After the comparative luxury of five successive days out wildlife and birdwatching with clients or with Sarah, today I had to get on with all the admin stuff that’s been piling up. No sign of our Red Squirrels so I actually did manage to proceed with the task at hand, once I’d finished checking the moth trap and releasing last night’s catch into the safety of the denser vegetation in our shrubbery. Five Hebrew Characters and four Common Quakers was the final total (rather than a couple of lines from a bizarre lepidoptera version of the Twelve Days of Christmas). The admin work was more of a mixed bag than the moth trap; bringing the accounts up to date, changing some of the detail on the Calendar and Links pages of the website, being interviewed for an article in Country Life magazine and making lots of ‘phone calls. Then I had to finalise the press release that we’re issuing about the Dawn Chorus and Northumbrian Breakfast at Lee Moor Farm on May 3rd. Finally I had a look at the Twitter profiles of all the people following us (if none of this sentence makes any sense to you then look at our profile and things may become clearer). Our ‘followers’ receive updates about our wildlife sightings and other snippets of NEWT related news and our use of this system even made the local press recently (although I really do wish that journalists would stop persistently using the word ‘twitcher’ for anyone with an interest in birdwatching – perhaps I should write a blog containing a glossary of birdwatching-related words and phrases?).
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