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Found this fungi when out walking in the woods tonight.

Spent today planting Birch, Oak , Alder and Aspen trees today with the park rangers.

Spent a wet but enjoyable morning leading a nature walk through the Dean park today.

Our quiz had 9 questions and 1 activity for a tie break situation examples of our questions was such as name the national park he created ? where did he hail from ? and finish of some of his famous quotes like "of all the paths you take in life make sure some of them are dirt" and our activity was do a portrait of John Muir in 5 mins. After our quiz we presented our 2 winners with a beanie hat each which will come in handy for our next outdoor event and did a spider diagram on John Muir himself on words that they believe describe this great man with words such as inspiring, adventure , complicated , interesting being used .

On Thursday 8/2/18 we held a night about learning more about John Muir himself from where he came from , went to , his achievements and beliefs. All our scouts was giving a link to explore discover John Muir website so we could run a quiz on the man himself . Just before the quiz started we watch a biography on him and a few of the video links found on the website so we got all the information needed to run our John Muir Quiz this was a really great fun (competitive) way to learn about the man .

Last year the Cubs made a bird box each using recycled materials sourced with help from Hamilton Waste & Recycling and The Bike Station (Edinburgh). The Cubs took their boxes home but there were a number of spare boxes and we have given them an eco-friendly, weather resistant coating on the outside and put them up in our small woodland. There are two tit boxes and an open front robin box as our wild space is quite small. Here's hoping that they might get used by the birds that have been frequenting the feeders.

On refilling the feeders today we saw that the squirrel had helped finish the peanuts and was now dangling upside down scoffing the seed mix from the recycled bottle feeder. A short while after there were goldfinches and a few bullfinches at the feeders. Unfortunately my photos of them are pretty poor this time. The squirrels activity was shaking seeds out so the Wood Pigeons and Dunnocks were busy on the ground, and there were blackbirds, blue tits, great tits, a coal tit, a robin and a wren in the 20 minutes spent there today. It is great to see how lively and colourful such a small piece of woodland is and that by adding the feeders the Cubs have played a major part in attracting the range of birds there.