A Thermal Evening

We celebrated another successful year of our partnership with Tim the farm manager at Brewood Park Farm a couple of nights ago. Drinks, nibbles and plans for the future filled a very pleasant couple of hours--as you can see from the smiles on the faces of our team--with farmer Tim in the middle......

Not all of our team could make it but part of our planning discussions decided that this should be an annual event so maybe next year we will have a full turn out.

Tim loves to hear about the birds we catch during our thermal imaging sessions, and he was very pleased about the 10 Skylarks, 2 Grey Partridges, 2 Jack Snipe plus other species at our last session. But what really provides him with data to support his approach to farming ( see below) is when we provide him with a field by field analysis of the birds we see. So hearing about the 85 Skylarks, 30 Woodcock, 9 Grey Partridge and 3 Jack Snipe ( among others) we saw in his fields gave him a great deal of satisfaction.

Tim is gaining a national and indeed international profile, and his farming methods have been recognised by the RSPB, who are consulting with him about wildlife friendly farming for their farms. Probably the best way of helping you understand his passion is to have a look at the following video.