Funding Objectives

The success of this Lapwing Project is based on care of the site with total exclusion of ground predators and the control of air predation within legal limits, i.e. crows and magpies.

Luckily birds of prey other than Goshawks do not prove a problem, as they do not like being bombarded with angry Lapwings.

We would like to have the funds to provide a viewing hide. We also need a full-time warden to maintain the security of the fence. A daily check is necessary; the fence is three miles long. During the breeding season his hours would be dawn to dusk, protecting the Lapwings. Herons invariably come in at the crack of dawn but are easily deterred by human presence.

With adequate funding we would be able to extend the reserve to include other farms, as well as taking over the two-hundred acres site as a bird reserve.

Linnets and Song Thrushes already breed well on site, we are encouraging Yellow Hammers and Grey Partridge on the arable ground. The other species we are particularly aiming to attract are Curlew and Corn Crake.

Eighty species on the Biodiversity Action Plan are present on the site.