Liam Williams

Ag & Wildlife Coordinator on a Lancs Estate, former Cumbria NE adviser. now supporting wildflowers and waders. Welsh. Harper Graduate. Fieldsports enthusiast.

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

@houndtrail Thanks, glad I wasn’t seeing things! Learn something everyday, will keep an eye out, she’ll likely be in a pipit nest on fell edge!

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

Interesting day at #solwaywildlands to see bison and beaver woodland project. Different land management to the normal day job, good luck and let’s see results in a few years before comments! @NENorthWest @ForestryEngland

[Rosewood Farm's Rob @Rosewood_Farm]

@Channel4News No, we need better quality, better funded access that is available to all, not low quality access everywhere that creates more issues than it solves.

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

@stuartpengs Atleast there’s someone to care about their patch.
Lost them in the valleys in my teenage years, such a shame.
Glad to do my bit in this part of the world, alongside the keepers and other guardians.
Thanks, they’ve settled in nicely - benefit s waders all year round

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

#worldcurlewday let’s not forget about all our waders. Some scapes and wetlands added to our grasslands last few winters paying dividends for curlew, redshank, snipe and lapwing chicks @CurlewAction

[Chair Wild Trout Trust @Chairman_WTT]

If only a small % of people who voted for the reintroduction of species supported our endangered current species we could be assured of a rich ecosystem. However, complacency means we live in Europes most nature depleted environments. We need our countries in the UK & Ireland to be fit for nature. Whilst some of these species may play a role, they are not the sole solution. Whilst we wait for the brown bear please help us fix us freshwater habitats https://t.co/Qq7Ah2Amn1

[Tony Juniper @TonyJuniper]

If we are to halt & reverse decline of the Curlew then difficult subjects must be tackled, including the high density of predators we have across the country - including foxes, crows & badgers. All wonderful creatures as well, but too many is a big issue for ground nesting birds.

[Stuart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @stuartpengs]

Well said Tony. I'll certainly point out positive messaging when I see it. Here in Wales we're increasing protections on some of the curlew's principal predators. It has now become illegal to remove CC from a curlew nesting area, as it's contrary to GL004 if there are no eggs/chicks already present. We are now in a scenario where we can only remove CC when it's a) too late, and even more concerning b) being early nesters, when they already have dependents back at the nest, leaving them to die a prolonged and miserable death. In NRW's and WG eye's this is progress.

[cat frampton @cat_frampton]

Well this is rubbish

@ForestryEngland have embedded the peat map of doom into their maps

And this is how bad data gets passed down & makes even simple jobs much harder

Just because @NaturalEngland couldn’t accept they had issues with their map, so didn’t deal with it last year

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

From helicopters restoring peat to bodged drainage causing headaches. Thankfully spring is coming and the curlew are back

[Chris Ryde @LandguardNot]

Now that I have retired, I can I can finish off where I left off making comments about about Landguard Nature Reserve, without the threat of being put on a disciplinary by my employer for misuse of social media, subjective on my previous employers part. 1/2

[Dee Ward @DeeWardRottal]

Why would government that actively hates nature even care? We will definitely have much less protected for nature in 2030 than we even do now unless a pro-nature party or coalition takes over soon. Only those farms and estates & nature charities that have enough spare resources will be able to deliver anything for nature. Times are very bleak for nature and will get worse under this Government

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

Great to get out on the tops, even if Fog made life difficult. Some grouse seem, some grouse for the pot, two tired dogs

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

Brilliant week in Shetland, amazing seeing the history of the place alongside the birdlife.
More amazed (and torn) as to the size of turbines built onto hagged peatland, a sign of things to come for upland areas? I do hope not

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

Don’t get my wilder than this chap. Fishing hill lochs still 23.30 is some experience #60degreesnorth

[Richard Prideaux @RichPrideaux]

Yes, your dog. Your sweet, non-aggressive and curious dog is a threat to wildlife - and so are you.

This message is almost completely absent from outdoor recreation messaging, and instead the public is told that farmers and gamekeepers are the real problem.

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

Lapwing chicks enjoying the wader scrapes, mud providing plenty of bugs. Fingers crossed the dog walkers keep to the path and on leads in the sunshine. Hopefully get some ringed this week now big enough!

[Liam Williams @Layy94]

Barbel getting Randy on the ribble this morning. Some crackers tailing throughout the shallows @RibbleTrust