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After our litter pick we made signs saying take you litter home. We spread them out across the woodlands so wherever people went they would see them. We laminated them so the would not get wet. We put on them how litter can affect wildlife. Some people drop there dog poo bags in the woodlands and we found quite a lot on our litter pick so we mentioned that in our posters.

Hi everyone, Keeping it Wild trainee Max here again - On Monday at Walthamstow Wetlands, we found some amazing blue mushrooms in the outdoor classroom - it proved quite exciting for the half-term events taking place and all the children were shown the mysterious fungi! To end the day, there was a gorgeous sunset that I was luckily enough to see when locking up the site - so magical!

Today we measured the trunks of some trees in our local area to determine their ages. We had measured some trees on our walk from Upper Froyle to Bentley at the weekend. S also decided to take some photos of fungi in some hard to see places. The Fly Agaric was on a steep hill. One type of fungi was under a bridge and one on top of a tall tree stump.

Today we measured the trunks of some trees in our local area to determine their ages. We had some measured some trees on our walk from Upper Froyle to Bentley at the weekend. S also decided to take some photos of fungi in some hard to see places. The Fly Agaric was on a steep hill. One type of fungi was under a bridge and one on top of a tall tree stump.

Because of Covid-19 our group activities on the National Cycle Network were paused and are only now slowly restarting. Instead we have been encouraging volunteers to take small actions on their own or with their household...of course, individual acts multiplied can have a huge effect and I'm no exception to being part of that possibility, so a little while back, I left my computer and pulled on my waterproofs to go and pick up some litter I'd spotted on the Roseburn Path - route 1 - in Edinburgh. I meant to pick up one bag and drop it back in the office waste bins, so didn't take the bike trailer...but, man, it's hard to stop once you're started - you can't just walk away from that last plastic bottle tangled in the bushes, can you?? It was a wrestle back to the bins. The litter levels this year have been interesting, dropping hugely when we were all asked to stay at home...but it's crept up again, and I'm delighted we'll be back out with volunteers really soon. That rainy day gave me a boost from stepping away from my emails and screen, and also the joy of seeing once again the resident Grey Wagtail on the route, who I've seen several times now...always alone, but always adding a flash of lemony sunshine to the greyest of days. About time I got back there.