31st August 2010 ... weekly volunteers

Present:
John, Ron, Neil, Mike and martin

Activities:
- Helped Monty round-up the ponies on South Heath, and move them onto the main reserve
- Coppiced the gorse and silver birch near the water trough.  Brash put into the gap between fence and road.
- harvested wood taken to wood pile behind tool store
- did sod cutting at lake pond
- coppiced the alder near the causeway, leaving the brash roughly where they fell
- started getting rid of birch and pine saplings, and bracken, between the gorse triangle and the car park
- Monty allowed us to skip the lookering since he had done it the day before

Notes:
- Neil cut himself with a bow saw, nicking his thumb through his leather glove.  Bandage applied.  Did not appear to be of any consequence.
- found a pair of ladies glasses between small wooden gate and road.  Ron has since told SWT about it.  They are stored on the first aid kit.


Observations:
- a Raven a couple of times
- two woodlark
- small heath butterflies
- migrant hawker
- common and black darters
- adder, and John saw one last week
- lots of fungi.  They appear very early this year


martin