Small Copper Butterflies on Downing Point
As I said in an earlier post, the hot dry summer produces some winners and some losers in the natural world, and one of the winners this...
The Path litter clean
Sunday the 5th August, in pleasantly warm weather, 4 of us worked our way from the Bathing House Wood end of the path through to The...
Drought and Biodiversity: Why we need our wild spaces.
It tends to be taken for granted that having some wild areas of grass, flowers, and trees is a good thing, but the recent long spell of...
Wildlife Garden beside the Police Station
It has been in my mind for sometime to say something about the Wildlife Garden at the Police Sation. As I am sure many of you already...
Tree Planting on the Wild Flower Bank
Sunday was a good opportunity to help Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay Rotary in planting three Silver Birches on our Wild Flower Bank in...
Sunday Work Party 4th February
After the dreich weather on Saturday it was a pleasure to be out and about in the woodlands today in warm sunshine doing some rescue work...
World Wetlands Day
A blog post from the SNH Reserve at Loch Leven reminded me that Friday 2nd February was World Wetlands Day when the importance of wetland...
Results from the P7 Ivy & Nettle Clearing
From a distance the bank beside the path in Hopeward Wood, cleared of ivy by P7 pupils from Donibristle Primary at the end of November,...
Nest Box Survey
Several nest boxes were put up in each of our woods in January 2016 and while nesting activity had been noticed in some of the boxes...
Patterns in Frost
The colours of winter are often the dull shades of brown or green, but add a bit of frost and everything changes. The veins of the dead...
