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Sunday, March 15, 2015

22nd April 2014 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Mike, Stuart, Ray, Keith, David p, Alan and Martin

Activities:

- filled trust brochure box
- brought back broken fire beater stand from outside car park
- Pulled, lopped birch and pine saplings along Reynard's way
- checked and did some repairs along central fence.
- reinstated wooden slot gate opposite causeway
- ring barked a pine near Reynard's boundary ditch
- oiled and tested combination locks on southern part of reserve.  One by car park swopped out for repair
- cut some logs for Stuart
- lookered ponies
- did ragworts along road
- inspected the tins for reptiles


Observations:

- blackcap
- male and female cuckoo
- tree pipits , woodlarks
- swallows
- Mandarin duck (f) flew across sphagnum heath and landed in stream/pond


Martin


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