Continuation of the pond clearance at Dunham Massey on 27th July 2014

Ten MNTVers turned up today to continue the work that our Group and the Merseyside NT volunteers had been involved in a fortnight ago.

Today we were with Wendy, an intern Ranger at Dunham, and Steve who is a long-term volunteer there.

We split ourselves so we were working in 2 ponds: Island Pond with Steve to clear the Iris and any Lillies that got in the way! and in Old Mans Pond with Wendy trying to pull out some of the Crassula and put it on black liner on the bank.

To avoid cross-contamination of any pond weed as there are different types in the 2 ponds, once we were in our groups and working in a particular pond, we couldn't then work in the other pond wearing the same waders.

The wader wearers!

The weather turned out to be glorious, although it tried to lightly rain on us when we first arrived, so at break and lunchtimes we re-grouped and shared cake and chat on the grassy bank by Old Mans Pond.

Working in Old Mans Pond

Wendy and Steve were really pleased with the amount of Iris and Crassula that were removed from the ponds, but there's still plenty more to go at!!!

Island Pond showing the clump of Iris we were removing

Another, more distant view, of Island Pond