Estuary Ranger Roles
The new team of five Estuary Rangers and their supervisor in the North have been working on the Wansbeck and the Blyth river estuaries. In January and February, they focussed on the removal of snowberry on the banks of the river Blyth near Bedlington in Northumberland. Snowberry is an invasive plant that grows in dense clumps preventing our normal British plant species such as bluebell, foxglove and wood anemones from growing.
Hebburn Prince Consort site, Hebburn, South Tyneside.
Left hand image. Installation of brushwood fascine, March 2021. Small strip of saltmarsh evident on upper edge of river bank.
Right hand image. Site monitoring visit, August 2021. Brushwood fascine has slowed the flow and allowed mud to build up on the rubble. This has then allowed saltmarsh plants to grow and created a 1780 m2 area of priority habitat on the Tyne. Important for juvenile fish, marine animals such as crabs and sand hoppers and river estuary birds such as redshank and little egret.
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