Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust

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[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

That feeling when your partner wakes you on a Sunday evening with a tasty snack. 7 food passes today & the eggs covered for 97% of the day. https://t.co/Vxi4Sa86QU

[Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust @BVC_Trust]

It's great watching these birds!

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

Our kestrels incubated their eggs for a record 99.75% of the day today - uncovered for just 3m 38s. 5 food passes by the male. https://t.co/Vxi4Sa86QU

[Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust @BVC_Trust]

Great views of the kestrels at Tice's.

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

8 food passes by the male Kestrel today, with the eggs covered for 23.5 hours. https://t.co/Vxi4Sa86QU

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

8 food passes by the male Kestrel today, with the eggs covered for 23.5 hours. https://t.co/Vxi4Sa86QU

[Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust @BVC_Trust]

Great thing to do on your exercise walk! Wear gloves, look carefully and take a bag!

[Blackwater Valley Partnership @BlackwaterVall]

Happy 50th Earth Day everyone!
Help us celebrate by picking up 50 bits of litter. Then send us a picture of your now litter free local green patch.
#earthday2020 #bluebells #woodland #litterpicking @ Southwood… https://t.co/UaHWGzx6Fq

[Thames Basin Heaths Partnership @TBHPartnership]

We hope everyone is getting the chance to connect with nature on their #onewalkaday and we know just how important the countryside is to our health!
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Heathlands are home to some fantastic wildlife, many of which only live in this rare habitat!

[Thames Basin Heaths Partnership @TBHPartnership]

The Dartford warbler is one of our stars of the heath! Expect to see it perched on gorse bushes whilst singing to mark its territory. It builds a nest very close to the ground and you can help prevent disturbance by sticking to main paths during the breeding season.

[Blackwater Valley Countryside Trust @BVC_Trust]

It happens like that in my house :-)

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

Once again, breakfast was brought to the waiting female Kestrel this morning. Though for the first time, she ate it in the box. https://t.co/Vxi4Sa86QU

[BBO Wildlife Trust @BBOWT]

Cuckoo flower is now beginning to flower in wet meadows. Also known as Lady's-smock, it begins to flower around the same time as the arrival each spring of the first cuckoos from their wintering grounds in Africa.

[Thames Basin Heaths Partnership @TBHPartnership]

With the return of warmer weather comes the return of wildfire risk. Sadly this week we are already receiving reports of wildfires, including this destructive burn at Hazeley Heath RSPB… https://t.co/xA5DMiY5mi

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

Dinner went down all in one (eventually).

[Craig Bennett @CraigBennett3]

New CEO of The Wildlife Trusts wants to rewild one third of the UK https://t.co/DGag4aLSht

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

3 food passes caught on camera today. If watching the live stream, remember to turn the sound on as they’re very vocal around the box.

https://t.co/2cjmodGG6d

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

Osprey reported over this morning.

4 Barn Owls this evening - 2 in the box, 1 on post by hide & 1 along river.

Mallard with 11 young in Workings.

@SurreyBirdNews

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

Something to cheer us all up..... a pair of Kestrels have spent the past week investigating one of the Kestrel boxes on the Kiln!

We hope to have the Kestrel cameras live streaming soon. @BadshotLea @BLVISchool @FarnhamOfficial

[Steve Chastell @SteveChastell]

Dotted Chestnut amongst a dozen Quakers & Hebrew Characters this morning

[BBO Wildlife Trust @BBOWT]

We ❤️ newts! Have you spotted any in your pond so far?

[Tice’s Meadow Bird Group @TicesMeadow]

Looks like our female Barn Owl fancied a rat takeout on Monday.