Tuesday, 16th July 2019 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:

John, Mike m, Mike p, Ray, Pat, Alan, Paul, Harvey ( friend of Paul), David a, Mark, Ian, Stuart, Jonathan, Bernard, Keith, Bob, and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies and the cattle
- GPS plotted the area for felling between the m1 and the slope, and cut bracken along its boundary
- checked the fencing on south Heath, and did some post replacements.  A little work still to be done
- watered the cherries, with ferrying containers from the south Heath water trough, which was also cleaned
- watered the hornbeams, and left the bucket in the stream for the future
- bracken pulling along the top and down
- put up the new barn owl nest box near the quarry


Observations:

- nice, but hot weather
- Dartford, whitethroat
- keeled skimmers
- Hobby
- coachmaker axe looking good
- Pat's birthday

Martin