There were quite a few cars at Minnowburn today. We brought a flask of tea, some fruit and Tunnock's Teacakes with us. I walked up the steep steps to the Rose Garden, to have a look at the adjacent field where we had planted some saplings several weeks ago. All present and correct. I encountered a fellow-volunteer, Richard, whilst strolling about; it's the second time within three days that we have met.
We had our snack in the car and drove on to Malone House; thence we motored on to Belvoir Park Forest. We parked opposite the bird and squirrel feeder and were entertained for an hour by three grey squirrels performing acrobatics whilst munching nuts! Abundant great tits, magpies, hooded crows, robins, coal tits, blue tits, blackbirds, a lovely jay and two big rats.
I ambled over to the former caravan site, now sadly neglected and closed down. Hopefully they'll have second thoughts and re-open it soon. The infrastructure is there, so it wouldn't be hard. They'd need a proper toilet block, which could be used by all visitors to the park.
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