🎵What to Record?
We want to record all the details we can, to help the landowner find them, and to monitor our overall progress:
- Plant
- GH for Giant Hogweed
- JK for Japanese Knotweed
- HB for Himalayan Balsam
- Quantity
- eg x5
- For JK/HB estimate the area, eg 20sqm
- Status
- eg small, medium, large, flowering (hopefully not!)
- Bank
- Which side of the river its on, eg left bank (looking downstream)
- Your initials, eg DQ
- Any other useful info (if long, put in Notes), e.g.
- Under tree; Hidden in bushes; opposite gate
- looks sprayed
- still not been treated despite 2 previous reports
- Dead, but has full seed head – must have been missed last year
- NB: Timestamp is automatic
- Location, Date & Time get automatically recorded & exported by the software
Examples
- GH x5 3ft left bank hidden in willows. DQ
- GH x1 flowering in woods off right bank. Reported in April but still there!
- JK 30sqm island by West Bank. Look as if sprayed
- Couldnt survey 20m upstream of here, too overgrown. DQ
- Started/Ended my Spring survey here
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Well done, now there’s the constant task of keeping it up to date! I don’t know how we’d manage our Dunpender CC website without the tireless efforts of volunteer Alastair Seagroatt. I’ve asked him to put a link on it for you.
How about adding some info on how to donate to your charity?
I’ve just found a sheep tick on my back from yesterdays Plank pick up at Aberlady!!! Probably got it when I sat down for coffee.
So, PLEASE remember to check for ticks as they can carry Lyme’s Disease. Get a Tick Lasso so that they pop out cleanly & easily.
You are not alone – Nick Morgan got one last year. For more info see the second FAQ at https://www.elcv.org.uk/faq/
I also got one in my side when we were doing the japanese rose removal, didn’t notice it till the next day but took out with tweezers.
I found a tick on one of the NB Law ponies a couple of months ago. Sherlock had a tick on his eyelid and he let me take it off with my tick remover the next day. It’s the first tick I have ever seen on any of the ponies. I expect the skin on their legs is a bit tough for ticks and one hopped onto Sherlock’s fleshy eyelid while he had his head down grazing. Nasty things!