Tice's Meadow and Tongham GP, Surrey (8 Viewers)

[Mark Elsoffer]

The Tice's Meadow Annual Report is finished can be found at the following link:

http://1drv.ms/1DnHBSJ

You can either read it online or download it your computer to read at your leisure (the download button is at the top left corner of your screen).


Buying a Hard Copy
We shall be printing and selling full colour, glossy, A4 hard-copies of the report. These will cost between £10 and £15 depending on the size of the print run. If you are interested in buying a hard copy, please email me ([email protected]) to let me know by Sunday April 26th. Once we have an idea of the numbers required we will liaise with the printers and finalise the cost. You will then be notified of the final cost and asked to indicate if you wish to proceed with your purchase.



Tice's Meadow Spring Bio Blitz
The Tice's Meadow Bird Group are holding our first ever Bio Blitz on the 25th & 26th April. All are welcome to visit the site and take part in the weekend's activities. A flyer outling the weekend's activites can be found at the following link:

http://t.co/RpK3oe8N9I


I hope to see you all at Tice's soon!

 

[RJSeargent]

A great few days at the beginning of the week. Upwards of 5 LRPs currently on site with the pair of Red Kites now a daily occurance with one caught on camera fishing. Easter Monday produced a female Marsh Harrier on site - a Tice's first. 2 Med Gulls were also seen on Easter Monday and the first Whitethroat was seen and heard in the hedgerow. This was the earliest by 2 days for this species. Reports of a Brambling seem convincing.

 

[RJSeargent]

A red letter day, migrant wise, yesterday. 2 Yellow Wagtails, 2 Little Gulls (1 1W and an adult) and the first Wheatear of the season. 2 Green Sandpipers were also present.

 

[RTHORTON]

Of note today 2 Male Wheatear in wheatear field and this evening 2 Common Terns on bike pool posts. First of the year. More Common lizards released around new log piles and a few sunning them selves on the mound today.

 

[RTHORTON]

Oystercatcher with Grey Plover in meadow, Common Tern turning up and Nightingale along the hedgerow today.

 

[RJSeargent]

An absolutely outstanding weekend with 6 waders in the workings on Sunday. The Grey Plover was still present at 1630hrs and throughout the day there were continuous sighting by birders of LRP (7+), Lapwing (4), Snipe (1), Dunlin (1) and Green Sandpiper (2). The Nightingale was in full song late afternoon and showing briefly from the bramble where it bred last year. Sedge Warbler was seen by the Guildford RSPB Group at Tongham GP so not long before this species arrives on site. The Kestrel ringed in Farnham ( ring - VA) continues to deplete the Common Lizard population around the mound and along the Blackwater.

 

[Telephoto Paul]

Can I just say that's an excellent job on the annual report.

 

[Mark Elsoffer]

Can I just say that's an excellent job on the annual report.

Thanks Paul. Remember to let me know via email ([email protected]) if you'd like to buy a hard copy.

 

[RJSeargent]

The Ruff was still present yesterday for its second day and the report of a Knot on Surrey Birders appears erroneous. There was also a lone White Wagtail in the workings. Today Mark Leitch found 2 Greenshanks and a pair of Red-crested Pochard on site. Things are looking good for the weekend.

 

[RJSeargent]

The Tice's Meadow Annual Report is finished can be found at the following link:

http://1drv.ms/1DnHBSJ

You can either read it online or download it your computer to read at your leisure (the download button is at the top left corner of your screen).


Buying a Hard Copy
We shall be printing and selling full colour, glossy, A4 hard-copies of the report. These will cost between £10 and £15 depending on the size of the print run. If you are interested in buying a hard copy, please email me ([email protected]) to let me know by Sunday April 26th. Once we have an idea of the numbers required we will liaise with the printers and finalise the cost. You will then be notified of the final cost and asked to indicate if you wish to proceed with your purchase.



Tice's Meadow Spring Bio Blitz
The Tice's Meadow Bird Group are holding our first ever Bio Blitz on the 25th & 26th April. All are welcome to visit the site and take part in the weekend's activities. A flyer outling the weekend's activites can be found at the following link:

http://t.co/RpK3oe8N9I


I hope to see you all at Tice's soon!

89 species seen over the weekend during the Tices48 bio-blitz. A great weekend of birds with brilliant company. Highlights for me were:

• Little Gull
• Little Tern.
• Arctic Tern.
• 42 Dunlin (site record).
• 18 Ringed Plover (site record).
• 10 species of wader in total (including Curlew and Greenshank).
• Several Yellow Wagtails.
• A fall of Sedge Warblers

 

[RJSeargent]

6 Whimbrel found by Kev D yesterday morning. They remained in the meadow for some of the morning before departing. Only seen by a few lucky birders.

 

[Mark Elsoffer]

Had a great time at the BioBlitz last weekend, looking forward to the next one!

Here's the collated list of species from the BioBlitz. Let me know if you've any more to add.

