The original farmer led landscape-scale conservation partnership!
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25 May 2023
We can wait for @OpenFarmSunday on June 11th. Join us!
Tickets from Β£2 pp with our car priced family tickets. See website for details. πππ
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
28 Apr 2023
A Marsh Fritillary caterpillar has been found in a field near Rockley. This is the result of over a decade of nature restoration work across the Marlborough Downs.
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#marlboroughdowns
#wiltshirewildlife
#Wiltshire
#MarshFritillaryCaterpillar
#rarecaterpillars
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11 Oct 2022
Looking back to a glorious day in the summer, under the Ridgeway. Jemma Batten talks about the work that has been done at Manor Farm, Berwick Bassett. Farming and wildlife living harmoniously side by side!
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#spacefornature
#Wiltshire
#treesparrows
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
21 May 2022
We have just received news of our longest ever Corn Bunting movement. It was ringed using the thermal imager on the Marlborough Downs on 26/10/2020 as a juvenile male. It was photographed on a @GWCT Partridge project near Winchester on 18/5/22 - 61 miles away 569 days later!
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
3 May 2022
First check of Tawny Owl boxes for the year. This is the second year in the row that this female has nested in this box. The nestling is one of the most beautiful owlets we have ever seen.
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
2 May 2022
Another 51 Yellowhammers ringed this morning means that in three sessions at this site, we have ringed over 200 of them. There are about 4-500 present! Today we also ringed a record 4 adult Stock Doves - the forgotten farmland bird!
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5 May 2022
OPEN FARM SUNDAY June 12th
At The Gourmet Goat Farmer, Avebury
Fun for all the family.
Head to our website for tickets. Link in bio.
@LEAF_Farming
@SpaceForNature
#FarmLife
#OpenFarmSunday
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3 Apr 2022
We are delighted to be bringing back workshops to the Downs starting with a free family event near Broad Hinton at the foot of the white horse. Join us Apr 21 for bird feeder crafts & a nature walk.
#marlborough #spacefornature #familycrafts
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#wiltshireevents
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
27 Jun 2020
It's mid 2nd broods & it was the biggest day of the season with a quite brilliant 93 Tree Sparrow nestlings ringed from 18 broods. This is 5.2 per nest which is phenomenal, mind you we ringed four broods of 7! Checking Swift boxes & what do we find? You guessed it Tree Sparrows!
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5 Jun 2020
The glorious weather we've had recently, means that hay making and lambing have overlapped, making for a very busy time for some of our members! Join us on Online Farm Sunday to find out what else is happening on the farm this weekend.
#lofs20 #marlboroughdowns #spacefornature
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4 Jun 2020
Online Farm Sunday - here's one viewpoint that hasn't been closed due to Covid-19! Join us on Sunday for more of our favourite images of farming and the countryside - thanks to farmer Ian Wroth for this one π
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4 Jun 2020
Just like on Open Farm Sunday every other year, we'll be sharing our experiences of all aspects of farming and the countryside this weekend for Online Farm Sunday. Yesterday you saw how farmers provide pollen andβ¦ instagram.com/p/CBB0UKIoPbN/β¦
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
29 Dec 2019
Interesting session monitoring Sparrows on Marlborough Downs. 14 ringed & 33 retrapped with the local movements shown on the map showing nos ringed as nestlings & retrapped at the red site today. Total 125 birds caught included 3 superb Corn Buntings, a Kestrel & a Fieldfare.
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
2 Dec 2019
Was great to watch 3 possibly 4 short eared owls up on the ridgeway this afternoon π¦π¦π¦ @BTO_Wilts @RSPBSouthWest @Team4Nature @WiltsWildlife @SpaceForNature @NearbyWild @VisitWiltshire @WSBRC #wiltshire #nature #wildlife
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29 Nov 2019
Tree sparrow superhighway on the Marlborough Downs - thanks to all the wildlife champions that helped plant 500 metres of new habitat!
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Marlborough Downs NEP retweeted
30 Oct 2019
I borrowed a thermal camera tonight & in 2 hours on the Marlborough Downs before the rain, ringed an amazing 4 Corn Buntings & 3 Skylarks. I met the farmer & he told me it was a stubble field untouched since harvest. There were 30 Corn Bunts & 40 Skylarks roosting in the field.
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26 Jun 2019
This field was a boring bit of grassland when in 2012 we added a sprinkling of wildflower seed. After a slow start and careful management, we've watched as a blaze of colour and cacophony of sound has developed in this small corner of Wiltshire! Proud? You bet we are!
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23 May 2019
Fantastic get together of farmers and advisers involved in landscape scale conservation ... lots of enthusiasm and discussion ... very inspiring!
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