February and march news and celebrations

So much to celebrate that's happened at the Common in the last two months, we haven't had time to update!

Your Park Volunteer Awards
Dylan Peters, who is our local ecologist and champion of the Common's wildlife, and Lucy Haslam, FOHC's Co-Ordinator, were nominated for Your Park Volunteer Awards - with Dylan winning Young Adult Volunteer of the Year! Well done, Dylan - so very much deserved for all your hard work!!
(Image from Your Park and more info can be found here at Your Park's site)

Horfield Common Wildlife Pond
The pond is flourishing! As of April, we're seeing frogspawn, newts and even the calls of toads, so it's wonderful to see that the work restoring the pond has been so successful already!

Hedgelaying
Joe Aslett and his team, from Parks, have been really kind in undertaking the hedgelaying of the bush to the right of the pond. This lets in more light to the pond, as well as creating a more dense hedge that is great for wildlife. Thank you to them for supporting us with your time, skills and support with extra saplings!
We had previously planned for this to be a volunteer activity but due to time constraints and snow, we had to plunge ahead. More hedgelaying of other areas will be arranged in future instead.
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Sign
We have put up a rope and sign to please stay off the mud banks for now, to allow them to recover further.

Bulb planting from October
It's wonderful to see the daffodil bulbs we planted at the Common, by the car park and the traffic lights, bursting out! Not quite as many in full bloom as you'd like, but some we planted in 2022 were similar and took a year to settle and show their colours. A promising start and thanks to everyone who joined in to plant them last year!