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Sunday, April 20, 2014

15th April 2014 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Mike, Alan, Pat, Keith, Ray, David a, Neil, Stuart and Martin

Activities:

- pulling ragwort along road
- lookering ponies, but failed to find them.  Found later in week and OK.
- pollarding birches north of cattle pen
- taking out small birches along fence behind cottages, and 2 pines
- fencing work on south heath
- first half of nest boxes
- john did some ditch work
- collecting bark and placing on car park path
- collecting some bags of bracken peat from roller stan
- keith took 2 nest boxes for repair
- another box brought to tool store for repair
- coppicing pine saplings, pulling birch and gorse along reynards way

Observations:

- raven chasing 2 buzzards
- tree pipits
- flock of 6 woodlarks.  Family?
- plenty of redstarts
- stonechats
- willow warblers, chiffchaffs
- heron
- jackdaw


Martin

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