Woodland Walk

Hi all, Caspian is back,

Yesterday I accidentally forgot to do my blog, sorry about that.  Even though that means I have more in store for you today! Yesterday, my family and I went out on a long secluded walk – it was near home and no one else was about thankfully as we are shielding due to Mum and Mark being in the high risk group. I went a little mad while walking in the forest and got Mum to do a photo shoot for me! All my pics are in the blog.  Here is a list of things we learnt while we were out on our walk.

We learnt about tree ring dating. It is called dendrochronology and is used to age artefacts in archaeology. It doesn’t apply to tropical trees but it does on British ones.

We did some tree identification. There were some ancient oaks and beeches along the forest walk but also some very young ones.

We did an animal den seek and search. I found two fox dens – one was inhabited (you could tell by the debris at the entrance and the nature of the hole), the other had not been lived in for a long time. We also found a rabbit warren. We also saw some very cute sleeping baby blackbirds in a nesting box.

We saw Sam and Sevi from the road and we shouted hello. Tanith couldn’t see them so Mark put her on his shoulders!

Today, I continued work on my beastiary. I have been writing down my animals powers, strengths and weaknesses.

Mum made some brilliant bread and a spaghetti-sausage casserole.

See ya!

PS Sorry but the photos won’t rotate.