This Sunday morning task at Cuckoo Park was the last of this May's Wildlife Surveys in Ealing Tiny Forests. Steph and Kash introduced Andrew and his girlfriend Debbie to the nitty-gritty of scouring the area for insects, and then everyone launched into... deep focus.

🦋 Debbie, not discouraged by the stories of previous butterfly surveys' findings, spent 15 minutes with her eyes peeled for the colourful wings, yet the final butterfly count this year remained zero!
🐜 Steph taught Andrew the ways of the underworld - in other words: the world of ground dwellers. The duo spotted plenty of ants and larvae under the biodiversity tiles. Interestingly, two of the tiles seemed to be misplaced. Foxes?
🐝 Kash found a small patch of flowers at the edge of the Tiny Forest and observed it closely - as a result, she recorded two bumblebees and a fly in her pollinator survey.
🚮 Steph, always ready for a spontaneous litter pick, at the sight of rubbish at the Tiny Forest, pulled out his foldable picker and a rubbish bag, then did a litter blitz around the site. It looks like the wooden benches in the "classroom" area attract not only the lovers of nature but the fans of Coors beer as well!

The community mission concluded the Wildlife Survey this season. We will return to Cuckoo Park in the future to see how the biodiversity develops over time. In the meantime, we'll surely pop in with measuring tapes to help scientists calculate Tiny Forest's trees' capacity to store carbon.