Bore da pawb croeso.
No blog for a while as I have been away on leave.
Just before I left a few projects were underway and I am please to say they are now finished off .
Protecting the winter hibernation roosts of Greater Horseshoe Bats, GHB's) at Pembrey Country Park has been a long held campaign, well with funding from Welsh Governments Local places for Nature and the huge support of Isabel Macho and Matthew Collinson in securing those funds; six of the seven WWII bunkers now have secure and improved roosting opportunities.
I engaged Vincent Wildlife Trust, Vincent Wildlife Trust | Conserving threatened mammalswith… to be our consultants on the project and both Dan and Jenny have been nothing other than fantastic working with one of our countryside contractors they ensured that the work, which has involved building walls and installing metal gates to a design GHB's will use.
Not without issues as the GHB's have already returned for the winter, well four of them never left! Work, conducted under licence, had to start and stop a few times, but now its done.
Monitoring will continue as it has done for several years with hopefully an increase in hibernating and maybe fingers crossed, breeding GHB's. - I have just realised I haven't taken any photos of the finished work !!
A project I do have photos for though is the Sand Martin nesting box project at our Ffynnon Helyg proposed Local Nature Reserve.
Designed delivered and installed by John and Jake from Green Future Building, Green Future Building Ltd (GFB) - Green Future Building it wasn't without its issues though, within seconds the van they were driving got stuck in the only patch of mud ! Well an hour later and we were underway again.
The reason the units appear so tall is that John from GFB has worked out that the birds are more likely to use the higher holes, we will plant willow whips at the rear to help hide the supporting piers.
Well that's it for this week....
