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#1217 pairs in a row have I.
Absolutely brilliant John,makes me think my answer could be correct or Appleanns
could just as easily be 17 pairs Pied Flycatchers in nest boxes in a row at Inversnaid.
Hey, John - don't give it away, (actually you got in before me, I'd got that too). I don't think the clue can have anything to do with Ancient Mariner as we don't have an Albatross round here. :-)
I'm now going for Inchmickery.
What is next Mrs T? Will it be a Mystery Mystery Quiz?
Annie
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Einstein
Ummm, what indeed! I am thinking UK (Wild) plants. Will post a poll later on to see what folk think, so watch this space.
This week’s mystery reserve is..... Isley Marsh in Devon. Isley Marsh was purchased in 1990 and is made up of saltmarsh and intertidal mudflats on the southern edge of the Taw Torridge estuary. In the 1930s, the submerged Stone Row of Yelland was excavated from the mud in the estuary. Now submerged, this stone row consists of seventeen pairs of stones and stone holes. Thought to date from the Bronze age, the row may have been built on an island in the estuary. From flint working evidence, the area was clearly a hive of activity right back until the Mesolithic. Did you know that Isley Marsh is a great place to see Teal, Greenshank, Curlew and if you are lucky Spoonbills.
More information on Isley Marsh can be found here:
www.rspb.org.uk/.../index.aspx
So have you been keeping a note of all the first letters of each reserve? If so, re-arrange them to produce a phrase to do with our reserves... answer on monday along with a poll for the next quiz if you're up for it!
Claire
Well done MrsT think we need something more difficult,we have all found these really easy and we are just having you on testing you out with our answers.
God Sooty, you've done it now
Ray
a good laugh is better than a tonic
As John has rightly pointed out (well done John).... all of the first letters of each of the reserves when shuffled around a bit spell out.... GO VISIT TODAY.Enough said really, so why not venture out and go visit one of our reserves today!Will post a poll for next quiz tomorrow!Claire
Took it literally MrsT went to Arne on Saturday,seemed easier part of the quiz.
Well done Sooty, thats the ticket! Do hope you enjoyed your visit!