No blog for a while, so what have we been up to? As usual
getting the small jobs ticked off, plenty of mowing and strimming around the
reserve but this is slowing down a great deal now the colder weather has come
in. The environment agency are half way
down Wicken Lode and it looks great, but it is still pretty much bare earth
still so best avoided if you can really. We had a nice trip up to see the Great
Fen Project and say hello to everyone up there. Plenty of paperwork and we
mowed round the 3000ish trees on White Fen, thanks to the gardeners at Anglesey
Abbey got the lend of their mower. We turned the compost behind the overflow
car park and I also started moving the bales around on Oily Hall, still about
50 to do, there are some pictures of this lower down.
We are also just beginning two projects. Fen Ditching are starting
preliminary work on the new Burwell Lode Bridge, it won’t be finished, but a
drainage ditch is being diverted on Burwell Fen with the beginnings of the
ramps also being started. The cycle way is also being extended to nearer the
existing bridges over the lode. On the North side of Burwell Lode a small car
park is being put in at the meeting points of Harrisons Drove and Factory Drove
next to Priory Farm.
Another important piece of work that is being undertaken is
creating a link between Pout Hall Corner pond and Reach Lode. The Environment
Agency and ourselves have taken the decision to allow the pond to maintain its
level when water is abstracted into the bunded area on the Southern Section of
Burwell Fen. Previously it had been predicted
by the EA that the banks between the pond and the lodes was porous enough to
allow this to happen with no extra work, sadly this was not the case. Jason
Cooper from RJC Earthworks is in the process of installing stone filled baskets
into the lode bank to maintain its strength while allowing water and small fish
to pass through.
As I had my camera handy I took a few pictures of our new
fence as we built it (it is for the new car park), also a few others of odds
and ends from the past few weeks:
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