Yesterday we held a thank you event for the volunteers from the Eastern region. After a short talk, we went out for two walks, one led by me and another by our ecologist Mark Gurney. This was originally planned to be a fungi foray, but with the prolonged dry conditions there is very little fungi around, although Mark found plenty of interest with invertebrates, plants and a few fungi along the way.
On my bird walk, we had a male brambling, red kite, two ravens, siskins, plenty of redwings and mistle thrushes, buzzards, treecreeper, a pair of bullfinches, meadow pipits and a grey wagtail on a small pool while outside the HQ canteen, as we had lunch.
We had a very enjoyable day and it was a pleasure to host the event to thank our volunteers!
Image credits Gill Butt
Thank you so much Clare- lovely to meet you!