope, I can only
down and posh hermetically here we are spared the smell of very few of them dead, from add that if you want to enjoy
sealed houses are being built on muck spreading, effluent seems being hit by cars. Another plea natural things pleas tread lightly
the sites, many are being used as to be injected! If we cut all the being please don’t speed on the and thoughtfully and allow space.
A NEW CLASSIFICATION FOR BIRDS colours. `COLUMBIDAE covers pigeons and
many food cartons look dumpy like the Wood
Joanna
Pigeons and finally CORVIAE comes into
As I drive around I have noticed the huge Glass play for the crow family.
increase of discarded litter, mainly food and GLASSARIA CORVIAE That only covers a fraction of what I see!!
drink related and in moments of boredom I Sporty Crow Why can we carry things full of food and then
have decided to put the bits into classes!! Orangeade Rook when empty throw them from our car
Food Cartons windows or from our bikes or rucksacks!
Plastic bags. FOODIMUS COLUMBIDAE
PLASTICUS ACCIPITRIDAE There are no bin collections in the country
(plastic falcons) Squat yellow chippicus lanes, animals and birds get damaged or
Bold Big Macicus
killed, and the money spent on clearing up
Orange fronted Sainsbrius Floppy winged Sandwichimus could go to Hospitals or Schools. Above all it
White breasted Anoniminity Maroon coloured Costa bird. looks such a mess and shows what a messy
Green backed Asdabagus thoughtless society we have become.
Multi-coloured Tescoarnius I know the classification looks a bit
Cans
CANICUS STURNIDAE highbrow but I’ve chosen words that suit the PLEASE TAKE YOUR
size or appearance of the litter. STURNIDAE
Shiny green Lager is a name for Starling family. (Many foreign
Blue breasted red streaked Sportican Starlings are resplendent in shiny bright LITTER HOME!!!
Black glistening Alebird