Sunday 29th March

 A few walkers, no litter or fires.

Saturday 28th March

A beautiful morning,  quiet except for 2 excessively keen runners. Very moderate litter. Relieved to see no new fire damage.

I'll be away next Saturday.  Happy Easter to all.

Reminder - sorry unable to do Weds 25th March

Unable to check the South on Thursday 26th

I’ll be checking WM North but have a task to do there and probably won’t have time for the South as well. Paul are you covering the South that day?

Dry-ish

 Considering we havent had rain for 8 days theres still a lot of damp about but puddles have receded. Environment Agency reports water rising at Durngate. Removed 1/2 bag of onion rings from the Glade. Trolley removed to Durngate entrance, bit of a coincidence being next to reed fire. Will report when I have a minute. Couple of runners. Met a regular photographer, nice chat. 2 canada geese on site and 5 flew over as I entered. Couple of tops draped over a tree near North Walls bridge. I left them just in case the owner(s) retrieve them. Bit of chalk drawing at Pond.

Saturday 21st March

Beautiful bright morning, lots of runners. 

An enormous dog left a pile of mess on the path near the bridge, and there was a discarded nappy at the paddling stream. Glad

to get rid of both. Other litter not too bad today.

A lady with two dogs took them out when I asked her. 'Didn't see any signs'....

Sad and shocked to see the fire damage in SPM. 

Friday 20th March

​Apart from yesterdays fire and the M&S shopping trolley at the entrance the rest of the reserve is okay, lots of bird song and a very curious tree creeper moving around the willows by the bridge.