Scope at the ready - inside the hide with North East Lincolnshire mayor Cllr Steve Beasant (left) and Roger Wardle |
THE great and the good gathered yesterday to mark completion of creation of the new Novartis Ings wetland birds mitigation area on the outskirts of Grimsby.
This is a sister-site to Cress Marsh at nearby Stallingborough.
It will not be open to the public, but birdwatchers can peer through the railings or observe from afar on the adjacent estuary wall.
As with the Cress Marsh project, the mitigation area has been created to allow companies to develop other bird-sensitive sites on the South Bank of the Humber without the need for prior ecological consents.
To date, Cress Marsh, created a few years ago under an array of overhead power cables, has failed to live up to early expectations. Counts of waders and wildfowl have been modest at best. Correction - they have been woefully low.
However, there are high hopes for Novartis Ings which has a more favourable location.
Both sites were designed by Roger Wardle.
Curlews on the wing above one of the wetland scrapes |
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