BBC Countryfile features Hazlewood Marshes
Hazlewood Marshes, and our wardens Rachel and Andrew, featured on BBC Countryfile on Sunday 5th March.
Hazlewood Marshes, and our wardens Rachel and Andrew, featured on BBC Countryfile on Sunday 5th March.
If there is a landscape that encapsulates dynamic and dramatic change, it is here on the edgelands of the Suffolk coast.
This week our reserve teams saw avocets galore at Hazlewood Marshes, recycled a Corsican pine and were busy pollarding and clearing ditches at our winter work parties.
Andrew Excell, our South East Suffolk Sites Manager, remembers Ernie Lucking.
This week our Reserve Wardens have been taking a closer look at some of the flora that grows on our sites, and Trimley Marshes gets a trim, attracting a whole host of different bird species.
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
Andrew Excell, South East Suffolk Sites Manager, explains the importance of saltmarsh and mudflat habitats for biodiversity and the environment.
It’s been hot on all of our reserves this week, but work cannot stop. Many of our meadow and fen sites have been cut and the hay gathered ready for the wildflowers to regrow next year.