Perfect start to the week in #butterfly rich 20 year old margins. Bumped in to three Marbled Whites and a host of Browns and Skippers. Yellowhammers singing from luxuriant hedges. Sensitive, simple stewardship entwined with food production. Nature Friendly Farming Network

Is this a ghost I see... #GhostPonds

Really valuable work, which highlights how important it is to support and work with farmers and landowners across the landscape to be #TurtleDoveReady

Very fortunate to have some great people in #Essex doing superb things like this. Please take a minute to watch the video. #Ponds

We are receiving more sightings of juvenile Turtle Doves. This one was on one of our best #farms in Tendring, Essex. This news demonstrates success and allows us to target our work even more.

A Ghost Pond restored and a rejuvenated historic pond side-by-side at Spains Hall Estate this morning. One small part of a superb masterplan. There are over 17,000 historic ponds in #Essex.

You can't beat a good sunrise. Peaking over the Blackwater this morning ahead of the last survey of the season.

The early bird catches the... On a new farm this morning with 14 hectares of scrub. We didn't know Turtle Doves were here. We do now!

Up 25%! UK breeding Turtle Doves are part of this increasing and much larger western European population. Working with farmers to create more & better habitat, we now have the real prospect of seeing more of these birds here in the future. #TurtleDoveReady operationturtledove.org/2024/08/08/big…

Abundant wildflowers, dense thorny scrub & a hunting ban. How farmers, landowners & conservationists helped the European turtle dove population to increase by 400,000 breeding pairs. Great work from Operation Turtle Dove operationturtledove.org/2024/08/08/big…

Late flowering pollen and nectar margin, chock full of Lucerne, next to a winter bird seed mix already chock full of linnets. Not quite got the film makers kit at the ready so android + ATV will have to do 🌻🌻🌻

Our advisors will be speaking at the Kent and Sussex PNfN #TurtleDove Webinar on Thurs Aug 15 @ 6:30pm about threats and actions! If you're interested in our work, especially if you're based in Kent/Sussex sign up below- Sussex:…ex-planning-network-for-nature.org.uk/posts/64150928 Kent:…nt-planning-network-for-nature.org.uk/posts/63687090…

Why do so many wader scrapes perform poorly? The problem is often a stable water regime. The key to managing scrapes is to build high invertebrate biomass & then to make it available to birds within dynamically managed shallow water regime with bare/sparsely vegetated mud. 1/4

Turtle Dove, Essex last month

Beautiful pictures! 😍

Across Britain, many farmers enormously lament the loss of beloved species that have vanished within their lifetime. Our role at Restore is to help put those species back. #turtledove #birds #rebirding #regenerativefarming #environment #nature #naturefriendlyfarming #farming

We also had excellent views of up to 4 EUROPEAN TURTLE DOVE along the shoreline at Snettisham RSPB and found this EURASIAN CURLEW that is part of the UK 'Headstarting' project. BTO

Our 10th pond of #pondweek. Yes... finishing on a #ghostpond that will be a corker! Norfolk Rivers Trust