What to look out for on the Park in January.

 Along Oak Walk, find a Lime tree, and Ash tree and a Horse Chestnut tree. Identify them from their bark and buds.

Lime bark and bud.

Ash bark and bud.

Horse Chestnut bark and bud.

Find areas of molehills. It will be one mole per area of molehills. So how many moles to think we might have on the Park?

Find the old veteran Lime tree which has finally collapsed. Find the mistletoe still growing on one of the live limbs.

Look for signs of rabbits. Find these small holes that they have dug and marked with dung pellets. Look out for areas of dead grass which they marked with pellets and urine. See if you can identify the rabbit trackway across the grassland.

Find places where rabbits have stripped the bark from small fallen branches.

Listen for a Robin singing. Copy the link into your browser to hear a Robin singing on the Park.

https://youtu.be/ZJupAjJOgQc

Find an Elder Tree (look in the top left corner of the dog training enclosure) and look for the first signs of bud burst.