From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Joe Public/Ian Magness
One of the UK’s rarest birds is raising a family in Kent after escaping record temperatures further south, nature experts say.
Four black-winged stilt chicks have recently fledged in Worth Marshes, near Sandwich, after a pair of the birds arrived from Africa in the spring.
It is believed the species is flying further north as climate change causes its natural habitat in countries like Spain to become too hot.
“The wetland habitat is so incredibly important for them to breed,” said Vicki Peaple, a warden for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) in Worth Marshes.
The nature reserve has been especially prepared to welcome black-winged stilts, which wildlife presenter Bill Oddie named “one of the world’s most elegant birds”.
New water control structures have been put in that hold the water in the winter and control levels over spring and the summer.
“It’s been a big, big change but it’s produced some wonderful results,” said Izzy Donovan, senior site manager.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5138mvyv51o#
Climate change?
It probably won’t surprise you to learn that the black-winged stilt has often visited these shores in the past:
Coward 1926
Witherby 1946
Bannerman & Lodge 1961
Birds of Wiltshire 2007
As for “escaping record temperatures further south”, given that the birds arrived in spring, I can only say they must have seen a more reliable weather forecast than the Met Office’s 3-Month Outlook!
Even when the birds are happy and migrating back to England, the climate alarmists have nothing but hand wringing and doom to bring to the discussion.
With all those wind turbines.. they must have been lucky to make it !
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There’s a lot of mileage to be had from that picture!
Yeah, like a lot of bad Photoshop.
One pair of of how many thousand? millions? more? is a sign of a changing climate. All the others are too dumb to notice?
White winged stilts are appearing – it’s evolution……white reflects heat better.
Yeah, you would think whole flocks of them would be coming to the UK if their habitat was changing drastically.
The BBC just doesn’t care any more about how mad their reporting is. They will say anything which can be construed as caused by climate change, no matter how idiotic.
Climate scientists as a group underwhelm me but every time I hear the BBC (or any other media organization) blame some occurence on climate change I ask out loud: which actual climate scientist told you that?
All these organizations count themselves climate experts now. They encourage each other to ever greater excursions from reality.
So how many marshes are left? I thought they were built out. /sarc.
I know that was sarcasm, you left a hint!
But the UK has been putting a lot of effort into “Rewilding” to encourage wildlife back to its old habitats. The area in question has had work done to retain water. Many of the species appearing were either hunted to extinction or left during the LIA, some species were driven into isolated corners of the UK have been reintroduced into their former territories, Red Kites, Pine Martens and many others re-introduced White Tailed Eagle, Bittern, Wild Boar and Beaver some planned some not
But for the BBC a few Black Winged Stilts are a problem
So we’re encouraging yet more illegal immigrants to come over here by providing them with nice accomodation! sarc
One pair of black-winged stilts does not climate change make.
Nor a particularly large pie.
As the BBC’s national treasure, newsreader Huw Edwards would have said, “our ornithological editor there Ms Bird giving us the latest crisis report, Ms Bird there”
Sadly due to ongoing mental health difficulties, brought on by paying a young adult for discreet personal pictures costing him £35,000, Huw is presently unavailable to read his auto cue. His ongoing salary of around £half a million is thankfully unaffected by his ‘personal’ difficulties.
“Our national treasure from the BBC there, Huw Edwards”
It can’t be long before a BBC ‘spokes person’ claims the disappearance of the Cuckoo from our shores is Climate Crisis driven. Meanwhile the invasive grey squirrel migrant population a growing nuisance, takes our native specie’s eggs from the nests along with other feathered visitors, leading them towards extinction.
Not dealing with real dangers, while focusing on imaginary ones is never a long term strategy for success, is it?
If we didn’t know our Ps and Qs we would be allowed to describe it as an existential threat……
I have heard a cuckoo maybe twice in the UK. But in Spanish woodland at the right time of year you will hear dozens of them. It isn’t our excessively hot weather that keeps cuckoos out of the UK .
(I just ordered 1000 litres of heating oil this morning, such is our summer warmth.)
Yup, the incredible heat enveloping Europe is so real, the golfers at Royal Liverpool were forced to wear their winter fleece lined waterproofs for the Open this year.
The golfing sweater looks like it will be around for a few centuries yet….
