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| Ready to attack the brambles! |
A very big thank you to all the volunteers who came along to our Work Party on Saturday. It was a lovely sunny morning and we completed many tasks including painting new wood on the hide, filling in ruts with old turf, strimming an area for wild flower seeding, some ditch clearance and removing brambles growing through the Hazel trees.
We also ate lots of cake! Many thanks to the baking sub-committee as always.
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| Incentive and reward! |
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| Enjoying a sunny break |
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| time to socialise |
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| removing old turf near the Hide to fill in ruts elsewhere |
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| a new coat of paint |
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| strimming long grass near the Notice Board |
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and raking it off so Yellow Rattle can be sown
to bring down fertility |
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| down in the ditch |
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| lost in the brambles |
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| liberating a Hazel sapling |
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| found another! |
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| cutting back more brambles from round the Hazels |
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| that looks better! |
A quick walk round before the work started put up a Snipe at SC209693, the juvenile Moorhen was on the pond at SC209694 and a flock of about 20 Fieldfares flew over.
I had visited the Reserve earlier in the week to do some recording and I hope to post the notes and photos for that visit later in the week.
Well done everybody - hard work much appreciated!
