After the bravery of last weeks team who fought their way through the worst rain one could ever imagine, we thought that we have brave too and decided to take up the challenge: volunteers against the snow. We were meant to do some walling as an emergency plan (we originally had planned to create a boardwalk, but had to postpone this project due to snow), but unfortunately the wall had disappeared and so had the neatly sorted stones. So we decided to do some preparation work for the board walk to-be: sawing all the timber into the right shape. This might sound easy, but the timber had met the same fate as the drystone wall and had disappeared under piles of snow, all the boards being frozentogether in to one big chunk. But: we freed it!! So we spent the day with a few quite unusual tasks – shoveling snow, digging timber out of snow, brushing the landrover roof and so on.
After all we got a good bit done and all the timber is now well sorted on the landrover roof rack waiting for its moment to finally become a boardwalk at Fowlsheugh RSPB Reserve.