26/07/2025  9.00  -  13.00  Docken's Path from top of drive to Rockford entrance and Blashford North..

Requiring attention on Docken's Path:

1. Over the path going up from the top of the drive is a low hanging oak tree branch.

2. Just before the Rockford path turning, logs are in and partially blocking the Docken's water.

3. On the path from the road, where it bears left towards the bridge and Moyles Court path, the supporting posts of the dead hedge have been pulled out/knocked over!!!!!

Sightings:

Great White Egret flying across the south end of Ibsley. Pairs of great crested grebes nesting - one pair at the west end of the birch trees in the water along the south west bank at Goosander, another pair just beyond the northern tip of Spit Island.

The 5 ponies seen just north of Lapwing hide, coming out of the trees immediately beside the hide, ie. from the woodland west of the Silt Pond!