If you are interested in helping please follow this link in order to get a description of the feeding experiment and information on what is involved and Hannah's contact details. BBRC News
The record of Pacific Golden Plover seen at both Beddington SF and The London Wetland Centre on May 2nd 2010 has been accepted by the British Birds Rarities Committee. This is the second County record, following the first (which was also the first record for Britain) which was shot on Epsom Race Course on 12th November 1870! The following records (click here) are currently doing the rounds with the Surrey Bird Club records committee. A number of records from 2010 remain unsubmitted. Please see this list for details. Wildfowl Counters Wanted Do you live near any of these sites? A visit is required once a month on or near the dates below. An updated list of vacant water bodies can be found here (updated October 2011). Count dates for 2012 are: Jan 15th
Feb 12th
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Dec 16th Would anyone interested in helping with the counts please contact the Surrey organiser, who is: Penny Williams, Bournbrook House, Sandpit Hall Road, Chobham, Surrey, GU24 8HA. Tel: 01276 857736. E-mail: penny@waxwing.plus.com Members Questionnaire To download a copy of the questionnnaire click here The purpose of this is to obtain feedback from the Club's members about who you are, your interests and in particular what you hope the Surrey Bird Club can offer you as members. Please read the instructions carefully. SBC Records Committee News The Records Committee held their annual meeting on Mar 27th 2011. The results of that meeting can be viewed here Did you see any of these birds in 2010? Johnny Allan has put together a list of birds reported during 2010, but which have yet to be backed up with notes. Please submit any additonal records as soon as possible after the event. Guidelines can be found on the recording page. Decisions from The March 2010 meeting can be found here Decisions from the January 2009 meeting can be found here Any comments or errors, please contact Dave Harris (Chairman) Surrey Atlas Maps for Summer 2008-10 This summer will be the final season for the BTO Atlas. Tetrad coverage has been already been good enough to begin assessing changes since the Atlas of 20 years ago and it is time to take stock of what more needs to be done.
The maps included here are based on the 575 tetrads with at least a part in new or old Surrey. Definitions of what is included differ a little as between the 1988-97 and 2008-10 Atlases Both include birds present without breeding evidence, a category omitted for the maps in Birds of Surrey. The maps may differ significantly for tetrads crossing the county border, which were treated differently in the two Atlases. Overall, though, the differences are small enough to allow useful comparisons. The total number of different plotted records for all species in the 1988-97 ATLAS was 28,376. We have already reached 25,842 in the current Atlas with one more summer to go. The 25,842 have been filtered out of a total of over 146,000 records, about 83,500 of which have come through the Atlas process and about 62,500 from other sources, mainly BTO BirdTrack. The table compares results for a selection of tetrads. Tetrads with Birds Found in Summer (% of 575 tetrads) A fairly complete set of maps is now available below. The maps are provisional and not fully edited or vetted by the Records Committee. Big dots indicate strong breeding evidence. Records were collected from April to July. Many of the species found were only migrants, but their maps have been included for interest. The maps are in three sets: Non-Passerines Click here
Passerines Click here
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BTO MATTERS
Are you able to help? 10km Square Stewards
The BTO Surrey Region is made up of 16 x 10km squares. Five of these are currently without a Square Steward.
The role consists of acting as 'the man/woman on the spot', with a local knowledge of the area's birds and its habitats.
You would be provided with a list of BTO members and other regular surveyors who have been involved in the recent past.
Filling these positions is becoming increasingly important as Bird Atlas 2007-2011 progresses (see www.birdatlas.net).
If you are interested, feel you might be able to help and live in/near any of these squares, do please contact me via the
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SURREY BIRD CLUB RECORDING AREA
The recording area of the Surrey Bird Club is the vice-county of Surrey. The borders of the vice-county are those of Surrey in the late 19th century. This is approximately the same as the border before 1965, when the northeast was lost to Greater London, the Gatwick area was lost to Sussex, and Spelthorne (Staines north of the Thames) was gained from Middlesex. It is thus the current Administrative County of Surrey minus all the territory north of the Thames and plus the greater London Boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Wandsworth, Merton, Croydon, Kingston, Richmond and Sutton and plus the Gatwick area. There is a map of the recording area in every edition of the Surrey Bird Report. The county list is currently being overhauled as part of the preparation of the new Birds of Surrey and full details are not yet available for publication. The number of species on the draft list was published as 325 in the Birdwatchers Yearbook for 2004. Recent splits and additions have brought it up 333.