
Tree
Felling
You
may have noticed that our partners, Herts &
Middlesex Wildlife Trust, have been busy this week clearing trees from a
couple of smaller islands at the Springwell end
of the lake. This is to provide a better breeding habitat for some of our
resident water birds. Other islands, including those further along the lake
used by herons as nesting sites, will be left untouched. Indeed many herons
can already be seen sitting on nests there.
20th January 2012
Recent
Website Issues
Owing
to an unfortunate series of technical problems beyond our control, updates
to this website have been rather sporadic over the last few months, during
which period the site was also down completely for a few weeks. We believe these problems are now behind
us and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
6th December 2011
Kestrel
Nest Box
Sadly
the dead tree on the peninsular in front of the
Kingfisher hide recently fell down. This held the Kestrel nest box which,
since erected five years ago, has been home to our own local kestrel
family. Many young have fledged over those 5 years. Luckily this year’s
brood departed before the tree fell down. (See picture.)

Newly
fledged Kestrels – July 2011
Rob
Hopkins (Herts & Middlesex Wildlife Trust
representative) and Ian Watson (FoSL chairman)
have discussed what to do. They have decided that a telegraph pole should
be erected to host the box for the future. That will make a good job for
one of this winter’s work parties!
14th August 2011
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