Throughout we have been committed to gathering information about as many aspects of the land as we can. We have been lucky enough to receive assistance from professionals and highly skilled amateurs amongst our friends. There have been annual breeding bird surveys, three years of weekly butterfly transects from Spring to Autumn with information fed to Butterfly Conservation, and monthly wild flower surveys. We have had visits and advice from foresters, arborealists and woodsmen, meadow specialists, a landscape historian, and horse-loggers.

We have ourselves made and put up 34 bird boxes to date and kept a record of how they have been used.

John’s birthday trail camera has revealed that Liddells is quite the party place at night - so far badgers, foxes, deer, mice, rabbits, pheasants have all provided selfies.

We are hoping to extend our surveying repertoire to include other insects, fungi, bats and geology.

Click here to view all the current Liddells surveys.