Our annual Spring walk will take place on Sunday 23rd April 2017 at 10am. We are very pleased that Daniel Greenwood has agreed to lead the walk again this year. His knowledge of all things wild is infectious (how could he not be a wildlife expert with a surname like that?!). The walk will include Dog … Read more
This weekend is the RSPB’s annual Big Garden Birdwatch and we joined forces with the Friends of Green Dale to do a spot of early morning twitching today. Armed with binoculars, pens, pencils and bird ID books, we headed out into DKH Open Space and Green Dale to record the species we saw from 9am – … Read more
The 2016 AGM was held for the first time at the DKH Adventure Playground next to the wood, on Thursday 27th October from 7pm. We started with a report from the Chair about this year’s activities, which included a winter work day, a spring work day to weed the hedge, a meeting with Sainsburys contractors about … Read more
Last night we realised we hadn’t had a bat walk this year and so a small group of us went out with the bat detectors to see what we could find. We walked round DKH Wood, through Green Dale, down the Green Dale path, along the bottom (via the path that links Green Dale to … Read more
Yesterday seven volunteers gathered in DKH Wood to do some Spring cleaning. We finally tackled the long-overdue task of weeding the hedge that runs along the North side. This had been planted a couple of years ago and some of the whips had grown very tall rather than sprouting into a hedge. When growing a … Read more