Capturing Curlews: April’s Song and Dance As the rain finally began to turn to sunshine for one beautiful week in late April, I travelled up to Shropshire from my home in Bristol to finally begin the production of a film I’ve had in the works since Christmas. I am a Masters student of Wildlife Filmmaking at …
Capturing Curlew – Guest Blog from Billy Clapham Read More »
On Monday 29th May, 2017, some of the Curlew Country team were joined by Tim Main. Tim along with others had been in touch about curlew sightings outside the Curlew Country boundaries in Shropshire. Tim came out in the hope that learning more about Curlew could lead him to help learn more about curlew behaviour …
A Day’s Visit to Curlew Country’s Nest Monitoring Read More »
Amber Bicheno, Stiperstones and Corndon LPS Trainee, has been assisting with the Curlew Country Project in 2017. Find out what she’s been doing with the team this week (07/06/2017). This was the next step. It meant we had made it, at least a little further, in successfully getting some nests to hatching stage. This …
Heather Scott, a placement student gaining work experience as part of a Harper Adams University Countryside Management Course spent some time with Tony Cross, ornithologist and Amanda Perkins, project manager on Monday 15th May. She has written a piece about her experience. We started out from the office at about mid-day as Mandi had to …
On Monday 22nd May, Mike Smart from the ‘Call of the Curlew, Slimbridge Symposium’ group visited the project. Mandi and Tony had been privileged to go with Mike and Natalie Meyer from the NABU project looking around wader nesting sites in Gloucester and Worcester, before they all participated in the Slimbridge symposium the following day. …
In April 2017, Amanda Perkins Curlew Country Project Manager wrote a blog for the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust to help them launch an appeal for requests of curlew sightings across the UK Curlew Country The project is one of 14 that make up the Stiperstones and Corndon Landscape Partnership Scheme (LPS). Habitat within the …