Highlight: Volunteer cleanup crews
With the increased awareness of our biodiversity areas, even more airport staff are getting involved with looking after our sites.
The Surface Transport Team helping clean up around our ponds
Lowlight: Endless fly tipping...
And the help is hugely appreciated, due to the endless flow of rubbish...
Ikea Orange Wardrobe: €5
Broken trampoline: -£2
Priceless
Highlight: Another group of fantastic ecology volunteers getting stuck in with the project
We are achieving more every survey season , we cannot thank you all enough.
Roxanne and Kajayini from Royal Holloway University
Our regular Gatwick Greenspace volunteers Luke and Jason
Lowlight: Saying our goodbyes at the end of the survey season.
Who's going to help us eat all the cake now?
Highlight: Bats galore!
In September we recorded 7 different species in one night, including this lovely Soprano Pipistrelle
Lowlight: Bird fleas galore!
Possibly Ceratophyllus gallinae. I can confirm they itch like hell.
Highlight: An exciting new bird species stopping off at the airport; the endangered Turtle Dove
Lowlight: But not a single Gatwick Dormouse turned up in a box this year!
It looks like everything except a Dormouse used this box
Highlight: Our site is becoming even more secure, with the arrival of our very own biodiversity container!
Lowlight: Things getting a little too secure
Locked in at work on a Friday night
Highlight: Some lovely footage on trail cameras...
Weasel (Mustela nivalis) at the Gatwick Stream
Lowlight: Forgetting where you've put your trail cameras.
Hmm, camera 1, camera 2, camera 3, camera 4...
Doh! Camera 5, somewhere out in the field
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year, hope you can get outdoors in a window of good weather!
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