Gaywood Valley Conservation Group

Roydon Common Community Area Monday 3rd April 2017

Photographs with thanks from Sue, Hamish and Viv

After Storm Doris had passed by

Clearing up after Storm Doris had done its dirty work

Continuing work on clearing up after Doris

Continuing work on clearing up after Doris

Continuing work on clearing up after Doris

Michael with the brush cutter clearing nettles and other growth from around the paths

A pathway marked with freshly cut silver birch trunks

Tasting birch sap (relatively tasteless)

Fallen tree and busy dealing with it

Sally and Andy working on constructing a bug hotel

Examples of bracket fungus on birch trunks

Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) Image from the Internet

catkins

Conik Ponies on the adjacent SSSI

Pond on the adjacent SSSI