2016-11-11 |
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Limagrain Mixture Boosts Winter Feed for Wildlife
A warm, dry autumn has helped to produce an abundant crop of wild flowers and plants from Limagrain seed mixtures supplied to the 170-hectare RSPB Frampton Marsh that borders The Wash, near Boston, Lincolnshire.
Limagrain’s Waterbird Scrape mixture is sown into a drained scrape area in summer. “It produces an abundance of seeds and nectar,” says Limagrain’s Ian Misselbrook. “This year supplies have continued well into the autumn.”
Greenfinch on sunflowers produced from Limagrain’s wild bird feed mixtures at RSPB Frampton Marsh
The scrape is flooded over winter and the rotting vegetation will provide food for a diverse range of invertebrates that then become an attractive and plentiful food source for over-wintering wildfowl and waders, as well as migrant bird species passing through during spring and summer.
Limagrain donates the Waterbird Scrape mixture as part of an on-going project. “We also provide the bespoke Wild Bird Feed mixture for reserves at Frampton Marsh and Freiston Shore. This benefits declining farmland birds, such as corn buntings, tree sparrows and yellowhammers by providing an additional food supply.”
Frampton Marsh anticipates record-breaking visitor numbers for 2016 at 50,000 as the reserve’s reputation grows for attracting record numbers of wading bird species.
