Our hosts are David and Ann Andrews, at The Cartshed, Pomfret Castle, Banbury Road, Swerford, OX7 4AR where we will be shown around their small all-grass farm - 50 acres of grass, woods, lakes and ponds.
This is a good time to see the wildflowers and David will explain how they are trying to keep the area nature friendly.
UK currently holds approximately a quarter of the global Curlew population, with estimates for England of about 30,000 pairs. National monitoring data show that this population has been in long-term decline since the 1970s and has almost halved in the UK over the last 20 years. In lowland southern England, the population has declined to about 500 pairs, with many colonies on the verge of local extinction. Read more ...
The Long Day Count is carried out by teams of observers in each of the twelve 10km squares recording the number of bird species seen during a maximum of 12 daylight hours on the second Sunday in May each year. Read more ...
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