27th July 2010 ... Weekly volunteers

Present: John, Mike, Keith and Martin

Activities:

- Keith brought back nest boxes with neoprene covers.  Has taken one more for same treatment
- filled up the leaflet box
- lookered the South heath ponies.  Monty phoned up to say that he had checked the main reserve herd
- worked on the Island lake, taking out a lot of the encroaching  grassy mass
- continued cutting saplings and bracken above this area
- took out flowering ragwort on the cricket pitch area, and hid   plants under brash pile in OL2 wood
- took out more saplings and bracken along the M1

Observations:

- 2 Ravens at nest site
- siskins and lesser redpolls
- Kestrel
- silver studded blues at both traditional sites.  Based on behaviour
- lots of gatekeepers, large skippers, common blues, meadow browns
- red admiral, Ringlet ( cricket pitch), large whites
- Brown hawker
- small patch of Dodder along the road.