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Arne – First week highlights

Here are some pictures from my first week at Arne. Thanks to Craig (Daters – the volunteer co-ordinator) I’ve been able to enjoy a wide variety tasks, including moving cattle, making up signs (with power tools, yeh!), fixing the electrics on a trailer board and cleaning hides and toilets. Nice.

: First job of the week – myself, Craig and the two other vols, Dianne and Rhiannon, move some cows

: Rhiannon leads me through the reeds as we search for gauge boards

: Swallow cam

: The air ambulance looking for a place to pick up an ailing visitor

: A great spotted woodpecker

: Two adults (grandparents?) look after all the local baby Shelducks

: I can’t be sure, but I don’t think this Sika stag had noticed me creeping through the undergrowth

: Paul Morten leads the Wednesday heathland amble…

: …and finds a Smooth Snake

: Two Green Woodpeckers, the second is a bit difficult to spot…

: ..and their old nest?

: This is one of the coolest places on the reserve. The edges of this field are planted with Sunflower, Quinoa, and other seed baring flowers. As a result large numbers of small birds hang around in the field