Nature Fact

The amount of time that birds spend looking for food is scarcely believable. The Great tit spends 75% of its waking hours on this task, the Blue Tit 85% and the Coal Tit 90%. The smallest of our birds, the Goldcrest, spends literally all day feeding. Help birds visiting your garden by providing food. A fat crumble is easy to make by rubbing 4oz/115g of cooking margarine or lard into 8oz/225g of plain flour-unlike us, birds can consume large quantities of fat without any adverse effects.

Site Management

Slop Bog Guardian volunteers have continued to assist the D.C.C. Countryside Rangers in the clearing and burning of brush wood from the winter felling of trees. A second donated owl nesting box has been sited in the woodland area at the rear of Hazel Drive. A further two chimney style boxes have been constructed by the volunteers, to be installed within the woodland corridor, where the Tawny Owls are known to have their territory. This , we hope, will provide them with more choice of location and style of box to reside for nesting.

Notice boards have been positioned at the four entrances to Slop Bog Nature Reserve.