Today we spent a productive few hour’s brush cutting and clearing a reedbed compartment in the almost spring-like Weymouth sunshine. Productivity was aided immeasurably by the assistance provided by Rethink the mental health charity, with whom we have worked on a fortnightly basis for the past 5 or so years. It is quite astonishing how beneficial these events are for us in terms of work completed and time saved. Additionally – and of equal importance - the guys really enjoy mucking in with reserve work and fairly often, as we’re on a wetland, ‘mucking in’ is a quite literal discription of events!
Today's relative warmth seemed to have stirred something in our feathered friends as we were serenaded throughout by (amongst others) song thrush, bullfinch, reed bunting and dunnock – while the ever present ‘reed-cutters friend’ the stone chat was never far away, seeking out invertebrates disturbed by our activities. Roll on the Springtime!