Wednesday 10th August 2016

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Work rest and play.....


Wednesday is volunteer day at Pembrey or Morfa Berwig LNR's, today we were at Pembrey.

Myself Veronica and Neil enjoyed a mixed bag of a day, with a bit of bird ringing, some vegetation clearing, some plant finding and hole digging.

The bird ringing came about as we were positioning the ringing poles in the main track ready for a ringing session, but since the nets were out we left them set for about an hour itwas late in the morning and the only birds caught were a Robin and a Chiffchaff.

After a spot of lunch in the warm sun we cleared a couple of ringing rides in the Sea Buckthorn before venturing out onto the marsh to look at some of the flowering plants, with Neil's help we sorted Sea Wormwood, Sea Aster, Sea Plantain and Cordgrass.
Again today, there were lots of Bumble bees on the marsh plants especially Red-tailed Bumblebee.

We kept putting off the main task of the day with diversions to look at Greater Spearwort a member of the buttercup family and quite a rarity in Carmarthenshire, we also came across the very attractive Carline Thistle.

Greater Spearwort
the leaves look nothing like "buttercup" leaves and give the plant its name

Carline Thistle
Itwas then on to the main event, the extraction of an old sign now being used by some as an air rifle target, I was warned that it had probably been put in well, it certainly had and took a lot of digging  scrabbling and heaving,to get it out but we did in the end and it has been moved to a new location to be put to good use....

"..the end of the posts are in there somewhere.."

A really productive and fun day....


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