• May Day on the Farm.

  By The Bevis Trust In Beavers, Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Native Species, Rewilding, Uncategorized, Wetlands | May 5, 2017

  Spring has been slow, which is how we like it. Birds are nesting everywhere. The wrens in the Bevis Shed are nesting in the motor of the sawmill so we cannot mill any planks. An immaculate pair of bullfinches are busy shredding fruit buds in the orchard, which is not so good. I watched at…

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• Beaver Watching

  By The Bevis Trust In Beavers, Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Native Species, Rewilding, Uncategorized | April 19, 2017

  Nick has built a lovely new bench down at Skinny Dipping pond. It gives a gorgeous view of the pond and the valley. In the next couple of weeks beavers will start to become very active in the later daylight hours, usually from around 19.00. It’s the time we love the best, just sitting, watching…

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• Predator Control

  By The Bevis Trust In Countryside, Farming and Wildlife, Native Species, Rewilding | April 10, 2017

  I’ve just returned from New Zealand where there has been a major crisis in wildlife management ever since mammalian predators were introduced in Victorian times. Rats, stoats, weasels, ferrets, cats, hedgehogs, possums, rabbits, hares, pigs, goats and deer all either predate native wildlife or wreck the habitat. Efforts have been made to control their numbers,…

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