Tag Archives: wildflowers
It Was All Pickaxes And Mattocks Today
Four of us today, swinging pickaxes and mattocks. Oh boy, I can feel my shoulders and arms starting to ache already. Marcus, Paul, Steve and myself made it today. A good turn-out seeing as there was the Cawston Summer Sizzler … Continue reading
A shift in what we are doing…
Sunday was a shift indeed. Instead of kicking about looking for jobs to do over the summer, we started to look for wildflowers and mini-beasts. Oh boy, did we find some beauties. Aaron, Mick, Linda, Jack and myself made it … Continue reading
Hard Going at A45 and Beyond
It was a tough one today. Marcus, Steve, Tim and myself started to try and move the water that is under the A45 bridge. Not as easy as it seemed, but we found a pile of hardcore and built a … Continue reading
Massively Pleased With Progress…
I am so happy with where we are at. The nice wide path is airy and drying out nicely. Looking up and down looks good. Great to work with Mick, Carrina and Aaron, today. A quick up and down the … Continue reading
Bird Boxes are Up!!
Thanks to Andrew who made them, and Aaron who got them up, today. We have just caught the tail end of the period when birds are searching for somewhere to nest, so we can look forward to monitoring and recording … Continue reading
Wildlife Habitat Piles
First off – look above and you will see a new heading on the menu bar. We should be recording wildlife that we are seeing. In the spring and summer we can add butterflies, wild-flowers and anything else. It also … Continue reading
Why did the mushroom get invited to all the parties? – ‘Cuz he’s a fungi!
And fun was had on the greenway today as we created a new habitat zone, and explored the fungi in the area. Just Aaron and myself today and we cracked on with removing canopy to let light in. We also … Continue reading
Sunday Workday
Great workday today. Linda, Aaron, Mick, Tim and myself were treated to a nice bit of winter sun as we worked to clear off the south facing bank at Berrybanks. Having cleared the dead vegetation from last year, we found … Continue reading
First Workday of 2017
Great workday today. Aaron, John and myself and we cleared a lot of ash saplings in the picnic clearing. Just loads of saplings shooting up. We cut them back and created a habitat pile rather than starting a bonfire and … Continue reading
It was so cold today….
……that my drink froze in its water-bottle!! But that did not deter Reece, Marcus, John and me. We started a fire and boy-o-boy did it labour for the first half hour, but eventually the brash started to dry out and … Continue reading
