This past weekend was our final residential weekend of the year, working for the Peak Park Conservation Volunteers. On Saturday we were on the shores of Tittesworth Reservoir, creating a willow hedge to prevent walkers and dogs from disturbing an area using by ground-nesting birds. On a very wet Sunday we were at a different nearby site, this time enhancing the habitat for willow tits by creating standing deadwood. An excellent trip – in spite of the rain and a recalcitrant fire alarm in our accommodation!
Update, February 2019: we returned to our willow hedge during our first weekend away of 2019, and extended it further along the shore.
Gap to be filled with willow hedge
Volunteers at work 1
Volunteers at work 2
Volunteers at work 3
A dog tests the barrier
The completed willow hedge
Creating willow tit habitats
Creating deadwood for willow tits, and habitat pile
[…] managed as an important habitat for willow tit. Then, on Sunday, we returned to the willow hedge that we began in October 2018, and extended it further along the shore. This barrier, created by a combination of dead hedging […]
[…] the shores of Tittesworth Reservoir, and were pleased to see that the lakeside hedge we worked on last October and again in the January snow is well established and providing effective protection of the shore. […]