you have also created a sand martin nest, just in case.

Indeed.

So the funding for this particular project came about as a Wild Trout Trust project, Love for Lothersdale Beck.

It was partly driven by me, partly instigated by the Wild About Lothersdale volunteers and the landowner who was keen to do a bit more to keep their farming going.

productive, but think really carefully about the more unproductive areas that we've got in front of us here.

And yeah, so it was a holistic project.

There's woodland creation, there's riparian buffer strips, that's what the fencing is for.

And I think that's, is that something the wildlife trusts are doing more of these days? Yeah, definitely.