Location: Auchincruive Estate
Activity: Bird Ringing Talk
This week we received a talk on Bird Ringing from lecturer David Grant.
As well as being a lecturer David is also a licensed ringer for the British Trust for Ornithology and delivered a presentation on the reasons for ringing birds and methods used.
Many thanks to David for a very interesting talk, and we look forward to seeing him back for bird ID skills later in the term.
Anybody that is interested in Bird Ringing can find out more information at the BTO Website
Welcome to the SAC Conservation Society (Auchincruive)
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) is an innovative, knowledge-based organisation, supporting the development of land-based industries and communities.
The aim of this blog is to highlight some of the projects that the Conservation Society are involved with.
We hope that this blog will be of interest to both SAC students/staff and members of the public and may inspire you to go out and become involved with conservation projects in your local community. (See the links for ideas)
SAC (Scottish Agricultural College) is an innovative, knowledge-based organisation, supporting the development of land-based industries and communities.
The aim of this blog is to highlight some of the projects that the Conservation Society are involved with.
We hope that this blog will be of interest to both SAC students/staff and members of the public and may inspire you to go out and become involved with conservation projects in your local community. (See the links for ideas)
Monday, 2 February 2009
Term 2 - Week 1 - Auchincruive
Location: Auchincruive Estate
Activity: Pond Maintenance
As the first year students had a site visit to Stevenston Beach Local Nature Reserve, it was left to the hardy second years to do battle with the vegetation surrounding the wildlife pond at the bottom of Mount Allan Wood.
The task was the removal of over hanging trees from the pond to allow more light into the woodland floor, this then gives ground dwelling plants a better chance to grow.
As normal, the cut wood was left in habitat piles to provide cover for insects, small mammals and birds.
Activity: Pond Maintenance
As the first year students had a site visit to Stevenston Beach Local Nature Reserve, it was left to the hardy second years to do battle with the vegetation surrounding the wildlife pond at the bottom of Mount Allan Wood.
The task was the removal of over hanging trees from the pond to allow more light into the woodland floor, this then gives ground dwelling plants a better chance to grow.
As normal, the cut wood was left in habitat piles to provide cover for insects, small mammals and birds.
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