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- more rain,' qfcourse.JJnlike the - - .-Somerset levels- weseem to have*:^^
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^.SSowhatdowe have in'storefor you v$&y.v ' ^this month^in Rural,Life?:First of all we -v :' f |
- - have joined Leighton Moss Nature"'1 ^ .••.-'wRefeeiwjnSilverdaleii^celebrating^%v^sf- ; .its 50th anniyersary.-<
We.talked tcr«ras5?$x Tthe reserve's first waVden and also its ^r- v latesf^and took a trip down memory
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with.them to discover, how \ .•■Leightdn^Moss haveiyhanged over -Oy; Xi?
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i.the de~ca;des.Tum to pages? and 8 to >j^tj. I read jail about it . '^ a H '^ - - - j - „• T y - :rf-,
Wealso.talked tola couple who'Vf.j'
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^ have taken on a^iWnear K irkb y ^ ^ ' ? T _ j ■ LonsdaleLde'spite^the fact'that neither^, A
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•and SylviaWelbank are planning to'if 0" build a future'on 7,
5.acresdf lahd/af' a time wKe'n
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Trainees’ testing time..........................
..Ill Rural diversification........................12.&1-3 Gardening.................................................16 Property...................
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.r.Wednesday,Februaiy26,a)M ] - A ; Wednesday,February26,2014 RURAL LIFE story.
LANCASHIRE is very I l f fortunate is having a
number of great nature % eserves as well as areas?
.of,outstanding natural beauty;-!
• ’And this year sees two of ' >V2* •-’them celebrating their 50th anniversary.— -
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A- i r Bowland AONB clocked ystf y : up 50 yeans on February 10, T . • and the RSPB's Leighton Moss site in Silverdale is also halfa^l
•.- century old this year. • .;r One of the most impressive !
things about these areas, • along wjth the stunning flora? !
■, yand fauna and breathtaking y ■ • landscapes, is the people ; % . who work there. Skilled and > : • passionate about wildlife and \
; - the environment, they are -V ■
^endlessly enthusiastic. , -7; This month, we turn the • V 'Spotlight on two ofthem, . •
, of a much largerteam. iv-. . John Wilson was the first warden to manage Leighton*.
• Moss in 1964, and while he has | ;■/' ■
; hels still involved with the T ; t •
now been retired for 14 years,; ■ • . reserve on a regular basis. ;;v
; His colleague David Mower- ;?> ■ still wbrks-there, but after . . '. ;;; ?. notching up 27. years, he ; reaches retirement in
June.sy
;^?-Like llohn before him, he has si Afeno intention of hanging up^r sThis waders. ln fact, the mere.; •; mention of retiring strikes '■}?, \ '
terror.into his heart.
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I'..? We talked .to John and I Vi.,.: David to find out what it is ^ . :.K’i-about Leighton Moss that kept I them tl^re;ayid also about->|| I
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the.changes the reserve has;a | •r^seen since it was establisheds ^.jn 1964.’-'i? ^
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although they would be the?* first to admit that they are part?
report. One section of the report, which
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-compared current figures with those in the 1900s, looked at the . UK's 107 most widespread and- • •
. common breeding birds. Of these species,-16 have • i-
declined by more than one-third. . - since 1995, including willow tit, ;. .
. starling, cuckoo, lapwing, whmchat . and wood warbler. Many of these .species are reliant on habitats in the so-called 'wider countryside','rather! than being maintained on special T ' sites, such as nature reserves.' ' - Of particular concern is the
number of grey partridge, which has halved since 1995. The unique ■ British race of the yellow wagtail - a -; bright 'yellow-headed' version,
whose population is found Vf almost entirely in the’UK-has .
declined by 45 per cent overthe samepenod.
' -■•This year; the alarming decline
■ of some of the UK's most familiar •countryside birds has been brought lintosharp focus with the launch of
the recently published Bird Atlas 2007-11.
That mammoth mapping project
covered all of the UK's breeding ' and wintering birds and revealed
A real taste of Cumbria More than
how many countryside birds are - disappearing from the UK. For example, yellow wagtails have . vanished from large areas of . England and virtually disappeared from Wales. Dr Mark Eaton, an RSPB
conservation scientist, said: "I think many of us have been shocked . by how poorly some of our most familiar species are faring. Many of the birds we're referring to aren't rare, and don't occur in remote -
locations. On the contrary, they are’ ones you used to see while walking, the dog or enjoying a family picnic.; "But overtwo decades many
of these species have ebbed away from huge swathes of our countryside." ’ The list of familiar countryside •
birds which are declining include: < willow tit, cuckoo, whinchat, starling, wood warbler, yellow ;.; ! wagtail, lapwing, snipe, grey partridge, com bunting;.- '. . . .
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