Boundary House Fen, Saturday 10th of December, 2022

This week's blog post was written by AGG Chair, the wonderful Eleanor D.!: 

Eleven of us braved the sub zero temperatures to work on Boundary House Fen under the direction of Rod d’Ayala. It was very cold but sunny as we set off for the part of the fen where Rod wanted us to work.

Jim and Adrian scythed while the rest of us raked up reeds and transported them to the watercourse. Being frozen, the ground was not too soggy. We worked hard until tea break time and soon began to warm up. The fen looked very beautiful with the frost on it under a blue sky and we were glad that we hadn’t stayed huddled indoors. There was some discussion about whether to drag the tarpaulin into the sunshine, but it was pointed out that the sunny area was by now also the soggy area! 

After the break we continued with the work, piling quite a lot of the cut material into piles under some trees. A robin was very appreciative of our work and hung around for the goodies we had uncovered. You can see some good close up photos. At one point we saw the robin chasing another one off its territory.


It was a good morning’s work all round.


Intrepid green gymmers set out across the frost

The sunshine creeps in

An artistic shot of silhouette of workers 


A friendly robin








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