Does anyone here know much about Gordon Kirk or met up with him before
If you have then do you know much about surveying in the breeding bird survey and what happens then?
I got a email from Gordon Kirk about Breeding bird surveying you pick a square
and survey the area. But I didn’t know you walk with a surveyor. I have sent things off to my local recorder but havnt done the pick as square to survey
and then take a paper with you and then join a group or walk with a surveyor in person before
I’m going to be meeting Gordin Kirk in April for the very first time and he told me he lives on Frampton on Severn
Yes Simon I think the contact with landowner or farmer is very important from both sides. They usually love to know what is on their land and also are happy to tell you what they see there. I do a couple of moorland and inbye field patches and find the keepers most helpful, they usually know what is on the area better than anyone. Looking at the map of the square offered to Zo it looks like an industrial estate area so that may not be as important I have never worked a site like that. Your point about farmland birds is interesting we live on the edge of a mixed farming area and ,as elsewhere, the farm bird numbers are declining but some smaller farmers are now leaving wider edges around the fields and tending the hedges more sympathetically. An awkward situation for them as they also need make the best of their land both to make a profit and feed the country.Also local Pheasant shoots have planted areas of cover for their birds which helps small birds
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
I struggled with the Breeding bird survey cause I went on holiday and didn’t know it was still going on. I thought that you had to go round the square with the representative or you can’t do the survey but it turns out that’s not the case he was just talking about one of the training courses he holds
Every year but he told me after I chose a square that’s why I got confused. You don’t have to walk with the representative to take part in the survey but if you do he can shoe you how to do it. Or show you round the square. I didn’t really need to be shown around cause iv visited it lots of times for a couple of years now.
The Breeding bird survey you survey is the area allocated to you. I mainly tryed to find instructions on the Breeding bird survey website, you can input your results online and theres a video that shows you how to. you don’t have to do it through the post. But Gordon. Kirk says most people prefer doing it through but some people do do it online instead so he’s ok with it.
The breeding bird survey was still on even though I didn’t go to meet him but I didn’t know that. I was contemplating seeing if I can just do it online by myself and if I can submit the results when I visit the allocated area but I was very busy and I went on holiday so I ended up not putting any results in. I found out how it works this month by watching the video but I’m still getting the hang of it cause it’s my first time doing the survey. I have submitted a few results of my visits there I made before holiday which I didn’t know you can do. The breeding bird Survey ends today
this is the square I was allocated
I apologised for not being able to submit some or all my data and exsplained why And I told him I didn’t see much birds anyway and He said that it was fine