February marks the final month of any major habitat management work on the reserve so as not to disrupt wildlife that, for example, may be settling down for breeding season or emerging from hibernation.

The first work party of the month was the final session of gorse coppicing on the saltmarsh edge. We have had a productive winter of gorse coppicing with our volunteers cutting a quarter of a hectare (2500 square metres…

Goldfinch

Happy New Year! This is the first Campfield Marsh work party blog of 2024, a year which will no doubt see plenty more hard work from our invaluable volunteers resulting in further improvements in the state of nature on the Cumbrian Coast reserves. For an insight into this work and the wildlife on offer on the reserves, look no further than this blog!

The first work party of the year was more gorse coppicing on the salt…

The first two work parties of November saw us back on the saltmarsh completing the gorse removal for 2023. We finished working on a ride (a 10m wide corridor cut into the gorse block) with smaller offshoots that broke through onto the marsh that will hopefully be enjoyed by invertebrates and birds alike during the summer months next year. This work saw us reach 0.15 hectares of gorse removed this winter, with more to…