This month’s guest author is Cumbria Coast’s very own Estate Worker, Megan, who found herself responsible for the bulk of October’s work parties.

Our first work party saw us up at Rogersceugh on a glorious sunny day in order to plant devil’s bit scabious plug plants. These plants support our efforts to increase habitat patches for marsh fritillary butterflies as well as other pollinators. It was a tough…

Here is a whistle-stop roundup of the work undertaken by our volunteers throughout August and September!

August saw us taking in the temporary electric fence from the saltmarsh which is put up to stop cows grazing some of the areas around the pools during breeding season. We also patched up the fence on the western edge of our bit of the saltmarsh to ensure that the neighbour’s sheep were kept off. They seem to enjoy…

Common      Darter

The first work party of July saw us return to the hedges laid over winter and once again cut back and remove weeds shading out the new growth on the hawthorns (pictured). This is always a satisfying job as the fruits of our labour is always immediately obvious. The good news is that all the stems cut back and laid are still alive and producing plenty of new branches, which will form the new hedge as it re-establishes…