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	Ouse Washes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ouse Washes are an area in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England.
		The Washes are now of international importance and are designated a Special Protection Area for their wildfowl; there are nature reserves at WWT Welney and RSPB Ouse Washes.
		RSPB Ouse Washes is a nature reserve, managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at Welches Dam.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ouse_Washes (417 words)

	CBC
		On the Ouse Washes RSPB 4 drake Garganey (RBA).
		On the Ouse washes at Mepal 3 Garganey (2 drake), 14 Ruff (RBA).
		At Ouse Washes, Sutton Gault, 1 Oystercatcher, 7 Ruff lekking.
	www.cambridgebirdclub.org.uk /whatwasabt/news2001a.htm (15910 words)

	RSPB East Anglia Region Media Release 18 August 2003
		The Ouse Washes are a 19 mile (30 km) stretch of seasonally flooded wet grassland between Denver and Earith, intersected by ditches which are noted for their aquatic flora and invertebrates.
		Constructed during the 17th century, the primary function of the Ouse Washes is a winter flood storage reservoir for the waters of the River Ouse.
		The Washes have one of the largest populations of breeding waders in lowland England, especially snipe, redshank, lapwing and the scarce fl-tailed godwit.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.wright827/media_release_20030818.html (765 words)

	wwt welney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		WWT Welney is one of nine wildfowl and wetland reserves managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust The reserve is at Welney in Cambridgeshire, England, 12 miles north of Ely, 26 miles north of Cambridge and 33 miles east of Peterborough.
		The reserve is on two tributaries of the River Great Ouse, the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River (also known as Hundred Foot Drain).
		The rivers were built by the 4th Earl of Bedford to facilitate drainage of the Great Ouse between Earith and Downham Market, and the "washes" (the area between the two rivers) are completely flooded for an average of 22 days per year, necessitating a 30 mile detour for local residents.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /wwt_welney.html (244 words)

	Wikipedia: River Great Ouse
		The River Great Ouse is a river in the east of England.
		The lower reaches of the Great Ouse are also known as "Old West River" and "the Ely Ouse".
		The Ouse Washes are an internationally important area for wildlife.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/r/ri/river_great_ouse.html (157 words)

	Ouse Washes - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ouse Washes - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
		The Ouse Washes is an excellent introduction to Fenland wildlife.
		Wigeon on flooded washland at Ouse Washes, RSPB reserve - Chris Gomersall (rspb-images.com, Ref: 6061800_00058_002)
	www.rspb.org.uk /reserves/guide/o/ousewashes (153 words)

	Welney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Welney is situated on the Ouse Washes, an internationally important area of wildlife conservation.
		WWT Welney is a reserve in the care of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.
		Nearby, there is also RSPB Ouse Washes, a reserve managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Welney (106 words)

	Odd year for breeding birds in the fens - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ouse Washes were too wet and the Nene Washes too dry, says the RSPB reporting on a mixed season for breeding birds on its fenland nature reserves in Cambridgeshire.
		Spring floods are an all-too regular problem for nesting wading birds on the Ouse Washes and the worst was expected when the floodwaters failed to clear in April this year.
		Final numbers on the RSPB's Ouse Washes nature reserve were 173 pairs of lapwings, 140 pairs of redshanks and 207 of snipe, totalling 520 pairs of these waders.
	213.219.31.195 /england/eastanglia/action/oddyearfens.asp (658 words)

	Camb. Flora Part II: Acorus calamus
		Ouse Fen Wash, Earith, 387.745, and near bridge by lock, CJ Cadbury, 5.1977.
		Ouse Wash Drain north of barrier bank, 385.746, R Payne, 8.1981.
		Washes SW of Sutton Gault, 417.783, CJ Cadbury, 5.1977.
	www.mnlg.com /gc/species2ae/a/aco_cal.html (581 words)

	Ouse Washes Molly Dancers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Formed in Norfolk in 1981, the Ouse Washes Molly Dancers are one of the longest established Molly dance sides in the country - and are considered one of the most creative.
		Ouse Washes was the name originally given to the area deliberately allowed to flood between the two great canals, dug by thousands of prisoners of war under the direction of Cornelius Vermuyden, in the 17th century.
		The Washes, therefore, is the only area that resembles the great watery wilderness that the fenland once was.
	www.ousewashes.com (238 words)

