Three blind mice

The forecasted rain did not show up and the day was warm enough to work in tee shirts and to eat lunch sat outside.

Volunteers working hard

The morning started with having to help offload a chest freezer from a wagon and put it into the back of the café.  Then followed a day with the volunteer’s scrub bashing with a strimmer and taking larger trees out with a chainsaw and smaller branches with bow saws to open up a path area to let in more light.  The management plan for the area sets out that each year 10% of tree growth is removed to keep the area open and a good butterfly habitat.  The felled timber and strimmed scrub was piled up down the side of the old railway embankment to root down.

Oak galls

As the light started to fail it was time to be taught how to set up the tractor to cut grass with the mower adapter for the back.   When the container where the mower is kept was opened up three field mice that had set up home in their gingerly made their way out after the door had been opened.