The Nature Trail
The Glamis Castle Nature Trail is relatively under sold in terms of making the public aware of what plants and animals make their home in it. There is no signage present on the location and the entrances and paths through the area are not particularly well marked. The frustrating thing about this is that it is a very beautiful area with a lot of potential. The Nature trail is the first area we are looking to develop at Glamis.
Below you will be able to see how each area looked at the start of the week and what we have managed to do so far this week.
The pictures above show the hide area at the start of the week (left) and at the end of the week (right). We have removed the fallen branch from the feeder tree (right of photo) and excavated the old tree stump directly in front of the hide building. This old stump will form the base for a new bird table, also in this area on completion we will have an increase number of fruit bearing trees, squirrel feeders for the resident red squirrels and some more plant life to increase insect activity.
The pictures above show the discreet path that is being constructed into the back of the hide. The top picture shows what the area was like before and the bottom shows how much we have cleared over Thursday and Friday this week. In the bottom picture you can just make out the top of the hide building on the left of the photo.
As you can see we are making progress already. The difficulty is splitting time between grounds work and conservation work. I am hoping to get about 2 days a week to work on the conservation side of things however some weeks this wont be possible due to work needing to be done to the aesthetics of the castle grounds.
I hope that some people out there find an interest in this project and feel free to comment or contact me with any questions about what we are trying to achieve here.
The work goes on....
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