We welcomed Adam for his first good deed for GG and were joined by Sheila and Tessa from our neighbours at GG Windsor and Maidenhead (keen to tick another square off their bingo card 🤣).

The GG volunteers joined up with the BBOWT and Friends of The Millie volunteers and then split into two groups. Adam, Tessa and Sheila were in the reedbed group and Jen, showing off her new 500 t-shirt joined the coppicing group. The first job for the coppicing group was to break up and remove a fallen tree blocking the path.

The coppicing group then went round to a copse of Hazel trees and made a start coppicing them to encourage new growth.

Meanwhile the reedbed group were cutting back the vegetation and redigging some of the water channels made on previous visits.

After tea break the two groups swapped over so that everyone had chance to coppice. A couple of volunteers broke away from the main groups to litter pick too, so a variety of jobs undertaken with good progress made. We came, we sawed (& lopped), we coppiced.