Orston Hedgehog Rescue

For 8 years now Orston has had it’s own hedgehog rescue centre run by Kirsten Kennedy. The numbers of injured hedgehogs cared for each year are startling. She provides advice on how to make your gardens safer for these animals and practical help on rescuing and looking after them. A Quarterly newsletter is published, Jan 2010 here and you can contact her on
Tel. 01949 851532 or email kirstenkennedy2001@yahoo.co.uk.

VALE BARN OWL CONSERVATION

The group was formed in 2008 to promote barn owl conservation. The area covered is from Normanton near Bottesford to Grimston and Saxelbye near Melton Mowbray, bordered on the east by the A607 Grantham to Melton road and on the west by the border with Nottinghamshire. The group provides nest boxes, habitat advice and monitors breeding success. In 2008 25 nest boxes were erected.

Thanks go to those farmers, gamekeepers and other individuals that erected and monitored boxes prior to the start of this project and for the enthusiastic support from the farmers and landowners we received in 2008.

The first newsletter, Feb 2009, can be downloaded here.

Contact 01949 844319 or email valebarnowls@hotmail.co.uk