12th October 2010 --- weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Ron, Neil, and Martin

Activities:

- pond work on Lake pond.  A large amount cut out and dragged to make a bigger dam bank.
- pollarding of some nearby alders which were dominating some of the smaller alder-buckthorns
- ring barked a big silver birch that was shading the lake pond
- went to the sphagnum heath and experimented with making some berms from dead pine logs, with the intention of making the area retain a little more water, and stopping the erosion and outflow.
- turned off the water for the troughs.
- more gorse cutting near the five bar gate.


Observations:

- at least 6 common darters
- Raven
- siskin
- some of logs have been taken
- don's 'new' forwarder parked in the wood below the main trough.


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