Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve: January 2021

Tuesday, 19 January 2021

Thursday 31st December to Monday 18th January

Your Fund Surrey

We have registered with Surrey County Council's Your Fund Surrey scheme for a grant of between £250,000 and £1,000,000. If successful, we will use the funds to purchase Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve and place it in trust (or similar) for the benefit of the local community.

A detailed business case has to be submitted in February. In the meantime, we are asking all of our supporters to show their support by clicking the link below and "liking" our project:

https://yourfundsurreymap.commonplace.is/comments/5fb2e7df0f3933b6444863cb

Thursday 31st December

Richard Seargent: Brent Goose.

Friday 1st January

John Hunt: Green Sandpiper, Little Egret, Brent Goose, Treecreeper & Peregrine.

Dave Baker: Lesser Redpoll & Siskin.

Kevin Duncan: Possible Siberian Chiffchaff.

Saturday 2nd January

Magnus Brodie Cooper: 17 Golden Plover (over).

Richard Seargent: Green Sandpiper, 3 Snipe, Little Egret, Brent Goose, Kingfisher & Peregrine.

Dina Burford: 2 Lesser Redpoll.

Sunday 3rd January

John Hunt: Brent Goose & Peregrine.

Elizabeth & Louis Reumont: Goldcrest.

Richard Seargent: 73 Lapwing, Snipe & Lesser Redpoll.

Monday 4th January

Richard Seargent: Brent Goose.

Tuesday 5th January

No reports.

Wednesday 6th January

John Hunt: Green Sandpiper.

Thursday 7th January

Dina Burford: Little Egret.

Friday 8th January

Richard Seargent: Brent Goose.

Dina Burford: Little Egret.

Saturday 9th January

Richard Seargent: Brent Goose.

Dina Burford: Little Egret.

Sunday 10th January

Dina Burford: 2 Little Egret.

Monday 11th January

Dina Burford: 3 Little Grebe & Chiffchaff.

Kat Nicola: Goldcrest & Treecreeper.

Tuesday 12th January

Dina Burford: 120+ Lapwing & Zebra Finch (escape).

Wednesday 13th January

Dina Burford: White-fronted Goose & Brent Goose.

2nd site record of White-fronted Goose, last recorded 22/02/79.

This is the adult that was the last of three birds to linger along the River Wey around Unstead, last seen at Shalford Water Meadows on 7th January.

Thursday 14th January

Dina Burford: Brent Goose.

Friday 15th January

Dina Burford: Green Sandpiper, 9+ Mute Swan & Brent Goose.

Saturday 16th January

Dina Burford: Brent Goose.

Sunday 17th January

John Hunt: Green Sandpiper & Brent Goose.

Monday 18th January

Dina Burford: Brent Goose.

Friday, 15 January 2021

Your Fund Surrey

Dear Supporters,

Firstly, thank you once again for signing our petition – we have almost 11,000 signatures now! We know that the petition is keeping the sale of the site in the public eye, so please continue to share it with your friends and family.

A detailed business case has to be submitted in February. In the meantime, we are asking all of our supporters to show their support by doing the following:

1. Click the below link:
https://yourfundsurreymap.commonplace.is/comments/5fb2e7df0f3933b6444863cb

2. Click the purple “like” button.
3. Enter your email address and click the “next” button.
4. Answer the personal questions, or leave them blank. Click “next”.
5. Answer the “stay informed” questions with yes/no.
6. Click the purple “finish” button.
7. Open the email from “Commonplace” (check your spam folder if not in your inbox) and click “confirm agreement”.

Please do register your support, and ask all of your friends and family to sign up too. Surrey County Council will be using public support as one metric when deciding on which projects to fund, so every vote counts.

Thank you for your continued support of Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve.

Regards,

The Tice's Meadow Bird Group

Saturday, 2 January 2021

2020 - A Quick Review

149 bird species were recorded on site in 2020. The joint second highest annual total, with 6 new species for site: Arctic Skua, Black-winged Stilt, Glossy Ibis, Little Bunting, Long-eared Owl & Marsh Tit.

The site list now stands at 200 species.

We recorded 19 species of wader on site in 2020, of the 30 species ever recorded on site. A couple of surprising omissions, but definitely a #waderfest autumn passage.

26 species of butterfly were recorded on site in 2020, including 2 new for site: Brown Hairstreak & Large Tortoiseshell.

We also had a Glanville Fritillary of dubious origin.

Our butterfly list now stands at 30 species.

A record 23 species of Odonata (dragonflies & damselflies) were recorded on site in 2020, including 3 new for site: Downy Emerald, Lesser Emperor & Scarce Chaser.

Our Odonata list now stands at 26 species.

As recently as 2004, you would struggle to find a dragonfly on site!

161 new species of wildlife were recorded on site in 2020, taking our site pan-species list to 1,539.

Big thanks to Sean Foote & Abi Jacobs (67), and Dina Burford (57) for all their hard work in finding and identifying new species.

http://www.ticesmeadow.org/p/pan-species-list_13.html

Despite no public work parties since March, due to both COVID & the sale, we still did 2,303 volunteer hours in 2020. Using Heritage Lottery calcs, this equates to a value of £24,075 - dwarfing any spend by other stakeholders.

Happy New Year to our wonderful volunteers!