All 3 venues are within the London ULEZ, parking is very limited at Mudchute and using public transport is recommended.

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Attendance at these tours is for members only. Non-members may purchase membership at the time of booking by adding membership to their shopping basket.

Full details including menu choices will be sent after registration. Thank you.

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We will welcome all to a great weekend celebrating waterfowl and enjoying the company of fellow enthusiasts. Bowling: Wildfowl vs Domestic, a waterfowl quiz, banquet dinner and auction of waterfowl stuff. Music and dancing to round off the evening. We have a REALLY fabulous deal at this super resort hotel — why not come and meet us and share a weekend to remember?

Banquet dinner £40pp

Single occupancy room £99

Double occupancy room £109

Register with a £10 deposit by 30th August, secretary@waterfowl.org.uk  07514 601167 — we will draw the lucky winners at our Summer Symposium the next day.

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5 Domestic Goose top tips from Colin Murton.

• Set eggs no longer than a week after laying as viability declines a bit every day

• Most incubators are designed to be indoors, they don't cope with huge variations of temperature

• Turn eggs at least twice a day, more if you can, to and fro, not round and round!

• Ramp up the humidity a couple of days before hatching so the gosling does not stick to the membrane

• Be patient, from the first signs of pipping to hatch can be up to 48 hours

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• Watch your birds for signs that they are getting into the breeding mood. Put boxes out as soon as you see they are ready.

• Add a fresh substrate to boxes; chopped hemp, straw or coir are clean. Fresh bedding often gets them excited.

• Avoid hay for nest material. Warm and damp from the sitting bird, hay harbours dangerous fungal spores more than other materials.

• Learn where your species nests in the wild. Do they like a burrow, to be up a tree or out in the open field? Give them plenty of choice.

• Many waterfowl prefer the box hole to face the water. It is the size and type of the hole that attracts them, not your fantastic woodwork!

• Keep up the head count — waterfowl are adept at hiding away under hedges, clumped grasses and shrubs where you least expect.

• Many geese only make a simple depression, but they often like a tyre to start forming a dish. Other alternatives are wide trugs, dismantled pet carriers or shallow open wooden boxes.

• Housed birds will enjoy a depression in fresh straw and a dummy egg may start them off and keep them laying in the nest.

• Even if you plan not to breed more waterfowl this year, allowing birds to go through the nesting process is a part of normal behaviour.

• Keep written records! Remember a sitting bird loses condition so don't let them sit longer than the natural incubation period.

• Respect the sitting bird’s space. Not all will cope with disturbance, either from you or other birds.

• If a nest site works, stick with it, birds often return to the same box each year. If the site doesn’t attract an occupant, move the box somewhere else.

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Waterfowl on the Web 2022

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13.1 Cracker (F)

13.2 Archie (M)

13.3 Waldo, Abigail and Amelia

13.4 Wilfie (M)

13.5 Boots (M)

13.6 Miss Saigon (F)

13.7 Myrtle (F)

13.8 Quackers (M)

13.9 Puddle (M)

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11.1 Call, Abacot (F)

11.2 Call, Blue Fawn (M)

11.3 Call, Mallard (F)

11.4 Call, Abacot(M)

11.5 Call, Mallard (M)

11.6 Call, Mallard (M)

11.7 Call, Silver (M)

11.8 Call, Silver (F)

11.9 Call, Silver, Marked (F)

11.10 Call, Blue Fawn (M)

11.11 Call, Grey (F)

11.12 Call, Grey (F)

11.13 Call, Grey (F)

11.14 Call, Blue Fawn (F)

11.15 Call, Silver (M)

11.16 Call, Dark Silver (M)

11.17 Call, Black (M)

11.18 Call, Dark Silver (F)

11.19 Call, Black (M)

11.20 Call, Black (F)

11.21 Call, Butterscotch (M)

11.22 Call, Butterscotch (F)

11.23 Call, Chocolate (M)

11.24 Call, Chocolate (F)

11.25 Call, Brown Mallard (F)

11.26 Call, Abacot (M)

11.27 Call, Chocolate (F)

11.28 Call, Abacot (M)

11.29 Call, Mallard Grey (F)

11.30 Call, Mallard (F)

11.31 Call, Abacot (F)

11.32 Call, Abacot (M)

11.33 Call, Mallard (M)

11.34 Call, Abacot (M)

11.35 Call, Mallard (F)

11.36 Call, Abacot (F)

11.37 Call, Butterscotch (F)

11.38 Call, Apricot (F)

11.39 Call, Apricot (F)

11.40 Call, Mallard (F)

11.41 Call, Apricot Silver (M)

11.42 Call, Abacot (F)

11.43 Call, Abacot (F)

11.44 Call, Silver (F)

11.45 Call, Blue Silver (F)

11.46 Call, Apricot (F)

11.47 Call, Apricot (F)

11.48 Call, Silver (F)

11.49 Call, Abacot (M)

11.50 Call, Mallard (M)

11.51 Call, Abacot (F)

11.52 Call, Dark Blue Silver (M)

11.53 Call, Yellowbelly (F)

11.54 Call, Abacot (F)

11.55 Call, Yellowbelly (F)

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