Lordship Wildlife Group

[Rhodes]

I'm a member of the Lordship Recreation Ground Wildlife Group based in Tottenham near to the infamous Broadwater Farm Estate, the Group is made up of park users and local residents interested in wildlife and conservation issues. You may be interested in noting the following birds spotted over the last year or so:

 

Lordship Rec Birds Spotted - 2010-11

by Jeremy Richardson (local amateur naturalist)

 

Bar-headed/Canada Goose hybrid

Barnacle Goose

Blackbird

Blackcap

Black-headed Gull

Blue tit

Bullfinch

Canada Goose

Carrion Crow

Chaffinch

Chiffchaff

Collared Dove

Common Buzzard

Common Pheasant

Coot

Cormorant

Dunnock

Egyptian Goose

Fieldfare

Gadwall

Goldfinch

Great tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Greenfinch

Green Woodpecker

Grey Heron

Greylag Goose

Grey Wagtail

Herring Gull

Hobby

House Martin

House Sparrow

Jack Snipe

Jay

Kestrel

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Little Grebe

Long-tailed tit

Mallard

Magpie

Mistle Trush

Moorhen

Mute Swan

Pied Wagtail

Pochard

Redwing

Robin

Shelduck

Shoveler

Song Thrush

Sparrrowhawk

Starling

Stonechat

Swallow

Swift

Teal

Tufted Duck

Wheatear

Whitethroat

Willow Warbler

Wood Pigeon

Wren

 

 

[Eastside Urchin]

some good birds there for the inner city,ie buzzard,jack snipe,willow warbler,whitethroat,wheatear,bullfinch

 

 

 

 

[Rhodes]

Eastside Urchin - I often get updates by e-mail from the Group so will post them on here, as you say to get birds such as the Buzzard, Jack Snipe, Willow Warbler, Whitethroat, Wheatear and Bullfinch in the Inner City, yards from the infamous Broadwater Farm Estate, is amazing:

 

Announcing the formation of the Lordship Wildlife Group

 

 

 

As users of the Rec will know, the Park is an incredible green space in the heart of urban Tottenham, home to an astonishing array of wildlife. We have three species of bat, amazing biodiversity in the lake area and currently, visiting Canada Geese. Even from my office at the Community Centre, I've spotted jays, woodpeckers and a sparrowhawk! There is such a lot of potential for local people to get involved in the Park now and work together to make the Rec an even more welcoming spot for all types of Flora and Fauna.Certain sections of the Rec already need work to make them more wildlife friendly. The Lordship Wildlife Group should be an important means of ensuring that biodiversity remains central to the regeneration of this green space and that all can benefit from it - not just us

humans!

 

 

 

From Felix Waterhouse, Volunteer Co-ordinator at the Rec

 

 

[Eastside Urchin]

cheers rhodes,much appreciated

[Beeswax]

cheers rhodes,much appreciated

 

two birds there on my lifers list!

[Rhodes]

I'm surprised that Sjj2112 hasn't commented on this thread as I know he has an interest in birds, the feathered variety that is

[Eastside Urchin]

Haven't seen him on here for a while

[Rhodes]

Eastside Urchin - I've never really been able to make him out have you. So how long have you been into birds out of interest, you seem to know your onions.

[Eastside Urchin]

He seems fine to me lol

 

Quite a few years now,started as a boy

[Rhodes]

He seems fine to me lol

Really, I wish I could agree with you

[Rhodes]

This is certainly an issue that the Lordship Wildlife Group will be addressing in no uncertain terms, truly shocking but sadly typical of what can be allowed to happen in areas such as Tottenham where the majority of residents are largely responsible for so called Broken Britain:

 

http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/news/travel/fears_for_birds_trapped_in_tottenham_railway_bridge_nets_1_962630

 

 

 

 

 

[Rhodes]

I thought members would appreciate a link to the Lordship Wildlife Group's Website, enjoy:

 

http://www.lordshiprec.org.uk/2011/04/lordship-wildlife-group-2/

[Eastside Urchin]

Cheers Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Just to let you know folks that there is a meeting of the Lordship Wildlife Group on Tuesday 23 August at 6.00pm at the Opportunity Centre on the infamous Broadwater Farm Estate, watch this space for the Minutes.

[Rhodes]

Here's an update on the Group's innovative work folks from the Minutes of the 'Lordship Rec Users Forum':

 

Lordship Wildlife Group: The group is now meeting every month and it is going well-focusing on improving habitats in the park and therefore biodiversity. Want to put in an approx. 3x3m pond in the spinney to increase the wildlife potential - need to work out a proposal to present to all. Encouraging surveys of birds, plants, bats, butterflies etc. Supported recent bat walk - 30 attended

 

[Rhodes]

I thought members would appreciate an update on the innovative Lordship Wildlife Group who met this week:

 

Lordship Rec Wildlife Group

Next meeting tonight! Tuesday 18th October, 6pm

@ Back 2 Earth Office in the Opportunity Centre, 200 metres east of the Community Centre, Adams Road, N17

Monitoring, promoting and enhancing nature in Lordship Rec. All welcome!

