CHRISTMAS APPEAL
2014
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Help us feed the birds this Christmas Lots of seasonal visitors will be coming to our nature reserves and gardens this Christmas. Many birds, large and small, breed in Scandinavia, Iceland and central Europe and migrate to the UK in winter looking for warmer weather and food. From waxwings to goldeneyes, Bewick’s swans to short-eared owls, our feathered friends make amazing and often perilous journeys over the winter months in search of food and shelter. If you enjoy feeding the birds in your back garden, then you’ll know just how much wildlife relies on us to help it through the winter. Berry-filled native trees and hedgerows, and lakes, ponds and streams filled with plenty of aquatic vegetation, ensure a warm welcome awaits our winter visitors. Our nature reserves provide the well-deserved feast and rest the visitors desperately need at the end of their long journeys.
Please donate today to keep these places special for winter wildlife. Did you know?
Robin © Elliott Neep
The robin in your garden in winter may be a different bird to the one you see in summer. The robin – ‘Britain’s Favourite Bird’ since a Times poll in 1961 - is more cosmopolitan than many people realise. Some of ‘our’ robins head south to Spain and Portugal in winter and are replaced in their territories here by robins from Scandinavia.
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A warm welcome Migration is a risky business. Not only birds migrate; animals of all shapes and sizes are also on the move each winter just to survive. We need to make sure that our nature reserves can provide the food and shelter wildlife needs over the winter months, for example, managing our hedgerows so that they are full of winter berries, not just for our native birds but for those that travel huge distances, such as waxwings from Scandinavia. Our wetland reserves at Titchmarsh, Grafham Water, Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows and Godmanchester provide essential larders and resting stations for birds such as gadwall, wigeon, goldeneye and tufted duck. Controlling invasive scrub and making space for birds to roost on these sites is essential to provide them with a warm welcome after their exhausting travels. Our wildlife makes some amazing journeys over the winter months in its search for food and warmer climates. Our nature reserves and Living Landscapes are critically important winter refuges for all types of wildlife, and we urgently need your donations to keep these places special.
Redwing with berries © Jon Hawkins, Surrey Hills Photography
You can also keep your garden welcoming for winter visitors by cutting back hedges and shrubs after the berries have gone, letting ivy flower as a late nectar source, and putting out a good variety of food for garden birds, for example, bird seed, cooked rice, grated cheese, dried fruit, breadcrumbs and chopped nuts.
Help us to keep our nature reserves special for winter visitors and other wildlife all year round – please make a donation today On behalf of all the wildlife you will be helping and everyone at the Wildlife Trust, I would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yours sincerely,
Brian Eversham Chief Executive The Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, The Manor House, Broad Street, Great Cambourne, Cambridge, CB23 6DH. Registered in England 2534145. Registered charity no. 1000412.
Call us on 01954 713543 to make a donation by card Post your donation using the form overleaf in the Freepost envelope provided Your support will fund vital wildlife work across the three counties. Some part / all of your donation to this appeal could be used to make a Contributing Third Party (CTP) payment to a landfill operator to secure a grant through the Landfill Communities Fund.
CHRISTMAS APPEAL
2014
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