21st February 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

Pat, Steve, Ian, Terry, Keith, Mike p, Mike m, Bob, Bernard and Martin

Nick and trainee on site, mark ill.

Activities:

- beech branch winched to ground and cut up. Now safe.
- all locks oiled
- barb on M1 mended, and fence checked
- pony poo collected and bags of bracken part filled.  Some bags of peat left behind the mound for collection. Poo mostly taken
- orchard of birch pollarded taking out most of the leaders. Also birch near cuckoo pond.
- Nick plus trainee felled 8 trees on Pippingford boundary.
- Keith and Mike m cut some sweet chestnut for making nest boxes, and brought them back to the tool store.

Observations:

- brambling, crossbills (singing), woodlark, herring gulls
- warm weather

Martin