Gareth Jones FoD wildlife talk in Chepstow's Art Space

Gareth Jones of Gloucestershire Raptor Monitoring Group talks FoD wildlife in Chepstow's Art Space @ the Old Library

Transcript

00:00I think it's a good turnout summer you know lots of people wanting to be right by the river drinking

00:05cider and things like that so yeah I think it was a good turnout yeah massively important you only

00:11have to look at some of the controversial subjects to know that everyone's got an opinion on it and

00:17and it's part of our culture it's part of our heritage you know this wildlife has been here

00:24for a very long time and and it is part of the whole of the forest thing it's what makes the

00:29y valley in the forest thing the y valley in the forest of e you know remove the wildlife and and

00:34all you've got is is a wood and a bit of a river going through i think because it gives you a chance

00:39to get away from um the hustle and bustle of life and and you know i have a really hectic life um with

00:48my work life it's a lot of pressure and stress and to get out there and to hear uh you know hear a

00:55tawny owl call or hear a nightjar call or see a see a gossalt see a peregrine see a boar whatever it

01:02just it just allows you to escape and i think that in this country we need a lot more of that

01:08especially young people getting out there and seeing seeing what's out there really and experiencing it

01:13i think for me because peregrines are uh you know my my favorite bird they have been since i was you know

01:22me high to a grasshopper i just love that going to something like a simon's yak point when i was

01:28very young and just seeing those peregrines um diving and and uh and flying past and and things

01:35like so just just that experience i think really is and the noise that they make and things just just

01:42brings it all back to my childhood i guess watching the distance trying not to disturb it and things um

01:47and during the talk he said about things like tawny owls really going often into uh rehab centers

01:54and stuff rehab centers do a fantastic job but um tawny owls generally they will fall down trees

02:00they will climb back up again they're amazing climbers and so just leave them there and if

02:05you're really worried about it just put it on the branch somewhere and your parents will find it and

02:08it will do absolutely fine rather than taking it away from its area um and then it has to be reintroduced

02:14them from the segment