14th July 2015 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Mike, Alan, Pat, Stuart, Neil, Keith, Ray, Bernard and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies
- refilled brochure box
- Ragwort pulling of flowering plants on tracks west of stream, including ol1
- added extra wire to heave gate on south heath, as ponies looked rather tall against original wiring
- bracken pulling over same area, including some scything along m1 and on cricket pitch part of ol2
- put in queeze gate at cross roads

Observations:

- nice large female adder on tin above the chestnut wood.  Photo taken as it left
- Raven
- tree pipit
- crossbills, others have been seen recently
- buzzard
- lots of l skippers

Martin