Carsington Bird Club

Tittesworth – Autumn 2012

Welcome to the 38th quarterly newsletter in the current series.

Weather

JULY: The weather was characterised by low pressure bringing rather cool, cloudy conditions with some heavy rainfall in the first half of the month. There was a much warmer, settled week from the 21st, with the highest local temperature for July at 24ºC on the 24th.

AUGUST: Another month of low pressure brought cloudy conditions and rain showers at times. The rain was very heavy on the 15th. There was a high of 22ºC locally on the 9th, 10th and 14th.

SEPTEMBER: This month was unsettled with cloud and rain. The rain was very heavy on the 12th, 20th and the 25th.  It was the Autumn Equinox on the 21st September.

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Tittesworth – Summer 2012

Welcome to the 37th quarterly newsletter in the current series.

Information

Some interesting information has been obtained for three ringed birds observed at Tittesworth. Steve
Gibson found a ringed Black-headed Gull on the 20th February 2012. It seems that this bird was ringed
as a chick in Lithuania on the 13th June 2009. Steve also found a ringed Reed Bunting on the 27th
February 2012

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Tittesworth – June 2011

Weather and season

APRIL: The average UK temperature was 4ºC above normal making it the warmest and 6 driest April since 1910. With areas of high pressure over or near the UK for most of the month there was plenty of fine, warm weather to be enjoyed. Hours of sunshine were 50% above the normal, making it the sunniest April since 1929. Locally the highest temperature was 21ºC on the 21st and 18 days of the month were either very sunny or mainly sunny.

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Tittesworth – Spring 2011

Welcome to the 32nd consecutive quarterly newsletter. It is also the 47th issue since the newsletter was started.

 Weather and season

 2010 was colder, drier and sunnier than average in most areas. 2010 was ranked the 12th coldest year in the previous 100 years. December was the coldest in over 100 years, with mean temperatures 5ºC below the 1971 – 2000 average. It came as a pleasant surprise that the first quarter of this year has been relatively mild.

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