Trees and Birds

Today I and my family headed over to the community garden to give the place a good water (and typically the rain started to come through) but I also decided to look up some of the National Trust got Scotland activities I had saw in the Lidl weekly magazine.

You can try these yourself by following these links:

Bird feeders

Tree ages

We also decided along with the tree ages and since we were in the woodland wildlife section of the garden, to download the Woodland Trust tree identification app (click here for the link) so we could also identify the trees and then work out their age. This was always an event/activity I thought would be great for our neighbours, the school and library to do, and of course, this can be done over and over again.

Here is what we found by using the app (we might have got them wrong so give it a go yourself). I will update the blog as time moves on as we didn't identify all the trees in the garden, but the ones we did are as follows:

Whitebeam (Sorbus Aria) around 75 years old

Purging Buckthorn (Rhamnus Cathartica) also around 75 years old

Wild Service Tree (Sorbus Torminalis) again around 75 years old

You can check what these look like and read more about them by following the links.

We also made some bird feeders as I suggested and this is because I want to really encourage more wildlife to the woodland wildlife area of the garden. It may take a few days or even weeks for the birds to spot the bird feeders and start using them, but we will keep checking them to see if there are any signs the birds have been using them.

Woodland wildlife areas are so important, but it's not often you get a woodland wildlife area in a city, so this is particularly why I want to make this as developed as we can. Why not read more about woodland wildlife areas in cities via the Woodland Trust website.