Thursday 18th July 2024 - Roasting sunshine was aplenty for a small team and one work experience student as work was undertaken at Wellfields East and West.
As rapid grassland assessments got underway on both sites the remainder of the team proved their mettle in the heat raking and dragging arisings from the unplanned cut surrounding verges and a Ragwort pick on the West site in preparation of Autumn time Sheep grazing.
Tuesday 16th July 2024 - Accompanied by a pair of work experience students, the volunteers spent the mainly sunny day at The Warren.
Dividing up into two teams, rapid grassland assessments and a phase 1 survey of the site was undertaken by one party whilst the other division set about a gentle spot of pruning to fenceline Bramble, pushing back suckering Aspen and Dogwood regrowth and weeding out patches of Canadian Golden-Rod where they had erupted.
Thursday 11th July 2024 - As the Sun and heat made a return the volunteers joined by a work experience student undertook activities across Roundshaw Downs.
Making base camp around the Northern Butterfly Bank the majority of the team spent the day tending the newly installed hedgeline, clearing out undesirable species and trimming tussocks of grass between the guarded Tree Whips before laying down a dense layer of woodchip mulch to two thirds of the area.
With one team busy the surveying division set about gathering all important data with rapid grassland assessments to the Cattle Paddocks and an inaugural assessment to the field containing the North Butterfly Bank (although the number of species picked up on the stops here were low it will be an inspiring point in the coming years to see how the work put in can increase diversity)
