Above – back in spring 2010, the weekday conservation spent an enjoyable, if at times challenging, few days building this decking at Emberton Park. Duncs is clearly overjoyed to be so close to finishing – as John does all the hard work.
Below – Trevor from Luton Council surveys the very-nearly-finished slow-worm hibernaculum back in summer 2010 – and below that, a photo of the guard we placed on duty to keep watch over the finished product!
Below – Ed putting the finishing touches to the marathon hedgelaying project that the weekday conservation team undertook over the winter of 2010/11. This was a huge project and it was great to get it all finished at last!
And finally (sorry – I know, that’s not at all funny. I must have spent too long with BTCV Bedford…) the weekday conservation team have spent many, many, MANY days at Great Stukeley SSSI over the years, cutting the grass to maintain the unimproved grassland habitat and also putting up and repairing fencing. The aim was to make areas stockproof so that sheep could do the work that we’d been doing in keeping the grass short. And here is one of those sheep, finally in place, who was very happy to keep posing for me!
