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Thursday, May 18, 2017

14th march 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Pat, Steve, Ian, Keith, Mike m, Mike p, Alan, David a, Bernard and Martin

Activities:

- finished and put up 3 new bid boxes in ol2.
- mended one nestbox near batter's hill
- continued work clearing ditch and bank along the road
- John did some rhody work on Pippingford boundary, and inspected the two ponds, Alan and Deep there
- inspected most of the fence around the reserve marking those bits that need repair work. At least 13 extra posts needed.
- made some struts, fence posts and mallets in chestnut wood.  Some pointing still needs to be done.
- mended and put back a broken fire beater at the cricket pitch


Observations:

- buzzard, Raven, brambling, crossbill, siskin, redpoll, great spot, woodcock, Bulfinch, goldfinch, chiffchaff, fieldfare
- warm but overcast
- Some chestnut nuts sprouting
- talked about mending the broken spades
- u3a visit this Friday

Martin

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