• February 2008
    Winter bird monitoring. We monitor wintering birds on the whole farm and divide the records into field or boundary categories. The whole farm counts are completed on a monthly basis from October through...
  • April 2008
    April’s here it must mean the start of summer monitoring It is always an exciting time looking forward to seeing the results of another breeding season. The research team started the summer monitoring...
  • August 2008
    Harvest starts It has a busy time over the last few weeks. Harvesting started on 28/7/08 with oilseed rape obliterated within a four hour period by the contractor’s two new combines. Yields, estimated...
  • September 2008
    Bird movements Ring number 94 or ‘Ralf the regal eagle’, as he’s been nicknamed by the warden, has been on the Isle of May for a month. During his time on the island he was seen pouncing on a young...
  • August 2008
    There is a lot to catch up on since I last wrote and I know that everyone is keen to know how our new arrivals and last year’s birds are getting on. Norway In early June I was lucky enough to get out...