20th August 2013 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Alan, Pat, Jonathan, David a, Mike and martin

Activities:

- lookered ponies.  At causeway, making towards the trough
- pond work below bridge
- repair work to one slat on bridge
- pulled down with ropes broken pine branch on nest box tree n east of beeches avenue
- opened up vista from notice board with pole sawing branches, coppicing gorse and felling smaller birch
- bracken work around quarry on SH and various  from car park to M1

Observations:

- 2 silver washed fritillaries, commas, s copper, s tortoiseshell, peacocks, brimstones, s skipper, m browns, small heath, c blue,  small white, gv white
- gr dragonflies, c darter, s hawker, b chaser, azure
- 2 clouded yellows
- lots of redstarts, stonechats, whitethroat
- 2 buzzards
- 2 sparrowhawks
- swallows
- nuthatch

Martin