A Friend of Adel Woods took this short video of Adel Pond at about 1 pm today. The movements in the surface of the pond are caused by frogs, and if you listen carefully you can hear them humming (croaking is not really the right word!). Spring is in the air!
A beautiful morning. We met in the Stairfoot Lane carpark with a group of about five or six people from Litter Free Adel.
While the litter pickers set off along Stairfoot Lane, six of us set off to work on the Hospice Woodland.
In the Hospice Woodland we have been clearing brambles from the young trees, and we have also been thinning out the trees under the guidance of Steve Joul, ranger with Leeds City Council.
The work we have been doing over previous years has clearly been helpful because the areas we have worked on were still very clear. Today we concentrated on areas to the north of the woodland (near Stairfoot Lane) and to the south. Our aim is simply to clear the brambles from the trees while leaving areas of brambles to provide cover for nesting birds and small mammals.
Finishing work at 12 we returned to the car park and three of us set off up Stairfoot Lane to remove a fallen birch tree which was threatening to slide onto the carriageway.
Having removed it we we returned to the car park with an old tyre and a plastic drum which had been dumped in the field.
We placed these with the large amount of litter collected by our gallant team of litterpickers.
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Today I had the pleasure and privilege of speaking to the Mothers’ Union at St John’s Moor Allerton about Adel Woods and the work done by Friends of Adel Woods.
We had a good audience who were interested in and very supportive of our work.
I talked about the history of Alwoodley (for which I am indebted to Steven Burt and Graham Branston), about the work we do in the woods (for which I am very grateful to all our Friends), and about the natural history. Admittedly, I am not very hot on the natural history, but I am very grateful to Steve Joul, countryside ranger with Leeds City Council, and expert on all things natural historical, for all the knowledge he has shared over the years, whether on tasks or talks, which enabled me to look like I knew what I was talking about!
Thank you to Beryl for inviting me to do the talk, and to Jocelyn who sorted out the IT – and to the ladies who made me so welcome.
And thank you to Diana for coming to the talk and taking the photos!
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