This month sees the return of 'open weekends' at the reserve. These had a cool and rather wet start last weekend and will continue until Easter and we hope for some sunshine along the way. Some brave visitors came out last weekend despite the poor weather and were rewarded with the best variety of flowers, as snowdrops, crocus and daffodils were all flowering.
After a very wet Sunday the sun came out early for the volunteers on Monday morning making the drive glow with colour but this did not last and we left feeling chilled by the wind. However we were pleased to have completed some tree planting and some lovely silver birches should look their best in a year or two.
Footprints in the snow in February provided confirmation of the presence around the reserve of badgers (no longer resident, just visiting), foxes, rabbits and Muntjac deer. This last is a suspect in the case of the closely cropped reeds that we have been seeing in various parts of the gardens and has been seen on a number of occasions during daylight hours. In fact it has been photographed by our bird-watching visitors, one picture appearing in the photographs section of this website.
After months of collecting and splitting firewood and bagging up leaf mold these items are ready for open day visitors to buy. The leaf mould will benefit most gardens and if you have an open fire or woodburner why not buy locally.
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