I’m told that the picnic/stroll/chat about the lack of Hen Harriers in England this year – ‘a tiny handful’ (RSPB) – will be held at Grimwith Reservoir car park at midday on Saturday (this Saturday! Saturday 25 June).
It will be nice to meet up with many friends and register our anger at the lack of Hen Harriers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and elsewhere in the English uplands, and in many parts of the UK uplands.
Grimwith Reservoir car park is large and ideally placed for a stroll around the reservoir to take a look at the grouse butts set into the wall on the far side and the line of butts at the eastern end of the reservoir. There is a clear view (if the weather is OK – surely it will be) across the characteristic chequerboard-pattern of burned heather patches.Grimwith Reservoir is on the western side of OS Explorer map 298, Nidderdale, at 063641.
See you there perhaps?
Times please, ASAP.
Nigel – midday (like it says!)
You can use this postcode BD23 5ED if you’re relying on a SatNav to get you there, try it in google maps to see how close it will get you to the car park.