Photo Gallery

Cutting back dogwood as it encroaches onto grassland

The cut blackthorn, chipped and put to good use

Duke's Lock Pond as the morning mist clears

Piles of Elodea pulled from pond 1

Done

To do

Cutting the sedge at Enslow Marsh

Andy's backhand

Andy's Backhand with a nice follow-through

Great Willowherb

Water lilies on one of the ponds

Bog Pimpernel ("Pink Snow") (Thanks to Judy Webb - JW)

Knocking back the scrub on the margin of the South fen (Thanks to JW)

Marsh Helleborine (Thanks to JW)

Mortar board- well we are OCV

Two mixing teams providing the lime mortar for capping the wall.

Application.

The first straining-post complete with strut and stob, work on the gate-post holes and the second staining-post beyond.

Installing the short stretch of wooden rail fencing between the gate's clapper-post and the second straining post

The old boardwalk, uneven railway sleepers.

Rounding up the sheep.

Working on Pen Y Fan building a drainage ditch

Some 200,000 visitors a year use the footpath we're helping to maintain.

First a ditch is dug and the front lined with dug in stones

Clearing some of the vegetation in and around the Milham Ford ponds

Constructing guards around coppiced hazel to stop the deer browsing the new shoots

Morning tea break

The view across the fen to the heathland

A good turn out for today's task

We're clearing a patch of low-level scrub on the hill side to help the rarer chalk grassland flora

Work begins

Coppicing an area dominated by small aspen trees

Using cut aspen to protect hazel stools

Planting an assortment of saplings: oak, alder, birch, holly, black poplar, cherry

A kingfisher perch and the waders used to install it

Starting to add struts to a straining post

Knocking in a support post for the strut

Preparing to erect a sign

Looking East across the pond

The bonfire and assorted junk for removal (but not the bike)

Discussing Chomsky whilst eating lunch

Discussing Chomsky, a different point of view

Clearing junk and digging holes for saplings

Clearing the footpath at Pissen Wood

Clear once more

Starting today's bonfire

We're pushing back the scrub in order to extend the chalk grassland

Morning tea-break

Beautiful Grays Lane Bank, Ibstone SSSI

Digging up hawthorne and dogwood.

The root of the problem