Photo Gallery

Field Scabious

Pyramidal Orchid

Grubbing out bramble roots to abate regrowth

After work on the steps, with a new bit of rivetment

View out across the Vale of Aylesbury

Line-wire straining the posts; stock netting laid out and ready to staple up and complete the barrier

View east from Crecy NR

Hedgerow Cranesbill

Salad Burnet - actual size about 6mm!

Delapidated fence? Who you gonna call...?

Woodland footpath down to waterfalls on day off

Chris takes time out from the executive stress of leading

Working our way down Corn Du for lunch at the obelisk

A culvert unblocking team at work, with Corn Du in the background

Beacons Way - worn deep and wide by many feet and lots of water

You don't wanna do it like that...

The finished fence, gate and stile from the inside

The finished fence, gate and stile from the outside

Clearing the fenceline ready for replacement fencing

Andy provides a cheesy grin

Passers-by beware!

Michelle sneaks up behind Peter with loppers - fancy a haircut Peter?

All the old headstones are leaning at interesting angles

Bonfire - plus rainbow!

Lunch break

Swarms of scrub bashers

Andy makes cordwood

Lovely warming bonfire (one of two)

Much tree growth had been cut back to stop the forest taking over the ancient pathway

Skepper - woodland products co-ordinator

Finally the bonfire starts to die down

Big bonfire

After a hard days work

The bonfire raged...

Mike makes a guest appearance

Conversation and drinks in the Turf

Cordwood stack

Dead-hedge deer-deterrant

Hazel stakes harvested for hedgelaying

This poor tree didn't stand a chance...

Miranda brandishing stock spray

Local flock penned for hoof clipping

2 folk and a sheep

Surveying the days work, the last task of 2007.

A nice cup of tea.

Looks like someone decided to recycle an old 70's shower curtain.

This treestump was in a dangerous position and needed to be removed using some OCV muscle

A fine specimen

Before starting work, we herded the sheep into a different field

Cutting to the cores

Completed hedge section ready to regrow.

Britwell Salome hedge starting view

Tree with twisty vine growing into it

Bonfire building

Coppicing

Teamwork

Fen raking in the sunshine

Recycling cut scrub into the atmosphere...

Young woodland of the new century

Hedgelaying work half complete

Beating those Brambles

Camp fire

Camp

Camp

Finished stretch of wall

After work

Loading

Site when we arrived

New talent on the job

Steps built today

Footpath section as we left it.

Third fence section, unfinished due to lack of materials.

Post and rail under construction.

Hybrid fence, as we left it.

Completed gate 1

Completed gate 2

Boundary Brook pond

Broadening the path

Jim carrying a spade incorrectly!

As featured in the Hanborough Herald!

Climbing up the Craig Cerrig - it was actually sunny (for a while)

We had great views on our free day.

Out for a walk on our free day

The Henrhyd waterfall

OCV and the National Trust show their undying loyalty to Queen & Country

Anyone for Chess?

The badger, of course

Our fearless task programmer

Base camp

North path before

Westward view

North path after

Fencing with locally-cut material

Teamwork on the bowsaw

Crecy Nature Reserve path

Crecy reserve from the top

How many OCVers does it take to build a stile?

More trees

All we need is a guitar

Trees

An example Cotswold Pennycress (by Plantlife's consultant Judy Hart)

A vision of a fence. Top dollar.

The best wall I've ever seen. Well, I did build it. Im so modest.

Sheep graze the coarse grass, leaving the dreaded blackthorn for OCV!

Collecting the sheep for tagging them

Steve gives Loz a hand

MC with a yorkshire billhook

Using the pole saw on an awkward bit

Before the gate went in.

The finished product.

Sitting down for lunch

The view towards Oxford

The completed Tern rafts

Loading the kiln with logs

BBQ on the beach

Toasting Marshmallows

The smoke gets a touch out of hand!

Controlling the reed growth to create some open water

Harry the horse

Domino