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Thursday, May 18, 2017

4th April 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Steve, Ian, Stuart, Neil, Keith, Pat, Terry, Alan, Mike m, Mike p, David a and Martin. Jonathan visited taking dog to vet. David p recovering from root canal work.

Activities:

- did rest of the ditch work along the road. Cleared a path to the ditch from the hollow at the squeeze gate opposite the roller stand gates, so deer have a route in, and keep the vegetation under control.
- mended the bird box near the bench
- a bit of log sawing
- cleared daffodils from behind cottages and ol1. Mike m took these, together with remaining mouldy pony nuts.
- John cleared trash buckets
- Martin adjusted new lidl bow saw

Observations:

- whether better than expected, but damp and drizzly at times. Some sun at the end.
- Raven having dog fight with buzzard
- crossbills, wood larks, skylarks, redpolls, Chiffchaffs,
- first redstart of the year. They have apparently been arriving in s England this last week. Seems quite early.

Martin

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