Following on from the sad announcement of Mr Jim Mart’s passing away last week, we now have the details of the arrangements for his funeral.
The funeral will take place at 11.30 on Tuesday, the 3rd of December at Chesterfield Crematorium, Brimington.
The November Guided Bird Walk report has been added to the website, thanks to June Fox for the report.
The Ogston Bird walk on 2 November 2013 was led by Paul Beard and there were 14 who joined the walk. It was a dry, very dull morning with poor visibility. The walk started from the West Bank car park and we walked to Brackenfield Church and returned to the West Bank car park.
30 species were recorded. Blackbird, Black Headed Gull, Blue Tit, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Goldeneye, Goldfinch, Great Crested Grebe, Great Tit, Jackdaw, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Magpie, Mallard, Mistle Thrush, Moorhen, Nuthatch, Pied Wagtail, Pochard, Redwing, Robin, Starling, Teal, Tufted Duck, Wigeon, Woodpigeon.
Many thanks to June Fox for the report.
We have just received the very sad news of the death of Jim Mart. Jim donated to Ogston Bird Club the land now known as Jim Mart’s Nature Reserve, he also paid all the conveyance costs to transfer the land to Ogston Bird Club.
Many of you will recall meeting him at the official opening when he was made a life member. He was delighted in the way the land was developed into a nature reserve, particularly the ponds and hedges. He often recalled to me stories of how he used to swim in the stream above the weir. He will be sadly missed.
As soon as we have details of the funeral arrangements we will put them on the website.
Paul Beard
If you want to see older posts that no longer show on the page you’re reading or maybe even check which birds were showing on a certain day, simply 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 and saved in the site’s archives. We no longer have to delete them.
Although the new site has been only running for just over a few weeks, posts from the last year have been added and are available should you want to view them.
The Insect Show is on this Saturday 16th November at Nottingham Trent University. For more details, click on the SHOW POSTER
A couple of new images have been added to the Members Gallery. Well done everyone.
It was mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we had had over 9,000 page views since the new site was launched. This has now shot up to almost 17,000 page views. We also have a large number of people following the site through e-mail.
A really big thank-you to everyone for their continued support.
All members are advised that if they have changed their e-mail address since joining Ogston Bird Club they should let the club’s Membership Secretary have their new details. If you inadvertantly forget to keep your e-mail address up to date, you could be missing out on important information from the Ogston Bird Club.
If you need to update any details, please contact Peter Birley the club’s Membership Sectretary.
The Monthly Bird Report for Carsington has now been added to the website. Just click on the Bird Report Index pages to view.
Thanks to Roger Carrington for the report.