Good work. Did you do productivity analysis to see if peewit population was actually increasing or pulled in from surrounding areas due to good habitat?
It would have been interesting to have taken a deeper dive into the ecology of precisely how grazing and wildlife conservation can be symbiotic. All I really learned is that if you dig some shallow scrapes where water will collect, you will get waders which aren't there on land where the water runs off. Go figure, waders like wading! I happen to know a little about grazing ecology (at least the basics), but I think you've missed an opportunity to inform the public, including farmers, about how it all works. That's a shame given how many wetland species are in trouble.
Have you read 'The Book of Wildling' by Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell? It's an amazing book explaining how to get the most out of nature using herbivores in the right way.
@@davidleakenneyphotography Thanks for the recommendation. Ordered! I was aware of a chap (whose name I've forgotten) doing amazing things to reverse desertification through grazing and (critically) herbivore 'output', but I look forward to reading this - thanks!
Great to combine wildlife restoration with agriculture ❤. Is it the scrapes or the cattle that help the lapwing? Maybe the insect population is boosted by cattle dung? Is it normal for there to be no trees or shrubs?
Allways pains me to see sheep on these islands. They take far too much. Cows and horses work so much better, a few pigs would do wonders to. But overall, it's good to see progress!
This is truly inspiring!
Hope we will see more of such stories through Scotland, UK, and the whole world!
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Good work. Did you do productivity analysis to see if peewit population was actually increasing or pulled in from surrounding areas due to good habitat?
It would have been interesting to have taken a deeper dive into the ecology of precisely how grazing and wildlife conservation can be symbiotic. All I really learned is that if you dig some shallow scrapes where water will collect, you will get waders which aren't there on land where the water runs off. Go figure, waders like wading!
I happen to know a little about grazing ecology (at least the basics), but I think you've missed an opportunity to inform the public, including farmers, about how it all works. That's a shame given how many wetland species are in trouble.
Have you read 'The Book of Wildling' by Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell? It's an amazing book explaining how to get the most out of nature using herbivores in the right way.
@@davidleakenneyphotography Thanks for the recommendation. Ordered! I was aware of a chap (whose name I've forgotten) doing amazing things to reverse desertification through grazing and (critically) herbivore 'output', but I look forward to reading this - thanks!
@@julian.morgan Allan Savory!
@@davidleakenneyphotography That's the chap!
Great development
awesome
Great to combine wildlife restoration with agriculture ❤. Is it the scrapes or the cattle that help the lapwing? Maybe the insect population is boosted by cattle dung? Is it normal for there to be no trees or shrubs?
Why are there so few trees there?
They have been chopped down by generation after generation for farming, mostly sheep. Now it's hard to keep new trees alive because of salt winds.
Any curlews?
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Allways pains me to see sheep on these islands. They take far too much. Cows and horses work so much better, a few pigs would do wonders to. But overall, it's good to see progress!