January 21st 2020 Island clearance

January 21st 2020 Island clearance

On a bright, windy day, a working party of the Friends of Haw Park Wood & Wintersett took to the water at Anglers Country Park. Their task for the day was to clear the islands of foliage, ready for the return of the nesting birds.

Starting work on the first island. Hope the tide doesn’t come in too quickly!
Work in progress.
Removing unwanted foliage. No bodies were found althogh Edwin was looking hard.
The island cleared of foliage. Now where’s that darned boat when you need it?
At times like this, you need to know who you can trust!

 Although the volunteers were issued with life jackets, thankfully these weren’t required. We now look forward to spring and seeing newly hatched wildfowl using these islands.