The next meeting is on Tuesday 22nd to the Woodfield Green Triangle rewilding site.

Meet at 1.30 p.m.  in Morrison’s (Balby) Supermarket car park, gathering outside the Laundry machines behind the Garden Centre (Grid ref. SE579 005  Post Code DN4 5JP).

To monitor a former golf course, which now includes lake, over-mature boundary trees & patchworks of developing habitats. Surrounded by new urban developments, the site is a focus for local biodiversity and acts as a ‘Green Lung’ in an otherwise built environment.

The leaders are Colin Howes & Nora Boyle.

We shall follow the main path network (some of it tarmacked!) around the artificial (designer) lake and north up towards the rear of the Astrea Academy Woodfield.

The area consists of ‘wilded’ farm land and one-time recreation grounds surrounded by mature and over-mature boundary Poplar trees. There is a good range of shrubs, tall ruderals and aquatics. To date there has been no natural history survey so all records are going to be useful and there may be a good range of plant galls to add. The pond has produced Common Terns, Cetti’s Warbler and migrating House Martins and Doncaster’s first wild record of Water Lettuce Pistia stratiotes.

Duration of meeting is dependant on the weather and what we find to observe.

Being adjacent to Morrisons, it is convenient for shopping, refreshments and toilets.