Nine volunteers turned out to Formby on a warm sunny day.
We shared cars from Styal - three sat navs took 3 different routes :- one did not know the destination, one took a very strange route in Formby, and the other confused its driver on the motorway resulting in a scenic route) - but we traditionally take different routes every time we go to Fomby!
The beach was busy and a high tide was expected and the original (planned) work (fencing the dunes) would have got in the way of the public - so a back up task was found....
![birch in pine plantaion -before photo](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWXBGJWSTCR6w5VEDRp1qItVZO_mcwU9gYckorR2AsIEMV7QVJtWS2-A1Wfo7-A9aFyy200qnefKrQ7S6CYzufpbKR8jXW3NWZNGb5UGm5zuwEdXOG2dSdHm7pzbEThQgOoKKpfK44wGRV/s1600/A_FORMBYBEFORE.jpg) |
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![during volunteers removing birch scrub and bramble](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYb86uPZH8HDKT0DGgnB25UWXIfcMMo3bEgCG9hZOOhQkZoGEwxechQuN6YWnOAvAEXKFBqIv90QXBpAI1oxbexxo-rYU4vs2YugT-20bbQTee6mInuoSXRcg2kpOzlr2_zta0O47bQFY/s1600/A_FORMBYOVERVIEWB.jpg) |
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We spent the day clearing young birch from a small plantation of pine that had become overgrown.
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A black birds nest restricted the area we could work on. We stopped a little early and returned to the cars via the ice cream van and the beach.
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