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‘…nature has declined massively…’ Is that even English? Why do the clearly deluded demand a sympathetic audience? In a civilised world they’d be in padded rooms… if only for their own sakes.

No sensible human being cares, dear. You can’t help sound of your voice, of course…

‘Educated’ young women seem to be very keen on talking about the world and life rather than actually having a real life in a real world . The only question is ‘Are young women going to come to their senses before they get old and realise that they have wasted their lives?’ I am a man so I am not bothered if I have offspring that survive. Being a man I am, of course, stupid. But, stupid as I am, I believe women who die childless will die unhappier than a childless man will. PS I admit I am a terrible monster.

You are too educated to understand real life. War is going to educate you middle-class anal-retentives.

Do you have a boyfriend? You don’t have to answer this question. You do not even have to know what a ‘…nature-positive outcome…’ means!

Amazing! A professor no-one (except me) takes a blind bit of notice of. He needs to get his bloody hands dirty! Hang on, though. Why wasn’t I told he was the director of WildCRU? That makes a difference, of course. He looks like he’s living a very comfortable life…….

‘.. fantastic legacy potential….’ Holy Christ!

There are lots of young , boy-friend -less women here. Obviously, having a normal life that would connect young women with young men is unacceptable. Yeah, it is really, really good

Does this young woman have a boy friend? What do you think? In common with the vast majority of humanity (living and dead] I couldn’t give a tinker’s toss. What’s posterity ever done for me?

Anne. iller is very old and nd algae covered

Showcase great vegetables etc…..no one really cares…. Thhey never did…. Only middleclasss Nobigger cares except tedious middleclass twats

Was Roselle chosen because she has strange name or because she is an idiot?

I especiallly despise Mark Connelly. Jeez! What a sad bastard!

There is no audience participation but ……….

‘…festering’ over a problem? Why wasn’t that bit redone?

I am impressed by how quickly adverse comments are removed. It is 2 am on a Saturday morning and my negative comment has been vaporised already! Bloody Hell! PS The ‘wider community’ doesn’t seem to include me. What a surprise! PPS The word ‘consistency’ doesn’t have an ‘a’ in it! How ‘educated’ are you self-styled ‘experts’?

There are far too many veins in that first man’s arms. It’s not right. That woman seems to think she fledges chicks. That last bloke is just very, very annoying ( ‘survive into the future’).

I found this video extremely boring. I don’t know why.

You people (mostly young and female) clearly have nothing much going on in your lives.

What I don't want to see are my country roads, neighbourhood verges and cemetery looking like overgrown and neglected jungles while at the same time hedgerows all over the country have been ripped out.

Well done with your efforts, i really enjoyed your video, good luck in the future

Brilliant video - well done to all involved. There has been so much hard work but its now really coming together

Love it. Beautifully presented. Good luck with the continued success of the project.

So good to see a real coming together of the Community- well done all!

Engaging and working with everyone,but not one mention of the “River Evenlode”Angling Clubs who are a valuable source of information regarding river ecology 🤷🏼‍♂️

Super work. Hope you get lots more views!

Brilliant stuff, please keep the videos coming. Keep up with the good work and Best wishes, Tony.

I was born in that river. Midwife had me swimming in there as a newborn

There will have been mayfly and damsel and also brown trout ...(wild of course)...and now.....and where does the Evenlode flow into..The Thames... Mammal and riverine bird species will also be threatened.

Wonderful and reassuring initiative and pleasing to see in the intensive urbanised southern England. Yes I see fewer now in the Pennines and Yorkshire dales and comments on farming silaging appear to threaten them. Best endeavours with this project. Is it being done elsewhere Simon Artley Manchester

Good luck - I wish you success. I vividly remember hearing my first curlew on holiday on the moors above Penrith many years ago. The big problem is farmers using too many insecticides: so many are is rapid decline. Silaging has been a disaster for wildlife! There are very few hay meadows & all the wildflowers left now.

why not collect the eggs like they do with the crocks in florida raise them up tilll they can fly then let them go in the place they were collected at least till you have a stable pop.

Fabulous work and congratulations on your success so far.

Beautiful good luck. Thanks for helping this poor endangered creature. Hope it’s not in vain😢

How wonderful 👏🏼👏🏼💗💓💕🇦🇺💗💓💕

I can't see how electric fences are 'natural habitat'. I want to feel positive about these good people's efforts but surely the clue lies in that canalised river. In nature it would have spread out and meandered creating damp, reed-bedded environments. Then, ground nesting birds perhaps would stand a chance without human intervention possibly.?

I live in North Kent. We used to have hundreds of Curlew in the creek. All gone now!

This is such a fantastic project, great job!

Can you not take one egg from each nest and hatch it in an incubator? Then raise the chicks til they can fly and let them go.

youve magpies crow s badges foxes even hedge hogs you have to strike balance

Fantastic bird! On the endangered species list in the Netherlands as well. Destroyed by highly industrialized agriculture. Throughout northern Europe it is not doing well. You managed 37 chicks to hatch! Congratulations! I am very proud of you. UK government should spend more money on wildlife improvements, habitat restoration, support for volunteers and help the volunteers to reach out to an even wider audience. This video is doing a great job at that.

😁 'Promosm'

Impressive and (almost) comprehensive.... not quite enough attention on agro-industry (eg. intensive poultry) or on the horrors of cake/biosolids, but very useful and informative well done. I trust Thames Water will pull its socks up and continue funding this work.... but also let's vote out the idiots in this useless government who for ideological reasons have DE-FUNDED the Environment Agency quite deliberately for the last 15 years and OPPOSED meaningful regulation. What we have today is not because of some oversight or accident, it is the predictable outcome of POLICIES that put profit over environmental sustainability no matter how crazy and short-sighted.

What a fantastic film, sad in parts but equally uplifting in others. Well done to all involved and keep up the good work. I for one am well aware of just how beautiful this part of England is despite all its issues. Let’s keep it that way. Best wishes, Tony.

Just curious to know if there is a reason that the section on sewage discharge is so short compared to the other sections?

Great work ppl ❤

I Love Curlews too. I lived on the Thames at Tilbury and as a kid I was a bird watcher and it was one of the high-lights of going out birdwatching. Thankfully there seems to be more around these days than there were back then?

Thank you for your work. Might want to concentrate making the improved area a lot bigger, more food supply will certainly mean more birds. Get the farmers to do some fox removal.

Watching this on Christmas Day and with so many emotions not merely for people I fondly remember who have since passed, but also for the Curlews. I’m glad somebody owned up and spoke about the predator issues facing them and some of the solutions that are currently available. Intriguingly in my own studies predatory bird numbers and their biomass effects fluctuate widely through the season. Representative predatory population counts vary from as low as 5 per cent to 26 per cent throughout the year. Bear in mind I’m not counting every single Rook or Jackdaw, I merely mark them as a present and allocate a one to such birds. So many hungry mouths, claws and teeth to rob them of their young, but never a clear-cut one fits all conservation approach. Happy Christmas and thanks for a wonderful film.

I applaud anyone who puts an effort into helping native wildlife. It's very distressing as you get older to realise that bird species that were fairly common are no longer there. I've spent a good deal of time outdoors over the years, but ive never seen a yellow wagtail. Best wishes from Wales.