The Hakeford Woods Forest School Blog will be updated as we progress towards opening our Forest School site in a beautiful North Devon valley. By September 2015 we hope to be starting a program of regular Forest School sessions for groups of children and adults.

Tuesday 17 February 2015

Frogspawn, nestboxes and muddy feet

Just back from a great family visit to Hakeford Woods today. We're looking after a lovely dog for some friends this week, so we knew that she'd enjoy the space and smells, but we also had some important business to attend to.
Our youngest son Louis had been fascinated by the frogspawn at Arlington Court yesterday and we promised him that we would get some so he can watch the tadpoles growing at home. I'd spotted some last time I visited, so we collected a bit of it and have made it clear that the baby frogs will go back when they've grown.
I've recently been  building some nestboxes and as it's nestbox week I thought I'd better get them finished and put up. I put the 5 boxes up in trees around the riverside meadow, need to make some more to put around the rest of the site now! I'd also like to build a barn owl box as there's a perfectly positioned oak overlooking the first meadow.
We all had a great walk, saw loads of buzzards flying overhead, nearly lost the dog and Ezra our eldest son ended up with a muddy foot after his welly stayed in the mud when he kept walking! Need to get some more wood for nestboxes now, oh and get my handbook finished!


Nestboxes built and ready to go!

Helpful children!


Wren box in the Hazel
The pond and a couple of nestboxes if you look hard enough
Nibbled cherry stones
Beautiful snowdrops
A mass of frogspawn
Happy boys

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