The very wet weather this Summer has really held us up with our harvesting for winter provisions for the cattle. Earlier in the Summer we managed to get only about 200 small bales of hay which we need to feed to our beasts in the traditional, old buildings during the Winter months. We do not seem to have had two dry days together which is not enough time to make traditional hay. Still we live in hope as that is all that we can do - surely it can not rain for ever?
Around the 15th September, some of our guests were lucky enough to see a Tawny Owl and a Marsh Harrier, plus a pair of Kingfishers and numerous Migrant and Brown Hawker Dragonflies at the Allen hide on Leighton Moss.
On 20th September, guests delighted to have seen a Bittern flying around the Public hide on the causeway. Also a Great White Egret and Greenshank at the Eric Morecambe Hide. Just up the road from the farm at 7.55 pm they saw 3 Tawny Owls sitting on seperate fence posts.
Finally, at the end of the month we can say all our crops were safely gathered in!
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Nature diary of daily events around farmland adjacent to Leighton Moss RSPB.
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