Piles of problems?
Have you ever thought about habitat piles? Do you use this technique for tidying up after tree felling and woodland management?
Listening in to bird activity
Recognising bird calls and songs is a key skill when undertaking bird surveys. As with bat surveys, sound recordings can not only provide evidence for use in reports
Birds, bugs and windscreens
Do you remember the splatometer? It was a means of counting insects on your number plate, as part of the Big Bug Count in 2004.
Keep calma – it’s only a llama
This is not something that I expected to be thinking about when surveying woodland for birds this morning.
Keep calm and carry on working safely
How can you continue to work and develop new skills and knowledge during the current virus outbreak?
Savin’ ravens
There is nothing like looking down from a raven’s eyrie to blow the cobwebs away (and to make you shiver as you look over the edge).
Warning: frogs behaving badly
How often do you find unexpected things during ecology surveys? It happens to us quite regularly and we look forward to it.