Blogs

Follow these simple steps to convert a 20 or 25 litre metal drum into a feeding hopper for gamebirds.

We respond to recent coverage in The Times concerning the decline in resident woodcock numbers.

I have just read a very thought-provoking paper from a Sussex University team working on the insecticides known as Neonicotinoids...

A new study by the GWCT and RSPB has been published looking at the effects of management on farmland bird numbers at two demonstration farms – the GWCT’s Allerton Project in Leicestershire and the RSPB’s Hope Farm in Cambridgeshire.

Over the last week I have been involved with training a good mixture of different people in, well for want of a better title, countryside management. 

This week, the results of the 2013 Breeding Woodcock Survey have been published in the journal Bird Study. This project is a collaboration between the GWCT and the British Trust for Ornithology. 

Peter would like to invite you to a farmland bird walk on 21st October.

We’re proud to announce that our Allerton Project was among the winners at the recent Rural Business Awards, scooping the prize for the Best Rural Construction Project.

We’re running two farm walks in October to illustrate the important work we’re doing to help the survival of the grey partridge.

Peter put the moth trap out over the weekend and  had a reasonable catch, despite temperatures dropping.