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Recent Events Report Saturday 17th January. Winter Bird Walk Time: 9.30am- 1.30pm. Weather Conditions. windy ,bright, sunny with clear blue skies and few light clouds, fairly cold. There had been an hour or so of heavy rain at about 6.00am. This was a really good start to 2009s events. Dave was on hand to tell us just who was twittering away and point out anything unusual. In the Willow Carr, the area of a seasonal pond, we saw a small group of Siskins and at least one Redpol in a small stand of alder. Seen and/or heard. Wood Pigeon Blue Tit Common Gull Siskin Chaffinch Nuthatch Starling Redpol Blackbird Goldfinch Song Thrush Wren Long-Tailed Tit Kingfisher Stock Dove Coal Tit Green Woodpecker Cormorant Carrion Crow Robin Mistle Thrush Herring Gull Great Tit Mallard Sparrowhawk Goldcrest Kestrel Magpie Black Headed Gull Greenfinch Feral Pigeon Great Spotted Woodpecker Ring Necked Parakeet Sunday 15th February. Short Winter Walk . As the Visitor Centre was shut it was good for all the VC volunteers to go on this Sunday afternoon stroll. The weather was a bit warmer than the snowy blast of early February, but winter hasn’t gone yet. We walked to the woods and down to the river, several of the group hadn’t been to the river before and it is always nice to introduce people to different areas of the park. Thank you to everyone who came along to make it a very pleasant afternoon.
CONSERVATION WORKDAYS in JAN, FEB & MAR. The weather has been kind and good progress has been made clearing overhanging and fallen branches by the pathways in Stumpshill Wood. Two sessions on the gorse have cleared a lot of low bramble growth and the gorse is flowering beautifully. In our last session in March, we worked for an hour in the woodland clearing overhanging holly along some paths. Then moved on to take some more bramble out of the gorse area. Despite low numbers of volunteers some really good work has been achieved. Well done and thank you to everyone who came along.
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