Well the season has got of with a really busy period its nice to see use-age of all land filtering through at last, and we had a grouse day on the 12th and pinned 10 bird the landowner let us have the day as a thanks for work I have done on his lake over the season, we have put effort into placing barrels on some shoots and getting the farmer to fill the bins we need a volunteer to do this at Presteigne I’m happy to pay fuel and hourage £8.00 per hour for this service once a week in season. There are about a dozen barrels here, also during the summer we need a work party to clear out the pond in the centre of the land here in preparation for 50 duck being put down for next season. But all in all its been busy and thanks to Tim Hill and Jeremy Puzey for all the hard work at mapowder where the shoot days are getting a good response from members.

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