News
Last updated: 18th November 2008
Film 2008
Some of our members have recently been acting as extras in a feature film being shot around the Nottingham area.
‘Pelican Blood’ has a lead character who is a twitcher and some of the scenes involved people dressed and equipped as Birdwatchers.
Recently, they attended a photo shoot where they had to lurk in a field of sweet corn while they were photographed by the Company Photographer taking stills for use in the film.
Three of the leading actors were also there and our members had to interact with them, hence the 2 photos of Richard Lloyd-Jones glaring threateningly at actor Harry Treadaway who plays the lead. The other two actors involved were Arthur Darvil who can currently be seen in the BBC's Little Dorrit where he's playing Tip Dorrit and Scottish actor Ali Craig.
Other pictures show some of our members hanging around the canteen van where John Hopper, Jenny Swindells and Nigel Oram are seen tucking into large portions of apple crumble.
Help Compile “The Birds of Nottinghamshire”
The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is embarking on a project to update the series of ‘Bird Atlases’ that were last produced twenty years ago or more.
Nottinghamshire Birdwatchers has decided to take this opportunity to map the entire county of Nottinghamshire in terms of species present during the summer months and the winter months.
This will mean getting volunteers and members to survey every one of the 550 tetrads (an area of land measuring 2km wide and 2km high) that comprise the county of Nottinghamshire.
The last county avifauna was produced by the late Austen Dobbs as long ago as 1975.
The survey is planned to take place over a four-year period from 1 November 2007 to 31 July 2011, so to complete the field-work, we will have to survey about 140 tetrads each year.
Visit the Nottinghamshire Bird Atlas page for details of how you can help with this project.
Lewis Wind Farm Proposal
Jenny Swindells has alerted us to the proposal to build a massive (the largest onshore in the world ) windfarm on Lewis. View more details.
Pipe laying works
Robert Hoare has become aware that water pipe laying works are to commence very shortly on part of his local patch at Branshill Wood (opposite side of the river Trent to Attenborough nature reserve). View Robert's letter regarding the Branshill Wood water works.
Photo correction
Robert Hoare has written in to say that one of the photographs he took in January 2006, which is in the Raptor photographic gallery and captioned as a Common Buzzard was in fact the Red-tailed Hawk. This means that the Red-tailed Hawk has been around for longer than first thought.
