Volunteers needed! Please see below the note from Katie Aspin of the RSPB:
As you may be aware, the Twite Recovery Project has been
working with farmers to increase food availability for Twite during the
breeding season, mainly through restoring hay meadows with key Twite food
plants including Dandelion, Common Sorrel and Autumn Hawkbit. Autumn
Hawkbit is an important food source for Twite late in the breeding season,
however, botanical surveys last year showed that this species hasn’t taken
particularly well in some of the reseeded meadows. Natural England have
therefore approved a grant to buy some Autumn Hawkbit plug plants, which we
hope will do better than the seed. We are looking for volunteers to help
us to plant these plug plants in September at farms near to Ripponden,
Rishworth and Marsden. If anyone would like to help out, please let me
know which dates you could make from the list below:
Monday 18th September
Tuesday 19th September
Monday 25th September
Tuesday 26th September
Any time you could give would be very much appreciated, we
have over 3000 plug plants to plant!
Many thanks,
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Katie Aspin
Twite Project Officer (working days Monday - Wednesday)
Email : Katrina.Aspin @rspb.org.uk
The RSPB, Northern England Region, Westleigh Mews, Wakefield Road,
Denby Dale, Huddersfield, HD8 8QD
Tel 01484 868431 Mobile 07736722177 |
Would anyone like to join a Halifax Scientific Society volunteer group to help the RSPB and Twite?
ReplyDeleteIt would be good bonding for the HSS members, working and taking our snack break together, just as happens on walks.
Mondays and Tuesdays are both good for me, but only from 11.00am on Mondays, when I can pick up with the car from the bus at Ripponden;
On Tuesdays I can pick up in Halifax at 1.00pm.
Steve