25/10/2025  9.00 - 13.00  Blashford North  Usual path and hide check. Beer bottle and small quantity of rubbish left in Goosander Hide.     

Brenda & Co pre-winter bird-ringing - ? also training session for young 'apprentices' - on north path and in bird table area. 

Sightings of interest: Visitor photographed 9-spot ladybird on fungi alongside the Dockens Water path. Peregrine seen from Lapwing hide. White-tailed eagle seen in the far NW corner of Ibsley from Tern hide, flying north. 4 Great White Egrets on western shore. Buzzard seen perching on a couple of the posts along the bank on the northern edge of the scrape. 2/3 yr juvenile grass snake seen in Hanson Plant, ? at felt 32.

5 ponies seen in section 2...awaiting removal?!!

Spinnaker Lake Fri 24th Oct 2025

Spinnaker circuit excluding southern shore. All ship-shape in the east shore woods. There's a nasty length of barbed wire stretching over the floor of the wood from the fence at W3W leaflet.mulled.ooze to the shore at records.expert.spans. It could be a hazard for anyone walking through (pic attached). North and west shores okay. At least 113 Canada Geese were present on the lake, and there were also 4 GC Grebes present.

 18/10/2025  9.00 - 13.00  Blashford North.  Usual path and hide checks. Bramble trimmed where necessary. Pen missing from record book in Lapwing hide. Leaf-blowing season starting!!!

Deer rutting ++ in area north of cross path. Two young fallow bucks also seen in woodland area north of turning to Goosander hide.

Ibsley still quiet re. birds, although cormorants gathering in groups, ? in preparation for driving carp fry into bays for catching.

 11/10/2025  9.00 - 12.30   Blashford North  Usual path and hide check. All seems OK except for the following:

Deflated gold balloon caught in the tree branches to the north of Goosander hide. As the water levels are still low it should be accessible from the shore beyond the sand martin wall. 

Catherine dealing with reported bird carcasses. No fresh ones seen.

 04/10/2025  9.00 - 13.00  Blashford North  No trees or branches down. Twigs cleared from paths. Brambles trimmed near replacement fencing on eastern path. Rain collecting on path at end of Crosspath/by new fencing. Gives a good indication of where the trench needs deepening to drain the path under the fence.

Two fishermen found on the bench in The Hanson plant. Gave quite a story!!!! Reported to Catherine, who dealt with the situation. 

5 ponies seen in section 1.