31st October 2017 ... weekly volunteers

Present:

John, new John, Bernard, mike m, mike p, Anda, David w, David a, Neil, Ian, Terry, Pat, Alan, Ray, Keith, Bob and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies and cattle
- John did work in ditch
- three gorse bonfires on south heath, burning old cuttings from the ditch and a large patch of gorse near the iron gate.
- remedial work on the berm near the style
Cut up the fallen beech branch along beeches avenue, making brash pile and log pile
- cut down four sycamores in ol2, making wood pile
- filled bags of bracken peat for perks
- collected dung from behind the cottages for perks
- cut down some birch in wood behind cottages to thin out trees. Wood pile and multiple brash piles ready for fire.

Observations;

- record number of volunteers
- not too cold, pretty windless
- Dartford warbler
- redwings
- lizard out on the road
- red admiral

Martin