GREAT NEWS
Environmental and Fleet Management
Gateshead Council have listened and retained the Countryside Ranger which is great news for all the nature reserves, open green spaces and biodiversity.
Thank you to everyone who wrote letters / emails, signed petitions and shared on their Facebook pages.
Thank you
Jackey Lockwood
Chair
Environmental and Fleet Management
Gateshead Council have listened and retained the Countryside Ranger which is great news for all the nature reserves, open green spaces and biodiversity.
Thank you to everyone who wrote letters / emails, signed petitions and shared on their Facebook pages.
Thank you
Jackey Lockwood
Chair
Other News
On 17 May, eleven of us thoroughly enjoyed a Bird Walk along the Derwent Valley led by Michael Turner, local ornithologist.
Birds we saw / heard are listed below.
Seen:
Blue tit
Bullfinch (male & female)
Buzzard
Carrion crow
Dipper
Goosander (male)
Grey heron
Grey wagtail
Magpie
Mallard (female & ducklings)
Moorhen
Mute swan
Nuthatch
Red kite
Reed bunting
Sparrowhawk
Swallow
Swift
Heard:
Blackbird
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Dunnock
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great tit
Little Grebe
Long tailed tits
Mistle thrush
Robin
Wood pigeon
Wren
Other !
Badger latrine ! (poo & footprints)
Otter poo
Meetings:
Indoor meetings are held in the Upper Hall, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, 557 Durham Road, Low Fell, NE9 5EY. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday in the month (September 2023 to April 2024). The hall will be open from 7pm for talks to start at about 7.15pm.
2023/24 meetings resume on :
Fliss Hill
Secretary
[email protected]
07901 557824
Birds we saw / heard are listed below.
Seen:
Blue tit
Bullfinch (male & female)
Buzzard
Carrion crow
Dipper
Goosander (male)
Grey heron
Grey wagtail
Magpie
Mallard (female & ducklings)
Moorhen
Mute swan
Nuthatch
Red kite
Reed bunting
Sparrowhawk
Swallow
Swift
Heard:
Blackbird
Blackcap
Chiffchaff
Dunnock
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Great tit
Little Grebe
Long tailed tits
Mistle thrush
Robin
Wood pigeon
Wren
Other !
Badger latrine ! (poo & footprints)
Otter poo
Meetings:
Indoor meetings are held in the Upper Hall, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, 557 Durham Road, Low Fell, NE9 5EY. Meetings are held on the first Wednesday in the month (September 2023 to April 2024). The hall will be open from 7pm for talks to start at about 7.15pm.
2023/24 meetings resume on :
- Wednesday 6 September
Fliss Hill
Secretary
[email protected]
07901 557824