Can more be done persuade visitors to keep their dogs on leads when visiting reserves?
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
Cin J
Thanks. I understand what you meant now. It’s good they updated them to help protect most of the wildlife there better
The Northumbrian County Council along with other partners have a seasonal scheme called "space for shorebirds " which explains the problem of disturbance caused by walkers and dogs to birds feeding and resting on the shore and the dunes. Not completely relevant to this thread but certainly worth a read. We talked to a couple of their rangers when we were at Boulmer last October and they thought the system was working Try the site spaceforshorebirds.co.uk