Terry's photos
This week we returned to Blackwater, but this time we were
at Naturezones Wildlife Education Trust, which is a wildlife field study centre. The main task was to move two extra long
railway sleepers from one end of the site to the other. A mighty muscle gang was formed and the wood
was carried, one sleeper at a time, through the meadow. The sleepers were to form the supports for
the bridge which crosses the stream at the end of the site. The existing supports had become rotten, and
the planks removed. The sleepers were
slightly longer than anticipated so the bank on either side had to be dug out,
along with other banked up soil. The
bridge planks will be replaced shortly once the sleepers have been treated with
preservative.
For those of the team not on bridge detail, the paths around
the site were cleared of encroaching shrubs and bramble.
The wildflower meadow was quite a sight. Flowers identified included meadow
cranesbill, black knapweed, smooth tare, grass vetchling, birdsfoot trefoil,
lesser stitchwort, ox-eye daisy, bugle, orchids and masses of yellow rattle.
Naturezones is holding a Red Squirrel Day on Sunday 15th
June – see link –
https://naturezones.co.uk/Events.htm
Thank you to Terry for the photos.
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