 

See below for minutes of last meeting:

 

Draft minutes of LWG meeting, 20th September 2011

Present: Ruth. Dave, Gary, Malcolm, Ian (LBH), Inga, Terry, Wayne, Glynis (B2E)

Apologies: Helen, Karolina, Jeremy, Luisa (LBH), Catherine, Joan

 

Minutes of the previous meeting were agreed. The minutes below are to be discussed and confirmed at the next meeting on 18th Oct

 

1. Habitats

Proposals for materials for habitats (new or enhanced) and for locations - after main heavy construction works completed. Bats and birds - 30 wooden boxes available in Lordship Rec staff lockup, some are being built into Envirocentre and Ian may have some woodcrete boxes available. Locations could include central corridor, Lordship wood, lake island, west end of lake. Habitats for other species were discussed but await completion of works.

 

2. Spinney

All welcome to join spinney management group. Steve/Ruth did a tree audit. Also, map of whole spinney needed - 5 mini-zones? Maintenance programme needs re-thinking. Construction of a pond might be good somewhere in spinney (but probably not in seasonally wet area). Stones (from the football field?) could be used to build habitats. Idea for doing coppicing. Some stump-grinding missed out by previous contractors on edge of spinney by path - to be done? Bike track low fence needed to discourage cycling into the spinney - LWG members and Trax members invited to help build.

 

3. Ecohedge

Steve/Ruth did audit. Ian provided a hedge-cutting document as advice. Needs to be valued, and to have a management regime (with less trimming, preferably by hand by volunteers). Part of the damp ground on the west side of the hedge has been identified as a small conservation area within a wider meadow area, but may be affected by the new drainage going in. End of hedge was lost due to construction of new Centre - to be replaced at later date by the contractors.

 

4. Central corridor

This area is currently rich in wildlife. Infill work on the ditch will give a contoured profile to allow for trees in situ. Monitoring for ensuring sightlines kept open may be necessary. Needs to be thought about.

 

5. Cut tree logs

Good for insects etc. It may be possible to move some of smaller ones to more shady/damp areas when works complete.

 

6. Top soil in main field

This is poor enough for meadow habitat and does not need removal. It will be sprayed with glyphosphate to kill grass. EM2 (English meadow 2), a general purpose wild flower seed mix, will then be used. Back 2 Earth hope to involve schoolchildren in one area. Ian hopes a wetland mix will be used near the new river channel. Then left to grow for 3 mths before open to public. The North West corner will be left unsprayed and unseeded so can be used for community garden at a later date. A utilities trench ring is being dug around the Rec - care will be taken to avoid going too close to trees wherever possible.

 

7. River channel and pond

The new silt pond will eventually have some reeds planted. Our idea of a walk along the route of the Moselle has been taken on by Joan and others through the Haringey Friends of Parks Forum. Shrubs on the river banks are to be planted next year. The damp corridor / boardwalk around the shallow 'islands' could become an interesting habitat.

 

8. New trees

Additional varieties have been included in the plans after consultation with the LWG. LWG and the Friends could have an opportunity to plant cherry trees in the Friends' picnic area (currently the old BMX dirt track) in November.

 

9. Tree protection

Need to keep our eyes on this throughout the works and also after new trees planted.

 

10. Springwatch, RSPB and other surveys.

Various surveys done or are being planned. Dave contacted Helen Thomas who may have done a fungi survey - she will try to send us a list of what she's observed. Karolina hopes to compile a list of various plants in the Rec.

 

11. Lordship Wood

Alex Fraser to advise the Friends on thinning needed.

 

12. Lordship Rec Management Plan

This needs updating, to include many of the proposals above.

 

13. A.O.B.

i. latest masterplan of park now available

ii. Sporticulture event (Sept 24th) a great success - 400+ people in the Centre.

iii. Friends are producing regular bulletins for park users about the regeneration progress, latest available.

 

Next meeting

18 Oct at 6pm

 

 

 

[Eastside Urchin]

A good report on what seems like some good urban work,cheers Rhodes

[Rhodes]

Eastside Urchin - That's just the tip of the iceberg, you wouldn't believe the work that's going on and just 100 - 200 yards from where PC Blakelock was hacked to death in 1985

[Rhodes]

Here we go folks, here’s a comprehensive listing of birds spotted on the Lordship Recreation Ground over the last three years, fill your boots:

 

Bar-headed/Canada Goose hybrid

Barnacle Goose

Blackbird

Blackcap

Black-headed Gull

Blue tit

Bullfinch

Canada Goose

Carrion Crow

Chaffinch

Chiffchaff

Collared Dove

Common Buzzard

Common Pheasant

Coot

Cormorant

Dunnock

Egyptian Goose

Fieldfare

Gadwall

Goldfinch

Great tit

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Greenfinch

Green Woodpecker

Grey Heron

Greylag Goose

Grey Wagtail

Herring Gull

Hobby

House Martin

House Sparrow

Jack Snipe

Jay

Kestrel

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Little Egret

Little Grebe

Long-tailed tit

Mallard

Magpie

Mistle Trush

Moorhen

Mute Swan

Pied Wagtail

Pochard

Redwing

Ring-Necked Parakeet

Robin

Shelduck

Shoveler

Song Thrush

Sparrrowhawk

Starling

Stock Dove

Stonechat

Swallow

Swift

Teal

Tufted Duck

Wheatear

Whitethroat

Willow Warbler

Wood Pigeon

Wren

 

[Rhodes]

This is the sort of thing the Lordship Wildlife Group keep their eyes peeled for in 'lawless' Tottenham, an unscrupulous bird trapper kept three wild goldfinches, one female and two male, on an allotment in cages until he was reported and apprehended by the RSPCA:

 

http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/news/bird_trapper_given_three_month_curfew_for_caging_goldfinches_1_1158276