Grants Moor Progress Update

On Tuesday, 15 March a Team of volunteers spent the day at Grants Moor continuing to replace the posts and rails surrounding the pond which were removed by the contractors when they carried out the initial clearance work on the site.  The work has progressed well but is still not completed and so we will be back again in the coming weeks to finish off the task.

In addition to the fencing work the Volunteers also spent some time constructing 7 habitat piles to encourage small mammals and reptiles to use the site.  We also built a Stag Beetle Habitat from logs which had started to rot down.  Stag Beetles are our largest land based beetle – males can grow up to 70mm including their jaws which resemble Stags antlers and so give them their names.

 

It was nice to see Spring returning to Grants Moor with a first sighting of a Brimstone butterfly and a small Scarlet Elf Cap fungus which, unlike many fungi species, fruits in the Spring rather than the Autumn.  It will be interesting to what other species of plants and animals start to use the site over the coming year.

If you are a Trust member and feel you would like to be involved with this work over the course of this year please get in touch with me: cbimages@ntlworld.com on to register your interest.