Morning
Our first event in the field since 15th March! It was a lovely day and we had a really good turn out.
We met in Old Leo’s car park. It was a slow start, but eventually there were twelve of us including Steve Joul and Peter, one of his volunteers.
After a careful covid 19 briefing, six of our volunteers set off litterpicking and had a very successful morning, particularly around Adel Crag where there was a lot of broken glass.
The remaining six of us walked down to the orchid meadow – which is located to the west of the cricket pavilion – equipped with rakes, pitch forks, tarpaulins, a strimmer and (some of us) lunch.
Steve and an assistant mowed the meadow on the 2nd September. Our job today was to rake up the mowings and transport them to composting bays at each end of the meadow, using tarpaulins as sleds.
By lunch at 12 noon, we had cleared perhaps a quarter of the meadow and it looked as if we would not complete the job today.
Afternoon
We began work again at 1.15 pm – now down to a team of five.
There were lots of brambles around the edge of the meadow, and a visitor came to collect blackberries!
And we had a guest appearance from our treasurer and Flash who both came to encourage us.
It was a lovely afternoon. From a wildlife point of view, the highlight was when Peter found a Woolly Bear! No – not a ferocious mammal, but the caterpillar of a tiger moth!
Having inspected the Woolly Bear, we got back to work and much to your correspondent’s suprise, we completed the job by 3 pm!
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