Tag Archives for volunteers
Bird Boxes for 2013
Michael and Rose Williams came on 27 February. It was a chilly but beautifully sunny day – just the weather for putting up a number of new bird boxes along the edge of one of the fields which belong to … Continue reading
Bird Feeding
The Marina’s farmland and song birds typically struggle during the cold dark months from January to April before the fields and hedgerows start to green up and there’s little food left from the previous year. David Boddy’s shrub and tree … Continue reading
Litter Picking on the Towpath
The Volunteer Group (with plastic bags, pickers and good gloves) headed out onto the Towpath between the Marina and Willington, going into the little wood and scrambling through the hedges. Plastic bags soon filled and, thanks to the courtesy of … Continue reading
Otter Holt
The Otter Holt in South Field is now more or less complete. Whilst no otters have been spotted around the Marina, there’s always a chance that we may get a visit, and having the right environment prepared has to be … Continue reading
Wood Management on the Trent & Mersey
The Mercia Volunteers were at work again on the 9th of November. The Canal & River Trust had marked a number of small trees in the wood opposite the Marina for taking down. The wood had not been managed for … Continue reading
Towpath Tidying
The Marina works closely with Canal & River Trust and has ‘adopted’ a mile of the canal from Potlocks Bridge to just the other side of Willington. Under Jules Aucott’s leadership, there have been towpath and wood tidies, vegetation cutbacks … Continue reading
Pruning and Lopping on the Trent & Mersey Towpath
The Mercia Marina volunteer group were very lucky to have two clear dry days, a couple of weeks apart to go along our adopted section of canal between bridge 22 and Willington. Armed with thick gloves, loppers and secateurs we … Continue reading
Towpath Tidying
On Saturday 22nd September 2012, a Volunteer Group sallied forth for a second go at the towpath between Potlocks Bridge and Willington. The first group made a great start – lopping and topping, pruning and tidying – much helped by … Continue reading
Ragwort Pull
The Marina’s annual landscape programme includes pulling Ragwort – a plant good for butterflies and bees but not good for a number of animals and inclined to spread quickly and become a nuisance unless controlled. The main part of the … Continue reading
Butterfly Drift Infill
A number of the plants from the creation of the Butterfly Drift had failed and so a group of volunteers got together with Jules when David Boddy said he was bringing down replacements he had grown from seed. Because the … Continue reading