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10 Buckden Roundabout
July 2017 For your diary
Spotted Flycatchers - do you have this increas-
ingly rare bird breeding in your garden?
Participate in our survey!
Last year many Cambridgeshire community and
parish newsletters, magazines and websites
helped with a county-wide survey of Spotted
Flycatchers. These are attractive little migrant
birds which are summer visitors to village gar-
dens and churchyards. Although they breed
with us, they spend ten months of the year
travelling between here and their wintering
grounds in Southern Africa. This is an increas-
ingly dangerous journey for them, and sadly
they are in deep decline. Widespread losses
amounted to a 50% decline during 1995-2010,
continuing a 90% decline since 1970.
Only some fifty pairs remain breeding in Cam-
bridgeshire, so it's now quite a rare bird, but
most rural villages still have a pair or two. The
Cambridgeshire Bird Club is again running a
survey this year to find and monitor nesting
pairs, and it's almost certain that there will be
additional pairs in our villages of which we are
not aware.
Do you have flycatchers in your garden? Please
let the Bird Club know.
Please email spofl@cambridgebirdclub.org.uk
with any information you have, including rec-
ords of single birds anytime between now and
September.
See also
http://www.cambridgebirdclub.org.uk/
spofl2017.html
for details of the project and how to send in
your records.
THE FRIENDS OF
BUCKDEN TOWERS
COFFEE MORNING
Friday 14TH JULY 2017
10.00 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.
in the
METHODIST SCHOOL ROOM
CAKES AND CARDS FOR SALE
Admission only £2.00
Including Coffee and Cake