17th February 2015 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Alan, Neil, Ray, Mike, Keith, Jonathan and Martin

Activities:

- lookered ponies below bench
- put up 5 mended nestboxes, mended a couple in situ, and brought back 2 for Keith to mend
- turned on water for ponies
- cut some birch logs from tree just ne of stone pillars
- gathered some bark at roller stand for volunteer perks
- cut and burned some gorse on south heath
- burned some gorse in situ with John's flame thrower as experiment
- created under path culvert at the cross roads, to ensure water is kept off the paths

Observations:

- lots of twitchers looking at a little bunting at the roller stand.  In flock of dozen reed buntings
- ravens
- buzzard being chased away
- cess pool overflowing

Martin