Green Space Action Team - Return to Blunts Wood

THIS WAS MY fourth outing with the Green Space Team returning to Blunts Wood to continue the work from my first visit.   The posts around the pond had been removed and thrown in allowing the local dog population the chance for a swim!   The aim was build a dead hedge and protect the great crested newts.   The hedge is made of cut back branches, placed between two posts, the branches are no longer living, hence "dead hedge".

The newts are not local to this area, a housing estate was being built just outside of Haywards Heath and the newts were discovered stopping the building in it's tracts.   The decision was made to move the newts for their protection and allowing the building work to continue and this is where they were relocated to.   Which is good for the newts and also the local environment being enriched with pond life, just need to keep the dogs out!

The plan was exactly the same as the first project, to start cutting back the blackthorne freeing the path that was becoming overgrown and use the branches to build the dead hedge on the opposite side of the pond to the side we did on the first visit.