The usually smooth running of many peoples household will be disrupted next week when the local council elections are held on Thursday 3rd May. This results in the temporary closure of junior schools and lots of parents and children stuck for something to do.
Fear not - help is on hand - here at Middleton Lakes we recognise the need to entertain little ones and what better place could there be than to tire the youngsters out using our natural playground.
Come along to our main car park next Thursday and we'll have childrens' activities, scavenger hunts, bird spotting sheets and lots more. We'll be there from 10.30am to 3.30pm with not a ballot paper in sight.
Sponsored Bird Watching
The event is the same as last years, people turn up anytime on Sat. 5th May and see how many bird species they can see on the reserve and then put their records on the notice board or better still give them to an RSPB rep on the car park. If people want, they could offer donations for the bird feeding fund, i.e sponsorship of say 10p a species, so if 90 species are seen then £9.00.
The results will be put on birdforums and on the RSPB blog and Facebook.
We would be competing against Upton Warren and Belvide bird reserve. Last year Belvide won with 91 species, we had 89 and Upton Warren 85 and we don't want them to win again, do we!
See you on the reserves,
Best regards,
Chris Edwards