anyone for a job watching wildfowl?

[nic]

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[anser2]

I think you will find watching wildfowl is a very minor part of the job.

 

I am a warden in an anicent woodland NNR and there are a host of management tasks , dealing with visitors, liase with local farmers, bidding for work contracts, being in close contact with the landowner, managing the volunters, species protection both in the reserve and in the wider countryside up to 50 miles away , activly monitoring a number of wildlife research projects, working on national surveys ie, butterfly \moth\dragonfly\beetle transacts, breeding birds, monitoring deer populations and dammage, small mammal live traping and then writing up a major anunal report at the end of the year. And thats without going into the delights of health and safety and having to go on various courses and helping out on other reserves. I am lucky if might get 5 minuets to sit down and just watch birds.

Edited December 19, 2013 by anser2

[kent]

On the Dee they will be watching more than the birds Av to watch were you take a leak

[anser2]

Just another thought . I doubt the RSPB would like to employ a wildfowler.

[nic]

I know there's at least one wildfowler employed at Slimbridge. (not me)

 

personaaly its great, I retire from my job and move south and after that there seems to be lots of 'interesting' jobs around where I was....

[anser2]

The WWT is a very different organsiation to the RSPB. I used to know a number of their staff as I work in wildfowl conservation who used to shoot. And of course Sir Peter Scot was a great wildfowler. Even after he stopped shooting he would always ask how my wildfowling was going when I saw him.

Edited December 21, 2013 by anser2

[poontang]

The WWT is a very different organsiation to the RSPB. I used to know a number of their staff as I work in wildfowl conservation who used to shoot. And of course Sir Peter Scot was a great wildfowler. Even after he stopped shooting he would always ask how my wildfowling was going when I saw him.

 

Anser

 

Just as a matter of interest, I'd be interested to know how you feel WWT and the RSPB differ?

 

I wouldn't trust either of them as far as shooting's concerned.

[anser2]

Years ago a senior WWT head of department sumed it for me - Most members of the RSPB are bird lovers - Most members of the WWT are ornithologists. Things may be a little different these days with all conservation organisations chasing membership money where they can. When I started working for a national conservation body about 40% of the male staff had an interest in shooting , with many being keen wildfowlers. In those days 90% of the field staff were male and middle aged with a long standing understanding of the countryside and how it works. Today maybe the field staff are 50% female and only 10% of the male staff shoot. Most being fresh out of university and lack a basic understanding of how the countryside works.

 

I should add though I have had close contacts with the WWT in the past I do not work for them.

Edited December 22, 2013 by anser2