Peat Feasibility Study with Cumbria Wildlife Trust Peat Restoration Team Sept 2024
October 20, 2024
YSG Site Visit with Green Lancaster Students October 2024
March 2, 2025Our annual pre-Christmas residential was another success – lots of discussions, laughter, planning and a great visit to the Fell Pony Heritage Trust!
We started by checking some of the bird boxes we put out at the start of the year and then our group set off up the hill to learn about how images from a thermal drone could help us assess water run off from our peat
Philip Sage ran the workshop on how a thermal drone works and how images from it could help us understand the hydrology of our bog better. We now need to raise some money so that we can employ Philip and his drone to do two survey sessions over this year. The first one will be in April after a wet day.
Spot the drone!
Cows and Calf are doing well – currently on the upper eastern pasture before moving back to the 1 acre plot that they were in for a few weeks this winter.
On Saturday afternoon led by our trustee Paul Brady we did a walked bird flush across part of our bog – for snipe, jack snipe and woodcock. We will only do this once a year as we don’t want to disturb these birds and deter them from nesting on the land. We recorded one woodcock.
On Sunday we had a great day visiting The Fell Pony Heritage Trust where Libby Robinson gave an excellent workshop on Fell ponies and how we could use them at WGP. We also got to meet some of the ponies!
The amazing annual Christmas Quiz – at the wonderful Old School B&B – with lots of venison and wild boar sausages and chips!
Another camera trap, this one to monitor deer activity prior to some scrub planting in March. We spotted that the top of this small spruce had been nibbled so decided to monitor it
