The day started nice and sunny and soon warmed up to tee shirt temperature.
The long access road to the mess room
Once the feeders outside the feeding station hide had been topped up, the next task was to ensure the hebridean sheep were ok and not stuck in the brambles.
Railway lines cross the site at many points
On the Sunday there is a planned event for children that require willow stems to be used to make Christmas shapes. So with a pair of loppers in hand it was off to the far side of the reserve where some willows had been cut the previous year and would provide a suitable size and number of stems for use by the education team. A peanut sack of stems later it was off back to the mess room. On the way back i found a pair of lost binoculars at the side of the path and chatted with a chap that had just taken some very good bittern snaps.
The mother drain that provides water for the ponds
Peanut sack of willow cuttings
After a quick lunch break it was onto tidying up some more of the weeks vista opening site and placing the cut stems into a pile and selecting larger stems to at a later date chip for path material.
A very tidy scrub heap
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