Curlew Recovery South Lakes

Phew😅These two 36-day-old #curlew chicks narrowly escaped the mower’s blades thanks to a thermal drone rescue. 🔥 A big shout-out to our #farmingheroes. 🚜 Reach out if you suspect chicks in the grass before cutting – our drone is on standby! @sustainablefarming.bsky.social @farminguk.bsky.social

#Thankyou to our #famers. Please get in touch if we can help when you suspect chicks in long grass before cutting - we can try to catch chicks and use the drone to help too.

With a thermal drone, and a crew of fabulous farmers and volunteers, a dashing (sic) rescue was orchestrated. Huge sigh of relief as this 4-week old chick was released to live another day. 😅 It's got a fortnight until flight. 🚀🤞#FarmingHeroes 2/

All the wrong kind of drama today... Picture this: fields with curlew chicks hiding being cut for silage! Enter Bruce, our cool curlew champion contractor. 1/

🥰 And finally we're thrilled to show you a murky shot of this 30 day chick from today. It'll not win any photo awards but it's great to see as yesterday this family were secretive about their whereabouts - so joyful to have them back. 🥰

☔️Persistent rain for today's filming with Fiona Morley Patterson from Border TV… so here's her visit last year. Only yesterday was glorious for Mark Lowther's to show how tidily curlews tuck up their extra long legs.🦵 1/

Let's hear it for the curlew dads 🎉, proving size isn’t everything. Smaller in size but large as life.👏They take on crows like the ⚔️ Battle of Britain. 💥 🎖Here’s to the fathers who give their all, every single day. 🍻 Happy Father's Day 🍻

Pair of #curlew chicks from a second nest, found with our thermal drone. 3 eggs. 3 hatched and ringed, their sibling was getting it's bangle fixed when we took this little video. You're welcome.

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The RSPB is recruiting for a Conservation Officer on The Curlews Call project in North Wales.

Deadline: 3 June.

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Update: 10 nests hatched, 37 chicks, 11 nests sitting
6 nests lost: 3 to stoat, 1 to crows, 1 suspected infertile, and a sheep mishap.
Weather turned from dry to squally showers. Curlew conservation is full of is full of highs and lows, the team's out working hard as always 🫡

🚜Last night a #farmer saved my life
Bruce 🦸‍♂️😇(contractor) lifted mower while cutting when a #curlew flew up in front of him. Nice one Bruce 💪#Respect #nest_24 #FarmingHeroes

First Chicks 🐥

Nest #19

Misty dawn breaks soft,
Curlew soars in morning light,
First of May takes flight.

One curlew egg in a grass nest with text around saying " 14 April 2025, Nest #1, and we're off"

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🎵Love is in the air!🎵 Fab flirty dancing - with leaves! - as a pair of #curlew meet up after months apart. 😍 After 20 mins thought I should leave… ☺️ #ornithology #YorkshireDales #waders #ukbirds #ukwildlife

Breeding Waders EIP are currently recruiting seasonal Field Surveyors.
Closing date COB Friday March 7th.
See our website for more details and application form.

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✨ ah! Carol heard a single call by her wood.
And now John has thirty feeding together. Thirty birds, fresh from the west, feeding on the wet ground, dripping salty miles from their feathers. 🌍
Hooray for them. Hooray for their calls. 🎶
Hooray for the fields that remember them.
Spring is here. 🌿

Lovely shots - did you know those are all males? Males are smaller with a shorter beak.

Aaw - thanks for your support Stuart.
Hope you're well.
Let us know if you're ever up this way, be great to meet up and show you round.

🌍 Our first curlews are back✨
👏 Debs saw and heard the first pair, just as she did last year. Then Terry in Burneside & John near Crosthwaite. 👏
💚 They’ve come from Ireland, Spain and Portugal - the long pull of memory has brought them home. 🌿🎶
And just like that, Spring is assured.