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Saturday, January 6, 2018

25th July 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, Alan, Keith, Stuart, Graham, Terry, Mike p, Mike m, Ian, David a and Martin. 

Mark, Nick and Kyle were visiting.

Activities:

- new car park notices erected. The conservators notice taken down. Latter left on side of road near tool store for further carrying
- new location sign inside boundary at the roller stand.
- moved three loads of logs off ol2 to the took store
- tidied up the existing log piles, bring some in and consolidating the rest. Cleared ground for new pile just behind and parallel with the tool store
- did some sawing of logs
- looked the ponies and cattle
- checked the fallen beech tree
- Mike scythed bracken in wood edge along the m1
- big sweep of bracken pulling along top and back across middle
- cleared thick vegetation from track down being tool store and cut the corner at the road side



Observations:
 - silver washed fritillary at tool store
- holly blues, large skippers, brown hawker, gatekeepers
- visited the large dodder patch
- weather OK, getting Warmer later
- bracken spraying imminent
- need to plan some Heath cutting routes
- timber for redoing the entrance fencing being ordered


Martin

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