Dear all,

It was a work-party of two halves. The first hour was sunny and productive with three activities: (a) cutting back footpath brambles and nettles next to the Iron Bridge, along the Causeway and down to the Kingfisher Hide, (b) clearing around trees in the Jain wooded copse and (c) creosote treatment of the Field 3 cattle coral. However, the second hour met us with two huge thunderstorms with lighting across the lake. Needless to say everyone got soaked to the skin: though happy with the work we’d achieved in such a  short space of time.

Russell Ball

Following on from June’s work party, both myself and Nick Grey worked on opening up the access to the bat pill box in readiness for building a proper rat proof threshold to the door. Several large branches were removed from neighbouring trees giving the bats a better flight into the pill box. The weather hampered efforts to make real progress but work will carry on in August’s work party

Nigel Daley

Many thanks to Nicola, Julia, Christine, Philip, Nick, Ken, Nilesh, Shaan, Nigel and Russell 

Best wishes

Jack Westbrook

Lead Warden

Friends of Stockers Lake