The heat here is so bad, I actually woke up in the night to close the bedroom window. Too much of that heat plume was coming in and reducing the room temperature to below 15 deg. C.
Good one! That was Funny! 🙂
ha ha haha hahahahaha: “Birds of Dumfriesshire‘
There’s yer Climate Change writ large
I know Dumfriesshire, my Cumbrian farming patch was already north of Hadrian’s Wall and any much further would have been in Dumfriesshire.
I was raving about the place very recently as being (probably) where The Wettest Place in Scotland is:
i.e. Eskdalemuir
While Cumbria, home to Wettest Place in England (the Lake District) not exactly known for its Mediterranean Fayre, camels, pyramids or sandy beaches.
Yes: Wellies, webbed feet and Manky Owlde Yows ## – (less than) cheerfully chomping every last shred of greenery and creating what has to be the world’s first/only Fully Waterlogged Desert
Thus: Due to the rigours of Climate Change this hapless (not so) bird-brained pigeon is forced to move 300+ miles closer to the equator to find its preferred climate and a place to drop an egg or two.
what went wrong here. what happened.
Hunga Nunga Tonga Gunga Dindadin Tonga Nonga Gone Gonga Nong Bong-Gong volcano springs to mind at this juncture.
You know the one – that which NASA have recently filled their diapers about and “150 million tonnes of water”
My remit as Cumbrian Farmer was 2 part:
Husbanding 125 black Angus cows and their babiesEscorting over one million tonnes of (rain) water off my 250 acre premises Every Single YearNow tell me about water and climate
## Swaledale sheep
“What went wrong? What happened?” They got lost is what happened – they lost their sense of direction and flew north instead of south. Rare birds indeed – we got the failures, the idiots that can’t navigate and ended up going in completely the wrong direction.
I’m sure Dumfriesshire is nicer than Dumfries, VA.
“It probably won’t surprise you to learn that the black-winged stilt has often visited these shores in the past”
but.. but… THIS TIME, it’s gotta be due to climate havoc!
I laughed at that! We are going to have to start using “climate havoc” more often! 🙂
“It is believed the species is flying further north as climate change causes its natural habitat in countries like Spain to become too hot.”
So who, exactly, are the “nature experts” who believe this?
“The nature reserve has been especially prepared to welcome black-winged stilts”
So did they go to the cost and trouble of planning, designing and installing “new water control structures” “especially.. [for] ..stilts“ on the basis of someone’s belief that these birds might fly further north to escape intolerably high temperatures in Spain? Or could it be that persons with real knowledge know that these birds turn up from time to time, know the kind of environment they prefer, and have managed the reserve accordingly?
The BBC reports that Greta Thunberg was fined for disobeying police at a demonstration.
Thunberg claimed that her actions were justified because:
So, the BBC has provided her with yet another chance to spread disinformation.
The good news is that the court didn’t buy Thunberg’s crap.
Darn. This was supposed to be a reply to Bill Toland. It started out as a “story tip” but, on sober second thought, it’s not much of a story. The good news is that the Swedish justice system still works properly.
The Swede’s did better than the German’s did with Greta, or maybe Sweden just knows her better.
Alert! Alert! Apostrophe Abuse! Alert! Alert!
4 alerts for 2 instances is a bit OTT, isn’t it?
As an update, shortly after leaving court following being fined, she did exactly the same thing and the Swedish police have had to remove her from another protest near Malmo. Wonder how long it’ll be before they stop the fines and start the custodoal sentences.
Also good that she presented her delusions as a belief, not a fact.
Springwatch recently labelled three bee-eaters attempting to breed in Norfolk as “climate refugees.” That too is not as it seems – I wrote about it here.
Chris Packham being a pillock yet again?
‘Fraid so.
Nature is much more resilient than fragile, confused leftists who can’t figure out their own gender.
According to my RSPB Handbook of British Birds (2nd Edition 2006)
The black winged stilt is
“In Britain a rare visitor with only 3-5 records per year – although some exceptional years have produced over 20. Birds have been found mainly in the south and east of Britain”
“Britain is on the edge of its range but with recent breeding attempts there is a possibility it will attempt to colonise in the future”
So, when do, the er… the pigs on stilts arrive?
More Climate Myopia.
And when they return in greater numbers because of the water features, it will be labeled confirmation of the climate claims. Sad