Spot on. We are trying to balance the needs of wildlife with the sometimes conflicting requirements of visitors. Normally we would graze the lagoon with sheep at this time of year to manage the vegetation growth. However, with the current requirement for daily close inspection bluetongue checks we concluded that the disturbance this could cause to nesting birds outweighed the benefit to our visitors of being able watch feral ducks through the fence from their cars ; -).
Seriously though, there are plenty of other considerations which I wont bore you with, but once the breeding season is over we will reintroduce the sheep and this autumn we intend to cut the sward really short for wigeons, American wigeons and brent geese.
Quail still calling at Frampton this morning.
John
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