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A Happy New Year for birds on the coast
© Simon Colvine
Money pours in for nature haven
Birds will owe a big favour to the Coastal Conservation Group – local people passionate about the coast – for a new place for them to thrive.
On 16 January work started on two new ponds in Whitburn Coastal Park Local Nature Reserve, to the south of Souter Lighthouse. Working with the National Trust and other organisations, the Coastal Conservation Group are making these new wetland spaces, creating new bird habitats, and giving people the chance to have a better view of the varied bird life on the coast by building a special accessible viewing screen. Information about the coast’s birds and other wildlife will also be featured.
The Improvements to Whitburn Point Nature Reserve project has been awarded funding of £38,156 through the Community Spaces programme which is being managed by Groundwork UK as an Award Partner to the Big Lottery Fund. Community Spaces is part of the Big Lottery Fund’s Changing Spaces initiative.
Not only will the completed project be hugely beneficial to our local wildlife, hopefully it will encourage more and more people to connect with the great outdoors and enable them to take wildlife watching to the next level, by enjoying stunning close views of some of our rarer and seldom seen bird species from one of the purpose built viewing screens.
The work will hopefully be completed by 9 March, with an official launch of the completed project to be held at the site and at Souter Lighthouse on 1 April.