25th June 2013 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Alan, Neil, David a, Keith +(two friends for rounding up ponies), Pat, Mike and  Martin

Activities:

- lookered ponies
- moved ponies to SH
- pulled bracken along top , along road and beeches avenue and on SH
- did first third of nestboxes
- brought back two nestboxes for repair by Keith
- inspected some reptile tins near sweet chestnuts

Observations:

- 2 green hairstreaks, small heaths, emporer dragonflies, red damselflies, bb chaser
- gorce mites on sh
- dodder on road
- early purple orchid on road
- siskins, redstarts
- Raven
- nightjar churring !
- baby owl in nestbox
- woodlarks, tree pipits
- yellowhammer singing
- other owl nestbox had quite a bit of detritis in it.  More than the starter, and flattened
- 3+ buzzards


Martin



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