24th January 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, David a, David p, Alan, Mike m, Mike p, Bernard, Terry, Ian, Jonathan, Neil and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies
- finished cutting along the bird count trail in ol2, with bonfire of the brash. Have now meet up with the track along the edge of the cricket pitch in ol2.  Did some extra cutting around a group of pines
- checked the route for stumps, and did some reductions
- created a couple of good log piles for collection
- did a little explore round the back of the cricket pitch following the relatively new drainage ditch, taking out the odd rhododendron
- did an experiment of cutting bundles of gorse and crushing them and hanging them up on the feeding ring for the ponies

Observations:

- Brambling, reed bunting, woodcock, Raven, herring gull
- weather cold, but not as bad as forecast.
- Mike found us this time

Martin