More work on the butterfly clearing.
Where we started clearing last week, we have nettles popping up!! What we want is grasses and kidney vetch wildflowers. It’s early days and there is still a load of scrub to clear. It’s starting to slowly take shape though. We will probably clear about ten metres along, dead-hedge the top, thin the trees to allow maximum sunlight and see what grows in the spring of next year.
We can put a bench in on the other side for relaxed viewing.
I had a cheeky coffee break and enjoyed the peace and quiet.
I then took a walk northwards and happened upon a new bench that must have been put in by Andrew (thank you)!!
The view is fantastic and the birdboxes in the trees around the bench will make this a year round favourite spot.
We are back in the butterfly clearing on Wednesday. Join us if you like.
Until next time!
Paul
Cawston Greenway 
Thankyou Paul, over the last few months Liz and I have recovered the two broken Quad benches from the field and totally rebuilt them with new wood & fixings, re-stained them & relocated them where a good foundation was possible as shown in your earlier report despite the OMG! ~ Different bench heights to suit a family outing.
Designed and constructed the new “Heath View” bench in new wood, 3 coats of stain then deep post holes dug and 3x postmixes to locate in a marvellous view over the fields. Built to a restful height and surrounded with two new and two repaired birdboxes firmly secured to the large adjacent trees.
Thanks to Liz for her assistance in lifting and lugging the loads & footing the ladder it certainly is “a year round favourite spot” now.