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ALT A Merry Christmas wood sign with three treat bags in a green, yellow and pink.
ALT A photo of the Epping Ongar Santa Special train.
ALT Clipboard ready to have its answered added into the boxes.
ALT Photo of a newly dug pond with aquatic plants around the margins. surrounding ground is still quite muddy and the water murky with disturbed sediments.
ALT Countrycare Volunteers in front of a gated enclosure around the new pond. The fence is made from stock wire netting and Sweet Chestnut posts.
ALT A volunteer with rake in hand, clearing the leaves and wet soil out of the ditches that run parallel to the path.
ALT Photo shows two spades in the soil with a wheelbarrow. the start of a ditch can be seen with a small pond in the distance.
ALT Several volunteers seen starting to hedge lay. The art of hedge laying is to cut the tree but not all the way though, lay it down to create a living hedge.
ALT The ditch has been contacted to a small pond and then another ditch dug from that, they are all filled with muddy water, this is the start of creating a boggy area.
ALT illustration of a person, image of oak processionary moth and the words a summary guide to managing tree pests and diseases.
ALT Countrycare Officer standing behind the new interp panel, the panel is a map of the site, with 9 photo of some wildlife you could see on site.
ALT Forester using a chainsaw
ALT WX Summer of Fun
ALT Moth trap . Bright light on top of a collection box, on a white sheet to help attract moths to be collected into the box.
ALT A over view of the table, with moths in pots, id books and magnifying glass to help work out the different moths found.
ALT A moth taking a liking to our hi vis jacket!
ALT Square- spot Rustic moth on the white sheet next to moth trap. This moth is very common, they have pale outline square kidney-mark on there wings.
ALT The wasps spider is black and yellow stripped body, with a zig zag pattern at the top and bottom of its web.
ALT Volunteers cutting out the bramble from along the hedge, and removing old tree guards.
ALT Three very happy volunteers , setting on there new bench - well done!
ALT Thornwood Common Nature Area sign with new legs and put back into place just outside the entrance gate - well done