Creating banks for bees!

Our habitat creation day at Fallin Bing on Tuesday this week was a great success with 14 volunteers from The Conservation Volunteers and the Green Gym coming along to help clear birch scrub from along the pathways and also create 2 bee banks. We were lucky as the sun was out and the rain clouds held off!

Before the area was cleared of birch scrub....

....and after.

When we arrived at site we decided to focus on clearing the birch scrub. After lunch, when the Green Gym turned up we split the group into two. Part of the group carried on with clearing scrub and the rest went to create a couple of bee banks. The banks add a topographical interest to the relatively flat slopes of the bing. They will be perfect for warmth loving invertebrate species such as ground beetles and spiders and also butterflies that like these areas for basking.

Volunteers creating the bee bank.

There was lots of wildlife out and about including Pink footed geese flying overhead. Fungi were growing up everywhere including this beautiful purple mushroom seen in the photo below.

A beautiful purple mushroom at Fallin.

This is the last of the habitat creation days this year but we will be back at Fallin next year to run some more bug walks as well as other activities- so look out for more information on the blog.