Hayfield 9 Aug

Ten volunteers turned out and spent the day cutting Rhody - due to recent comparatively dry weather we did not have a fire and built a large stack of cut material instead.

It may be part of our task to burn it on our next visit to the area. The area we cut was a steep bank above a stream on "Park Moor" - Its difficult to tell from the photos - the pile (in the top photo) is about 6 feet high most of the way along, in the second photo you can see the ground dipping away to the left of the pile, the birch trees started off completely surrounded.

Like the Rhody in the foreground of the photos the area cut will be allowed to regrow for a while until there is enough leaf area to be treated - hopefully eradicating the problem.

It was a very hot day and we got through considerable volumes of drinking water (I drank 2.5 litres and gave away 1 litre to other volunteers who were running low!)