WOS Newsflash

The AGM on 1st April and Bird Fair on 18th April are postponed. Forthcoming field trips cancelled until further notice - see News for more detail.

A member has had her car broken into at Eight Walks, Savernake this week and would like others to be alerted to the risk of theft from vehicles in remote car parks.

Field Trip to Fonthill on Wednesday 12th February cancelled.

State of Nature Report 2019 shows that many species in Britain are facing extinction https://nbn.org.uk/stateofnature2019/reports/

Important information: due to a sewage leak, Posbrook Lane, Triangle Lane and Meon Road near the village of Titchfield have been closed this week. Please check the Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve website [a link is given on this WOS website in the events section for the trip] or route planner to see if the roads are still closed, in which case the reserve can be accessed via the village of Stubbington.

The RSPB Annual Birdcrime Report shows that there were 87 confirmed incidents of bird of prey persecution recorded in 2018. The link below gives the detail

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/advice/wildlife-and-the-law/wild-bird-crime/birdcrime-2018/?utm_source=short_url&utm_campaign=birdcrime

22nd - 30th June 2019  

http://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/p/2019-swift-awareness-week.html for local events see "News"

A young male satellite tagged hen harrier “Vulcan” has disappeared in Wiltshire. The final transmission on 16th January came from a location south of Calstone Wellington, near Calne. The police and RSPB are working together to try and establish the circumstances around Vulcan’s disappearance. If anyone has information please contact Wiltshire Police on 101 or Contact Crime stoppers on 0800 555111, if you would prefer to remain anonymous.

Alternatively, anyone with information can call the RSPB Raptor Crime Hotline confidentially on 0300 999 0101. 

Follow @RSPB_Skydancer for the latest hen harrier news.