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20/02/2022 at 22:17 #772Kate-DParticipant
I’m based at over 1000ft/500m in Llidiartywaun which is a bit over 4 miles south east of Llanidloes. I’ve about 3.5h with deciduous woodland, felled sitka spruce plantation, very steep sheep grazed fields, with bog/marshy bits, a paddock that was being left to knapweed, blackthorn, bracken and hogweed to rewild until last summer when I was told it would make a great orchard so have planted plums and more damsons. I don’t have any animals. I’m making a forest garden in the orchards and at the beginning of a perennial wildflower meadow-making journey having sowed yellow rattle last year in three little plots totalling 6 sq m. Looking to spread green hay this June and scale up if things go well.
I’m a founding member of Zero Carbon Llanidloes, vegan, member of both Radnorshire and Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trusts. Enhancing my patch for birds is my principle aim. To that end I’m planting fruit bearing trees and bushes, in the process of restoring a remnant hedge and having scrapes made.
Really keen to share experience,etc, collaborate with and learn from you all.
06/03/2022 at 20:16 #786Paul-RParticipantHi Kate – what you’re doing sounds very interesting – Paul
25/03/2022 at 10:31 #789Kate-DParticipantThanks Paul.
29/03/2023 at 11:12 #950Kate-DParticipantDear Montgomeryshire Habitats Management Group birders
Do you want to go to Hungary with the tour company Bird’s Wildlife & Nature from 24th June to 1st July 2023
I hope to go with a friend on this trip. If we don’t get the requisite numbers, and I think only two more are needed, the trip won’t go ahead. I’ve never been to Hungary before and I’ve heard birders say that it is amazing as they didn’t have industrial and intensive agriculture like us and there’re still a lot of small farms. That may change and it’s probably changing now. I know the British guide Howard Vaughan. He is now a full-time tour leader after spending decades at the Rspb, principally at Rainham Marshes in Essex, where I first met him in 2009. He is very experienced and good fun. I have been twice with him to watch spring migrants fly over and on Lesvos as well as numerous day trips in Southeast England. He writes:
Our Hungary trip takes you to the famous flat grassland, the, puszta’ of Kiskunság and then to the Bükk hills. These two completely different areas offer very diverse habitats offer us the chance of a long list of wetland, limestone karst, woodland and steppe species along with some fantastic mammals, dragonflies, butterflies, moths and spectacular summer wildflowers. Anyone fancy Great Bustards, Rollers, Ural Owls and nearly all the European Woodpeckers?
Howard Vaughan http://www.blueeyedbirder.com Tel: 07929086865 http://www.blueeyedbirding.blogspot.comFull details at Bird’s Wildlife & Nature page here: https://birdswildlife.com/hungary-june24th-01stjuly2023/
I am not part of this company nor benefiting in any way save that if I can get anyone else interested I’m closer to being able to go.
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