04/03/19 - Nightjar Brewery

Last week we were delighted to welcome staff from Nightjar Brewery to join our team of staff and volunteers for a day working on Skipwith Common NNR. Matt & Sam were keen to help out with our recent efforts on the NNR, undertaking work to help improve the habitat of their name sake – the Nightjar. Nightjars have a long history on the Common, and still maintain a toehold on the site, with recent work aimed at helping to boost numbers and breeding attempts. The team did a great job on the day, helping to create more scalloped woodland edges and glades for hunting Nightjars, as well as other heathland wildlife.

Many thanks to everyone involved for their efforts, with many pairs of hands we were able to clear and improve a large area of potential habitat, which will also benefit other species and visitor enjoyment of the site. We were also blessed with favourable weather, spending the day under clear blues skies and unseasonally warm sunshine. We’re looking forward to Matt & Sam returning again later in the year for another corporate task, in the meantime the brewery is hoping to produce a special Nightjar ale to supply to local outlets, with a percentage of sales funding further conservation projects on the site. We’ll keep you real ale drinkers posted on this, and are grateful for the kind help and support offered by Matt and his team.