• Bird monitoring
    With the breeding season monitoring finally completed at the end of June we have now turned our attention to analysing the results. Our biggest highlights of the year have to be the confirmed breeding...
  • Hope Farm Summer Monitoring Blog 2021
    After the 2020 Hope Farm summer monitoring season was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it has been great to get a full season of biological monitoring completed this summer. In this blog Derek...
  • Monitoring Update/ Starling Nestlings
    A busy month since the last post, lots of birds are now busy nesting on the farm and at least one brood of Robins have fledged chicks. Next week will see the halfway point of the common bird monitoring...
  • Black grouse lek monitoring
    Ed Tooth, RSPB Scotland's Black Grouse Project Officer, explores some of the outcomes of this years b lack grouse lek monitoring season under the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership. Black Grouse lek...
  • Hope Farm Butterfly Monitoring
    Blog by Derek Gruar , Senior Research Assistant, RSPB Centre for Conservation Science Over the years we have been able to share some great success story from RSPB Hope Farm. While we have widely publicised...