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Olly, Ryan and Ciaran were able to successfully make a mammal footprint tunnel from an old box, some paper, a take away lid and a cereal box. Once their tunnel was made they added some ink for footprints and cat food to entice the creatures of the forest. We hope they manage to capture some footprints 👣

Now that our tunnels are set up and in place in our wooded area we will revisit them tomorrow or Friday to see who has been having dinner on us! 🍽

Today, after a few days out in our wooded area, we revisited our mammal tunnels to see who had visited. After making our way into the woods we relocated our hidden tunnels and got our first peeks inside.

Once we had found all of our boxes and materials we made our way out onto the field. We were able to explore our tunnels out in the open and discover who had visited our tunnels over the past few days.

We couldn’t really see any footprints of mammals, perhaps the rain washed them away… but we certainly did find plenty of creepy crawlies!! Our tunnels were the perfect place for small insects to escape the rain and have some lunch.

3.5 miles 2.00pm - 6.00pm. We filled in another section of the map today - it's very nearly full! We had nice warmish weather (although you can feel that the weather is getting more Autumnal now) and so we took our walk through the trees and down to the river Don. There was a bit of paddling and a lot of stone skimming in the river but the grass was damp and we got surrounded by midges so we set off again! We were walking through woods a lot of the way so we saw lots of trees: Field Maple, Oak, Beech, Rowan, Goat Willow, Common Alder, Cherry, Sycamore, Ash, Holly, Horse Chestnut, Sweet Chestnut, Elder and Birch. We only saw a pigeon, some Greylag Geese (ID'd when we got home because we're only really used to seeing Canada Geese) and we heard some more meadow pippits (they seem to like being in bracken?) Our recordings suggested there were also song thrushes, robins, goldcrests and wrens (alarm call again!) around. The photo is of a plant called ragwort.

On the 4th September, we went into the woods and mainly learnt about trees! We gained so much knowledge Spent 4 hours in the woods

On the 4th September, we went into the woods and mainly learnt about trees! We gained so much knowledge We also made a fire and made blackberry pancakes with the wild blackberries that we picked from the forest. Spent 4 hours in the woods