Nest Box Making

Well, in the National Nest Box week we have an event on Saturday 21st.February. Members arrive 10.00am.,
public in at 10.30am. Venue: Holy Trinity Community Hall up Tatton Street in Colne. Adults £!.00p admission to include lucky number ticket and cupof tea/coffee and cake. Children free and will get squash/biccies .
We shall have items for sale to raise funds (Albert & Sue have done a splendid job) .Also on loop will be a film of the Tree Dressing ceremony held a little while ago.There are 12 bird and bat box kits to be made up. Bird boxes to take home will be £4.00p to cover outlay.
JUNIOR RANGERS CLUB We've decided to hold this on the last Saturday of each month to co-incide with our monthly litter pick. For February 28th we shall be making POOTERS and hopefully learning to use them. So if anyone wants to know what a pooter is, come along and find out ! WE all meet at the LNR Car Park at 10.30am
Hot drinks etc available afterwards.
Our next GENERAL MEETING is on Thursday 26th. February at Crown Hotel 7.30pm in back of Restaurant
Please support.

Hello everyone in 2009.
Friends of Greenfield have been fairly busy in the last couple of months.
Two litter picks have been done and we collected far too much rubbish. I say that because it shouldn't have been there in the first place! We got some good publicity in Colne Times, so let's hope the message gets to people in the local community.
Albert did a splendid dog poo poster and doggedly(oops no pun intended) puts up posters as they get torn down by vandals.
The Tree Walk and Tree Dressing Ceremony went very well in spite of a rainy morning. 14 including 5 children attended. Thanks to Alison Plackett for her very informative leading of the walk.
Plans for the coming months. We've ordered some genuine English Bluebells and when they come will need planting.
Regular litterpicks will be on the last Saturday of each month commencing at 10.30am.
Saturday February 21st sees us at Holy Trinity Community Centre, Tatton Street, Colne with a Bird and Bat box making morning. Also Refreshements will be served. Adults will pay £1.00 to come in and for that will get a cup of tea/coffee with a piece of cake plus a lucky draw number on their ticket.Children in free and a squash & biscuit free. So why not come along and try your hand at Nest box making.Members please contribute, cakes, buns or traybakes even if you can't be there. Let me know on 01282 859745 and I will arrange collection.
We also hope to plant a bird friendly/ flytipper unfriendly hedge along the edge of the car park by the fence .There are improvements afoot with Rob Janusewski of PEAG and we will know more later.
Come Spring we shall have to pull some of the young Indian Balsam plants, even though we may be unpopular with the Beekeepers ( of which I am one). Bees love it and it extends their foraging season.That's it for now folks. Keep supporting Greenfield LNR.