Work Party Sunday 1 Feb

Meet 9.55am

This month a couple of our volunteers donned waders and set about cutting a channel through the reed beds in front of Fort Drew hide. They are an important habitat so we don't want to remove more of the reeds than necessary, but we hope the observer will get an excellent view of this special wetland area in the coming months.

Once again we had a team of volunteers continuing with hedgelaying. We have almost finished a whole section along the south side of cattle field 3. With luck, providing no birds are nesting in the remaining section of hedge in that area, our March work party may well complete the task.

We were running short of binders and stakes for the hedgelayers, so another group of us set off to pollard willow and hazel to replenish the stock.

There were a few hedge whips left that were donated to FoSL for us to plant in any gaps along the cattle hedge rows. Mission completed.

Finally, near the causeway junction between Berry and Stockers Lake, there is a viewing area of a pond that needed some clearance of undergrowth to observe the pond.

Fort Drew

View from Fort Drew

Many thanks to Viv Bartlett, Yannick Forbes, David Hyde, Sylvene Greaves, Alex, Alison Marriott, Philip and Julia Davies, Christine and Nick Gray, Mike Lansdown, Ken Davies, Russell Ball and Nigel Daley.

Best wishes

Jack Westbrook

Lead Warden

Friends of Stockers Lake

07716 296093

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