Birds
1. Arctic Tern
2. Black-headed Gull
3. Blackbird
4. Blackcap
5. Blue Tit
6. Bullfinch
7. Buzzard
8. Canada Goose
9. Carrion Crow
10. Chaffinch
11. Chiffchaff
12. Coal Tit
13. Collared Dove
14. Common Sandpiper
15. Common Tern
16. Coot
17. Cormorant
18. Cuckoo
19. Curlew
20. Dunlin
21. Dunnock
22. Egyptian Goose
23. Feral Rock Dove
24. Gadwall
25. Garden Warbler
26. Goldcrest
27. Goldfinch
28. Goshawk
29. Great Crested Grebe
30. Great Spotted Woodpecker
31. Great Tit
32. Green Sandpiper
33. Green Woodpecker
34. Greenfinch
35. Greenshank
36. Grey Heron
37. Grey Wagtail
38. Greylag Goose
39. Herring Gull
40. House Martin
41. House Sparrow
42. Jackdaw
43. Jay
44. Kestrel
45. Lapwing
46. Lesser Black-backed Gull
47. Lesser Whitethroat
48. Linnet
49. Little Egret
50. Little Gull
51. Little Tern
52. Long-tailed Tit
53. Magpie
54. Mallard
55. Meadow Pipit
56. Mistle Thrush
57. Moorhen
58. Mute Swan
59. Nuthatch
60. Peregrine Falcon
61. Pheasant
62. Pied Wagtail
63. Pochard
64. Raven
65. Red Kite
66. Reed Bunting
67. Reed Warbler
68. Ringed Plover
69. Robin
70. Rook
71. Sand Martin
72. Sedge Warbler
73. Skylark
74. Snipe
75. Song Thrush
76. Sparrowhawk
77. Starling
78. Stock Dove
79. Swallow
80. Swift
81. Teal
82. Tree Pipit
83. Tufted Duck
84. Wheatear
85. Whitethroat
86. Wren
87. Yellow Wagtail
88. Protected Sensitive Species
89. Protected Sensitive Species

Moths
Flame Shoulder
Pebble Hook-Tip
Lunar Marbled Brown
Bright-Line Brown-Eye
Dark Sword-Grass
Hebrew Character
Common Quaker
Clouded Drab
Shuttle-Shaped Dart
D. Subpurpurella

Butterflies
Orangetip
Peacock
Small Tortoishell
Green Veined White
Speckled Wood

Mammals
Roe Deer
Fox
Grey Squirrel
Daubenton's Bat
Long Eared Bat
Soprano Pipistrelle Bat
Pipistrelle Bat
Noctule Bat

Reptiles
Grass Snake
Slow Worm
Common Lizard

Plants
70 species seen by Sean.

 

[RJSeargent]

4 Sanderling and a Wood Sandpiper on site yesterday; there had been 3 and I guess another arrived during the downpour the night before. No sign of the Wood Sandpiper this morning.

 

[JonJordan]

Quiet first thing this morning, sanderlings had disappeared and only sandpiper was a lone common. Highlight of the visit was a fly over cuckoo as I headed back towards Pea Bridge.

 

[RTHORTON]

Oystercatcher still on site 60 Swift 15 House Martin + .Next work party Sat 13th June 10am meet on the mound clearing Willow. Tices 14 Report now at the printers thanks to Mark . Do secure your hard back copy.

 

[Mark Elsoffer]

The new Tice's Meadow website is now live:

www.ticesmeadow.org

Contains a daily blog, site details, systematic lists, useful links etc....

Not meant as a replacement for this thread so please keep posting here.

I'll blog any info from here, twitter & Surrey Birders as regularly as I can.

Please share the link with as many people as possible and spread the word.

All suggestions for additional content welcome. :t:

 

[RJSeargent]

1 x Oystercatcher still yesterday and the ever present LRPs were vocal around the site. The Nightingale, which now has chicks in the nest according to Dave Baker, was still vocal with occasional snippets of song.

Both John Hunt and Kev Campbell took photographs of Painted Lady and I saw one briefly along the stream.

In other news:

The feral youth have trashed the mound yurt.

I chucked 10+ travellers out of the plant yard after they had cut the lock off and were riding their mororbikes around. This was not a good idea as I was threatened by a couple but stood my ground. Top tip:

Don't comment on the weight of any of them; I said he couldn't catch me.

Take photos of the plates and call the Police only. They don't know right and wrong as I found out yesterday and things could have gone nasty.

Grateful if anyone passing the gate on the bypass occasionally check for damage.

 

[RTHORTON]

The TICES MEADOW Annual Report 2014 hard back copy is now on sale. Secure your copy while stocks last.
July 16th i have meeting with Manangement Group . If you have any points i should raise regarding please let me know .

 

[RJSeargent]

Black-tailed Godwit, Oystercatcher, 3 Green Sandpipers and 5 Greylags present today (via Kev D).

 

[RJSeargent]

Reports from yesterday:

2 Common Sandpipers
4 Green Sandpipers
6 LRP
10 Egyptian Gesse

Via @markEisoffer and @TicesMeadow