Kasher and Neil D. put up over two dozen 'Ground Nesting Birds/'Dogs on Leads please' signs on the approaches to the fields and moorland in and around Blackshaw Head.
on Popples Common, near Slack.
For once it
was fine day, and the curlews, lapwing and
oystercatchers were very vocal in announcing their return and presence,
as the signs went up to welcome them back!
Neil had put a call out to the BSH Google group the previous week with a request for ideas for locations where we could put up some signs. By the end of the day they'd managed to put up all - bar one* - that were suggested by the group.
The locations covered included the Pennine Way crossing at Edge Lane (on the same signpost that Billie, Linda and Neil had handily restored only a few weeks previously!), several along the road to Widdop, including at Blake Dean, Clough Foot and up beyond the reservoir itself, Bridestones, along Marsh Lane to Dark Lane (Lower Rawtenstall) - and even at May's Shop itself, to help get our message out there!
While Kasher and Neil were out, they not only also managed to fill 4 large sacks of roadside rubbish, but also checked up on some reported path problems - and recorded locations for further rights of way work, for CROWS Volunteers, that will need doing in the coming weeks or months. It was a busy, beautiful and fruitful day!
* ... which Neil hopes to complete later this week on Friday! With a few more signs still left, Neil's got back to the BSH Google group again to ask for suggestions for any other places where the temporary signs could also be put up to encourage dog walkers to put their dogs on leads in the places where our returning waders are looking to nest!
