A wet day in a wet meadow

After a drizzly start to the day the Sunday volunteers headed out to rake up grass cuttings. 
while unlocking for the day I had the luck to view a stoat at under 10 meters.
By the time we arrived in the wet meadow the day had brightened up and the rain had eased off. But this turned out to be the low before the storm, after we had racked up and pilled the biomass up out the way on the side of a hill to root the heavens opened.  Out of nowhere a black cloud came over and dumped a huge amount of water that quickly caused gloved to have to be wrung out.   

A heavy shower

After a break for lunch and the majority of volunteers heading home, the afternoon entailed visiting the hides and putting up event posters and drilling birch logs to make fat ball feeders for sale in the shop.

 Feeder logs