Last week our team of staff and volunteers were once again
joined by staff from our friends at Aviva York, taking advantage of their
volunteering allowance. With an increased team of 27 motivated and enthusiastic
people, we had a great day and achieved a huge amount of work across the LDV
and Skipwith Common NNR.
On the Common the team helped remove brash from the
recent winter works, making small dead hedges and habitat piles into reptile hibernacula,
serenaded by singing Woodlark over the heath.
Other members helped install
a ‘false’ gate post in front of one of the hides at Bank Island for Barn
Owls and Kestrels to perch on, whilst others helped the team from Green Future
Building move the new Sand Martin banks into situ prior to being assembled.
Rotating tasks throughout the day the team also managed to spilt and stack some of
the leftover timber from our recent felling work on Wheldrake Ings, adding over 10 cubic metres to our woodshed. Finally, we even had time to finish and
tidy up our willow coppicing work around the car park area for the Yorkshire
Wildlife Trust at Wheldrake Ings. Huge thanks to the team for everyone’s
amazing efforts, which really does make a great difference in what we can
achieve on the reserve – looking forward to welcoming the team back for another
day in the autumn.
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