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Dennington Hall: Creating Nesting Opportunities

RESTORE’s core mission is to accelerate the recovery of nature across Britain. When we do this at the project level, we employ many different techniques, from creating scrub and tree banks to mechanically mimicking beavers and other lost species. One well-known and established means of supporting our avian populations is to install bird boxes. Many of us do this at home, supporting familiar garden birds such as Blue Tits, Swifts and House Sparrows. But across the wider landscape, nesting and roosting sites have become increasingly hard to find for many species due to ongoing losses of suitable nest sites, which accelerated drastically in the last 100 years. Natural cavities only form in mature trees or standing deadwood and, to a lesser extent, caves and rock faces. For generations, as we steadily lost our old trees, and deadwood was systematically removed from the land, imperfect old buildings provided alternative nest sites for many bird species. But with gnarly old trees now largely absent from our fields and forests, and old buildings extensively replaced with well-sealed modern structures, many otherwise suitable landscapes cannot currently support the multitude of cavity-nesting bird species that should be present. In February, RESTORE teamed up with renowned Naturalist, Author, Conservationist, Television Presenter and Cameraman, Simon King from Arx Naturalis, to install a range of songbird, owl and bat boxes in two immature plantations at Dennington Hall Farms, who we have been working closely with since 2023. Dennington Hall and RESTORE have a shared passion and vision for the recovery of nature in eastern Britain, and we look forward to monitoring how this part of the project helps us to boost biodiversity, including bio-abundance, across the farm in the coming years.