	Ramsar Advisory Missions: No. 49, Ouse Washes, United Kingdom (2001)
		The Ouse Washes are designed as a flood storage reservoir coming within the ambit of the Reservoirs Act 1975 and act as a safety valve for flood waters in the Great Ouse catchment.
		With normal flow conditions, the Ouse discharges through the Hundred Foot river to the Tidal river and then to the Wash. When discharge is high and a preset level at Earith is exceeded, the Ouse Washes are used as a retention area, storing the water surplus.
		The problems in the Ouse Washes are quite broad: the incidence of summer flooding, the deterioration of the water quality, as well as the loss of valuable habitat for breeding waders and grazing opportunities in summer.
	www.ramsar.org /ram/ram_rpt_49e.htm (6371 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ouse Washes, formerly known as The Hundred Foot Washes, were created in 1652 and total 2.403ha.
		It is the largest wash land system in Britain and is one of the most important lowland wet grassland sites in the country.
		The RSPB purchased 7 extensions to the Ouse Washes nature reserve in 1980/81 ranging in size from 4 acres to 44 acres.
	www.hlf.org.uk /NHMFWeb/Database/datapage2.html?projectid=793 (83 words)

	Camb. Flora Part I: Potamogeton trichoides
		Ouse Washes, Downham, 48Y, 48Z, CJ Cadbury, RSPB Ditch Survey, 1992, [R].
		Wash ditch by 100ft in Coveney parish opp.
		Ouse Washes, Downham, 58E, CJ Cadbury, RSPB Ditch Survey, 1992 [R].
	www.mnlg.com /gc/species1/p/pot_tri.html (556 words)

	Mixed fortunes for breeding birds in the fens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		RSPB Ouse Washes has scored a first for Cambridgeshire with the county's first ever breeding little egrets.
		The Ouse Washes are the most important site for breeding wading birds in lowland England.
		At the Ouse Washes, 2004 was once again a poor year, with just five pairs attempting to nest on the washes, of which MO pairs were at the RSPB reserve and three other pairs at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust end of the Ouse Washes.
	www.rspb-westnorfolk.org /mixedfortunes.htm (391 words)

	Leicestershire Wildfowlers' Association :: Inland Wildfowling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1994 The Leicestershire Wildfowlers' Association, in partnership with Holbeach and District Wildfowlers' Association and Spalding and District Wildfowlers' Association, purchased 60 acres of prime shooting land on the Ouse Washes at Earith, Cambridgeshire.
		Built in the 18th century to prevent the river Ouse flooding great tracts of farmland, the Ouse Washes provide a flood reservoir some 22 miles long by half a mile wide.
		The Ouse Washes are famous for their large populations of wildfowl and waders.
	www.leicswa.org /activities_wildfowling_inland.html (540 words)

	LPG Farming Case Study - RSPB
		Managing 2000 head of cattle from 40 different graziers at the RSPB Ouse Washes Reserve in Cambridgeshire is now cheaper and greener, thanks to a fleet of four liquefied petroleum gas, (LPG) powered Honda ATV’s.
		Housed at the RSPB visitor centre next to Ouse Washes near Manea, Cambridgeshire, the Honda ATV’s are refuelled on-site from a bulk tank installed by Calor Gas, which is set to save the RSPB up to £1,000 a year on fuel costs.
		Made up of seasonally flooded lowland wet grassland, the Ouse Washes are the perfect breeding ground for hundreds of different species of waders and wildfowl including one of the UK’s rarest breeding birds, the Black-Tailed Godwit.
	www.lpg-farming.co.uk /case-studies/rspb_atv.htm (846 words)

	RSPB East Anglia Region Media Release 5 June 2003
		These are the Broads in Norfolk and Suffolk, the Ouse Washes in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk and the Nene Washes in Cambridgeshire.
		The Ouse Washes remain a stronghold for snipe, though all waders there face problems of spring & summer flooding, an issue that various agencies are trying to tackle.
		2) The six key areas in England and Wales holding the core populations of wading birds are: the Lower Derwent, in Yorkshire; the Nene Washes, in Cambridgeshire, the Norfolk Broads; the North Kent Marshes; the Ouse Washes, in Cambridgeshire; and the Somerset Levels.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /peter.wright827/media_release_20030605.html (1161 words)

	River Great Ouse
		It flows through Buckingham, Milton Keynes, Olney, Bedford, St Neots, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, St Ives, the cathedral city of Ely, Littleport, Downham Market and flows into The Wash at King's Lynn.
		The Environment Agency is the navigation authority and it tries to attract more boaters to the river.
		The Ouse Valley Way (Long distance footpath along the Ouse)
	www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/r/ri/river_great_ouse.html (154 words)

	Pymoor - Ouse Washes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Ouse Washes is the name of the area of land between the Old and New Bedford Rivers.
		The two artificial "rivers" were cut between 1630 and 1650 to drain the swampy land through which the Great Ouse flowed on its way to its outfall in the Wash. These days this land, some 20,000 acres is managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
		This is deliberate and is what they were designed to do back in the seventeenth century, as it saved the rest of the surrounding land from flooding and made it suitable for grazing sheep and cattle throughout the year.
	www.pymoor.fsworld.co.uk /washes.htm (367 words)

