This week our fantastic team of volunteers have been hard at work once
again, this time helping us to manage the hedges, riverbank hawthorns and
scattered willows at North Duffield Carrs, and with so many extra pairs of
hands several of the team were also busy strimming vegetation at the ‘top
pond’, whilst two eager souls waded across to the island to rake and burn the
remaining cut vegetation. Throughout the course of the day we also flailed the
edge of the meadows, bunds and ditch sides, in order to help maintain the open
landscape that has been well appreciated by our breeding waders this year
(following similar management work last summer and autumn).
At the end of
another very productive day, we then finished off by catching one of the resident
broods of Mute Swans – a pair with five cygnets, in order to ring and
colour-ring them as part of our long running population study. Many thanks as always to the team for all their hard work.
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