November started with more gorse coppicing on what was a very foggy day. It was so foggy, in fact, that at one point a whooper swan nearly flew into us all as we worked! Rather than on the saltmarsh edge, we were working at Biglands, an area of fen and wet grassland that we graze each summer. We removed gorse from the edge of a ditch that will be reprofiled to a gentler gradient. This will make it safer for the cows and…

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…