5th July 2011 ... weekly volunteers

Present:
John, Alan, Mike, David, Neil, Ron, Anthony, Keith and Martin

Activities:
- we were going to move the Ponies, but Monty cried off at the last moment because of transport problems.  To be rearranged in two weeks time.
- basically bracken pulling and digging all the time, mostly along the top, and then down to the Island, and back along the path along the stream
- but dug out some reasonably sized birch and pine saplings as well.
- collected some more stones on Reynard's way for the road building on the M1.  These are bagged up and left by the side of the path to be collected by car.
- Neil cleared the gutters on the tool store
- could not find the ponies :-(


Observations:
- Hobby flying above the bench
- Turtle dove heard calling again in the normal place.
- crossbills, redpolls and siskins
- swallows, gliding pheasant(?),
- emerald, emperors, brown chaser, azures and large reds
- cattle must now have gone.  The corral has gone and there are signs of animals having been penned up for a bit.  John saw them on the previous Sunday.

martin