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Saturday, March 14, 2015

23rd September 2014 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Mike, Alan, Keith, David a, David p, Bernard, Neil and Martin

Activities:

- bracken and nail fungus searching on South Heath.  No punctata.
- ring barking 15 trees either side of beeches avenue
- pine saplings up from beeches avenue near cross roads
- clearing rush from west pond
- more work near mallard pond including coppicing more trees and removing brash
- some work on birch trees shading stream.  More to do
- John did more bracken work near batters clump and towards west pond

Observations:

- ergot
- beech mast
- 2 hobbies, kestrel, buzzard
- 2 stonechat
- meadow pipits, house martins, swallows
- dragon flies, darters


Martin



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