🛑 Keep dogs on leads to protect our moors.The Northern Pennines Moorland Group recently encountered a large group of dog walkers who refused to leash their dogs, despite polite requests from land managers.Right now, rare red-listed birds are ground-nesting and ewes are in-lamb. Free-roaming dogs pose a severe threat to both. There is even video footage of dogs from this group actively chasing sheep.This is unacceptable. Please respect the wildlife, support practical land management, and help pr
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🛑 Keep dogs on leads to protect our moors.The Northern Pennines Moorland Group recently encountered a large group of dog walkers who refused to leash their dogs, despite polite requests from land managers.Right now, rare red-listed birds are ground-nesting and ewes are in-lamb. Free-roaming dogs pose a severe threat to both. There is even video footage of dogs from this group actively chasing sheep.This is unacceptable. Please respect the wildlife, support practical land management, and help pr
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Recently, the Grampian Moorland Group visited Finzean Primary School to showcase how game birds are prepared for the table. As this is a rural school, pupils have the opportunity to access local game directly from the surrounding estates. These are valuable, traditional skills that help children understand sustainable food production, respect for wildlife, and the importance of local rural communities. #ProudOfOurCountryside #SustainableLandUse #VisitScotland #visitscotland #scotlandexplore #rur
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Recently, the Grampian Moorland Group visited Finzean Primary School to showcase how game birds are prepared for the table. As this is a rural school, pupils have the opportunity to access local game directly from the surrounding estates. These are valuable, traditional skills that help children understand sustainable food production, respect for wildlife, and the importance of local rural communities. #ProudOfOurCountryside #SustainableLandUse #VisitScotland #visitscotland #scotlandexplore #rur
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Remember those “miserable” managed moorland areas that only contain red grouse - well predictably they are coming to life again, as spring is nearly sprung. The red listed ground nesters, buzz of insects and croaking from the amphibians will only intensify thanks to the careful management interventions from the moorland gamekeepers and land managers. A monoculture of grouse and heather? We don’t think so! | Peak District Moorland Group
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Remember those “miserable” managed moorland areas that only contain red grouse - well predictably they are coming to life again, as spring is nearly sprung. The red listed ground nesters, buzz of insects and croaking from the amphibians will only intensify thanks to the careful management interventions from the moorland gamekeepers and land managers. A monoculture of grouse and heather? We don’t think so! | Peak District Moorland Group
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Birds like Sea eagles and Red Kites are back over the lambing parks in Donside—scavenging, soaring, and sometimes striking. While they’re often seen cleaning up afterbirth and carrion, there are growing concerns about lamb predation too. Majestic or menace? Depends which side of the fleece you’re on. Keep watch! #seaeagle #redkite #predatorbirds #scavengerbirds #lambingseason #hillsheepfarming #farminglife #grampians #cairngorms #cairngormsnationalpark | Grampian Moorland Group
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Birds like Sea eagles and Red Kites are back over the lambing parks in Donside—scavenging, soaring, and sometimes striking. While they’re often seen cleaning up afterbirth and carrion, there are growing concerns about lamb predation too. Majestic or menace? Depends which side of the fleece you’re on. Keep watch! #seaeagle #redkite #predatorbirds #scavengerbirds #lambingseason #hillsheepfarming #farminglife #grampians #cairngorms #cairngormsnationalpark | Grampian Moorland Group
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🎞️ Courtesy of the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group. Heartening clip of a ‘sparkle’ of golden plover. Birds like the golden plover, curlew and lapwing are returning to our managed moors as spring beckons. | Moorland Association
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🎞️ Courtesy of the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group. Heartening clip of a ‘sparkle’ of golden plover. Birds like the golden plover, curlew and lapwing are returning to our managed moors as spring beckons. | Moorland Association
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Day 10 Real Springwatch Post 1 of 2 at 5 minute interval After sharing footage over the last 4 nights, of the succesfull hatching of one our most iconic farmland waders on the edge of a managed grouse moor, the lapwing. We now turn our cameras onto an oystercather for the next 2 nights. The oystercatcher is an amber listed bird. As can easily be seen from our camera, oystercatcher's generaly just make a simple scrape in a stoney area usually associated to a water source, but some birds favour wa
