Spearheaded by farmer and catering service Tom Gurney, the 11 members of the River Mun Catchment Group will work together to increase biodiversity in the location.
More particularly, they intend to enhance water quality in the five-mile stream, passionately referred to as the “Mighty Mun”, which encounters the sea at Mundesley.
After officially signing up as a farm cluster, financing was protected through the federal government’s Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) program to designate a facilitator and spend for a “biodiversity audit”.
Mr Gurney said the audit will determine existing “natural properties” and form a beginning point for choices on what environment work is required to support concern types.
But while long-lasting tasks will take months or years to come to fulfillment, the group likewise desired some more instant “fast repairs”.
So it is dealing with Julian Moulton, a volunteer bird ringer and recorder with the British Trust For Ornithology (BTO), who has actually set up 27 nest boxes on Mr Gurney’s land and has actually been asked to install more on neighbouring farms.
Mr Gurney said: “The biodiversity audit will provide us a basic summary however Julian’s work suggests we can have an in-depth image of one element of the natural world, specifically the farmland bird population.
“Over time, as we grow hedgerows affectionately, or plant cultivated margins, or leave corners of fields unblemished, then we will see those varieties of birds – both range and amount – increase and reveal that our efforts are settling.”
Mr Moulton included: “Across the county, we are seeing the return, in numbers, of birds such as lapwing, curlew and skylark.
“The River Mun is brand-new area to me so I am anticipating finding out more and reporting about what I discover here along the ‘mighty Mun’.”
Volunteer bird recorder Julian Moulton sounding a young jay – Picture: Julian Moulton (Image: Julian Moulton)
