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Regards,
Ian.
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Above a link to the book Minsmere Portrait of a bird reserve. Of which you can buy online as second hand copies.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
Yes that was day when you needed permits for lots of reserves. If a rare bird suddenly turned up any RSPB reserves, you just couldn’t turn up even at those at those reserves where no permits where needed. But even l those RSPB reserves where no permits where where needed, were still only open a few days a week. Not all! I heard one story, when a family applying for a permit in advance for a family to visit Minsmere and had applied well in advance to the RSPB headquarters The Lodge reserve. The staff that sent permits out where very lenient as that permit for that family took the total number of permits for that day one over the limit. And the story was that Bert Axel was absolutely furious about that. Also Bert Axel did not like twitchers. But on the other hand Bert Axel was very goos in helping beginners. An interesting part of Minsmere Portrait of a Bird Reserve was when Bert Axel mentioned that certain birdwatchers in 1960’s and earlier had very large binoculars who tended to show off as very big binoculars where at that time the best and most expensive to buy and they did show off to other birdwatchers who had smaller sized binoculars which where not aa good, unlike now as binoculars are much smaller and of course just as good.
In Northumberland, County Durham and Tyne and Wear, I’m still waiting for the first RSPB reserve that I can visit and I’m still waiting for that to happen as I have done since the 1950’s. Except of course for Coquet Island in Northumberland, of which no visiting is allowed. Also as well Cleveland didn’t get it’s first RSPB reserve until 2009 with Saltholme. Maybe and hopefully but I doubt it will become a reality for me now 70 since the 13th May of this year. Strangely back in the 1960’s and the 1970’s the only regional office covering Northern England and the only regional office then covering Northern England was based in Newcastle Upon Tyne and unlike now with 3 regional offices covering the whole of Northern England. The strange thing during that period no RSPB reserves until Coquet Island while other area’s of Northern England had quite a number of RSPB reserves where there was no regional offices. Which seems very strange having the regional office at that time in Newcastle Upon Tyne with no RSPB reserves in North East England. I can also remember the regional officer at that time was Ian Armstrong.
I use Duck Duck go search engine rather than google search to Search But I copied and pasted it into the Duck Duck go search engine. Iv found
it on Amazon And I have had a look at it. Thanks for the link www.amazon.co.uk/.../0091288401
Thanks for the link to the article cause I think that is interesting aswell.