Volunteers work

Wednesday, March 17th 2010

It's been a very busy day! As well as our hard-working volunteers, Forest School were out in the woods finishing off their training for primary school teachers, and the Dales School were here and joined in with the outside work.

We completed a variety of tasks: the woodland clear up, which was started on Saturday, was finished off by Colin, John and Jack. Then Stan, Kimberley, Hilary and new volunteer Mike carried on with last week's work of clearing birch from the path to the Wetland. Ann cleared gorse from around our marker posts and then, as you see here, coppiced Willow on the tiny island in the vole pond.

You can see how clear it is now. Plenty of room for any birds who may want to nest there!

Richard took some metal guards to our storage and then used his chainsaw to cut stumps to ground level.

Colin cleared the intake pipes to all of our ponds, then helped Jack to re-net a bridge which needed repair.

All this and we still had time to see evidence of voles on the Wetland, to watch a pair of Greylag Geese looking for a nesting site, and to hear the first Chiffchaff of the year singing opposite the Field Centre at lunchtime!

All in all - a very productive day!

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