Ant worked on adding a new roof section with the remaining fence panel and putting two pallets down underneath it as a base and I worked on putting a new pallet down outside of the covered section then tidying and building up the section of green wood. After that I worked my way through splitting the larger oak sections still left
That took most of the day, it was hot and sunny and the horse flies, or whatever they are, we out in force, swarming round us both all day and leaving several bites despite the Deet. I have bitten before of course but never seen so many of these flies or had them so persistent. Hopefully they will have dispersed a bit by next week.
Once the wood pile was sorted Ant worked on a bit of oak he hopes to make into a crossbow handle and I pulled the bracken up by the hive. There were only 596 individual stems this week!
The first hatchlings of this years brood have left the great tit nest and young birds of all types were visiting the nuts in the feeders and in the Hive clearing I found several oak saplings, and some holly that I will try and protect next week
