Torrential rain at 11 pm last night, so it was a very pleasant surprise this morning to draw the curtains at 7.45 am and see a clear blue sky and a light frost.
A good turn out of seven Friends, meeting in the Stairfoot Lane carpark, with two more joining a little later.
Two of us set off litter picking and picked up four bags of rubbish.
The rest of us set off to clear accumulated leaf litter and molehills from the steps leading from the Stairfoot Lane carpark down to the stream. The steps, which were put in nine years ago, were in danger of reverting to a steep muddy bank!
This was a much bigger job than anticipated and took us all morning.
However, we got there in the end, and the steps are once more in good nick. No moles were seen or harmed in the course of our activities.
The sun was out all morning and it was a beautiful day to work in the woods. Another beautiful day is forecast for tomorrow when we will be completing our surveying and cleaning of the nest boxes. There was a lot of bird song this morning, and so the blue tits, great tits and other birds seem to be gearing up for this year’s breeding season.
Friends of Adel Woods 