Dalgety Bay Community Woodlands Group

Another enthusiastic and cheerful band of volunteers met up today in excellent weather and completed the clearing of the strimmings on the wildflower seed sown areas. This was work that had been started on Thursday by the pupils from Fife College. It was also a delight to welcome a new volunteer, Jennifer Leiper. Thanks to all who came and made the work a pleasure. All that now needs to be done is to decide how best to manage the borders of the path to try and ensure we on

On Tuesday of last week we did some digging out in The Triangle which outlined the area that still needed to be dug so that when the Donibristle Primary P7s came down they would be able to work without damaging the strip of perennials beside the fence, or the gravel path. In rather poorer weather last Friday, two classes of P7 pupils came down to see what help they could give with the management of the Cornfield Annual areas. The Triangle was the easiest task and was well du

Walking the paths through the woodlands it is usually the larger things that attract attention, trees, birds, occasional flowers, - the dog, the mobile phone - but a closer inspection of the plants beside the path may reveal some strange markings on some of the leaves. No, they are not messages in some strange script from inter-planetary travelers, they are the tracks made by tiny insect larvae as they eat their way through the soft leaf tissues between the tougher surface l

Sunday Work Party 27th October Alan had done a great job during the week of the difficult task of strimming the tough grasses of the wildflower areas, both on the bank below Crow Wood, and on The Triangle. Today conditions were perfect for clearing up the cut material which had dried out in the fine and windy weather of the past few days. Though we didn’t manage to get it all cleared today, we certainly made a very good start. Sunday Work Party 27th October Work Party Sunday