Moth Survey Last weekend was a busy time for members of the Community Woodland Group. It all started during the evening of Friday the 5th September when Mary Eagleson who is Moth Recorder for the Butterfly Conservation in this area, joined four members of the Woodland Group to set up two moth traps, one at […]

A new month and a new Clean-Up day in the Community Woodland. Saturday 2nd August saw a few members of the community along with two grandchildren, of a volunteer, starting to clear the overgrown patch of ground in Birch Drive. This was an area left behind after the builders finished the estate, and it was […]

On Saturday morning the 5th July, ten local volunteers from Maryburgh were in the community woodland carrying out the regular clean-up of the area for the benefit of everyone in the village. Again, the maintenance plan guidelines were followed to remove the invasive non-native Beech saplings from the woodland. In June, following the maintenance plan, […]

Do you have old tools hiding away in your shed or garage? Maryburgh Community Woodland Group’s volunteers could give your old tools a new life, helping to care for your community woodland! We’re looking for garden tools for sawing, chopping, lopping, pruning and digging: Secateurs Loppers Bowsaws Pruning saws Mattocks/picks Spades If you have any […]

Tuesday evening, 17th June 2025 people from Maryburgh Community gathered in the open green space in Birch Drive for the first Den Building Competition organised by members of the Maryburgh Community Woodland Group as part of the Maryburgh Gala 2025. Young and not so young people gathered to take part, building dens of all styles […]

At the beginning of June the volunteers were out again maintaining the community woodland for the benefit of everyone in the village. Following our maintenance plan guidelines, ten volunteers and 2 younger members of the community continued to remove the Beech saplings from compartment 5. Within a short while, many of the Beech saplings covering […]

The Community Woodland group ran a Spring Plant Hunt last Saturday (31 May).  At the start we made sure that all the people who would be recording observations had the app iNaturalist installed on their phones and that they could carry out an observation.  As the app is so easy to use we started to […]

The start of another month and the volunteers were out again maintaining the community woodland for the benefit of everyone in the village. Following our maintenance plan guidelines, ten volunteers continued to remove the Beech saplings from compartment 4. Within a short while, many of the Beech saplings coving this area had been removed and […]

Just before 9:00 am on Saturday 19th April, the message was sent to our members that it looks like the weather was starting to break along the coast, and we would get at least a little time without rain today. Six members of the Woodland Community Group made their way to the meeting place in […]

Reduction in Rhododendron ponticum Four months into the year and the group of volunteers were out again clearing the community woodland of invasive non-native trees and plants. Nine adults and a younger member of the Maryburgh community took part in the removal of beech trees and the Rhododendron ponticum at the southern corner of the woodland. […]