Thursday 28th May 2026 - The Sun was still beating down on todays team, unfortunately there was a tad less shade to shelter under as they toiled at Kimpton Balancing Pond and Buffer Strip.
Beginning survey season, as a couple of the team shook off the memory rust to complete the rapid grassland and phase 1 assessments the remaining squad completed a needed litter pick before diverting attention to weeding of undesirable species in the grassland and Bramble trimming around the scrub islands.
Tuesday 26th May 2026 - Despite the scorching Sun and temperature a fairly large team were out at Queen Marys Woodland making good use of the myriad of shade to get both planned tasks done and recently completed works redone!
As the the larger contingent of the team got the day started with the first in a couple of areas worth of weeding out done a smaller detachment set off to collect some woodchip to aid another of the tasks later on, the continuation of watering in and mulching around the tree whips planted over the Winter.
Once back on site, as the above jobs proceeded an unfortunate sense of deja vu was had by a couple of the team as one of the new fence barriers constructed a week earlier had to be completely reworked with some more substantial lengths of timber and wider holes to remedy a bit of pointless vandalism!!
Thursday 21st May 2026 - With a heatwave beginning to kick in the fair sized team grabbed some needed shade when and where they could as they split up to cover three sites.
Amassing at Richmond Green where the larger division of the team remained all day, some of the team set about continuing the weeding activities on the grassland and ephemeral pond before seeds start developing and spreading whilst the remaining portion devoted their energies to picking out loose stones on the bare soil and watering the plug plants put in two weeks ago.
With the rest of the team being mobile it was away to Therapia Lane Rough for the first stop where a couple of areas of grassland got a brush-cutting and thuggish plant species got weeded from the midst's of the desirables coming through before a return to Mellows Park Butterfly Bank yielded three full bags worth of weeded Docks, Brassicas, Creeping Thistle and brush-cut rank grasses.
Wednesday 20th May - With work taking place at various locations around Sutton Ecology Centre today we only managed to snap a shot of the final touches being made to a new installation in the Mini Beast Area.
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