Blogs

Chris Heward discusses the journey of Holkham, our only ‘new’ woodcock this year.

We are appealing for volunteers to take part in the GWCT/BTO  annual woodcock counts. We are looking for people willing to perform dusk surveys, in May and June, to count displaying woodcock.

Chris Heward discusses the importance of understanding when and how migrant woodcock move between their wintering grounds in the British Isles and their breeding sites elsewhere.

We respond to a recent letter in The Courier, which suggested that pheasants were to blame for the spread of Lyme disease.

GWCT Fisheries Scientist Will Beaumont recently spent two nights tagging juvenile sea trout on their way to sea as part of the SAMARCH project.

After fearing that Phynodderee had died, Chris Heward is relieved to have received some accurate location data from her.

The Rotherfield Demonstration Project is part of the Selborne Landscape Partnership, one of 98 Farmer Clusters in the UK. I recently went to interview Kate Faulkner from neighbouring Norton Farm, another member of the Cluster, and she explained how valuable having Rotherfield in the group has been.

Back in the autumn, new habitat features were created at Ellingham, a site on the Somerley Estate in the Avon River Valley. These new features will create suitable habitats for a wide range of species, with particular focus on the breeding waders and wildfowl.

Our tagged birds are doing something woodcock very rarely do – behaving as expected! Several of our tagged birds have departed over the Easter weekend and some are making very good progress.

Olga Potts provdes an update on the Dick Potts Legacy Fund, with details of the projects being undertaken by the first two recipients.