Friday 6 December 2019











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

Wednesday 23 October 2019

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

Monday 6 May 2019

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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