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Baltray Little tern colony needs volunteers!
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What on earth has happened to the Louth Nature Trust? I'd love to help but I've family commitments and I'm miles away in Enniscorthy. Surely there must be some birdwatchers in County Louth or is there some internal feud that we don't know about?
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Don't really know the politics. Only have helped out twice this year. The crows should have been trapped since March though.What on earth has happened to the Louth Nature Trust? I'd love to help but I've family commitments and I'm miles away in Enniscorthy. Surely there must be some birdwatchers in County Louth or is there some internal feud that we don't know about?0 -
And so it continues. The latest news here: http://www.louthnaturetrust.org/little-terns/
but despite a call to Birdwatch Ireland a couple of weeks ago there's no sign of their Kilcoole blog appearing this year. Unforgiveable given that Birdwatch Ireland's HQ is nearby. I'm sure the wardens are busy but surely somebody from the office could be charged with keeping the public informed?
Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place?
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And so it continues. The latest news here: http://www.louthnaturetrust.org/little-terns/
but despite a call to Birdwatch Ireland a couple of weeks ago there's no sign of their Kilcoole blog appearing this year. Unforgiveable given that Birdwatch Ireland's HQ is nearby. I'm sure the wardens are busy but surely somebody from the office could be charged with keeping the public informed?
Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place?
To be honest, I wouldn't judge the work of any organisation by the presence or absence of a blog. I'd rather they put their resources into the core work than maintaining a blog, in fact.0 -
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To whom it may concern:
To say that I am truly appalled by the failure of your organisation to promote its own work at Kilcoole - the Little Tern project - would be a serious understatement. We are now nearly into June and not a word about progress at Kilcoole since 2016. Not an appeal for volunteers, donations or anything at all! It's just down the road from your HQ and you can't even manage to report on it. It's little wonder that my interest in Irish bird conservation died a death in the late 1970s!
I used to be seriously involved back in the late 1970s and was asked to help in the setting up of the Wicklow branch of the IWC, but that was in a different life. I was doing the same monitoring of the Little Terns back then - even using the painted stones - long before the IWC ever thought of it. Official apathy then was unreal and the thought of being paid any sort of wage, lowly or otherwise, would have been mind blowing. While things have come a long way since then I'm still stunned by the lack of get up and go - which is the reason I got up and left way back then. The more things change, the more they stay the same. 0 -
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A synopsis
To whom it may concern:
To say that I am truly appalled by the failure of your organisation to promote its own work at Kilcoole - the Little Tern project - would be a serious understatement. We are now nearly into June and not a word about progress at Kilcoole since 2016. Not an appeal for volunteers, donations or anything at all! It's just down the road from your HQ and you can't even manage to report on it. It's little wonder that my interest in Irish bird conservation died a death in the late 1970s!
I used to be seriously involved back in the late 1970s and was asked to help in the setting up of the Wicklow branch of the IWC, but that was in a different life. I was doing the same monitoring of the Little Terns back then - even using the painted stones - long before the IWC ever thought of it. Official apathy then was unreal and the thought of being paid any sort of wage, lowly or otherwise, would have been mind blowing. While things have come a long way since then I'm still stunned by the lack of get up and go - which is the reason I got up and left way back then. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The seabirds projects are generally well operated. We were spoilt really with the likes of Openyoureyes and Niall Keogh keeping great blogs/doing great work.
The Reserves are a total disaster. BWi got a Heritage Council grant of 5,000 to do audit at main reserve ECNR. No doubt the "audit" will have skewed result findings.0 -
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Just read that article, but it's very general and the May 22nd article is basically a copy and paste one of a similar one that appeared April 19th. It doesn't get away from the fact that BWI needs to get its act together on the publicity front. It's never been easier to get the message out there.
Incidentally, on a slightly related matter, how is it that there still appears to be NO proper discussion forum on Irish birds or not that I can find? I signed up on this strange one https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=IBN-L yesterday but can't get it to work for me. It's bizarre looking site anyway. Looks like it's broken through from the darknet - perhaps I should look there instead. 0 -
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I would imagine that the wardens priority is the protection of the actual Terns. Yes agree blog should be started but not prioritised over the actual project. I'd imagine the first few weeks are pretty hectic.I am local in Kilcoole and like the locals are very familiar with this project. BWI are always happy to help and give an updates and the guys are also great if you want to go down. Perhaps you should of got in contact with BWI prior to dissing them online :-( have you actually paid a visit to the Kilcoole project? Might shed some light on the amount of work involvedA synopsis
To whom it may concern:
To say that I am truly appalled by the failure of your organisation to promote its own work at Kilcoole - the Little Tern project - would be a serious understatement. We are now nearly into June and not a word about progress at Kilcoole since 2016. Not an appeal for volunteers, donations or anything at all! It's just down the road from your HQ and you can't even manage to report on it. It's little wonder that my interest in Irish bird conservation died a death in the late 1970s!
I used to be seriously involved back in the late 1970s and was asked to help in the setting up of the Wicklow branch of the IWC, but that was in a different life. I was doing the same monitoring of the Little Terns back then - even using the painted stones - long before the IWC ever thought of it. Official apathy then was unreal and the thought of being paid any sort of wage, lowly or otherwise, would have been mind blowing. While things have come a long way since then I'm still stunned by the lack of get up and go - which is the reason I got up and left way back then. The more things change, the more they stay the same.0 -
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