Rotherfield Demonstration Project Blog

On Thursday 6^th July the Oakbank team hosted an open day at Rotherfield farms to show how the habitat work being undertaken is integral to the grey partridge reintroduction project.

Together with Rotherfield farms we’ve organised a special farm walk at the Rotherfield demonstration project in Hampshire. 

Francis Buner shares some good news from the Rotherfield Restoration Project.

Counting partridges poses a few challenges, even for the best birders. To help you master these field ID challenges, the GWCT has created a new grey partridge ID guide for bird ringers and field observers.

Francis Buner explains how he uses camera traps to give him an early indication of how successful the breeding season has been.

One of the key aims of the Rotherfield Demonstration Project is the recovery of the red-listed grey partridge in an area where they formerly have gone extinct. The habitat creation and improvements together with the legal predation control needed to re-establish this iconic farmland flagship species does, of course, also benefit a wide range of other wildlife.

Malcolm Brockless, Game Manager at Rotherfield, discusses the importance of balancing effort and reward when restoring a grey partridge population.

Last Friday we were fortunate to stumble across our second grey partridge brood at Rotherfield this season.

We are very pleased to report our first brood of grey partridge this season and cautiously take this as an early good omen for the other 28 pairs that we counted in the spring!

This morning – while sipping on my Italian cappuccino - I was greeted by ‘my’ grey partridge pair just outside my kitchen window.