Our second task day of the year was nearly cancelled early this morning. Despite the rain, we decided to meet up and see what happened with the weather. What a good job we did. The rain stopped and the sun even came out as we continued the raking and clearing of the cut grass – this time in the western end of the chalk pit. This built on the work done on our January task day. Seven of us did an amazing morning’s work and we’ve now done as much as we can to the grass in the chalk pit for this winter. Thank you so much to our volunteer helpers for their hard work. It all looks very neat and ready for the chalk hill flowers to grow as the year proceeds. Hopefully the first of these may be the cowslips. The warm weather also brought out our first bumble bee, but no butterflies today.
Next month we will be up near the dewpond making good some of the damage done by the tree contractors last year. In particular we will be sowing a mix of grass and wild flower seeds suitable for a chalk site. If you would like to join us you would be very welcome.
Friends of Lancing Ring 