Millennium Wood

A final work party gathered in Millennium Wood on Sunday 21st Feb. Jobs were fixing 8 nest boxes, 1 bee hotel and generally clearing increasingly invasive blackthorn from the entrance. With 14 folk turning up, including 6 children, these jobs were completed rapidly and the enthusiasm of the children to place the boxes was most gratifying. Signs were placed and all in all, a good time. The wood now looks ready for a great spring and we look forward to seeing how the changes we have made begin to show results in the numbers of invertebrates and maybe bird species. Target bird to hear singing within the first 3 weeks of April is willow warbler. This was a regular singing bird until 2011. I suspect the wood then became too overgrown for it, so, hopefully, our clearances will encourage it to return, even if only to sing and then move northwards due to no female being around.

The nest boxes and a bee hotel I made at home, ready for the wood

Some of the party that help make this wood a real Nature Reserve. Great to see so many children from the village

Just the 1 bee hotel, more to follow.