We've recently been working with three students from The University of Lincoln, to record six podcasts for the Beckingham Marshes web page.

The six themes that we've asked them to record podcasts about, are the River Trent, the history of the landscape, memories, bird song, oil production and the history of the Old Willow Works.

Lora, Katie and Matt, who are studying media, have already been busy recording with willow worker Alison Walling, children from Beckingham Primary School and staff from iGas Energy.

Last week, they braved bitter winds and very wet conditions to make recordings with both myself and Site Manager Michael Copleston, as well as trying to record some bird calls too.

The image below shows Matt recording the calls of the tree sparrows that have been visit our feeding station.