Present:
Keith, Bob s, David a, David new, Paul, Pat, Bernard, Mike m, Mike p, Ian, Terry, Stuart, John new, Callum, Jonathan, and Martin
Activities:
- looked and fed the ponies. Seemed fine despite one lying down.
- completed the final check of nest boxes before the season. One mended, one put back up (nearest to stoney pond), and one taken away by Mike m to be mended (up a chestnut tree)
- Stuart dug some more bracken peat and took away
- road mending continued with laying hardcore from new David
- bonfire of the bramble previously cut at the front of the shed plus holly pruned along the road works
- pollarded the birch trees around the trough on south heath, making pile of brash
- did some remedial work on the new pond on SH
- removed the log that the fencers put in a deer run, and moved to behind the shed
- reviewed possibility of cutting the large chestnut logs at the roller stand
- moved the hay ring to fresh ground
- cut some Holly posts from the prunings
- 4 fence posts added to the south heath bank to strengthen it
- ravens
- tree creeper
- redpoll
- woodlark, stonechat
- weather cold with reason to start with. Nasty wind from the north. Much better by lunch time.
Martin
Observations:
- red kite seen again- ravens
- tree creeper
- redpoll
- woodlark, stonechat
- weather cold with reason to start with. Nasty wind from the north. Much better by lunch time.
Martin
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