Schipper's Field update

Over the past 12 months, we've been hard at work transforming the landscape, creating three areas of scrub and establishing a vibrant wildflower meadow. This meadow is now home to a rich variety of flora, including Chewings Fescue, Common Bent, Crested Dogstail, Sheep’s Fescue, Slender Creeping Red Fescue, Yarrow, Black Knapweed, Wild Carrot, Lady’s Bedstraw, Perforate St John’s Wort, Oxeye Daisy, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Musk Mallow, Black Medick, Ribwort Plantain, Selfheal, Meadow Buttercup, Salad Burnet, White Campion, and Common Vetch.

We've just begun work on the crop strip, transitioning from a spring-sown to an autumn-sown mix to better suit the area which includes forage rye, winter wheat, linseed, kale, brassica carinata, vetch, crimson clover, lucerne, fodder radish, birdsfoot trefoil, alsike clover, later flowering red clover, fennel and phacelia.

In the wettest part of the field, we’re about to create a shallow drinking pond. This will be surrounded by small patches of willow to attract migratory birds such as Redstarts and Pied Flycatchers. Additionally, we're exploring an exciting new addition: an exclusive photography hide at a smaller pond near Rose Cottage Hedge. We'll share more details as this idea develops.

A new footbridge has been installed for access to the field opposite Kilnsea Church, with final touches, including a new gate, expected to be completed in the coming weeks. There will be a mown circular path through the meadow, we will ask members to keep to the paths where ever possible so not to disturb our neighbours or hedgerows.

We plan to officially open Schipper's Field during Migfest Weekend, but we hope to grant early access to Friends of Spurn before then.