It's September already!

As you can probably guess from the absence of recent posts; we've been absolutely flat out for the past few months!

Amongst many other things we've been doing some more hay cutting for Garganey Trust as well as undertaking lots of ecological surveys for bats, dormice, badgers and reptiles - travelling the length and breadth of the UK to do so!

One site we're working on has quite a healthy reptile population, particularly common lizard, which has given Gareth the opportunity to practice his reptile photography skills;

A female common lizard basking in the dappled afternoon sunshine - pity the shed felt she's sat on isn't a little more photogenic!

We were sad to read of the passing of Rob Strachan in the most recent edition of CIEEM's Inpractice. Gareth was lucky enough to have met Rob a couple of years ago during his "Understanding British Mammals" courses for the University of Aberystwith, just one of Rob's many contributions in furthering the study and conservation of British mammals. A genuinely nice guy and a true conservationist.