The Captain dragged all the brash on the southern valley and stacked it along the southern boundary to form a row of "council houses" for the birds which you can just see along the top of the photo. I put in a couple of new steps into the bank by what will be the cooking area and then repaired the first set of steps we built (knowing what we know now!) and filled in the cracks in the clay seat which inevitably appear when it dries and shrinks.Whilst clearing the area we came across this perch on a fallen-but-only-partially-dead tree which crosses the stream... judging by the low height from the ground and the collection of feathers, we guess it to be the favourite spot for a Sparrowhawk to take its prey at feeding time. So we set up the camera trap nearby to see if we catch anything.
