21st march 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Jonathan, Keith, Mike m, Mike p, Terry, Steve, Ian, Bob, David a, Ray, Bernard, Philip, Anda, Stuart and Martin.  16 is a recent record for a Tuesday.

activities:

- made the pieces for 4 new nest boxes.  Mike m has taken them away for final construction. A chestnut log from a couple of weeks ago was used. Used Jonathan's froe to do the splitting
- took 12 fence posts from store over to Gilly's paddock boundary, and erected a second fence line of one stand of barb wire.
- work continued on the ditch and bank along the south side of the road
- revisited the work in chestnut wood and pointed the split posts and made a couple of new posts/struts
- put out all the spare sheeting for reptiles, and did a complete survey of them, redoing the numbering where necessary
- finished of some clearance work in the chose next to the shed

Observations:

- Mike m returned a mended small spade
- nice sunny weather, if a little cold out of the sun.  Chilly wind.
- crossbills, siskins, redpolls, tree creepers singing, nuthatch, great spot, green woodpecker, buzzard, chiffchaff, Stonechats,
- slow worms and lizards
- Skaters, boatmen, whirly gig beetles
- repaired broken saw
- Ray building up his strength after ops


Martin