Blog by Sally. Photos by David, Michele and Sally We had a very good turnout, with 17 Green Gymmers, for our second visit to Lincombe Lane Field, one of the Boars Hill sites owned by Oxford Preservation Trust. Once again, we were lucky with the weather - it was a beautiful spring day. We met consultant ecologist, Rod d'Ayala, under whose direction we worked and made our way down the field with the various tools for the jobs which Rod had listed for us. The field slopes towards the village of Sunningwell. At the bottom of the field, there is a wood and part of our task is to restore that to fen. On this visit, however, we were limited in what we could do as it is bird nesting season, so we could only work in certain areas and do limited tasks which meant that we wouldn't disturb any. Rod briefs the group We had three main tasks. One was to cut and rake the nettle slope, removing any stray hemlock plants. The second was to dig up hemlock fro...
