GOOD FOR ORCHIDS, BAD FOR SONGBIRDS - HUNDREDS OF SHRUBS RIPPED FROM FORESHORE

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. Hundreds of sea buckthorn bushes and other shrubs  are this week being torn up from the nature reserve on Cleethorpes foreshore to facilitate enhanced growing conditions for marsh orchids and other wildflowers. The project is being undertaken by contractors working on behalf of Natural England and  North East Lincolnshire Council. The   downside of the project is that it will lead to loss of feeding and nesting habitat for many resident and migrant songbirds such as robins, wrens, dunnocks, yellowhammers, blackcaps and whitethroats.