20th July 2010 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:  Keith, John, Mike and Martin

Activities:
- lookered Ponies
- smoothed off the remains of a scrapping pile near the water trough
- cleared some algae from the trough
- added some stakes and did some repairs to the causeway
- did some clearing of the pond below the causeway ( lake pond?)
- cleared pine saplings and bracken from the slope under the power lines running south to the stream and top pond.

Observations:
- Red admiral
- two mating silver studded blues in the standard place.  This is first time for a few years.  We thought they might have disappeared !!
- Raven, Hobby
- plenty of  gatekeepers
- southern hawker emerging, broad bodies chasers

Other items:
John Luck doing a dragon fly survey on Sunday
Keith had had a bee sting on the face the previous Sunday and was still suffering
The ice cream van has had a make-over and is now pink.  It will be used as a 'freedom' frozen smoothie vehicle.
We donated some old diesel and chainsaw oil to Paul ( windy ridge Head Gardner ) and he will take the 'sledge' away next Tuesday at 9.  We promised to help in its removal
Some more things from Alan have arrived, including

- 2 hedge clippers
- large back-pack sprayer
- various broken spades, which John has taken to see if he can repair anything
- one good spade
- 3 nest boxes ( one doormouse?) which Keith has taken for a neoprene make-over
maybe there were some other things we did not notice.


martin