18th January 2011 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:
John, Ron, Neil, Keith and Martin

Activities:
- We had a bonfire of the pollarding and coppicing brash from last week, North east of the cattle pens.
- We continued pollarding the silver birch in the area, and also some more gorse.  We burnt this brash as well
- The cattle attended the fire for most of the day.
- After lunch we also moved up to Mature Heath, and continued coppicing the over grown gorse there.
- All but one of the bags of Mike's horse manure has now been taken.

To note:
- there are now two piles of birch and one of gorse, near the bonfire.

Observations:
- 12 lesser redpoll flock near tractor shed
- small numbers of fieldfare and redwing

Martin