A Whole lot of Work!

It's been a very misty couple of days here and the work has been continuing apace.  Out on the newly laid moorland path there are now bridges to cross and stone seats to sit on!

Those of you still looking for flowers will find the odd one here and there.  Up on the moorland this buttercup was braving the fog.

This White Dead Nettle is still clinging on as well!

There are plenty of fungi about too, brought into fruit by the damp weather.  This one is on the moorland.

The Larch needles are already softening the look of the newly laid paths.  This is the path which winds through the Sycamore avenue.

Trevor and Darryl have now finished all the work at the new hide.  The boardwalk is finished and you can now walk down from the stone pile car park and straight onto the boardwalk which continues across the bridge to the hide.

ATM have finished re-laying the steps at the end of the path along the beck.  Although there may seem like a lot of steps they are much better than the few which were there before as they came down the steep bank at quite an angle. 

Today the young students from Askham Bryan college came to work on the coppice.  They worked hard on taking out a lot of Silver Birch saplings and cutting back the Willow.

Those of you who haven't visited the reserve in a while are sure to see some huge changes.  Not only from contractors, who are dealing with large capital works, but also from the volunteers who turn up each week and give their time.  Winter is very exciting in that it is when most habitat management work is done.  We wait to see the results of our work when the vegetation grows the following year. 

Yesterday afternoon we had an exciting preview of our new website.  It looks amazing and we were all very impressed with the work done by Vicky and Jez.  In a couple of weeks' time you will be able to see it too and we are sure you will think it's wonderful!

Keep watching this space for more news about the change to your favourite website.