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| Almost warm enough for Sherborne House swimming pool |
Started the day early at Sherborne, with Ollie in tow, for the February bat count. Morris had another mission so he only had time for the count at the 'bat cave'. I was on safety with Ollie on security whilst Mike & Morris carried out the count at the bat cave. Temperatures both inside and outside the bat cave were higher than expected for this time of year {9C-11C }. The final count was 162 lesser horseshoes in the bat cave, 0 in the kennels, 1 in the bothy and 11 in the cellar giving a grand total of 174 appreciably higher than last years count of 153.
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| Crocus enjoying the sun in the Pleasure grounds |
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| Where's Ollie? |
With blue skies and in the sun the temperatures feeling very warm I spent the lunch time walking Ollie in the Pleasure Grounds. The display of spring flowers was still looking good with daffodils beginning to flower. There was a distinct change from the previous week with only one dog walker seen during my circuit of the grounds and this allowed Ollie sole access to the 'play area' and woods which he took full advantage of
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| Contribution to the wood store! |
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| Always time for play |
The afternoon began by loading wood from the wood store in the nursery and this proved more challenging than normal as both Maddie & Ollie decide that it would be fun to chase up and down the wood pile whilst we tried to load the trailer. The remainder of the afternoon was spent in checking the array of 'toys'/equipment & documentation [brush cutters, pole saws, chainsaws, mowers, tractors....] in readiness for the H&S check on Friday. As ever the 2 Springers proved as helpful as ever in the warm springlike weather outside but all building on Ollie's experience as a volunteer ranger.
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