FoLLNR 

are Supporting the 
RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch 

at Linford Lakes Nature Reserve

Sunday 26th January 2020  from 10.00 – 12.00

All welcome – come and join in this annual event and help record the birds

Viewing positions from inside and outside the Centre

Guides to help with Identification

Refreshments available

Moth Report May 1st – July 31st 2019

LLNR Moth Report May 1st – July 31st 2019 - Gordon Redford

Emperor Moth

At Linford Lakes, a Robinson moth trap has been in use since 2017 to capture and record the numbers and different moth species present on the Nature Reserve - all the moths caught are released unharmed. In 2018, the trap was only used for the latter part of the season. 

The table below of monthly records for May, June and July in 2017 and 2019 shows that both numbers of species and total numbers of moths in 2019 to be considerably lower.

	May		June		July		Totals
Year	No of Species	Total Moths	No of Species	Total Moths	No of Species	Total Moths	No of Species	Total Moths
2019	82	898	170	2824	196	3545	448	7267
2017	99	1597	194	4642	200	4339	493	10,578

However, despite the lower numbers of 2019, 20 moths previously unrecorded at LLNR (9 Macro and 11 Micro)  have been added to the Linford Lakes list.

Reported by Gordon Redford in The Magpie, October 2019, newsletter of MK Natural History Society.

Photo courtesy of Tony Bedford

Building the "Sand Castle"

We thought you might like to see the pictorial story of how our newly completed Sand Martin Nesting Bank came to fruition.

November 2018 and work starts with the digging out of the foundations

December sees the preparation of the ground ready for sinking the support posts

The new year and construction gets underway in earnest

February and the posts are in and the walls start to take shape

March, the start of Spring and the arrival of the nesting chambers on site

Mid-March and the access area takes shape and the first of the nesting chambers are installed

The roof is fitted and more nest chambers are put in place












As March progresses the nest box access tubes are cemented into place 

Early April and the access tubes are completed.....

and inside the addresses are all numbered

Mid-April and the job is completed with an external coating.

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Linford Lakes NR Mammal Group