The
Vale of Belvoir Barn Owl Conservation Group presents a
CONSERVATION
EVENING
FRIDAY
12TH DECEMBER 2014
VILLAGE HALL
WALTHAM ON THE WOLDS
LE14 4AG. The venue is a modern building with ample
free car parking and disabled access. See www.walthamvillagehall.co.uk for more information
on the venue.
Only
30 minutes from Loughborough, 45 minutes from Leicester and Nottingham and only
one hour from Lincoln.
Open from 6-45 p.m.
to visit the information stands. First talk 7-30 p.m. Teas, coffee, soft
drinks, sandwiches and light snacks available.
Tickets only £6-00 pay at the door but please either telephone 01949 844319 or email valebarnowls@hotmail.co.uk to reserve a seat. Please contact us
if a student discount is required.
Illustrated
presentations
7-30 p.m. – Using bat
detectors, Leicestershire and Rutland Bat Group (LRBG)
7-45 p.m. – Lincolnshire and Vale of Belvoir
peregrine falcons
Dr Bruno Broughton,
BSc, (Hons), phD, FIFM, C.Env. Bruno is a Fellow of the Institute of Fisheries Management, author of a range of scientific papers
and books. Bruno has been an independent fisheries management consultant for
the last 26 years. His extensive and impressive list of clients includes a
large number of angling clubs; farmers and other riparian owners; national and
regional government agencies; local authorities; multi-national industries and
small businesses; environmental consultancies; and voluntary groups. Bruno is known as one of the country’s
leading fisheries management consultants. Now based in Shropshire Bruno is
revisiting the area where he worked until 1988 as a fisheries biologist and
District Fisheries Officer for Severn Trent Water. Bruno will explain why the
active maintenance of the Grantham Canal that meanders from Grantham through
Leicestershire to Nottingham provides a better aquatic ecology than being
neglected.
8-15 p.m. to 9 p.m. – Break – time for
refreshments and visiting the information stands
9 p.m. – 9-45 p.m. – The Sparrowhawk
Before retirement Ian was the Senior
Ornithologist at the United Kingdom's Natural Environment Research Council. He
has also been head of the Avian Biology Section at the Monks Wood Research
Station, Chairman of the Board of The Peregrine Fund, Chairman of the Council
of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and visiting Professor of Ornithology
at the University of Oxford. Ian has also held the positions of President of
the British Ornithologists' Union and the British Ecological Society.
Following
in depth studies Ian has written a number of acclaimed books on birds. After a
lengthy study Ian published The
Sparrowhawk. Ian will include in his illustrated talk on this spectacular
yet often secretive bird, territory, hunting, feeding and nesting behavior,
chick rearing, fledging, nest failures, predation and migration.
9-45 p.m. approximate
– formal close, feel free to chat or visit the information stands, vacate
building by 10-30 p.m.
Information stands
Grantham
Canal Society – Visit
the GCS people to hear about the latest plans to restore the canal to
navigation standard from Grantham in Lincolnshire to Redmile, future events and
volunteering opportunities.
East
Midlands Butterfly Conservation – Visit the local team to see and hear about
the plans for 5miles of disused railway between Bottesford and Stathern,
Leicestershire to thin hawthorn trees and scrub to allow light to reach
beneficial low growing plants and the subsequent maintenance plan. This follows
on from similar nearby work in Nottinghamshire. Although the aim is to provide
habitat for the threatened grizzled skipper butterfly it is intended that the
work will significantly improve the flora and fauna.
Vale of
Belvoir Barn Owl Conservation Group – Visit to find out how the Group’s work since 2008
has increased the number of barn owls in the area, barn owl information
including the ringing programme, information on movement of barn owls and the
other species that have
benefitted and the Group’s work. Visit
to discuss the variety of volunteer opportunities available.
Self
service information stands – free information on
bumble bee conservation, the best garden plants for bees and Muston Meadows
National Nature Reserve will be available to take away.
Also, free
Information to take away on the Nottinghamshire supplementary winter feeding of
farmland birds, including feeder designs, some good value seed suppliers and information
on how landowners and farmers can add supplementary free seed to some DEFRA
stewardship schemes.