10th February 2015 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Alan, Keith, Mike, Ray, David a, Stuart, Ian, Bernard and Martin

Activities:

- put up barn owl nest box, which Keith made, near the pillow mound behind cottages
- pulled a few saplings there
- two brash fires from Jim's arisings
- cut down some of birch that Jim did not do
- checked some of the first nest boxes, bring one back to be mended
- lookered the 5 ponies
- took down broken car park sign

Observations:

- 2 woodlarks singing
- ravens
- tawny owl
- woodcock
- siskins
- a veteran other side of sphagnum heath has lost one large leader.
- something is eating the soft rush... Ponies?
- getting quite dry for bonfires
- some of flame thrown gorse is dying
- ray going to looker this Friday

Martin