We have been planning to move our workshop and storage containers for some weeks now and on Thursday last week the big day finally came! Michael, Paul and I arrived bright and early to empty our equipment out ready for the move and finished just in time, as the crane was making it’s way onto site.
Stationed at the viewing screen, we watched as the containers were lifted onto lorries and driven down to their new site. Then began the task of ferrying all our gear and arranging it back in it’s rightful place. At the end of the day, everything had been successfully moved and the new work area – our new home (!) – looks great, giving us lots of extra storage space and easier access to our equipment.
In the next few weeks we will be making improvements to our new work area including putting in a new polytunnel for our continuing reed propagation and building extra storage facilities. There’s certainly plenty to keep us going for a while!
But despite being busy with the big move, we have still had time to enjoy our wonderful wildlife on site. Birds reported recently include up to 5 green sandpipers, a common sandpiper, juvenile avocets with their parents, the juvenile spotted redshank, up to 3 greenshanks and juvenile yellow wagtails. Wall butterflies have made a welcome appearance on Phases 1 and 2 in the last couple of weeks and we have had regular sightings of second generation brown argus, small heath and common blue butterflies and common darter, migrant hawker and brown hawker dragonflies.