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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hi Dave. Thought you might be interested to see my reply to Jo Smith's letter. At no point since has she written back to take issue with any of the points I made in this email or my original one. N Dear Doctor Smith, * Thank you for replying so promptly to my email regarding the recent removal...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hi Dave, Sorry not to have responded sooner to latest developments re Wyver Lane hide: I have been away for a few days. The DWT really is making an ass of itself and, in the process, contradicting its own CEO. The following is a transcript of her reply to my first email. No mention of any...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hi Dave, I have had a saccharine-dipped reply from Jo Smith that provides a modicum of reassurance and confirms that the possibility of locking the hide at night is now being pursued. Most of the rest consists of waffling platitudes about wider accessibility of DWT sites and she avoids answering...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hi again Dave, I have written to the chief exec of the DWT to express my own concern and have added a list of questions about the decision. I have also informed her that, depending on the answers, I may place a story in the local news media about fears that the Trust will create a den for...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hi Dave. Thanks for the update. The action of the Living Landscapes Officer does tend to confirm what I have been thinking for some time about the bureaucratic tendencies of the DWT as well as suggesting that he is an inflexible twerp who is impervious to reason. I am in the process of writing...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hi Dave, What an absurd situation regarding the unlocking of the Wyver Lane hide. Who is making these decisions; field naturalists with a knowledge of the site or desk-bound diversity & policy-delivery merchants? And what, for pity's sake, is a Living Landscape Officer? This sort of bone-headed...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    At Wyver yesterday (1400-1530hrs): 1 Buzzard (v. pale phase), 6 Goosander (4m), 117 Teal, 11 Coot, 1 Moorhen, 11 snipe, c200 Canada Geese, 3 Greylag, 1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Gadwall (f), 1 Tufted duck (m), 1 Pheasant, 2 Grey Heron, c 17 Fieldfare (overhead; seen from the Mill end of Wyver Lane). NB...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Many thanks to Dan and Dave. Every word of your replies makes complete sense in the current situation at Wyver and underlines the need for a more active and responsive stance from the Trust. If the reserve is not primarily for birds and birders then what is it for? How many mammal watchers or...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Thanks for the response. It suddenly occurred to me that I couldn't remember seeing Little Egret listed for Wyver. I suppose it wasn't too bad a day in terms of species but in numerical terms things did look pretty sparse. At time I couldn't see a single bird on the pond and several species that...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Crikey. Getting very lonely on here these days. Hardly surprising if Wyver Lane is usually as barren as it was today. Three Shoveler, two of which flew south west as I arrived at 2.00pm. A handful of Teal. A few Mallard. 3 Heron. 40 Goldfinch. Three Jay. Green woodpecker. 3 Fieldfare. 41...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    I defer to virtually every contributor to this site on matters ornithological but when it comes to stirring up a bit of a rumpus I have a certain amount of experience that might be useful. It is doubtful whether the people who dictate policy at the DWT are regular readers of this forum but I...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    The problem with being 70 is that you lose things and you forget things. I cannot recall what day it was when I made my four hour visit. And When I got home, I had lost the piece of paper on which I recorded my sightings. For an answer to you question, you would need to look in the logbook and...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Just out of curiosity, Dave, how long did this "good grilling take?" I was down for the best part of four hours one afternoon recently and saw about a third of what you recorded. Don't misunderstand me. I take you word as absolute gospel on all matters ornithological, especially where Wyver Lane...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hiya Dave, Only one of the house sparrows (a female) was on the reserve; in the bushes close to the bird feeder. It flew off after a couple of minutes when a robin landed just below it. The others were in two groups (or one group seen twice) in the garden opposite one of the houses on Wyver...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Spent an hour and half in bright, slightly hazy sunshine this afternoon with the following sightings: Teal c10, Gadwall 4, Mallard c20, Tufties 9, Shoveler 3, Pochard 2, Wigeon 4, Greylag c20, Canadas c 15, Coot c12, Moorhen 2, Lapwing (c60 in flight plus 6 on island), Snipe 2, Oycs 2, BH Gull...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    They used to say that the great Derby County side of the late Sixties and early Seventies never appreciated John McGovern until he was out injured and the other players had to do his work. Pretty much the same situation with Dave N on this site, I guess. No need to log everything. Dave will have...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Hiya Dave, Thanks for the info on my Buzzard build-up. Didn't realise they were seen in such large gatherings hereabouts. My late wife's brother-in-law lives in Cornwall and his record from their house near Redruth is 27. Sorry to hear you've been a bit crook. Missed your postings and wondered...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Anybody else spot the buzzard build over Belper this morning? I had eight at once in clear sight from the vantage point of my back garden on Pinglewick, initially at fairly low level but eventually gaining height to move south west. Twenty minutes later I spotted three more and later two singles...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Thanks Dave. Think I must have done a bit of vismigging without knowing it in Belper Cemetery yesterday. Mainly unremarkable small stuff passing through but also, briefly, one redwing and a green woodpecker.
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Sorry Dave. Bit out of touch with birding terminology these days. Vismissging? Visitor Migration? Visible Migrants? I hope its not something like Visdogging. I'm rather too old for any of that sort of thing on Wyver Lane.
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Thanks for the warm welcomes. Feel a bit bogus hiding behind a daft username when everybody else's identity seems to be well known. My name is Neil Hallam, I'm an almost retired journalist and a very inexpert birder whose main aim will be to avoid getting in anybody's hair on this board or in...
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    Wyver Lane Nature Reserve (DWT)

    Feel a bit nervous entering such exalted and expert company by signing up to this forum. Main reason for doing so is to check what might be around on Wyver Lane, my local patch, and to seek advice about purchasing a new scope. Still got my first scope, the Hertel & Reuss Televari that Steve...
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