7th september 2010 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:

John, Neil, Ron and Martin

Activities:

- rain threatening, and so stayed near the tool store
- looked at some of the nail fungus.
- lookered the ponies (15)
-coppiced area of Gorse near the cattle pen.  Brash put behind it.
- filled up the leaflet box.
- dug up bracken along the east bank, along to the ride junction approx.  Also cleared some pine saplings on the other side of the path.
- coppiced some gorse between the firesite behind the cottages and the small wooden gate.  There is a lot more to do there.  Brash either on firesite or at other end of this strip.
- told people about the date of Ray's visit Oct Friday 8th Noveber
- noted some ragwort behind the cottages
- planned to have some cut through copicing to break up the bank of high gorse along the road.
- dug a channel at top of beeches avenue to reduce water erosion

Observations

- kestrel, hobby and sparrow hawk.

martin