Football Container

Over the last few days FOTP and Geraint Thomas a coach for the Pontarddulais FC juniors have been in discussion over what colour to paint the white container at the side of the football changing rooms.
A professional painter has now been found and hopefully he will start work within the next 2 weeks.

The container in it's current condition.

How it will look.

Images taken and obtained with kind permission from Geraint Thomas.

Friday 27th January News

Today Gareth Davies a Community Development Officer  and Helen Grey a Countryside Connections Officer came to the park to meet us and to discuss us putting in for a grant  for the Ecology Survey which needs to be done before we can start work tidying up the old Boating Lake.
Five members of FOTP turned up to meet them and to guide them around the park.


As FOTP members we showed them the lie of the land and what our long term plans for the park and woodland areas were. And we are pleased to say that we have their support and will be working very closely with them in the future, as there is a lot of GRANT money out there and they can help guide us in the right direction to obtain some.

                              WILDLIFE NEWS


While on our walk around the park we noticed that 2 mallard ducks have made the lake their home which is great news and we also observed that a blue tit was using one of the newly installed bird boxes by the swings. Unfortunately we could not obtain any images of these events as my camera lens was not long enough for me to keep a good distance from them and not disturb the birds. 

Pointing out the park boundaries.

Win (left) Gareth (middle) Viv (right)

Viv explaining to Gareth that the car park was once part of the lake.

Helen joins in the discussion.

Another bright glorious morning around the 2nd woods.

Standing at the lake edge. (NOT HAVING A PEE!)

The lake.

Saturday 21st January Workday

Our 1st workday of the year was disrupted by the unpredictable weather, so only 4 of us (including our regular photographer) turned up to move some of the leave mulch from the rugby club car park to the area at the bottom of the football field where we have planted a line of trees.
There will be another unofficial session tomorrow just to remove some of the piles of rubble around the trees (Sunday 22nd From 10am again weather permitting.)
We will be meeting by the entrance to the bowls green if you would care to lend a hand for an hour or so.

Martin proudly shows off his 1st load (see he has got his hands dirty......AT LAST!)

But struggled to move it 2 meters (He should stick to photography :-)

Please do not remove the logs as they are reused in the park and are the property of Swansea City Council

Image Gallery

We are now on flickr.

Please Click on the link below to follow the photostream.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsofcoedbachpark/

Or click on.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsofcoedbachpark/sets/

Also here is a link to Keep Wales Tidy Photostream.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keep_wales_tidy/sets/

Saturday 21st January Clearance

Just to let you all know that on Saturday 21st January a few members of FOTP will be doing some clearance work in the woods by the tennis courts. If you would like to lend a hand then someone should be there from about 10am until 2pm.
Weather permitting.

Reminder of January Meeting

 We are having our meeting a week early on the 19th January at 7.30 at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club all welcome.

17 January 2012 Bird Box

The 1st of the Bird boxes is places on the trees.
We would like to thank the lads (Owen and Jimmy) for their efforts as this is a very physically demanding job.
If you see them around the park feel free to offer them some carbohydrates, I am sure they would appreciate it :-)  as they need to keep their energy levels up.

Getting the ropes around the tree

Beginning to climb

1 always gets the easy job :-)

The 1st box

Nearly there.

Another box ready to go

Please note that the trees and any cut wood is the property of Swansea City Council and removal or cutting of trees is a criminal offense.
And the use of  unlicensed chainsaws or hand saws is considered a criminal offense

17 January 2012 Rotten Trees removal

We are happy to announce that at long last our bird boxes are finally being put up.
For the next 2 weeks a team will be working on the trees in the park making them safe and getting rid of any rotten ones.

Ready to be chipped 2 rotten trees

Rotten to the core.

Please note that the trees and any cut wood is the property of Swansea City Council and removal or cutting of trees is a criminal offense.
And the use of unlicensed chainsaws or hand saws is considered a criminal offense.

Park update

On the 5th November 2011 we had a Chat and Chop session in the park, During this session we placed some plants in the roundabout by the rugby club car park.

In the last few weeks these new additions have started to flower......Let us hope they survive the frost.

January Meeting

 

Happy New Year to all.

 

A big thank you to Martin for doing the minutes of the November meeting If you would like a copy please send an email (The address is on the right hand side of the screen.)

 

Please note we are having our meeting a week early on the 19th January at 7.30 at the Pontarddulais Cricket Club and we hope you can make it.