About Dyke Farm Nature Reserve
Dyke Farm Nature Reserve is a small nature reserve on the outskirts of Moffat and is run by members of Moffat and District Wildlife Club.
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A video taken a few weeks ago showing Garry Tait at work with the chainsaw and Doug Shilton busy as always. As my phone camera is broken at the moment no videos or photos which may be a good or a bad thing...lol. We have been busy as usual and young Jock Dicerbo has been down doing some important jobs for the Reserve at the age of 85 which is impressive and good to see Jock back.
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On Saturday our Coffee Morning raised the superb total of £1928 which is a great effort. Many thanks to everyone.On Saturday our Coffee Morning raised the superb total of £1928 which is a great effort. Many thanks to everyone.
A last minute reminder that tomorrow morning Moffat and District Wildlife Club will be holding their annual Coffee Morning in Moffat town hall starting at 10.30 am. If you have anything to hand in we are most grateful and you can do so from 9am.
After the end of our last chipping session up the orchard area....surveying our hard work.
More photos taken up the orchard area of Dyke Farm Nature Reserve a few weeks ago.
Men at work at the Reserve.....I will let you be the judge of that.
A selection of photos from Dyke Farm Nature Reserve and the volunteers working on the paths taken a few weeks ago.
On Saturday 4th May in Moffat town hall at 10.30 am we will be having our annual fundraising coffee morning which you always support so well. At Dyke Farm Nature Reserve there is always plenty of maintenance work needing done and we do most of it ourselves. We are always needing hand tools such as rakes and hand loppers. Chainsaws and strimmers are always needing replacing too. If you could help us in any small way that would be really appreciated. Some baking or donations towards the various stalls or buying raffle tickets all helps. You can buy these from AM Grieve Newsagents or committee members such as Garry Tait Jon Haydon Andy Dickson Sue Powell or John Smith.
Some recent photos from the Reserve.
Our last chipping day. Job nearly done. Thanks to William Mcroberts Garry Tait Jon Haydon and Doug Shilton.
The last meeting of the season will be this Friday night in the Buccleuch Arms hotel and club member Tom Thomson will be showing photos taken off the different birds that he has recorded in his garden. I will also run through our new laptop presentation on Dyke Farm Nature Reserve which is more up to date than our slideshow. It is a work in progress and will be updated on a regular basis. So come along on Friday night to see what we have been doing recently. Non members welcome to attend. Meeting starts at 7.30pm.
Prior to our last chipping day showing plenty branches to be chipped. A very cold morning but a beautiful morning. Showing Doug Shilton Garry Tait and William McRobert.
A selection of photos from the orchard area a few weeks ago.
We have been clearing some Willows from the orchard area of the Reserve and we will be doing some planting at the end of March to replace them and add more variety. Jon Haydon dragging branches and Garry Tait busy doing his stuff.
Same ditch after being strimmed and raked out.
The top feeding station up in the orchard area and one of the ditches before I gave it a strim and rake out last Saturday.
Red Kites which are being seen regularly in the Moffat and Beattock area will be the subject of our next talk next Friday at the Buccleuch Arms hotel when Duncan Orr-Ewing will be giving us an update on how well they are doing in Scotland. As always visitors are most welcome. Meetings start at 7.30 pm.