Wader Disaster…

While we were all confined to our gardens enjoying almost unbroken sunshine our moorlands were drying out and providing little food for the young waders emerging from their eggs. Curlew numbers are already down 50% in the last ten years so this years weather will have added to their decline. Dunlin are the Pennines latest breeding wader and the only one that will benefit from the present rains. See some of the Waders encountered last week click here