|
 |
| WHACKO 03:19GUESS Tags: spiney Category: Music Views: 162 Comments: 1 Added: Dec 29, 07 By: NoBrainsNoPlanes  | |
 |
 |
| TIME WAS 03:56WISHBONE ASH EDIT Tags: spiney Category: Music Views: 24 Comments: 0 Added: Oct 6, 07 By: NoBrainsNoPlanes  | |
 |
 |
| reaching out 08:21yet again Tags: spiney spineyextra Category: Music Views: 10,379 Comments: 2 Added: Feb 7, 09 By: spineymedia  | |
 |
 |
| farewell pentax 03:19dedicated to the memory of my late camera Tags: burgled spiney Category: Music Views: 203 Comments: 1 Added: Sep 10, 08 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| maybe 02:44song Tags: spiney Category: Music Views: 105 Comments: 1 Added: Jan 11, 07 By: spineymedia  | |
 |
 |
| being me 04:19song downplayed - backup... Tags: spiney 2003 Category: Music Views: 44 Comments: 3 Added: May 23, 08 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| brief encounter live grooves Tags: spiney Category: Video Blogs Views: 36 Comments: 0 Added: May 10, 08 By: ElectribeSX  | |
 |
 |
| iin the park 03:21korg electribe live by spiney Tags: mv1de spiney Category: People Views: 64,697 Comments: 8 Added: May 4, 08 By: MilenaVelba  | |
 |
 |
| timeline 04:56more questions Tags: spiney timeline 2001 Category: Music Views: 42 Comments: 0 Added: Mar 19, 08 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| alternator 01:07I mini tune for nina Tags: ros genghis spiney Category: Music Views: 1,554 Comments: 1 Added: Mar 11, 08 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| endlessly falling 02:25last upload of 2007 Tags: ros spiney Category: Music Views: 327 Comments: 1 Added: Dec 31, 07 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| experimental platform 04:21wtf Tags: mashup spiney Category: Extreme Views: 95 Comments: 1 Added: Dec 30, 07 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| Nukes 02:19Nukes Tags: nukes spiney Category: Science & Technology Views: 267 Comments: 0 Added: Dec 18, 07 By: theilltype  | |
 |
 |
| Korg SX 02:60Korg SX Tags: korg sx spiney Category: Music Views: 142 Comments: 2 Added: Oct 10, 08 By: SlaughterClub | |
 |
 |
| bittern amp water rail 03:53A thickset heron with all-over bright, pale, buffy-brown plumage covered with dark streaks and bars. It flies on broad, rounded, bowed wings. A secretive bird, very difficult to see, as it moves silently more...through reeds at water's edge, looking for fish. The males make a remarkable far-carrying, booming sound in spring. Its dependence on reedbeds and very small population make it a Red List species - one of the most threatened in the UK. In Broadland the storm resulted in a 2000 feet breach in the sandhills at the Hundred Stream north of Winterton. The flooded area extended to 7500 acres, the depth varying from a few inches to over eight feet in the deepest parts. Only three bitterns nests were found that spring in the affected area, 'birds being absent in areas where they had bred and boomed for the past 20 years.'
These enigmatic birds faced further problems during three consecutive severe winters beginning in 1940. Worse was to follow: 1947 is still remembered as outstanding for the intensely cold, long, winter. Periodic blizzards buried all reedbeds. A number of bitterns died of starvation, but the survivors bred successfully both at Cley and in the Broads.
Cley suffered a further inundation on the night of January 31 1953, the marsh flooding to a dept of 10 to 12 feet. Yet that spring Billy Bishop recorded two bitterns' nests. And despite the sea breach at Palling the Broadland boomers also survived.
No further bittern surveys were organised locally until 1970 (following a rapid colonisation in East Norfolk of foxes), and again six years later. The first showed an alarming decline. The second confirmed a situation exceeding worst expectations. But why the decline? Mainly a combination of the drying-out of reedbeds, a decline in available food and an increase in water pollution.
What are a bittern's ideal needs and how can Continental ones wintering here be tempted to say and breed? According to the authoritative 'Birds of the Western Palearctic' bitterns favour the dense cover of reedbeds contained sheltered shallow water...usually avoiding older and drier stands of reed...and tolerating brackish water where the sea has broken in.
Fortunately concerted action has been taken to rescue the bittern from the brink of extinction as a breeding bird. The Norfolk Wildlife Trust has joined the RSPB, English Nature and the Environment Agency in a series of ambitious projects to, not only restore reedbeds but also to create large new ones. The work involves providing areas of open water with reed fringes, widening dykes and constructing banks to raise water levels. It would be a tragedy to again lose nesting bitterns as happened by the middle of the last century.
During the years of abundance the country's leading bird photographers came to Broadland. Sitting in tiny hides for long periods, they were privileged to observe the domestic life of the mysterious bittern. Their photographs confirm it was frequent to find nests in deeply flooded reedbeds with water lapping the nest edges. One Hickling nest was built on the top of an abandoned coot's nest and in water so deep that the keeper had difficulty in reaching it clad in thigh waders.
Normal progress of a bittern is performed not on the ground but by grasping reeds - several at a time - with the huge toes. This stilt-like movement is remarkably effortless for so comparatively large a bird.
In times of a shortage of food nestling bitterns will turn cannibal and devour the smallest in a brook. One young bird, handled after wandering, readily disgorged a leg and thigh of a former brother or sister. less Tags: birds spiney Category: Music Views: 414 Comments: 1 Added: Aug 18, 08 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| MAYBE a song) 02:37a song from my past Tags: spiney song maybe Category: Music Views: 33 Comments: 1 Added: Dec 3, 07 By: spineyextra  | |
 |
 |
| 911REVOLUTION 03:11GEORG Tags: vendetta spiney ash Category: Music Views: 159 Comments: 0 Added: Oct 8, 07 By: NoBrainsNoPlanes  | |
 |
 |
| IN THE SHADE 02:23NICE LITTLE RETRO MOVIE / SONG Tags: spiney jose gonzales Category: Music Views: 336 Comments: 0 Added: Aug 17, 07 By: HuddersfieldAntiques  | |
 |
 |
| punks in huddersfield 19:21first tuesday Tags: punks spiney Category: Travel & Places Views: 177 Comments: 2 Added: Aug 16, 07 By: Huddersfield  | |
 |
 |
| baldrics diary 04:40doc on the making of blackadder Tags: blackie spiney Category: Comedy Views: 13 Comments: 0 Added: Jun 15, 07 By: blackadderextras  | |
 |
 |
| jahbulon 02:48a little amusement Tags: mason korg spiney Category: Entertainment Views: 125 Comments: 0 Added: May 28, 07 By: spineymedia  | |
 |
 |
| conspiracy 04:44a nice educational bit of escapism Tags: spiney conspiracy Category: Arts & Animation Views: 409 Comments: 5 Added: Apr 29, 07 By: spineymedia  | |
 |
 |
| harril 03:32a tiny arrangement for one of my favourite young musicians please see
http://www.youtube.com/harril Tags: harril spiney Category: Pets & Animals Views: 183 Comments: 0 Added: Feb 18, 07 By: blackadderextras  | |
 |
 |
| illtype ratmix 03:03illtype ratmix Tags: illtype ratmix spiney Category: Music Views: 513 Comments: 3 Added: Feb 2, 07 By: wylinoutbitch  | |
 |