19/04/19 - Aviva Corporate Task

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.