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Enjoy Leafield's Community Woodland on Fairspear Road. Visit our website at www.leafieldwoodlands.co.uk. Join our work parties and events.
NEWS - "LEAFIELD WILDLIFE" PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION: 56 beautiful photographs were entered for our competition "Leafield Wildlfe" and displayed at the Forest Fair. Congratulations to our photographic competition winners! Thea Waters won the under 18 section with her landscape, showing Leafield’s rooftops silhouetted against an evening sky; she received a signed wildlife photo taken by our judge John Brown and a leather bound photograph album. Our over 18 prize-winner, Simon Bentley, won a signed wildlife photo and a £20 book token for his dramatic image of an exuberant cock pheasant, whirring its wings and showing off its handsome plumage. Four competitors were highly commended and also received signed wildlife photos: David Burton for “Dancing Butterflies”, a pair of male speckled woods competing for a sunny spot in our own community woodland; Melanie Burton for a fledgling blue tit perched on a stone in her garden; John Woolliams for his group of male common frogs amongst spawn in his garden pond; and Joode Weinhold for her brimstone butterfly resting on a colourful pea flower outside her cottage. Many thanks to John Brown for judging our competition and donating some of his own beautiful photographs.
WOODLAND WORKPARTIES: 11am-1pm, 2nd Sunday of every month. We will meet at the Community Woodland, on the second Sunday of every month (weather permitting), for regular woodland maintenance - helpers are very welcome, even for a short time. Our next Woodland Workparty is on Sunday 14th December 2008. WOODLAND WORKPARTY DIARY - 14th September 2008: 12 adults and children volunteered for our first Woodland Workparty on Sunday 14th September, 2008. We chatted and enjoyed the exercise on a lovely sunny day, while scything nettles, varnishing the notice board, planting scabious in the wild flower patch and sawing up branches. We also appreciated the hot coffee and chocolate cake, and a chance to sit down and enjoy the view from the glade. Sunday 12th October 2008: Autumn mist gave way to bright sunshine as 13 adults and children sawed fallen ash branches and planted native bluebells, grown from seed. Sunday 9th November 2008: 8 adults and teenagers cut a second crop of hazel poles from the coppice. We cut the centre third of bushes to the ground, carefully avoiding our newly planted bluebell bulbs, as the brash was laid between alternate rows of stumps. We started to trim the cut branches, sorting them for use as stakes and binders by the Wychwood hedge-laying group. We plan to continue preparing stakes and binders for the Wychwood Project during informal workparties and our next Woodland Workparty on 14th December.
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