We were joined by GG first timer, Mick, today who soon got stuck in, choosing his tool of choice.

We headed back to the area we were working in last time to do more coppicing of the Hazel trees. Jen also chopped down some older trees to encourage regrowth.

After the tea break, the main group resumed coppicing and layering whilst the remainder work on 'processing' i.e taking the cut off branches and cutting them down either into 5ft stakes, or binding, or infill for the tree guards that will be erected next month. The tree guards will stop the deer eating the newly exposed bark. We needed to prepare this job for April as its one of the few jobs we can do in bird nesting season.