Work Party - 1 Mar 2020
Work Party - 2 Feb 2020
Work Party - 5 Jan 2020
This was a splendid morning’s work preparing the reserve for planting 149 Gandhi anniversary trees in March. The first group cleared thick brambles along the river Colne to make way for trees. We never forget that brambles give wonderful safe nesting for small birds but these bramble patches had grown to well over 20 feet deep so we only cut about 6 or 7 feet away.
Work Party - 01 Dec 2019
Work Party - 03 Nov 19
Work Party - 06 Oct 2019
We all met at the pumping station on the canal side of the reserve and began work on the lake edge just north of Kingfisher Hide. Our job was to clear the ground so that sunlight could reach the lake edge ground to encourage, among other things, small bird life. This meant felling sapling, sycamores and alders and pollarding some hawthorns. We stripped the saplings to make poles for possible use at a later date by us or the Trust and stacked them by the pumping station.