Met up in Castle Park to carry out another monthly bumblebee survey for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust. Lots of new flowers in bloom, and plenty of solitary bees buzzing about, but not that many bumblebees this time. All data will be uploaded to the BBCT website for their UK wide data set. If you'd like to get involved, set up your own transect near where you live, to contribute to this vital citizen science project, or join us next month.

Three goodgymers met up in Castle Park to count bumblebees for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust's citizen science project. Bumblebees start emerging from hibernation around now, so we weren't expecting to see very much, especially as there isn't much in bloom yet, but much to our surprise, there were busy bumblebees in several sections of the route! We identified some queen buff-tailed bees, a few common carders, and even some worker white tails, which we will be recording on the BBCT website later. Congratulations to Luke on his first goodgym good deed, and for spotting so many bees. 🐝 🐝 🐝

Three litter picking goodgym ninjas swept along Cowdray avenue hunting out litter this evening. The usual suspects - food wrappers, macdonalds cups and drinks cans were bagged up and left for collection by the council. Well done everyone!

A brisk circuit around Cowdray avenue area, trying to stick to the better lit parts, to be able to find the litter. Unfortunately, anything that glistens has a strong chance of being a wet leaf, and often is! However, due to bags of tenacity and determination we managed to fill four sacks. Well done everyone! It became mighty chilly, so we bid farewell to the cyclists, and headed home. Thanks for the chats, see you next time!

Six bags of tree sleeves and lots of wooden poles removed from trees who no longer need them.

Two heavy bags of litter collected by two goodgymers.