Tag Archives: wildlife

From Plumbers to Carpenters

Posted on June 4, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you’re viewing via the WordPress Reader, please click on cawstongreenway.co.uk so that all the slideshows work properly and the images are the correct size. Last week we came dressed as Italian plumbers, this week we put on our carpenter … Continue reading →

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Ants in your Pants

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you’re viewing this with the WordPress Viewer, please click on cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better experience. Six of us turned out today with the promise of a bacon roll. Steve, Matt, Reece, Dave, Martin, and Paul (we also had … Continue reading →

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We Rebuilt Our Picnic Bench

Posted on April 9, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you’re viewing through the WordPress Viewer, click on cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better viewing experience. BECOME A PATRON: We have costs that we simply cannot avoid. Insurance, running this blog, tools, timber for bench repairs, screws and wood-stain, wildflower seeds, etc, … Continue reading →

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Getting Ready For Easter

Posted on March 26, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you are viewing through the WordPress Viewer click on cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better experience. Six of us turned out today. Martin, Steve, Dave, Matt, Marcus, and Paul. We split into pairs and cracked on with jobs that were starting … Continue reading →

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Last Cutting Back Session

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

If you are viewing through the WordPress Viewer click on cawstongreenway.co.uk for a far better experience. Today was very wet. So wet that we thought it best not to get the battery-powered tools out and cut back the last bit … Continue reading →

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Today We Became Civil Engineers

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

We hung up our wildlife warrior capes and donned our hard hats whilst putting our collective minds together to solve our continual flooding issue. Reece, Ian, Matt, Martin, Dave, and Paul turned out with our mattocks and shovels and boy-o-boy … Continue reading →

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Six Mile (10K) Circular Walk

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

I feel that we are ready to put up this six-mile walk. There are loads of ways to track back for much shorter loops, or go further into Dunchurch, but this is the basic backbone of the walk. It starts … Continue reading →

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Now We’re Cooking…

Posted on November 6, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

Eight wildlife warriors made it today (Marcus, Reece, Dave, Ian, Steve, Nathan, Martin and Paul) and we thought we might try something a bit different on the first workday of each month. We’re a pretty well-bonded group, but we thought … Continue reading →

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Scallop Management

Posted on October 16, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

I have been banging on about “scallops” for ages now. I revisited my woodland management guides and when they talk about scallops along a path edge, they are talking about 50 metres in length and 15 metres deep. I think … Continue reading →

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A Window Of Sunshine Between Days Of Rain

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Paul - Cawston Greenway

It really seems to have been raining non-stop for ages. Silly me left my wellies out in the garden and I could literally pour water out of them yesterday when I realised. I was dreading the soaking that we were … Continue reading →