
Work Party 09/12/2018
Summary The weather for today’s work party was cool and dry with sunny intervals. There were 6 participants for some or all of the work party.As in the previous Work Party,…
Summary The weather for today’s work party was cool and dry with sunny intervals. There were 6 participants for some or all of the work party.As in the previous Work Party,…
Summary The weather for today’s work party was cool, dry and cloudy with some brightness later. There were 11 participants for some or all of the work party. We concentrated…
Chrissie and I carried out the annual nest box service this morning. Basically this involved visiting all inspectable nest boxes, clearing out any old nesting material and hygiene spraying. Nest…
We had changeable weather for today’s work party; initially cool and sunny, but with an intermittent biting wind, followed by cloud cover later, culminating in a heavy shower around 12.30pm.…
Early drizzle soon cleared to give pleasant conditions for this work party, the first of the autumn/winter season. With 11 participants for some or all of the work party, we…
This was a short additional work party with the prime objective of clearing fallen branches blocking the main path north of the junction with the western path. When we arrived,…
Fine weather once again, and we set off up the hill with a couple of jerry cans (brought by new member Iain) and some smaller containers filled with water for…
On this fine summer morning we made use of 3 scythes, kindly loaned to us from Skylarks. Nick brought the scythes and trained us in their use and maintenance (not…
Despite (or maybe because of) beautiful weather, we had a low turnout of volunteers today. Nevertheless, we continued laying previously coppiced timber as path edging, fixed with similarly coppiced posts,…
On this occasion we took a break from path edging and instead deployed posts to help block gaps in the south-west boundary. We used the post driver to install about…