One of the aims of the EDDC Management Plan 2021-25 for Sidmouth Cemetery has been to encourage wildlife – but in a ‘managed’ way, balancing the needs and uses of this special site.
Even though the plan isn’t working in every detail, it’s still very much a working document.
And so proposals from the public and visitors, from the Streetscene officers and the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party – these can all feed into what can be sensitively done when it comes to managing churchyards and cemeteries for wildlife, both generally and as far as the sites in the Sid Valley are concerned.
And one of those things that can be done to manage for wildlife is to put up bird and bat boxes!
Following on from having an owl box installed along Glen Goyle by the district council’s tree team and the buying in of a whole feast of new bat boxes for the Glen, the same has been happening up at the Cemetery.
And so, at this week’s session of the Cherishing Sidmouth Cemeteries working party, the volunteers were joined by the tree team to put up several bird and bat boxes around the site in designated trees.
With photos taken yesterday morning by CSC member Tess Bisson.
As she says, “The EDDC tree team in action, attaching bat boxes to the old conifers. They will also be putting up some bird boxes.”
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Thanks Tess!
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