Still coming down from the high that is another amazing OpenFarmSunday. Welcoming ~950 people onto the farm & seeing them so enthused & inspired by nature friendly farming is truly the best day of the year. HUGE thanks to all involved to pull it off!

It's a warm night tonight, so good opportunity to stick the moth trap out before our visit with Operation Turtle Dove tomorrow!

Worth putting the trap out last night! 16 Elephant Hawk moths, 7 Small Elephant Hawk, as well as a Lime, and a Privet Hawk and many others too 😍

Anyone else worried about winter bird seed mixes with no rain??? 😬

Check out this month's British Wildlife for a summary of our monitoring efforts over the last 25 years!

For the final day of #30DaysWild, a male Linnet This has been one of the winners at RSPB Hope Farm, a place that proves productive farming and nature recovery can be achieved in tandem; for a review of changes during the RSPB's first 25 years there, see britishwildlife.com/article/articl…

The cows are just as interested in Richard Winspear 's bird walk as the people at Groundswell Join us at 6am tomorrow for our second bird walk at the show Farm Wildlife RSPB

Harvest paused for a few days thanks to some much needed rain... Meanwhile we enjoyed a wonderful summers evening with the Cambridge Bird Club walking around the farm. Nice spots of grey partridge, yellowhammer and kestrel too. Thanks Duerden Cormack !

The field margins are still going strong here! Melitta leporina (a clover-loving solitary bee) and its brood parasite Nomada flavopicta have been found using them this summer 🐝

BIG NEWS: For the first time in six years, Britain's rarest breeding bird has successfully nested in the UK! A pair of Montagu's Harriers have raised four healthy chicks, all of which have taken their first flights.

30/07/25 - That's a wrap on harvest 25 🤯I think must be in the record for one of the earliest finishes we've had?

Our first Farm Tour Saturday was a success! You can read the blog here: elynffarming.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/a-s… 👀 Thank you to everyone that made this possible! Here's to 2026 🚜 Farm Wildlife Operation Turtle Dove RSPB England RSPB Hope Farm

After talking about never having moisture to grow cover crops in our part of the world, we now have covers in and romping away in this weather. Rain could have come earlier but not complaining now! Not a bad year to make the most of the solar panel in the sky Oakbank Game

I think this is Abia nitens, an impressive sawfly that feeds on scabious. One of the many benefits of a "weedy" yard! sawflies.org.uk/abia-sericea/

Digging holes again this autumn to keep on top of soil monitoring and track progress. So varied across fields but some signs of life coming back after a bit of rain! #fungi #symbiosis #soillife Soilmentor

An exciting find here this week was Callicera spinolae, the Golden Hoverfly! This is a rare Ivy specialist restricted to East Anglia so we had been hoping it might turn up. Ivy is so important for pollinators at this time of year Steven Falk Farm Wildlife

It was great to see a passage Spotted Flycatcher on the farm this week! Cambs Bird Club

Great to be here in the sunshine (and showers) the Agroforestry Show with Operation Turtle Dove Sophie was talking about agroforestry and nature at 12, and we're here all day and tomorrow Soil Association