🎉Great news for little terns! 🎉 At Hodbarrow, in Cumbria, we've been creating a habitat ideal for little terns. The main nesting island is already behind a sea wall, which means the sea can’t wash it away – a great start! To protect the colony, we’ve designed and created floating fences, to keep out foxes and other predators. We’re also improving the habitat by creating pools and cutting back vegetation. We’ve employed wardens to guard the nests and talk to the public about the best ways to avoid disturbing the little terns. Through LIFE on the Edge, a 4-year project in partnership with nationaltrust, we’ve also created more safe nesting areas by increasing the size of the island by a third, and creating a second 0.25-hectare island, both above the winter water levels. As a result, in 2021 more than 1,500 pairs of seabirds nested on the island - of these, 47 were little terns, producing 32 chicks. This is the highest number of breeding little terns at Hodbarrow in recent decades,...