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This test is for us to see how healthy the brook is. We carry out this test by kicking up the sediments on the streambed for 3 minutes, catching them and seeing how many underwater invertebrates there are. I did this on the day that the Cuttle Brook volunteers met up! W/c 14th Sept 2020

Here are some of the invertebrates we were able to find!

Put a camera trap by the brook so that it takes picture if anything moves in front of it and I can see/monitor the nature activity in Cuttle Brook. W/c 21st Sept 2020

4 of us volunteered our time and completed a Great British Beach Clean 2020 Marine Conservation Society beach litter survey. An astounding 1721 items collected over 3 hours, in only 2 bin bags over a 30 metre length of beach. The bulk of the items were plastic, with small pieces 0-2.5cm, 2.5-50cm pieces, fishing net and net pieces of 0-50cm, cotton bud sticks, bottle caps and lids predominating. We found 1 facemask and a couple of dead bird carcasses. Once you submit results to the Marine Conservation Society, they send you a very professional looking PDF document with all your data summarised and charted. I have written to the local council to share the results from the 2 beach surveys I organised and attached the PDF files.

It has been some time since we visited our favourite wild place. New friendships have been forming since school started and Oscar has been out playing on his bike most evenings. Tonight I decided since it was going to be a full moon and as it was Chinese mid autumn festival, we would head out after dinner. The walkway down was very muddy, there is still a lot of work to be done with the pathway here but this is going to take some hard work and volunteer time. As soon as we saw the river we were transported back to the warm spring and the feeling of freedom. Why had it been so long since we had ventured down here again? The sun was very low and I had to share these lovely photos. Though it was very muddy and the river was quite high, we still thoroughly enjoyed our walk in the low evening sun together and then waiting for the mid autumn moon which did not disappoint.

Hello everyone, Keeping it Wild trainee Max here. Last Thursday all of us trainees went to Old Lodge Farm to learn more about conservation grazing and how it benefits habitats, especially chalk grasslands! We met with Sean from the Downlands Partnership and we were trained on how to give sheep an MOT to ensure the sheep's health was in good form. It was an awesome experience to get hands on with the sheep!

We made plans of the woods using the compass points, North, South, East and West. We had to stand at the entrance of the woods to make sure everything was in the correct place. When we got back we drew bigger plans of our woodlands. It was really fun because we all worked together.