17th August 2010 ... weekly volunteers

Present:  John, Neil, Ron, Mike, and Martin

Activities:

- digging bracken and birch saplings on South Heath
- lookered the 2 ponies
- filled the leaflets at the entrance
- Went to the bench, and
- dug out one of the two ponds on the area below the bench
- dug out a pond on the right of the path near the beeches
- cleared young birch and pines north of the bench
- cleared 4 Rhododendrons.  Left within the brash pile of pines above the bench.
- inspected some of the coppicing of gorse along the top, which now appears to have some very small regrowth showing.

Observations:
- 2 woodlarks
- 17 mistle thrushes
- 7 Herring gulls
- stonechats
- dodder


Martin
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