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This is Andrew P. Chick’s website with links to protected species surveys, ecology works for planning applications and general wildlife conservation.

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May 27, 2020May 27, 2020achick

A good count of 13 Great Crested Newts and 27 Smooth Newts in today’s bottle traps….

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ECOLOGIST AND PROTECTED SPECIES CONSULTANT

I regularly undertake ecology survey work in connection with barn conversions, planning applications and other developments. I hold a Natural England licences and work in accordance with Natural England and the Bat Conservation Trust.

I undertake professional bat surveys in accordance with with Collins (2016) Bat Surveys for Professional Ecologists: Good Practice Guidelines, 3rd Edition, Bat Conservation Trust, which is the standard bat survey guidance that should be referenced by all professional ecologists, and is also often referenced by developers, planners and the policy-makers responsible for reviewing and assessing the implications of professional bat surveys.

I am a totally Independent Ecologist and Protected Species Consultant working in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Derbyshire and Norfolk. For impartial advice on all aspects of ecology and for further details please use the contact me page, or Email andrew@forktail.co.uk or Mobile 07880700313.

For latest news and information see my (personal) blog or read my Linkedin Profile.

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1 Aug

I’ve been saving you a space... the Lincolnshire Bird Atlas 1980-1999 ❤️ @Lincsbirding

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24 Jul

Fulbeck cattle, ridge and furrow, parkland grassland and big olde oaks.... if only the sward was a little more diverse.....

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24 Jul

Brown Long-eared Bats emerging from a Rutland Church 23/07/2020

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22 Jul

Lincolnshire saltmarsh.... big skies and saltmarsh cattle...

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17 Jul

Frampton RSPB 17/07/20

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  • by andrewpchick 2 weeks ago
    Lincolnshire saltmarsh  #saltmarsh   #saltmarshbeef   #thewash 
  • by andrewpchick 1 week ago
    Fulbeck cattle taking it easy on a Friday afternoon... just watched a red fox walk right through them in broad
  • by andrewpchick 1 week ago
    Brown long-eared bats emerging from a church in Rutland 23/07/2020 (ten out and one back in once the rain arrived
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    Oxfordshire marble whites looking very smart...
  • by andrewpchick 4 weeks ago
    A quick trip to Gibraltar Point NNR today, which felt more like autumn than July(!) with a stiff SW breeze
  • by andrewpchick 3 weeks ago
    Sunday morning at RSPB Frampton, Lincolnshire... lots of birds, big skies and a CASPIAN TERN! Thanks Team RSPB!  #rspbframptonmarsh   #rspb_love_nature 
  • by andrewpchick 2 weeks ago
    The Lincolnshire Edge.... looking across to Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire beyond...
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    Full day at RSPB Bempton Cliffs, lots and lots of birds including long-eared owl, puffin, razorbill and great skua. Farmland
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    Golden barley early morning (bird surveying) at Thimbleby, Lincolnshire....
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    River Witham water vole at Belton House (National Trust)  #lincsriverstrust   #beltonhouse   #nationaltrust   #watervole 
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    The River Witham at Belton House National Trust looking very smart this morning, benefiting from recent river restoration works.... also
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    Brown Hare at Leadenhall, Holbeach 26/06/20
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    Just three dawn surveys left and that’s the bird breeding season over for another year...
  • by andrewpchick 3 weeks ago
    I’ve often thought it would be interesting to walk across The Humber bridge... well today I did!  #humberbridge   #thehumber 
  • by andrewpchick 4 weeks ago
    RSPB Bempton  #seabirds   #birds   #birdsofinstagram   #birdphotography   #birdwatching 
  • by andrewpchick 3 weeks ago
    A visit to Wrest Park, Bedfordshire 10/07/20 - the first place where I was fully employed, the first place I
  • by andrewpchick 1 month ago
    River Witham otter, near Grantham,Lincolnshire  #lincsriver   #lincsriverstrust   #grantham   #otter 
  • by andrewpchick 3 weeks ago
    Some brown long-eared bat action from a Rutland church 13/07/2020 (filmed with IR during licence survey work)  @batconservationtrust   #batconservationtrust   #bats 
  • by andrewpchick 2 weeks ago
    After working in Sleaford, Cranwell and Carrington I dropped into RSPB Frampton for a 2nd look at the carrot billed
  • by andrewpchick 4 weeks ago
    Weasel....  #weasel   #mammalsociety 
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