This Sunday's late afternoon session at Southall's Tiny Forest was a part of the Wildlife Survey that takes place each year in May. After Saturday's surveys in Acton and Hanger Hill, we noticed that each new session brought more GoodGymers involved. Today we even had a guest from GoodGym Hounslow, Pezh!

Pezh joined Sevan and Kash and Steph, a trio who stuck with each other for four GoodGym tasks that day: running, walking, bramble & balsam bashing, woodchipping, and, of course, drinking coffee - what else would keep them going today!

💔 Sevan, who hadn't stopped believing in butterflies, conducted a third butterfly count this weekend - again, with zero butterflies recorded. Those butterflies are surely breaking records (in a no-show category) - and Sevan's heart!
🪰 Kash tried her luck with the pollinator survey - spotting a few flies, a bumblebee and a honeybee
🐜 Pezh and Steph had probably the most luck, uncovering a lot of wildlife in their ground dweller survey, particularly ants and larvae! Steph said the survey did not even allow him to enter as many ants as he and Pezh estimated under one of the tiles - over 50!
🚮 A true GoodGymer never says no to doing an extra good deed! Sevan made a makeshift rubbish bag out of a bakery packaging he had found in the Tiny Forest and conducted a Tiny Litter Pick. He was more successful in that than his earlier survey and uncovered the uncomfortable truth - Southall Tiny Forest was attracting more litter than butterflies!

We are not done with the wildlife surveys in Ealing, oh no! One more is coming in a week's time at Cuckoo Park and we hope to see you there!