Over the last few weeks we’ve started to get our winter feeding stations up and running around the reserve, to help give our
feathered friends a boost as natural food starts to become scarce and the
weather begins to turn a little colder. Visitors to the reserve can enjoy
the feeding station at Bank Island which is already hosting around 40 Tree
Sparrows from our large breeding population in the boxes around the NNR base.
There are also good numbers of Goldfinch at the moment – although a flock (or
‘charm’) of 300 are currently present on Wheldrake Ings, feeding
on Autumn Hawkbit seed heads, so numbers may increase yet. This year’s
grain for both our winter feeding stations and our waterfowl ringing programme
has been kindly donated to the Friends of the Lower Derwent Valley by Agrii-UK,
based in Pocklington – this will be a huge assistance in supporting the work we
do and for which we are most grateful – many thanks to all involved.
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