	Ranson Moor: Swans
		Ranson Moor lies 8.2km to the south of the Nene Washes and 10.9km to the north of the Ouse Washes at their closest points.
		The Nene and Ouse Washes are wetlands of major international importance comprising of seasonally flooded grasslands and grazing marsh which provide breeding and wintering habitats for important assemblages of wetland bird species.
		The closest swan feeding grounds to the proposal are West Fen 3.5km to the north of Ranson Moor, Benson's Fen 4.75km to the south east, Latches Fen 5.5km to the east and Ramsey Fen 6.5km to the west.
	www.ecogen.co.uk /ransonmoor/swans.shtml (252 words)

	Ouse Washes
		The RSPB Reserve at Welches Dam offers the comfort of birding from (several) hides but the washes can be viewed along their entire length via footpaths along the banks that mark the eastern and western boundaries.
		It would be fair to say that conditions on the washes are something of a lottery and the quality of birding varies accordingly.
		A Hen Harrier roost forms on the washes in drier winters and Short-eared owls can be common in winters when a large number have arrived from Scandinavia.
	www.cambridgebirdclub.org.uk /sitepages/ousew.htm (738 words)

	Ouse - gokf.org Your browser does not support frames. To view our web
		Ouse River (uz) also Great Ouse River A river, about 249 km (155 mi) long, rising in south-central England and meandering east and northeast to the.
		Portrait of the Yorkshire Ouse by Ivor H Broadhead, 188 pages, Published by The Yorkshire Ouse.
		After much consultation the name for the Nar Ouse Regeneration Route has been approved as Nar Ouse Way.
	infosvc.com /ifsv/ouse.htm (224 words)

	RSPB Ouse Washes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation RSPB Ouse Washes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		RSPB Ouse Washes - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation RSPB Ouse Washes.
		RSPB Ouse Washes is a nature reserve in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, England, managed by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds at Welches Dam.
		The Ouse Washes are the area between two tributaries of the River Great Ouse: the Old Bedford River and the New Bedford River (also known as the Hundred Foot Drain).
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/RSPB-Ouse-Washes.html (202 words)

	Lords Hansard text for 8 Mar 2005 (250308w02)
		What steps they have taken to address the deterioration in the ecological condition of the Ouse Washes Special Protection Area Ramsar site since it was placed on the Montreux record of sites undergoing adverse ecological change in October 2000.
		Since the Ouse Washes was listed by the UK on the convention's Montreux record a Ramsar advisory mission (RAM) took place in November 2001 resulting in a RAM report being submitted to Defra in January 2003.
		necessary for the Ouse Washes to be restored to a favourable condition.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199900/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds05/text/50308w02.htm (1092 words)

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		Actually, the rain was not too troublesome as we had only to brave it while walking between hides, most of the viewing being done from their shelter.
		After lunch, we were ready to move further along the Washes to the WWT reserve at Welney - only about six miles away to the northeast as the crow flies, but on the opposite bank.
		The first attraction at Welney was a feeding station for passerines and those remaining near the car park to keep an eye on this were soon rewarded when a brambling appeared among the more usual finches and tits.
	www.hhwcomputing.co.uk /croydonrspb/trips/tr29ous.htm (421 words)

	Traveller's World - Cambridgeshire - What to See and Do
		The Fens are a haven for water birds and the flooded washes between some of the water courses are now reserves.
		The Ouse Washes are of international importance, particularly in winter, when many thousands of birds congregate, including the rare Berwick Swans.
		Cambridgeshire's uncrowded waterways along the old course of the River Nene, the River Great Ouse and miles of canals, rivers and drainage channels of the Fens, are perfect for a boating holiday.
	www.travellers-world.info /areas/a23c.html (686 words)

	Gog Magog Molly - Mississippi Mud Dance
		The Battle of New Orleans; the B music is our invention (Anthony couldn't remember how it went after the workshop where we learnt it).
		Originally written by Ouse Washes (the version here is subtly modified).
		Ouse Washes now use a 12-person version instead.
	swaine.me.uk /molly/mississippi.html (328 words)

	Who was the fool?
		The story would have us believe just five pairs are nesting in the rather extensive Ouse Washes, down from 65 pairs in the early Seventies.
		The story, however, did not suggest the godwit was rare but merely rare in the Ouse Washes.
		So the question of credibility is whether the government would spend £14,000,000 creating moderate flood conditions for nesting, wet but not too wet, so that we can continue to claim that the Ouse Washes as a sometime home for the fl-tailed godwit.
	www.openi.co.uk /a050500.htm (616 words)

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