11/07/2026  9.00 - 13.00  Dockens Water path and North side. Usual bramble trimming - still growing ++ - and hide check.

Issues of note:

• Lapwing Hide. Signs of out of hours use. All windows left open, drink cans left. ? the two spare benches at rear of hide removed or taken.
• Goosander Hide. 'Socks'  thrown onto the vegetation in front of the Hide. Sun glasses left in hide, returned to Catherine. 
• Empty crisp packets again left in the hedge just before exit onto Ellingham Drove.
• Increasing numbers of bramble trip hazards encroaching from the verges onto the eastern path.
• Trimming of nettles on western path - great, thankyou.

Sightings [or lack of]

• The spit in front of Lapwing hide is now partially visible.
• Great crested grebe nest appears to have disappeared from in front of Goosander Hide.
• No ponies seen on the western shore.