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19/10/2005
October in St. Mary's Fields
We held a public meeting on OCTOBER 4TH at EXETER HALL when John Brucker, our project leader, gave an excellent presentation about the past five years and about future plans.
The following Tuesday was a work morning for volunteers. A good start was made on clearing ash and bramble in order to define interesting tree and shrub species. We intend labelling these and this should provide a useful resource for school children. A good deal of intrusive tree branches and foliage was also removed from around the pond.
Autumn is the best part of the year for management activities by volunteers. We have a dedicated group who do valuable work. but would welcome more.In the near future a dispaly board will be put up near the entrance giving details of future evets. This information will alos be posted on this web site.
This is a quiet time in the Fields themselves. Most of the migrant birds have left. One or two blackcaps and whitethroats may linger on, feedibg up on this year's ample supply of berries.One migrant that does remain throughput the month is the chiffchaff for unlike others most winter in southern Europe or northern Africa avoiding the need to cross the Sahara Desert. There are more than a dozen in the fields now. You can hear their "hooeet" calls and in fine weather they may burst into song.
Butterflies have had a surprisingly poor year. There are plenty of speckled woods, and a few red admirals are appearing.
It was good to see a marsh tit here on September 10th feeding on thistle seed. This species has been absent for several years.
The last of the swallows have gone,and by the end of the month the first fieldfares and redwings will appear,coming here for winter from thier breeding areas in Europe. They will enjoy this years bumper crop of hawthorn berries.
