Rain and odd jobs

It’s been raining a lot recently.  25mm last weekend, 35mm the week before, and a little more early this week.  But as the week has gone on there seems to have been a change in the air.   It feels a bit like spring is on the way.

Jobs this week include: clearing paths on the reserve, which basically involves chainsawing gorse & creating habitat piles; clearing ‘dangerous’ roadside trees near Lympstone common; clearing a fence line on parts of the reserve; and clearing brash on Lympstone common.  I also managed to create some unneeded air conditioning in my chainsaw trousers whilst bending (my knees, not my back) down yesterday.  Tia has very kindly made them public friendly again.

I tried to get a few shots of the visitors to the workshop bird feeders.  None of them turned out that well, but I’ve added the Siskin one.