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 Ready, steady, coppice
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 Brasenose Woods on a crisp autumn morning - beautiful
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 Section 1999 in need of some OCV TLC
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 Mary's bonfire
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 Lots of bull rushes removed in a morning's work
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 Knocking in an intermediate fence post
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 The dismembered willow
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 The bank, a keen volunteer made an early start
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 The north fen, ready for raking.
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 OCV and the Friends for the Lye Valley hard at work
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 Building a temporary bridge (Photo courtesy of Alan Allport, Friends of the Trap Grounds)
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 Removing a rusting chassis from Heron Swamp
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 Plenty of hawthorn to clear so the grass can be mown later
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 Raking the North fen (courtesy J Webb)
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 Tea break (courtesy J Webb)
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 Banded General Soldierfly (Stratiomys potamida) (courtesy J Webb)
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 The spire of St. Mary's church across the fields
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 Man With Balsam 1
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 Prize Specimen
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 A view across one of the six meadows
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 Finishing off the decking on the pedestrian bridge.
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 Logs laid down on the muddy areas of the path
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 Finishing off the decking on the bridge for the ponies.
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 Small Balsam - before
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 Small Balsam - after
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 Tea-time
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 Path before work - worn down by weather and motorbikes
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 Stone pitching 1 - A hole is dug (easier said than done in stony ground)
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 Stone pitching 2 - Hole is filled with stones with as few gaps as possible ("horizontal drystone walling")
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 Digging in the first foundation sleeper on one of the bridges
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 The bridging timbers countersunk for the coach screws that will fix them to the sleeper
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 The view across the fen
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 Rectory Farm Fields
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 Excavating fallen stones both sides of the wall
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 The wall is collapsing in places
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 It's a wrap! The dismantled chainlink fence
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 Unusually civilized arrangements for lunch
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 A very nicely hung gate
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 Mixing it up
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 Mixing team 2
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 "Like icing a cake"
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 Jubilee Fields & Long Meadow and a multiplicity of tasks
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 Replacing a sign #1
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 Replacing a sign #2
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 Building a barricade by the bird hide
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 The plan is to divert the footpath...
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 ...so that birds have a space to nest close to the pond
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 Today we're clearing scrub from the fen.
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 Brambles and willow/hazel/birch regrowth is taking over in some areas...
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 ...and shading out the fenland species.
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 Clearing scrub from the valley side to preserve the limestone grassland
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 Without intervention the whole valley side would progress to woodland...
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 At Sunny Aston Rowant to plant Juniper
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 Juniper cuttings ready to plant out
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 Off to dig
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 The finished repair to the bird hide
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 Oxford Conversation Volunteers
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 Hanging out gloves to dry
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 Clearing the woodland ride at Sydlings Copse
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 Cleared path
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 And starting to clear the fen.
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 In Mary Sadler's Field: clearing the scrub that inhibits the heather
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 One of several piles of cut gorse with established heather in the middle distance to the right
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 heather to the left of the path, gorse to the right.
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 Today we're tackling a slope covered in a tangled mass of bramble, rose and thorn.
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 Photos from forty years ago show the slope covered in chalk grassland flora, but grazing sheep haven't been enough to stop the scrub invading.
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 So we're going to return the slope to the rare chalk grassland for which Aston Rowant is famous.
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