Gavin Thomas ππ
@gtalstonwader
Birding | Nature | Waders | Swifts | LFC | Beers | Me mates | Seatherny | all that keeps me sane amongst the madness | RSPB Ecologist but views are my own.
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07-05-2016 07:24:47
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Great opportunity to join the RSPB Leighton Moss team, we're recruiting for an Estate Worker. Play a key part in helping manage the reserve, maintaining trails, hides, reserve machinery. Help with habitat management and loads more Click here for more info tinyurl.com/43jwwsjy
TOOL-KIT for WADER CONSERVATION wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/tooβ¦ Blog summarising talk by Jen Gill (she/her) & Jen Smart (she/her) π 6β£ #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
Been a wet year so #INNS #Crassula has spread on Rimmer's Marsh RSPB Ribble Estuary #Marshside. πOne of the tools to keep it in check & retain muddy feeding areas for #waders is cattle grazing & trampling. Note the contrast between grazed & ungrazed sides of the fence. #RSPBEcology
A little managent update from Middle Scrape. The crop has started to seed and turn so we now look towards phase 2 of our dynamic management rotation in a few weeks time. Need to make sure we get ready for the BIG autumn tides. #RSPBEcology RSPB Birders
On Sat 19th Oct we will be WWT Martin Mere for #NorthWestBirdFestival. Come and say hello! Lots to do & see incl. #WhooperSwans #PinkFoots plus my talk "A bird's eye view of a rehabber"
Targeted grazing work π΄ doing the business for one of our rarest and most beautiful #butterflies. Brilliant work by the Wild Haweswater team. Another piece of the upland restoration jigsaw back in place. #MarshFritillary #RSPBEcology
And another cracking American wader on another cracking northwest RSPB England reserve. Gorgeous juvenile #WilsonsPhalarope RSPB Ribble Estuary #Marshside this evening. #waders #shorebirds Wader Quest