Just a few quick links for interesting blog posts relating to Ashden Awards stuff going on this week:
Pleased that we have this one in the Guardian:
Just a quick note to say that the 2012 Ashden Awards ceremony will be webcast for the first time. To see it, go the Ashden website at 7pm on Wednesday 30 May 2012, and follow the link to view it. The ceremony starts at 7:15pm.
To get an idea of what you'll see, check out the video from 2011:
Bit of a landmark passed in the past few days - the total number of views of all our videos on YouTube have passed one million! Thanks for viewing.... :-)
Here's the top ten since we started....
Cockatiels that think they are eagles: 195,031 views
Nightingales love coppice with a couple of years' growth, as it gives the thick, bushy foliage they like for nesting. They'd not been seen for some years in our woods, so we were delighted to see one in Sweep Wood yesterday, in an area we coppiced just voer two years ago! Here's a video of it singing - you can't see it, but at least you can hear its song.
Almost a year ago we improved our fire pit in the woods by burying a bigger air supply pipe under it:
With the wet weather and general busyness it's been a couple of weeks since we made it to the wood, but today I was up there with a friend and had time to check out this year's bluebells, which are looking as good as ever. Here's a selection...
