Gardeners are being urged to purchase coppiced beanpoles, sourced from local forests, to help protect birds such as the nightingale. Bringing coppiced woodlands back to our countryside will help threatened birds including nightingales and willow warblers, according to the RSPB. Coppicing is the craft of carefully cutting trees to ground level and managing the new shoots … [Read more...] about National beanpole week highlights plight of birds
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Medway is home for Med gulls
Mediterranean gulls are increasingly choosing the Medway Estuary as a place to breed the RSPB has reported. Recent surveys of the estuary identified over 200 breeding pairs of this protected bird, which accounts for over one third of the entire UK breeding population. The greatest concentrations were found on the RSPB reserve at Nor Marsh. RSPB wardens Gordon Allison and … [Read more...] about Medway is home for Med gulls
Record Number of Rare Moths
More than four times the expected amount of an extremely rare moth larvae were discovered during monitoring sessions at Natural England’s Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes National Nature Reserve. Moth enthusiasts gathered at the free Marsh Moth survey training day, hosted by Natural England and organised by the Butterfly Conservation Society on Tuesday 29th September 2009 to … [Read more...] about Record Number of Rare Moths