work party today at the Flashes
A really wet s****y day today but the 12 of us certainly made in-rounds into creating new islands in areas that are normally inaccessible, when we have some water in the 2nd flash that is! A great effort, just a pity we all got soaked in the process.
The work today involved us moving the piled up soil, from along the channel onto the 2 new islands.
The main channel was extended into the 2nd flash up to the 'crescent' island. The water flowed all the way through. In the future this channel will silt up slowly and provide ideal wader feeding in late summer (in theory).
A shallow side channel was taken off the main channel, along the line of an old drainage ditch.
The new 1st Flash island, was consolidated.
A large new 2nd Flash island was sighted behind the 'pipe' island, from the spoil of the channel extension. Slabs were placed around the back of it to hold in the soil. It will be left to dry out and then flattened, more shoring up at the front will take place next week and a membrane put on top ready for the shingle.(or at least that is the plan).
4 pics
1. 3 of the lads at work Dave, Graham and Gav.
2. The main central island
3. Gav and graham's channel
4. the new 2nd Flash island
Don't forget we do it all again next week, a few of the sick noters:-O will be back, so we have a good chance of completing this once in a life time opportunity to really make a difference to the flashes habitat.
B
John