12th September 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Keith, mike p, mike m, David new, Steve, Terry, Bob, Jonathan, Stuart and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies. Found groups of 6 and 9 cattle. I don't think we really found more than 9. Who knows where the rest were.
- put up the nest box near amex pond
- did pond work on most of the ponds nearby, beeches, one stump, amex, John and frog marsh ponds
- did reptile survey of the rings
- cut down a birch for logs to slow flow of water from John pond (new name)
- dug out chunks in the channel down to frog marsh pond, to increase diversity
- looked for sundews with no success
- filled bags with peat at the roller stand. Most taken


Observations:

- a frog near frog marsh pond. First recent authenticated one.
- 2 kestrels
- southern hawker, keeled skimmer, common darter
- speckled wood
- Steve is returning to almost full time work, and so we will see rather less of him for a while




Martin