Thursday 23/7/26  When we arrived at the mill we noticed our bird table stand was breaking up, so after a cup of tea outside, we carried it over to our table and took the stand apart. Eddie made a new angled strut and I made a cross piece. We re-assembled the stand with new screws, took it back and staked it down.

The nest box cameras are not working as there is no power in the wagon or shed, because the solar controller has gone wrong after the battery was left disconnected for a few days, so we don’t know if the stock dove chicks have fledged yet.

Today was RAF Marham Families Day with many aircraft flying around over the mill and surrounding fields which we watched, I got several photos. In previous years we have seen the Red Arrows, but today we saw vintage aircraft and RAF Lightning jets.

Fred and his family were camping at the mill last weekend and they left us a big multipack of crisps, chocolate biscuits and a sack of logs for the woodburner stove, so Eddie and I had crisps with our lunch outside. I put cheese-cracker crumbs left over from my lunch on the bird table and filled up their drinking water.

In the afternoon Eddie watered all the gardens and trees with river water and strimmed in front of the wildlife habitat, compost bays and compound entrance which were all overgrown with weeds. 

Cosmos and cornflowers in front of the visitor centre had fallen, so I held them up with garden wire and canes, then wired a fallen hollyhock to the tree which it was growing next to. We cleared up and came back, we saw two swans in the river on the way.

Graham Bartlett  

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