Ever tried to cut your way through a reed bed? Now I know how a jungle explorer feels like, it’s hard work!
19 metres in and not even halfway in. Cutting a corridor across the reed bed to allow access for bird ringing and also to allow a health check across the reed bed.
My friends at Corrillion Civil Engineering made a generous donation of materials to the reserve. Now it’s up to me to make best use of the materials, may have to be a bit creative with some of the stuff but it will be used. Many thanks to Aln Elliott who arranged this and Jake who delivered it.
John Thompson from eco north visited the reserve on Thursday for a quick review. They are the commercial arm of the Northumberland Wildlife Trust. He reviewed my 3 year plan and was happy with that, so good news there. He even volunteered to help, good man.
We had our first bird ringing session on Wednesday. Nothing spectacular paid a visit but we did have 8 visitors to the mist nets. 2 wrens, 3 blue tits, 2 chiff chaff, a great
tit. We also had a large dragonfly, bit tricky to ring!!!
Thanks to David Noble-Rollin for the education on bird ringing. A lot more to learn before I can do it, as David tells me it would take 4-5 years to be fully trained.
This is my very first blog so be kind. Having just acquired 10 acres of marsh, reed bed and mixed plantation this blog is a diary of how it will be turned into a nature reserve, step by step, over the next 5 years and beyond.
The intention is to post the highs and lows of this journey, probably with more pictures than words.
Happy to take any advice from the ‘experts’ out there as I am a complete novice ( on both blogging and nature reserves!)
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