Typical examples of North Pennines Moorland Habitat where we find the Brackencock nesting #Scolopax24
(Not for the faint hearted 😁) 🥾🙂🎯🍀
Film now live! Our Wales tour series begins in Welshpool. A James Braid course daringly laid out in 1929 on the hilly moorland above the town, reminiscent - as Braid would later remark - of Gleneagles.
Welshpool Golf Cub
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Moorland Brackencock
The birds use the smaller thinner beds interspersed with mossy turf for nesting - this allows for instant feeding & allows chicks free movement as opposed to a thicket of old bracken stalks #Scolopax24
South Shields Birder North East Breeding Birds Alan william Gregory
Moorland burning can be environmentally damaging, especially on peatlands
We used satellite imagery to map the extent of burning across Great Britain and the overlap with sensitive habitats
Read more: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie…
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Mr Smiley Tony McGuire who found Woodcock nest number 27 for our #Scolopax24 Project South Shields Birder North East Breeding Birds Scolopax24
This one another Moorland nest found with naked eye & left unflushed
Look at those skies! Finally a bit of sunshine for 3CH at Lunds Tower. We discussed the moorland habitat and ground nesting birds, looked for frogspawn climbed the tower. #CLOtC #outdoorlearning #airevalleyviews #lundstower
We’ve teamed up with North York Moors NP Rangers to clamp down on illegal off-road motorcycles & 4x4 vehicles causing damage to protected moorland 🚔
The first patrol was held on Sat (27 April) across an area including Rudland Rigg nr Kirkbymoorside
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We loved our day with The Art and Energy Collective on the moors, noticing the little things, learning about mosses and helping to regenerate our local moorland with sphagnum moss nests! 💗 And we avoided the rain (almost)!