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Day 10 Real Springwatch Post 1 of 2 at 5 minute interval After sharing footage over the last 4 nights, of the succesfull hatching of one our most iconic farmland waders on the edge of a managed grouse moor, the lapwing. We now turn our cameras onto an oystercather for the next 2 nights. The oystercatcher is an amber listed bird. As can easily be seen from our camera, oystercatcher's generaly just make a simple scrape in a stoney area usually associated to a water source, but some birds favour wa
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While at work, one of our keepers spotted an impressive gathering of birds of prey: a pair of sea eagles, several buzzards, and a few kites circling high overhead. Did you know? Sea eagles have a wingspan of up to 2.4 meters, making them one of the largest birds of prey in Europe! #seaeagles #kites #buzzards #birds #of #prey #birdsofprey #VisitScotland #ProudOfOurCountryside #rurallivelyhoods #countrysideliving #ruralcommunities #managedmoorland #ruraljobs #grampianmoorlandgroup #countryside | G
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Following, what felt like the “manipulation” of data from the last PD Breeding Bird Survey, all of the PD moorland gamekeepers have gone through training in recording bird breeding data from transect counts conducted on their patch. This data will give a baseline record of birds going forward, in a similar way that we also started the mountain hare census counts 3 years ago. It’s time land managers “citizen science” data is used to show the undoubtedly abundance of wildlife found on our areas, t
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To celebrate #WorldConservationDay we have traveled back to May 2021 to share a not unfamiliar scene that is reproduced across many managed moorland areas with a grouse shooting interest. Many individuals and organisations are rightly talking about nature recovery, whilst seemingly oblivious to what our sector is producing out in the field for such a wide variety of red and amber listed ground nesting birds. Through careful land management techniques we proudly provide a blueprint that if replic
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🎞️ Video courtesy of Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group, showing various raptors on managed grouse moors recently, including red kite, hen harrier and buzzard. | Moorland Association
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🐿️ Courtesy of the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group. It seems like the winter feeding of game birds by our keepers is helping some unexpected little friends. These pretty red squirrels were caught on camera taking advantage of the feeding station in the mornings snow. They are indeed most welcome! What a lovely sight for the gamekeeper to witness. Location withheld to protect them from nosey parkers! They don't need monitoring or counting or disturbing. They're doing just fine as they are. | Moor
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Regular followers will remember that Texas, the German Wirehaired Pointer, was a huge hit at our Let’s Learn Moor days at the start of the month. Well here he is doing his job out on the moors this morning, as the last of the bird counts get finished off this week, it’s nice to see some strong broods showing up - though it’s been a challenging year for all our ground nesting birds… | Peak District Moorland Group
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🎞️ Courtesy of the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group Whilst admiring a small group of red grouse feeding on a hawthorn, one of our keepers got an unexpected surprise - these red-leg partridges jumping up on the wall top. This is a wild covey of ‘frenchies’ and as with black game and grey partridges, they enjoyed a good breeding season in 2025. Nice treat! | Moorland Association
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Day 25 Real Springwatch As we learnt from Day 14 of "Real Springwatch", curlew are categorised as "nidifugous" birds, meaning on hatching their chicks are mobile and featherd in a number of hours after hatching, other birds are categorised as "nidicolous" meaning they are born bald and helpless... #BASCnews #realspringwatch #pdmg #regionalmoorlandgroups #peakdistrictproud #PeakDistrictProud #nationaltrustuk #rspb_love_nature #nationalgamekeepersorganisation #gwct #waders #wehavewildlife | Peak D
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Day 28 Real Springwatch 2023 The common sandpiper is a diminutive wader weighing less than 60 grammes. In common with all our ground nesting birds, the availabilty of water on the ground is essential for providing good numbers of invertebrate species for feed which is imperative for chick survival. Thankfully we have had a few welcome rain showers in the last week, that have topped up both our natural and man made water supplies - rewetting of moorland has been a phrase adopted by many environme
