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Sunday, September 18, 2016

12th July 2016 ... weekly volunteers

present:

Keith, John, Bernard, Ray, Pat, Stuart, Alan, Mike p and Martin

activities:

- looked the ponies.  now 4 koniks and 3 Exmoors
- Pat and Martin looked for silver studded blue butterflies, with no luck.  there were very few insects about at all.  plenty of bell Heather flowering
- bracken pulling along the road, beeches avenue, south Heath and various places along top and down to the high beeches.
- ragwort pulling around the cottages and along the road

observations:

- visitor saw a hobby
- meadow Brown's, gatekeepers, grasshoppers, slow worm
- could not find the dodder along the top
- celebrated Pat's birthday


Martin

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