24th February 2015 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

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

Activities:

- cut some holly behind the tool store, keeping some logs
- made safe a fallen pine along eastern boundary.  This was a dead tree from the four counties fire.  No damage to the fence. Trunk now parallel to boundary, arisings in 3 habitat piles
- lookered ponies
- collected bark from both tool shed and roller stand and moved to entrance path through kissing gate
- repair work to vehicle damage at roller stand and beeches avenue
- put in 6 posts to support fence behind cottages

Observations


- woodlarks
- windy, but nice out of wind
- a few little bunting twitchers
- 2 ravens
- skylark
- successful Norfolk jumble sale
- tree creeper
- ponies eating bark from low horizontal beech branches, a montana clemitis at cottage, nettle roots
- lots of pheasants (males)
- apparently numerous dartfords at friends clump, and so quite close.


Martin