14th November 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

David new, Terry, mike p, Keith, Bob, Pat, Ian, Stuart, Ray, Neil, Bernard and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies and cattle. We had to do this twice as we got 13 cattle and no ponies first time round.
- dug some bracken peat for perks
- cut back some bramble in front of the shed
- had a gorse bonfire with cuttings from the road side and just over the fence just beyond the wood at the side of the cottages. Used an old bonfire site and a new one
- felled a few birch in the wood near the fire site, thinning the mature trees. Processed these and burnt their brash


Observations;

- A Dartford was heard
- redwings, fieldfare, meadow pipits, raven
- weather better than forecast with little wind and no rain


Martin