Field Notes: Autumn tasks at Glenlude

Glenlude Conservation Officer Ellie Oakley gets ready for the first planting event after the summer and is looking forward to getting some trees in the ground.

I went up the hill at Glenlude to prepare for a tree planting event in The Green Team Wildwood.  This involvled carrying up over 200 trees and the kit for 30 or so staff, trustees and young people from The Green Team who were coming along to celebrate the organisation's 30th anniversary of connecting Edinburgh's young people with nature.  

^ A stunning autumn day on Glenlude Hill looking over towards Innerleithen.

Our partnership with The Green Team is now 10 years old, and the trees they planted back then are becoming well established and now producing a seed source for natural regeneration.

Our plan is to plant up some of the gaps to create a multi-level, multi-aged woodland for wildlife - like the coal tit I spotted, pictured below.

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