Materials Man

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These sand martins have found a sand pile between two piles of crushed concrete, on the site of the M74 extension. Is this a statement of desperation for nesting sites? I believe this is the case, should not parks, national trust ground and other publicly held ground not erect artificial nest sites?

see links

http://www.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/conservation/advice/sandmartins/index.asp

http://www.users.freenetname.co.uk/~sandmartin/page2.html

Needless to say the birds have been protected by those cuddly construction chaps.

David Welsh, I know you are a busy man, but the artificial site on concrete legs would be an easy construction project using mostly spare materials. If you could place this  in the land made available near where the martins are now with client permission, how green? how good? how lasting and a precedent for others to follow.