Only a day or so into phase two of the restoration and already things are changing fast. We have a number of ditches that have been untouched for a long, long time, and the trouble with restoring ditches such as these is that they have developed a very special flora and fauna that needs that long established cover, and we don't want to lose those so, for these ditches, we are leaving 'bits' along the length of the ditch to allow the creatures that live there to thrive alongside the creatures that will make it their home now it has been restored, so maintaining a range of wildlife. An example of the change this can bring is shown below, when this.....
became this....
We have also got our pictures of the area we restored last year, taken just a few days ago, shown below, with how the same area looked, before the work began, to really show how wonderful the changes has been...
Before....
After....
Care to chose where the bittern is going to breed next year.......?