27/06/2026  9.00 - 13.00  Dockens Water path and North side. Catching up with trimming of the bramble after a two week break!!

Issues of note:

• Empty plastic bottle has been dropped out in front of Lapwing Hide
• Reeds alongside the boardwalk need cutting back
• Dead branch hanging over the path south of the cross path
• Nettles on the verges of the southern end of the western path need cutting++
• a number of dog walkers seen and spoken to, poo bag picked up along the Dockens path

Sightings:

• 3 ponies seen in section 1 on the western shore
• Great crested grebes nesting in front of Goosander hide
• ?young sand martins very active in front of the wall
• large numbers of Grey-lagged, Egyptian and Canada geese seen on Ibsley water, spit island and the spit between Lapwing and Goosander - assume because of seasonal moult.