Embrace and love our beautiful managed english lowland landscapes. We must conserve them but also improve them over time.

What's not to like with these birds? They are such beautiful songbirds. Keep your garden feeders and birdbaths clean, as bacterial infections such as Trichomonosis have been known to kill these birds and their songbird friends. And I don't know about you; I want to keep hearing their songs on my travels out and about and in my garden, from where the pictured bird was photographed.

Whitethroats (Sylvia communis), being long-range migrant species, need all the luck they can muster when it comes to raising a successful brood. What they don't need is someone or something near their nests. Again, when birds emit distraction calls or produce distraction displays, it often means a nest of young or fledged young are present nearby.

A Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) will try to alert its partner to potential predators when raising its offspring; such behaviours are known as off-nesting. When birds emit distraction calls or produce distraction displays, it often means a nest of young or fledged young are present nearby.

Conservation gone Cuckoo? A close encounter with a Cuckoo and what are the chances a rare bird like a Cuckoo could be outwitting a common species such as the Carrion Crow.

Given the opportunity where Land and Wildlife Managers use all the legal conservation tools, Farmland birds can thrive. This place and associated sound recording is a testament to that very fact.

The soil beneath our feet needs conservation, especially within our food and wildlife-producing farmlands. Within this sound recording, you might find evidence of how our farmers and land managers are doing just that and how it feeds the birds.

Debating the use of Larsen Traps. They are a legal and effective conservation tool used worldwide, but unsurprisingly, people have a love-or-hate relationship with them.

This is a second edition of why I suggest folks listen in to discover why I'm in awe of farmland habitats and the wildlife's ability to adapt to their surroundings.

A brief description of just how my Benchmarking might work for you. I am calling all landowners, land managers and others interested in Avian and other wildlife conservation practices.