November Meeting

Our next meeting is on Thursday 24th November at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club.
Remember the start time is at 7.30.
Hope to see you all there.

Birds and other wildlife Of Coed Bach Park.

As you know we have 2 woodland areas in Coed Bach Park and there is an abundance of birds and and other furry little animals that live and pass through year in year out.
We would like to you photos of the wildlife in the park so pleas feel free to email your photographs to the group at.:- friendsofcoedbach@gmail.com.
Please do not replicate any images unless permission is given by the owner.




Our 1st 2 images were taken by Brian lloyd

Chaffinch

 

Nuthatch

Tree Planting 19/11/2011

The Friends have now received a pack of 105 All Year Round Colour Bare Root Tree tock from the Woodland Trust as part of the Trust's Jubile Woods Project. We will be planting them in the Park this weekend, starting on Saturday morning at 10.30. The Location is just below the football field. We hope that by creating a boundary hedge between the Park and the Old Railway Line we can help to minimise the environmental impact should the Pontarddulais By Pass Road be given the 'go ahead' in the next few years. All are welcome to join in the planting session.For more details please contact Chris the Secretary on 07890416892.

Update

We have some good news, the gorse is cleared and the lads have rotervated the soil so we can now go ahead and plant the Bee Friendly Plants we had from the Keep Wales Tidy Grant money.   So if anyone is free Saturday morning from 10.30, weather permiiting of course, we can go ahead and get these plants in.   

 

Our next monthly meeting is going to be in two weeks time on Thursday 24th November ! doesn't time fly.

 

Hope to see you Saturday and even if you can't make it but know someone who is interested in what we are doing tell them to come along and make themselves known because our next project is planting the 105 hedging trees that arrived today from the Woodland Trust including one "Royal Jubilee Oak Tree" from Her Majesty's forest. 

 

So all volunteers will be most welcome.

5th November Chat and Chop

Seeing as we have had a nice couple of weekends to get some work done. The Friends took the opportunity to spend a few hours in the park on saturday 5th november  clearing away some more of the nettles.

The gang have a few moments of fun showing off some of our new litter pickers.

We do stop (only for a few moments) for a cuppa but then we carry on

We also managed to plant a few flowers in the traffic island (Thanks to a donation from maragret)  but there was also a football match going on so the pics will follow later.

4th November News

Just a quick bit of news we have had  3 donated bags of daffodils and some gerenium plants for the the roundabout border so hopefully we will get into the park tomorrow afternoon and get planting.  The lads (Parks People of CC Swansea) apologise that they haven't had time to pull out the gorse but the weather has been against them and they are hoping to get it done next week.  And if anyone is over 60 and free next Wednesday there is an invite to take part in a study at the Uni. see the message below.  I've taken part in study's before and they are good fun, so if you are interested give them a ring.

Let us hope for a dry day tomorrow afternoon.

We are in the evening post and other news.

We are in the Evening Post today (wednesday 2nd november page 20) 

A bit of Good News! The earth has arrived and has been put in the brick roundabout by the gate so ........ if anyone has some spare daffodil or crocus bulbs then these would be most acceptable and we can plant them in this container.  Also a few members have said that they might have some spare Geranium Plants and I am sure you will agree these would be nice to plant up in the container next year as they are such a cheerful colourful plant.  Anyway, any other ideas would be most welcome as would a volunteer  who can mix a bit of cement so that we can fill in the missing bricks in the container.  I have sand, cement and bricks but I can't make cement, come to think of it I can't make cake either.

All the best

Chris