14 eager MNTV volunteers met Craig in the car park at Dunham Massey for our second workday since lockdown. This was my first work day at Dunham Massey for quite a few years so I was eager to see how the top tree plantation was getting on since we planted it up over 10 years ago.
The weather was kind to us and it was a beautiful autumnal day, there were lots of visitors in the parkland enjoying the fresh air and hoping to catch a glimpse of the deer. I took a photo of this deer enjoying the sunshine at lunchtime.
On reaching the plantation Craig gave us our COVID safety talk and then explained the task. We were to thin out the trees - the trees were already marked up with red dots so we knew which ones to thin out and chop down.
Pictured below is the plantation before we started working.
The group all split up so that we were working well apart from each other; one group of people thinned out trees and another group dragged branches and stacked them into habitat piles.
The plantation was quite overgrown when we started and some of the trees had trunks that were too thick to cut down with our bowsaws so we thinned the branches on those ready for Craig to bring in his chainsaw later in the day. Pictured below is one of the smaller trees that could be felled.
There was plenty of wildlife in the plantation. We saw ladybirds, caterpillars, frogs and lots of horse chestnuts.
At 3.15pm we called it a day ready for the walk back to the car park. Pictured below is the plantation after we had thinned out and chopped down, it is lovely to see the sun shining through.
There is more work to be done here on future workdays.... until next time.
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