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Free | Edition 25 | March 2017 | Alwoodley, Shadwell, Moortown, Chapel Allerton, Roundhay, Oakwood & Meanwood

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CONTENTS 06 BIRDWATCHING IN LEEDS Spring versus survival as seasons overlap

08 VALENTINE’S DOG FINDS LOVE A dog found tied to a park gate has found love again thanks to Dogs Trust Leeds

24 SUBURBAN GARDENS If you’re looking for some “green-fingered” tips - then look no further!

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SPRING VERSUS SURVIVAL AS SEASONS OVERLAP Late winter/early spring is always an interesting time to be out watching birds. There’s lots of different types of behaviour to observe and you may also be able to predict the weather systems to a certain degree. When the weather is warm and dry, birds can find enough food to maintain a good weight. They won’t lose a lot of fat during the night so, after a quick feed in the morning, our resident birds will sing to announce their new breeding territory and attract a mate. Some may have already paired up and you might have witnessed robins posturing to fend off rivals or the fluttering display flight of blue tits and wrens. It’s also possible to see birds checking out nesting sites or choosing nesting material. During warm weather our winter visitors will feed then, when their crops are full, they will sit in the sunshine and preen. Winter visitors will remain for a few weeks yet but, during warmer weather, their presence is not as well tolerated by our resident birds. Look out for scuffles in your garden as our resident blackbirds drive off the chunkier, visiting blackbirds. A visiting male will have a darker beak than a resident male which has a bright yellow beak. When a cold weather system is imminent, early breeding behaviour will stop. Survival is the priority once more and birds will begin to feed frantically to ingest enough calories. You’ll be able to observe this behaviour at your feeders and bird tables. Lots of activity before dusk indicates a cold night (and a good sign that your car windscreen will be iced over in the morning). You can really help by keeping your feeders full at this time and put out plenty of fat. The seed and berry supply is scarce in late winter and some birds may have to travel to find enough food to survive. You could get something interesting feeding in your garden so keep your eyes peeled and your binoculars close by. Think of all those waxwings I wrote about last time. Because we have a lot of waxwings and redwings in the country, our berry supply has plummeted. Those gentle waxwings have now turned into voracious swarms, stripping a whole tree of berries in a few hours the moving on to look for more food. If you know of any berries that haven’t been eaten, then watch

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Spring versus survival as seasons overlap

them like a hawk! The probability is increasing that waxwings will turn up there in the next few weeks. Our winter migrants will eventually begin to gather and travel northwards and eastwards towards our coasts. Once they can be sure that enough food will be available at their breeding grounds, they will take advantage of a southerly wind and cross the sea to places such as Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and Northern Russia. Weather conditions will determine the timing of their departure and they may delay this journey until well into April. This means that we have a few weeks when it is possible to find both winter and spring visitors in the UK. Before our winter visitors depart, a convenient southerly breeze will bring us the stuttering, metallic sound of our first warbler, the chiffchaff, singing high on exposed branches. Other early spring migrants include wheatear, ring ouzel and sand martin. Look out for sand martins arriving at the artificial sand martin bank at Rodley Nature Reserve at the beginning of March. Other spring migrants will follow in quick succession and we’ll talk about them next time. Linda Jenkinson teaches people about birds in and around Leeds. For details of classes email linda@startbirding.co.uk or call 07778 768719. Visit www.startbirding.co.uk or Start Birding on Facebook and Twitter

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LIZ AND PHIL’S FURRY-TAIL ENDING You may remember in last month’s magazine we told you of Lurchers Liz and Phil who had been found separately as strays and fell in love when they both arrived at Dogs Trust Leeds. As we went to press, Liz had found her furry-tail ending but Phil was still waiting. We are happy to say Phil has now also headed off to his forever home and is settling in well.

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Dog abandoned on Valentine’s Day finds love A dog found tied to a park gate on Valentine’s Day with a note around her neck has found love again thanks to Dogs Trust Leeds. The one-year-old Crossbreed, who was found abandoned in East End Park with a note saying simply ‘I am Lara’, was taken to the Rehoming Centre as the most romantic day of the year drew to a close. Amanda Sands, Rehoming Centre Manager at the York Road Rehoming Centre, says: “Sometimes owners can no longer keep their dog for unavoidable reasons such as a change in working hours, a relationship breakup or a death in the family and of course it’s really sad for them and the dog. But we would urge anyone who can no longer look after their dog to never abandon 8 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE

exploring on long walks. them in this way. It puts them at risk and through unnecessary stress.” Lara was picked up by the dog warden and taken to Dogs Trust Leeds where she received lots of TLC whilst she waited for her special someone to come along. A week after she was found the team were delighted when Sita and Graham Brand fell in love with her and she headed off with her new owners. Dedicated duo in need of new home A dedicated duo are looking for a new family together after finding themselves homeless due to a change in family circumstances. Five-year-old Siberian Huskies, Mishka and Darren, are the best of friends. They love to play together and go

