This Sunday see's Knoxwoods annual Open Day from 10am-3pm, where you can visit their Sanctuary and see all the good work they do and spend some pennies (and pounds!) to help support their work with the birds and animals. They do, of course continue to look after many of the birds from our Rochdale site, from when in 2010 we had to relocate a large number of birds and aviaries to their care and so fitted them out with a state-of-the-art hospital from our facilities.
Whilst visiting on Sunday you will be able to see our new Watermeadow Reserve, and Field Reserves, which Knoxwood manage for us and have been doing sterling work with re-instating the historic sandbank and watermeadow features, also lots and lots of planting!

The photo from this article is some of the donations we have been given to help fund the reserves, and look after the birds; as well as the usual bags of clothes and bric-a-brac, we send our very grateful thanks to Hannah Green of Pet Brands in Birstall, whose company recently donated a pallet of bird fat balls - which we are distributing around each of our reserves to help support those birds using them this winter.

We will next be going up to these reserves in Carlisle in 2-3 months time, so keep the donations coming in! Meanwhile we hope to see some of you at the Open Day on Sunday.

Finally (for this report), I am pleased to give an update on Johns' Bike Ride total so far; currently standing at £445 giving you time to get those sponsorship donations and competition entries in.

It will have been a busy weekend for me, as by Sunday night I will have been to every one of Three Owls Reserves in 3 days!

Many thanks for your continued support.

Nigel