A very brief visit to High Royd today, inbetween visits to the Builders Merchant. The pools are now completely dry. No sign of sedge warbler. No wildfowl visable at all.
- 4 herons
- 2 reed bunting
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9 comments:
Is this the same for all pools? If so this is very worrying as although I haven't been down there for a long time I don't ever recall all the pools being dry. Maybe YW have drained them to do some work? I remember when we discussed the upgrade of the site with them they said the settling beds would not be affected.
The 'front two' were like this, not so sure about the back. Is it really coincidence that this has happened in parallel with the 'improvements' adjacent to the old beds???
I'm more used to seeing these pools inhabited by teal, coot and little grebe, so to see them like this is horrendous.
I'll E mail Geoff Lomas to see if he can shec any light on this, is it OK to give him your E mail address as a point of contact whilst I'm away?
I'm away as well don't forget! I think Nigel O. was getting in touch with someone he knew via the GBN, but don't know what came of that.
Oh yeah, I forgot! Have E mailed Geoff anyway, hopefully will get a reply before we leave.
GBN finally had contact with our man at YWS yesterday (sorry for the delay Matt) who is directly responsible for the contents of all the settling beds at all their sites in Yorkshire (now there's a job!)(Geoff is a different side of the business - "clean water"). We are assured that this is 'natural' (and not an unknown phenomenon in the lifecycle of a settling bed) and not connected to the upgrade. One thing not to be misled over is that 'dry' only means there is no surface water - these lagoons are very many metres of liquid slurry deep (I have stood in the bottom of an emptied one at Rotheram Sewage Works)!
No reply from Geoff as yet but as Nigel says perhaps he isn't the right man anyway. Can't recall these beds ever being this dry before, this will have destroyed or prevented any breeding attempts for several locally rare birds including Coot and Little Grebe.
Hi Guys
If I can make a plea on behalf of the invertebrates in the dried up pools. Its very good for aquatic life if occasionally the water dries out. It kills any vertebrate predators that have got in such as fish. Once the water returns the insects and other invertebrates quickly re-establish themselves in huge numbers as they have no fish predators and thus provide more food for the birds.
We got the "Ponds Action" team to come to Cromwell Bottom and they were the ones who advised most strongly against piping in any water from outside sources into the lagoon at CB.
Pond action wrote a fascinating article on ponds a few years back in British Wildlife....should be compulsory reading for full time conservation teams who are forever "tidying" up ponds !
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