Another busy day!
Redstart and grasshopper warbler singing, two weasels seemed oblivious to Gillian weeding close by – no pics unfortunately.
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Red Squirrel Week 26th Sept – 2th Oct 2016
Once common, red squirrels have declined rapidly since the 1950’s. Numbers in the UK have fallen from around 3.5 million, to a current estimated population of around 120,000, of which 75% or more are in Scotland.
continue readingLarge group of 13 volunteers out yesterday.
A big thanks to everyone that came and did such valuable work for us at the tree nursery on the RSPB’s Wood of Cree reserve.
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Camera trap recently set up on a good and known Water Vole habitat. When we recovered the trap, the photos on the small screen got us quite excited. It looked like we had captured a…continue reading Volunteers Checking Nest Boxes
If you see small groups or pairs of people in the woods looking into nestboxes, don’t worry.
continue readingMammal Reports
Andy Riches, the county Mammal recorder has just published his report for 2014 which gives distributions of our mammal species throughout D&G.
continue readingWorking at High Camer
Working at High Camer yesterday with the volunteers. Conifer sapling removal and pondwork. We were dredging the side of the pond as the rushes and silt are trying to reclaim it as land. We also…continue reading Quite a bit of deer damage to trees in this cold weather.
The deer strip the bark to eat when browsing material is scarce.
continue readingPutting up nestboxes today with volunteers.
The boxes are numbered by members of the Activity and Resource Centre in Newton Stewart.
continue readingCrossbills in Knockman Woods
Can also be heard singing at this time of the year as they breed very early in the year so that they can take advantage of crops of cones on conifer trees before the cones open with the warmth of the spring sunshine and shed their seeds.
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