Parklands Junior School Nature Diary

The nature trail people continued to help clean up the nature trail and fill up the pond with water to help our teachers.We also collected sticks and pulled out goose grass.

3 mallard ducks paid a flying visit to the school this morning.

Work began today on clearing some of the overgrown trail. Although we aim to let nature take its course in most cases, a little bit of help is needed to stop one or two plants swamping the whole area. Today we concentrated on clearing the path and removing a lot of the Goosegrass that is covering the plants.

Mr Bezuidenhout examines the underside of an old log. There were plenty of woodlice and white lipped snails hiding under it.

The installation of the new guard rail at the nature pond gave us the opportunity to have a closer look at the wild life in the pond. We spotted at least 6 frogs and 3 smooth newts this lunch time.

 Green Alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens) was first seen in flower on April 2nd. Click on the picture for a larger image. Links to more information about this plant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_alkanet
http://www.english-country-garden.com/flowers/green-alkanet.htm

 Can you identify this plant? A prize for the first correct answer sent to Mr Johnson.

We hope to keep a photo diary of our nature trail.