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Sunday, April 19, 2020

Tuesday, 17th September 2019 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:

John b, John, Mike m, Mike p, Ray, Ian, David w, Paul, Keith, Bernard and Martin. Jonathan visited briefly with damsons.

Activities:

- Did some repair and maintenance work on the bridge
- lookered the cattle. 14 and 6
- put up the Mandarin nest box
- bracken pulling across centre and up to the corner
- some more birch cutting in ol2
- log splitting continued behind the shed
- John took some bracken peat

Observations:

- buzzard, kestrel
- 2 Dartford, 2 spotted flycatcher
- Bulfinch, greenfinch, grey wagtail, nuthatch
- tree creeper singing
- commas, speckled woods
- lizards
- ravens, jays, but no magpies
- freshly dead rabbit, with no apparent cause
- weather fine for work


Martin

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