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🐦 Courtesy of Nidderdale Moorland Group. Red Grouse are well adapted to life on our moorlands year round. With feathers reaching down to their toes, which act like a pair of snow shoes to allow them to walk on the snow, and feathers reaching all the way to their beak, they are well-insulated from ‘top to toe’. Like other members of the Grouse family they have a high metabolic rate so finding food is an important part of keeping warm. If the snow is deep or prolonged they will move off their ter
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After our shared C4PMC post yesterday highlighting Welney Wetland Centre use of multi strand electric fencing in an attempt to reduce predation impact on ground nesting birds. We thought this clip from @countryfile interesting too - bird spikes are used to deter corvids and BOP from using “elevated sitty” posts. Trees and fences in the wrong place on all habitats, but especially on open moorland, are used by hunting corvids and raptors, to watch out for prey species returning to nests or young c
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Day 16 Real Springwatch 2024 In photography there is a period of light an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset which is referred to as the golden hour - in todays clip our monitored birds are captured in a gorgeous light which highlights their true beauty and why everybody, in our opinion, should be doing there utmost in protecting these birds so that our grandchildren will hear their bubbling call for generations to come. Sadly this isn't happening and even with robust science and evide
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Nothing beats the sound of Grey Partridge in flight! 🎶 A strong brood of 10 shows how native tree planting in the North Pennines creates vital habitat for them and Black Grouse. Proof that thoughtful management boosts biodiversity. Courtesy Northern Pennines Moorland Group. | Moorland Association
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Seen running alongside the main road in Strathdon yesterday! While wild boar can benefit ecosystems by disturbing soil, which helps regenerate plant growth and increase biodiversity, they can also cause significant damage to crops, woodlands, and infrastructure through rooting and foraging. Their presence can also negatively affect ground-nesting birds. #wildboar #strathdon #cairngorms #cairngormsnationalpark #scottishwildlife #wildlifeencounters | Grampian Moorland Group
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Our “mountain blackbird”, ring ouzel, all seem to paired up and nesting in their usual spots, but also a few new areas. Where we are able warning signs are erected to prevent disturbance, but with the amount of visitors to the Peak District, it sometimes feels like a loosing battle in certain areas. #regionalmoorlandgroups #pdmg #managedmoorland #peakdistrictproud #peakdistrictnationalpark #nationaltrustuk #rspb_love_nature #biodiversity #SustainableLandUse #birds #BirdsofInstagram | Peak Distri
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Can you spot and identify the cryptic wader? A winter visitor from northern Scandinavia and Russia. According to the Wildlife Trusts internet info they’re absent in the uplands. As it happens we’ve got plenty of clips of these diminutive birds in our library all photographed on managed moors here in the Dales. | Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group
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The lambing parks on our upland estates are alive with the sharp cries and striking black-and-white flashes of oystercatchers this season. These bold, long-billed birds are thriving among the open fields, taking advantage of the short grass and damp ground to feed and nest safely. It’s a brilliant reminder that good land management benefits both farming and wildlife — and right now, the oystercatchers are shouting their approval from every fencepost! #oystercatcher #wadingbirds #wehavewaders #ca
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🎞️ Video of black grouse captured yesterday evening by the Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group. It is now virtually impossible to find these gamebirds anywhere other than on, or adjacent to, managed estates, thanks to the measured predator control practiced by gamekeepers. | Moorland Association
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Spectacular! This is an amazing ‘herd’ of curlews that spend winter inland around the eastern end of Wensleydale. Most curlews migrate to coastal estuaries during the colder months but these birds are quite content to stay on our managed moors and the adjacent inby pastures. The Eurasian curlew is red listed by the IUCN and considered the bird of most pressing conservation concern in the U.K. In recent years this, the largest wader in Europe, has seen significant declines across Britain due to h
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