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| - | Map: [http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=532699&y=187244&z=1&sv=Lordship+Road&st=1&tl=Lordship+Road,+N16&searchp=newsearch.srf&mapp=newmap.srf]
| + | The Reservoirs Nature Society (TeRNS) [http://sites.google.com/site/stokenewingtonreservoirs/home] - Stoke Newington Reservoirs' natural history group. |
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| - | Website: '''HACKNEY WILDLIFE GROUP''' ([http://www.hackneywildlife.org.uk Hackney Wildlife Group]) daily news, site guide and profiles, monthly summaries, photographs, breeding & wintering bird surveys, etc.
| + | Please contact TeRNS [http://sites.google.com/site/stokenewingtonreservoirs/home] for bird records and wildlife information about Stoke Newington reservoirs. |
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| - | For a comparatively small, central London site set against such an urban backdrop, SNR's have produced some surprisingly good records for local patchworkers, and a strong upsurge in regular coverage in recent years has greatly improved the local ornithological picture. However, regular effort is strongly advised, and the area can be quiet for the visiting birder, especially outside migration periods.
| + | The Reservoirs Nature Society (TeRNS) is for everyone interested in the birds and wildlife of Stoke Newington reservoirs nature reserve and conservation areas, including Abney Park Cemetery LNR, Clissold Park, and Allens Gardens. |
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| - | Access is currently limited, but good views of the West Reservoir are possible from both the West Reservoir Centre and the New River path, which runs along the northern perimeter. The East Reservoir - managed as a nature reserve - can be viewed best (and in its entirety) from the recently constructed viewing platform in the London Wildlife Trust Community Garden.
| + | Stoke Newington Reservoirs are designated a "Site of Metropolitan Importance for Conservation", and were protected as a conservation area by Hackney Borough in 1986. Completed in 1833 there are 17 hectares of open water - Hackney's biggest wetland area. |
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| - | Hackney Wildlife's contributors have recorded many highlights while studying the site intensively over the last few years, including '''Golden Oriole''', '''Black-tailed Godwit''', '''Osprey''', '''Black-necked Grebe''', '''Goldeneye''', '''Garganey''', '''Tree Sparrow''', '''Yellow-legged & Mediterranean Gulls''', '''Whimbrel''' and '''Whinchat''', as well as regular '''Red Kites''' and '''Common Buzzards''' (especially in spring), frequent '''Hobbys''' over during the spring and summer, and local scarcities including '''Ring Ouzels''', '''Rock Pipits''' and '''Rooks''' in autumn.
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| - | Regular waders at the site include '''Green''' & '''Common Sandpipers''', '''Common Snipe''' and '''Lapwing'''; breeding birds include '''Common Pochard''', '''Grey Wagtail''', '''Reed Bunting''', '''Sedge Warbler''', and a healthy population of '''Reed Warblers'''; guaranteed wintering species include '''Water Rails''', '''Kingfishers'' and good numbers of wildfowl. Over 140 species have been recorded at the site.
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| - | 2008 was another memorable year for '''Hackney Wildlife Group''''s observers at the site, with '''Iceland Gull''', '''Honey-buzzard''', '''Stonechat''', '''Pied Flycatchers''', '''Goldeneye''' and '''Arctic Terns''' all good rewards for our contributors.
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| - | 2009, with coverage of the site at an all-time and amounting to hundreds of hours per month, has proved that even the most modest of urban patches can pay out fantastically for many hundreds of hour's study - '''Siberian Chiffchaff''', '''Great Northern Diver''', '''Black Kite''', '''Red-rumped Swallow''', '''Little Gull''', '''Short-eared Owl''', '''Common Scoters''', '''Greenshank''', '''Jack Snipe''', '''Arctic Terns''', '''Redshank''', '''Little Ringed Plover''', '''Water Pipit''', '''Bittern''', '''Merlin''', '''Common Crossbill''' and even a '''Red-legged Partridge''' (!) have all visited the reservoirs so far this year.
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| - | The site is also recommended for visible migration, having a raised panorama, with committed observation throughout the spring and (especially) autumn producing quality and quantity. Watching from first light invariably produces most of the activity.
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| - | Other local sites worth watching include Abney Park Cemetery (an excellent mixed woodland off Stoke Newington High Street) and Clissold Park (an over-manicured but large park off Green Lanes/Stoke Newington Church St).
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| - | ''''''Hackney Wildlife Group''''''
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| - | '''Getting there''': Manor House, on the Piccadilly Line, is five minutes walk via Green Lanes (or 106, 141, 341 buses).
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The Reservoirs Nature Society (TeRNS) is for everyone interested in the birds and wildlife of Stoke Newington reservoirs nature reserve and conservation areas, including Abney Park Cemetery LNR, Clissold Park, and Allens Gardens.
Stoke Newington Reservoirs are designated a "Site of Metropolitan Importance for Conservation", and were protected as a conservation area by Hackney Borough in 1986. Completed in 1833 there are 17 hectares of open water - Hackney's biggest wetland area.
