Sunday 18 May 2014

Birch Bash at Formby on 18 May 2014

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....

before
volunteers removing birch scrub and bramble
during / after
We spent the day clearing young birch from a small plantation of pine that had become overgrown.

















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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