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Thank you for your replies to my previous two questions.

In your reply to the second question I note the references to birds nesting. I do accept that birds attempt to breed on the saltmarsh but also that the saltmarsh is inundated by the tide on several days each month especially in the breeding season. This raises the questions: -

1) What evidence do you have that the birds actually successfully hatch their eggs on this particular saltmarsh, given that it is so frequently inundated?

2) Why have you choosen to endorse closure of this particular very small section of saltmarsh when there are thousands of acres of saltmarsh in Morecambe Bay which are not intensively grazed by sheep and are much less prone to inundation?

3) Why are the signs still there outside the breeding season, given that they can be easily removed?

Yours faithfully,

Colin Jex

FOI (NE), Natural England

Dear Mr Jex

Access to Information Request – Acknowledgement RFI 1688

Thank you for your request for information about:

1) What evidence do you have that the birds actually successfully hatch their eggs on this particular saltmarsh, given that it is so frequently inundated?

2) Why have you choosen to endorse closure of this particular very small section of saltmarsh when there are thousands of acres of saltmarsh in Morecambe Bay which are not intensively grazed by
sheep and are much less prone to inundation?

3) Why are the signs still there outside the breeding season, given that they can be easily removed?

which we received on 16 September 2012. We are dealing with your request under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

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Heathcote, Ben (NE), Natural England

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Dear Mr Jex

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Ben Heathcote

Adviser - Access to Information

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