Generational Birding with Dr Mya-Rose Craig
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I love ferns. I love ferns as well, they're
one of my favourites.
As soon as you kinda get y you know, drive down we drove down from Somerset, you know about ha about half now you start to see the ferns are coniferous trees and all this brack and yeah of course and uh And uh I really like this kind of environment.
I think it's so beautiful. The guy from the office was telling me that they have seventy pairs of night jars breeding here, which I think is incre I love night jars, I think they're gorgeous.
You told me they were about ninety.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, he was telling me a few years ago there was a nest of night jars where it kind of fed its chick for weeks and then it ate it. Um after after spending ages uh grazing it as well.
I'm Sean Bean and this is Get Birding. In this episode, we're exploring generational birding. and how a love of the natural world is passed down.
One of my first words was birdie.
You'll hear from lifelong birders Dr. Myer Rose Craig and her dad Chris. It's RSP Beyond.
You were actually pointing at a black lark at the time, which was the first time it had ever been recorded in the UK. And meet young
conservationist Joe Scorey and his dad Paul on a birding trip to Bushy Park.
the only time we were spending with each other was bird watching. It leads into so many different conversations. That's the brilliance of it. It is that starting point of fathers being able to have conversations with their sons and sons actually realizing, oh well, yeah, I can talk back.
Beding is reaching a younger generation. An RSPB study involving more than 24,000 people found that participation among 16 to 29 year olds has increased by over 1,000% since 2018. Someone who is encouraged by that increase is lifelong birder Dr Maya Rose Craig and her dad Chris. So when was the first time uh you took uh Maya Burden?
Well, unbelievably at nine days old she went on her first twitch with us in fact. So yeah, it was um it was actually over to the Ars of Scilly. So it was g it was a journey on a both by car and then by boat, um to see a lesser kestrel. Um so that was her first her f her first twitch. Obviously she's yeah yeah she she couldn't she couldn't really see the bird. We didn't point her against the telescope and all that kind of thing but Yeah. It was actually very nearly four days old because h Helena, my wife, Maya's uh mum, wanted to go off to there was a bird a bird called uh a lesser sandplover, but it was like a mile and a half over mud flats and stuff and I said no. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. We really consciously she was very upset. She was very upset. Yeah. Yeah, she just come out having had a cesarean and it was like, No, that's not happening. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to be responsible, but at nine days old it seemed fine.
I mean I think actually all of my earliest memories are actually of birds. I think my earliest memory is I'm not sure what it was actually is of being in a forest and there was a lake and there was a duck in the middle of it and we'd gone to see it. And I must I was probably about three. Another twitch. Um yeah, another twitch. Spent a lot of time looking at birds as a kid I think.
I don't know if you've got any memorable birding trips or t twitchers.
Yeah, many, I think. Many.
Yeah, we've been on many, many Twitchers together. I think probably the one that stands out uh for me was there was um a a species called Sandhill Crane, which is the sort of American equivalent of our common crane. Very, very rare in the UK.
Well third time one had ever shown. Yeah, and it
actually turned up in on in Orkney, so in the islands of Scotland. Yeah.
What is generational birding and why does it matter?
Maya was at school at the time, so she was still quite young. Um so it was like okay, it was still there on the Friday. So Friday evening after work with Maya's sister and her young daughter. We all set off in a car to drive basically through the night to get to John of Groats. From where? From Somerset. So yeah, so it literally took all nights. We got there with kind of an hour to go before the ferry was gonna gonna sort of take us over there.
How long was the drive?
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