Some 64 new barn owl boxes are being installed on farms across Hampshire, Dorset and Wiltshire. The live footage is taken from a farm in Dorset, allowing viewers to take a peek inside and see a pair of owls in their natural habitat. Fordingbridge-based Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) is the organisation behind the scheme. GWCT says that in true reality TV style there has already been drama aplenty . The trust said: The pair have begun their courtship, settled into their home, and got on with the business of mating. The camera has even captured the female laying an egg. The nest cam is now streaming 24 hours a day, ‘barn wifi’ permitting, and viewers should soon be able to see fluffy owlets hatching from the clutch of four eggs laid so far by the female.
Survey hopes to paint accurate picture of native hare population - Ross Macleod
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New move to save endangered game bird in southern Scotland It has been described as the fastest declining bird in the UK. The Black Grouse, are in decline across many parts of the UK, and are now on the International Union for Conservation of Nature s Red List of threatened species. A study last year of 121 black grouse breeding sites by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust found the population had declined to the point where the species is a high conservation concern and action was needed to halt their decline. Two thirds of remaining black grouse in the UK are found in Scotland where they are usually found in nearly moorland, young forests and broadleaf woodland.