Wet Feet and Coracles

With so much work to be done in the wetland over the coming winter, we decided to spend a second day working on this habitat.  The vounteers split, with some raking up the grass from our efforts yesterday, while the majority worked in one of the pools clearing, Bulbous Rush, Branched Bur Reed, and Typha.

This was very hard work and by the end of the day we were all covered in mud with very wet feet!  Thank you to all the volunteers who happily got stuck in to the job today! After we had finished pulling the vegetation we were lucky enough to see the benefits of a clear pool almost immediately, with a stunning view of a water vole swimming across!

Dave Purvis was also at Foxglove teaching a group how to build coracles - a small traditional boat.  The frames are now complete and tomorrow they will be covered in calico and coated in bitumen paint to finish, before being tested out on the lake in the afternoon!