The Siberian Husky is a working breed that was originally used for long distance sled hauling and it is recommended that they have at least two hours a day of exercise, so Dogs Trust Leeds is looking for owners who enjoy getting out and about. The two will also require lots of grooming so if you like to pamper your pooch, they could be the dogs for you! Both are happy around other dogs and could live with older children. They would benefit from further training to keep their brains busy. If you think this handsome two-some could be the canine company you are searching for, please call the centre on 0300 303 0292 or visit them at Woodlands Farm, York Road, Leeds, LS15 4NL. You can also find out more at www.dogstrust.org.uk

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DEAF FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS On February 7 2017 the senior boy's DAHIT football team were prepared and ready to represent Allerton Grange School at the Deaf Children's Sports Association (DCSA) National 5-a-side football event in Derby. This was the second time the team had attended the event, having been narrowly defeated in the final last year in 2016 – after extra time, and a penalty shootout! Historically, the level

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Origins and background The Thoresby Society is the Leeds historical society, committed to generating interest in the history of Leeds and its neighbourhood. Its origins in a letter sent by Edmund Wilson, a leading solicitor with offices in the Red Hall, to the Yorkshire Post and the Leeds Mercury, which they published in March 1889 in which he advocated the formation of a local history society for the purpose of collecting and preserving materials for the history of Leeds. It was created by a public meeting a few months later first under the name of the Leeds Historical and Antiquarian Society. Shortly afterwards it was decided to change the name to the Thoresby Society, to honour the first historian of Leeds, Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725). Fenay Hall Excursion, 1896

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Its founding Secretary was Professor Cyril Ransome, Professor of Modern Literature and History at the then Yorkshire College, who is now best remembered as the father of the author Arthur Ransome. It also contained many of the leading names of late-Victorian Leeds. Its collections: From its origin, the Society has collected manuscripts,

photographs and printed material related to the history of Leeds. It publishes an annual book of research studies, with some additional special publications. In 2015, it produced two volumes celebrating the tercentenary of the publication of Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis [photograph], and publishing in full for the first time his autobiographical Review of his Life, 1658-1715. Throughout the autumn and winter months the Society holds monthly meetings with lectures, and in November a lunchtime lecture series, which in 2016 presented four talks on ‘Women in 19thcentury’ Leeds. It welcomes links with other local historical organizations, and offers of lectures and/or articles for its annual publication. New members are welcomed. Its new home, at the Leeds Library: Thoresby had been tenants of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society at Claremont, Clarendon Road, since the early 1960s, and has shared premises since early in the century, but separated and moved in 2015 to its new home and partner, the Leeds Library. This library is now the oldest surviving private subscription library, founded in 1768, and housed since 1808 in its elegant combination with ground-floor shops on Commercial Street. Our new landlords have made generous space available for the Thoresby collections

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in the ‘Leeds Room’, and our volunteer staff have almost completed the indexing of our extensive collections, including the many photographs, prints and maps of old Leeds as well as books. Thoresby members have access to this wonderful building that remains unknown to most of the city-centre shoppers. Excursions: From its early days, the Society has conducted excursions during the months of summer. The first took place on 11 July 1891 to Kirkstall Abbey, acquired by the then ‘town’ from the Cardigan estate with 15 acres of parkland

with the assistance of Edmund Wilson in 1890. Subsequent visits took them to Kiddal Hall and Barwick-in-Elmet (in 1891) and to Sherburn and Saxton Churches and Towton Battlefield in 1892. Our accompanying photograph records a Society excursion to Fenay Hall (built 1605-17), near Huddersfield, in June 1896 [photograph]. Excursions continue today, although dress codes have changed, with visits in 2016 to Burton Constable House, east of Hull, which holds many items of Ralph Thoresby’s original personal museum and to Stank Hall Barn, Beeston, a little-known treasure of Leeds. Plans

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SLOW DOWN –YOU MOVE TOO FAST Neil Buckley - Alwoodley Ward

If there is one subject that everyone in Alwoodley seems to agree on, it is the suggestion that too many drivers drive too fast too often. Councillors are regularly given examples of cars doing 40 mph or more in the residential streets off the Avenue and in the ‘golf streets’ between King Lane and Nursery Lane. We pass on the grumbles and we make our own proposals. Traffic officials listen patiently

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THE ROTARY CLUB OF ROUNDHAY PRESENTS NORTH LEEDS CHARITY BEER FESTIVAL 2017 Round Britain Festival of Ale North Leeds Cricket Club The Homestead, Old Park Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS8 1JX Friday 31 March open 6.00-11.00pm Saturday 1 April open 12.00noon-11.00pm The Rotary Club of Roundhay are delighted to announce the 6th Annual North Leeds Charity Beer Festival. Since the inaugural charity beer festival in 2012, it has raised over £22,000 for local Leeds projects, national and international Rotary Charities. Some of this money has supported local projects including: Gipton Together, John Jamieson School, St Gemma's Hospice, Leeds Children's Hospital, Sylvia Wright Trust and Rotary Youth Leadership Awards as well as supporting Rotary Education and water projects and Disaster relief where it is needed. 22 | SUBURBAN MAGAZINE

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