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Butterfly surveys are very weather dependant, but Megan(our Facilitator) & our small team of volunteers have been rushing out when the weather is right (warm/low wind). Lots of meadow browns, marbled whites, ringlets, skippers, gatekeepers & small heaths Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #farming

Our Facilitator, Megan, has been busy today - butterfly surveys are underway across the MDFC which has been tricky this season as the weather hasn't been playing ball - the rain stopped today at last! Megan Lock The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Fresh Comma! Lots on the wing today, all recorded on farms in Martin Down #FarmerCluster Martin Down Farmer Supercluster - Feeding on pollen and nectar strips, flower-rich margins alongside arable fields, species rich grassland and hedgerows. #farmingwithnature Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #farming

A pair of turtle doves caught on one of our trailcams-MD #FarmerCluster. Phew! We were concerned numbers were low, but we now think we have 5/6 territories on farms. We work together to create, manage & protect nesting/resting/foraging areas to support this species #3leggedStool

#Harvest24 is underway. Combines are out in Dorset and Wiltshire today on farms in the Martin Down Farmer Supercluster. Plumes of dust and the distant hum of harvest - I quite like my office, it's not a bad view! Farmers Of The UK Farmers Weekly

Hornet robberfly, Britain's largest fly spotted by our Facilitator Megan Lock on a farm in the MartinDown #FarmerCluster. A species declined 21% (1980-00)-an indicator of the state of our countryside for invertebrates. Confined to c 40 isolated breeding sites Buglife

Our Facilitator Megan Lock spoke about baseline surveys, ongoing monitoring and data analysis, self-funded, increasing biodiversity, regenerative farming, GWCT and farmers investing in practitioner science, red-listed species increasing, farming with nature, Environmental Farmers Group....

Today we were visited by University Centre Sparsholt 1st Year Agriculture students. Martin Down FC Facilitator Megan Lock and farmers of one of the farms guided them round their land and explained what a #FarmerCluster is, projects undertaken,ongoing monitoring,successes, #RegenFarming & more

Have you found any harvest mice nests yet this year? Here's one so you can get your eye in! We have breeding harvest mice across all the three #FarmerClusters which make up the Supercluster. Generally found on beetle banks, margins and hedges

A massive congratulations to our Lead Farmer, Rob Shepherd - Allenford Farmer Cluster, who won the Game Changer award last night Farmers Weekly. We are immensely proud! Environmental Farmers Group #EFG #FarmerCluster @longfordestates The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust

Rob Shepherd, the Lead Farmer of our Allenford Farmer Cluster wins a well deserved Farmers Weekly award! Read more here... fwi.co.uk/events/awards/…

Well done to Nunton Farm Dairy, who are in our Allenford Farmer Cluster, for being a finalist in two Farmers Weekly awards - Dairy and Environment. You do such a great job! #HarvestEveryDay #FarmerCluster

Our much awaited MartinDown #FarmerCluster calendar has landed and is now on sale The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust online shop!Please support us by buying one to aid our project of informing more people about our FarmerCluster #farmingwithnature #speciesrecovery #Outreach gwctshop.org.uk/products/2025-…

Farmer Cluster training today - In field habitat creation and management - flower-rich margins and plots, hedges, cultivated for arable plants, unharvested, and beetle bank demo Expertly led by @francis_buner Senior Conservation Scientist at The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust. #SpeciesRecovery

At our farmer cluster Christmas party last night, chair Rob Shepherd gave a heartfelt thank you to The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust CEO Teresa Dent for effectively inventing and supporting clusters. Thank you too to Megan Lock for managing our Martin Down Farmer Supercluster so brilliantly #farmers

Eye spy...Our Martin Down #FarmerCluster mentioned in the The Critic written by Richard Negus From the first pilot - Allenford FC in 2013, 1/3 of our supercluster. The current The Labour Party Ireland gov plans don't include wildlife, farmer clusters or family farms thecritic.co.uk/clusters-last-…

Nesting season is in full swing. Please keep your dog to heel. #WordsFromTheHedge

A first for me! An Emperor Moth, in the grass on the pristine chalk downland at MartinDown in the heart of our #FarmerClusters Martin Down Farmer Supercluster This female (10cm without feathery antennae) was hunkered low. So pleased! #mothsmattertoo Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Hampshire County Council