Taken from all the club’s recent newsletters:

It is VERY IMPORTANT that you carry your Ogston Membership Card with you at all times when visiting both the Ogston and Jim Mart reserves.

Members should never reveal the lock number to non members and please remember that non-members on site are not covered by Public Indemnity insurance.

If you want to see older posts that no longer show on the page you’re reading, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the “Older Posts” wording. A really good feature on the new website is that posts automatically get stored in the site’s archives. We no longer have to delete them.

Although the new site has been only running for a few months, posts from the last year have been added and are available should you want to view them.

As per the recent Ogston Bird Club newsletter, can we remind all members that as of this year, the gate lock numbers were changed in the first weekend of February 2014.
NOT MAY as in previous years.

Please note, membership renewal will take 7 to 10 days during January, so can you please ensure that you get your membership renewal forms to the Membership Secretary as early as possible. This will allow him chance to process them and allow you continued access to both the Ogston and Jim Mart reserves.

Copies of the 2014 membership renewal forms are attached to the latest Ogston newsletter e-mail. If you haven’t received your copy of the December newsletter, please contact the club’s Publicity Officer, Steve Slack by E-mail

We would ask all members and viewers of this site to consider objecting to the proposed cycle track that will all but destroy large areas of the Sanctuary.

Please note there is a degree of urgency about this as the closing date for people wishing to object to the cycle track is the 16th January.

Click HERE for details on how to object.

https://www.facebook.com/TheSanctuaryDerby

We have had the following message in from the Care2 Petition Site:

Barn owls in the United Kingdom are facing extinction — many dying from rat poison.

The barn owl used to be a common sight in the United Kingdom, but now the birds have become increasingly endangered. One of the biggest causes of barn owl deaths is rat poison — and the government isn’t doing everything it could to help them.

To get rid of rats throughout the United Kingdom, farmers and civil servants frequently use rodenticide. But the rats aren’t the only animals who suffer: animals that eat rats, including barn owls, are also poisoned. In 2010, 91% of the dead barn owls in a contaminated area had been exposed to rat poison, and that number just keeps growing.

Kestrels, red kites and other birds of prey have also died in huge numbers from ingesting rat poison.

These poisons should be used as a last resort, not f irst choice, and they should only be used by licensed, trained pest control officers. Ask the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to introduce proper regulation on rodent poisons — before it’s too late to save barn owls.

For more information and to sign the petition, click on SAVE THE BARN OWLS

Just to let everyone know, RSPB Snttisham is now “Partly” open for visitors. The message below has been copied from the RSPB website:

Due to severe damage caused by the recent tidal surge, Snettisham is only partly opened.

Please note that there is on-foot access only, between the car park as far as the waders watch point (which is about a mile from the car park). Accessible areas are clearly marked by banners and/or signs. The first hide is open, all other parts of the reserve and hides are dangerous and will remain closed for some time.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide vehicle access for less mobile visitors because the track has been washed away and is impassable. We are hoping to rebuild this as soon as conditions allow.

Taken from all the club’s recent newsletters:

It is VERY IMPORTANT that you carry your Ogston Membership Card with you at all times when visiting both the Ogston and Jim Mart reserves.

Members should never reveal the lock number to non members and please remember that non-members on site are not covered by Public Indemnity insurance.

The Monthly Bird Report from Carsington has now been added to the website. This is for December 2013.

To view the December report, please visit the Bird Report Index pages.

Thanks to Roger Carrington for the report.