Hello Folks,RSPB reserves are great places for you to get closer to nature. So what better reason than to have a quiz to see how much you know about them. Each Monday for 12 weeks, I will be posting a little teaser for you. Without looking in books or on the internet (i.e - no cheating), see if you can identify this RSPB reserve. On Wednesday, so as long as no-one has guessed it, I will post one clue. On Friday I will post the answer along with some additional information for your interest. Just for fun!: Make sure you keep an note of the first letter of each reserve as the weeks go by, and at the end of week 12, see if you can rearrange all 12 letters to spell out a message about our reserves.Here goes ....MYSTERY RSPB RESERVE#8Luckily the demon barbers didn’t scare away the Recurvirostra avosetta.
Old Moor ?
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
maybe Blacktoft Sands.
Blacktoft sands for me
Ray
a good laugh is better than a tonic
That is funny Seaman and myself have come up a long way from south coast.
Old Moor for me. I could be wrong, though.
Annie
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Einstein
michael s said: That is funny Seaman and myself have come up a long way from south coast.
Hi again Seaman,we travelled on the same bus,just got off at different destination.Didn't realise the Avocets were that far north.Like some other species they have done fantastically well and Arne gets a really large flock in winter,must be a thousand.We also seem to see Marsh Harriers if we go near reedbeds and we said even 5 years ago we never saw any.
Always like to see a new bird and on Monday we saw a Water Rail,even though they are just about everywhere we visit have spent 10 years hoping to see one.Will have to think of some other bird now that is not easy to see but not impossible either.
michael s said:Didn't realise the Avocets were that far north
I know it's a bit off thread but Avocet have bred just up the road from us in N.Yorks and maybe further up North still.
For me any bus is good with my free pass lol
Not sure about a coal pit at Blacktoft,looks the wrong terrain to me but I did fail geology
Also not sure of a colliery at Blacktoft but more likely to see avocet there.
Being from Barnsley I do know that Old Moor was an old spoil heap or muck stack for a colliery,believe Manvers Main and do believe parents and a chick was seen there as at Edderthorpe a couple of miles away.
Its the demon barber part of the clue that gets me.
Does Mrs T mean the snappers taking photos or the gulls etc constantly diving and snapping up the young that I have seen at Blacktoft or am I missing something.
Now torn between Blacktoft and Old Moor
Must get to Old Moor more often
Yes I seem to have forgotten the demon barbers Ray,back to the drawing board