Youngsters help ospreys project
Last updated 11:50, Wednesday, 01 October 2008
YOUNG engineers and designers from Keswick School have been backing the Lake District ospreys after the birds, which have attracted more than 500,000 visitors since they returned to the area to nest in 2001, spent another successful breeding summer at Bassenthwaite.
Involvement with the Lake District Osprey Project began last year when two young engineers, Sarah Green and Emma James, made a donations box with a singing and dancing ‘osprey’ chick in it.
Barbara Thomson, of the project, said: “The all-singing all-dancing collection box has been a great asset to the project and has taken over £200 since it was set up. Children especially like it.”
Earlier this summer a group of year nine pupils at Keswick School carried out an enterprise project as part of their activities week.
They made bird feeders and wall brackets to hang them from.
These are now being sold at Whinlatter Visitor centre, Little Dodd Garden Centre and The Bird’s Bistro in Penruddock.
