And Den we took it down!

8 Goodgymers helped their local community in Barnet
Beattie
Rachel Melinek
Cloud
Karen
Moya Malekin
Theodore Smith
Jyothsna Sastry
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Barnet

Tuesday 13th June 2023

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7 Goodgymers set off on a warm sunny evening running to Highgate woods, to meet up with an 8th Karen. Our task was to hunt for dens to dismantle! Having been instructed by the ranger on a previous session, we knew to look out for wood propped up, which drys it out instead of allowing it to rot down nicely and provide habitat for insects.
We set off, with Niki and Cloud proving to be super spotters! We quickly got to work dismantling, and laying out the wood to provide protective barriers to stop people trampling too far, and we also got to finish a dismantling job from the last session and add to a pathway we'd made. See if you can spot the 'den' before and after shot in the photos. Beattie and Rachel got the prize for carrying the largest branch of the day!
Whilst we were there we also carried out a bit of citizen science using the Cornell bird i.d app, to track what birds were about that evening. In a short space of time we found the Eurasian Blackbird, Eurasian Nuthatch, Eurasian Wren, and the European Robin (who was most interested in our work!). A nice run back in the evening sunlight topped off the session.


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Highgate Woods
Help the ranger look after the woods.

Highgate Wood is 28 hectares of ancient woodland in North London

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Paul Salman

Wed 14th Jun 2023 at 7:24am

Excellent report & congratulations on leading your first group run!

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Cloud (She/Her)

Wed 14th Jun 2023 at 7:50am

Great session yesterday, thanks for leading it @moya!

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