Bambi

Jess in the bag

More double trouble with two crews removing old plastic tree guards at different places.

In Marsden we were myself, Sarah P., Jess, Kayleigh, Tanya, Murray, Max, Matthew, Michael, Dave, and owner Neil.

At Scammonden were Geoff, Sophie, Steve G., Steve G2., Peter and Cath

And at Marsden Neil had us scouring the field for intruder deers and foals. Click here for tune.

There were a lot of failures at the Eastern end of the Marsden site, where we had planted a large number of ash, just before ash die back  hit. The rest of the site is doing really really well.

All star

A stupidly rainy morning, but small and intrepid bands of all star volunteers did sterling work.

Myself, Kayleigh, Matthew, Michael, and landowners Neil and Sarah cleared 4 big bags of old guards from their small field in Marsden.

A similarly starry line up at Scammonden comprised Geoff, Peter, Cath, Sophie, Steve G, Steve G2, Alastair and Jared.

90's brat pop!

I need some fine wine

Scammonden group

This Saturday AM Geoff was back removing plastic at Scammonden, with Tanya, Richard, Alastair, Jared, Lee, Sophie and Steve G2 (two Steves is one thing, we now have two Steve Gs).

We were finishing removing the plastic from Jolly's field in Marsden, myself, Dave, Matthew, Murray, and for a while, Kayleigh. Got 32 deer stakes, 50 short guards, and 25 deer guards for re-use.

Song choice for our hangover sufferer.

I'm a cuckoo

 

Its a very low key Cuckoo festival day in Marsden today.

Some of us were in Marsden reclaiming 150+ long tree tubes and 75+ stakes from a planting done about 8 years ago. Plus one bag of trash guards that were either too small or too damaged to re-use. We were: myself, Paul, Matthew, Sarah, Kayleigh, Murray, and Julia.

Geoff led a group at Scammonden, comprising himself, Jess, Lee, Tanya and Shelley. Their bird of the day was the willow warbler, nice pic by Jess.

Belle and Sebastian!