Liam Williams
@Layy94
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Ag & Wildlife Coordinator on a Lancs Estate, former Cumbria NE adviser. now supporting wildflowers and waders. Welsh. Harper Graduate. Fieldsports enthusiast.
The North
Joined March 2012
Now that I have retired, I can I can finish off where I left off making comments about about Landguard Nature Reserve, without the threat of being put on a disciplinary by my employer for misuse of social media, subjective on my previous employers part. 1/2
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@horton_official Why would government that actively hates nature even care? We will definitely have much less protected for nature in 2030 than we even do now unless a pro-nature party or coalition takes over soon. Only those farms and estates & nature charities that have enough spare resources
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Great to get out on the tops, even if Fog made life difficult. Some grouse seem, some grouse for the pot, two tired dogs
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Brilliant week in Shetland, amazing seeing the history of the place alongside the birdlife. More amazed (and torn) as to the size of turbines built onto hagged peatland, a sign of things to come for upland areas? I do hope not
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Don’t get my wilder than this chap. Fishing hill lochs still 23.30 is some experience #60degreesnorth
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Yes, your dog. Your sweet, non-aggressive and curious dog is a threat to wildlife - and so are you. This message is almost completely absent from outdoor recreation messaging, and instead the public is told that farmers and gamekeepers are the real problem.
Free running dogs DO disturb nesting birds. PLEASE keep them on a lead in the breeding season. 🎥Borys Kala - Polish Society for Nature Conservation
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Lapwing chicks enjoying the wader scrapes, mud providing plenty of bugs. Fingers crossed the dog walkers keep to the path and on leads in the sunshine. Hopefully get some ringed this week now big enough!
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Barbel getting Randy on the ribble this morning. Some crackers tailing throughout the shallows @RibbleTrust
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🧵1. It's difficult to escape the irony that on #worldcurlewday another petition (I think maybe the 4/5th?) ticks over the 100k signature mark
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Busy morning for one man. 105m of hedge planted and staked this morning before the rain. Let’s hope the hares don’t find it before the morning and guards are out!
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If at first you don’t succeed, just lower your expectations.🤷♂️
Defra cuts coming, Steve Reed the environment secretary tells the enviro audit committee- he said the Office for Environmental Protection and the "rest of Defra" will "have to do more with less" and that the priority has to be "cutting NHS waiting lists"
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Some spot to spent a Saturday. A lottery win and might stand in one of these one August
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A Saturday in’t fells, a perfect way to catch up with friends.
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I love the smell of hypocrisy in the evening.
You can’t have tax breaks for some of the wealthiest if you want NHS waiting lists to come down.
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A few hours with the wee dog amongst the brambles listening to the finches, tits and thrushes. Lunches sorted for the week too
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People who illegally release species into the environment do so not for the welfare of the individuals they release, nor for local communities, but to satisfy their own personal agendas. I doubt the future is bright for these two animals, and this what happens when you've had so
Pair of Lynx found on the loose in the Highlands in 'suspected illegal release', via @katharine_hay
https://t.co/7qdiGIQfMm
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The day after #StormDarragh And out of our hovels we crawl, blinking in the sunlight to see trees blown over by the wild wind. The natural instinct of a farmer or gardener, trained by years in the art of ‘tidy land management’ is to reach for the chainsaw and get to work… ⬇️
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"What’s befuddling about this is no one has ever given a sensible explanation of why?" I can tell you @tommlancaster; no government, not the last one, and certainly not this once, want to place a budget on the countryside that would achieve this.
We have some new analysis out today on *the* biggest problem facing English nature conservation… …& increasingly climate goals… …& farm incomes… It’s the befuddling failure of @DefraGovUK to stand up a higher tier land management scheme 🧵… https://t.co/jYmsFI4YLx
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Why are we repeatedly being told to apply!!! SFI submitted 1 October and still being processed and now Capital Grant Applications not being processed @DefraGovUK @JanetHughes @Ruralpay @NFUtweets @agricontract
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