Wild at Night
There are opportunities to see wildlife at night from your house or in your garden if you have one. You could set insect and moth traps ready to see next morning, or just to stand and stair at the sky at night. If you’re missing camping, have you tried camping out in your garden?
TRAP DOOR – Bournville Virtual Forest School
“Have you ever wondered what happens in your garden at night when you’re asleep or when you’re out and about playing? Find out what mini beasts live and move around your garden by making a trap door!
Dig a hole and place a plastic container into the ground. This should be level with the surface. Then put one or two leaves in it. Finally, find a board and cover it over. You might want to decorate your board. I called mine “Trap Door” and drew a spider on it!
Leave the container loosely covered overnight and see in the morning who has been in your garden. You can print off the bug sheet and record your findings!
Please post pictures and photos of what you find, l would love to see them!” Active Communities Going Wild #WildTogether
Ranger Dean
In the early hours of Wednesday 8th April it was a super moon, meaning on Tuesday evening we had the chance to see a full moon rise at the nearest point the moon will be to the earth this year – a ‘Supermoon’ appears bigger and brighter than normal and our challenge on that day was to see the moon.
The moon, like the sun, rises in the east travelling wet but is at different points during the night. On different evenings you may get opportunities to see different planets, meteor showers, moon eclipses – for a guide to what you might see, try online resources like What you can see this month.