On the second weekend of Tiny Forest's Tree Survey, Kash and Sevan found themselves on the opposite side of the borough to last Sunday. They were joined by Steph to see how the Tiny Forest at Southall Recreation Ground would measure up.

It was the third visit by GoodGym Ealing to this site, after the initial planting, then an insect survey 5 months ago. Today, the tree-o were on the hunt for trees that were showing off their metal tags and blue plastic bands, as their health and size was to be reported on. The only problem being... they could only find a handful of tagged trees.

Steph and Kash had some success finding tagged trees on the northern end, while Sevan walked around the southern half of the Tiny Forest, looking under weeds to the bottom of the tree trunks, without finding any at all. Finally, a breakthrough, after a bit of digging, they found that the tags had been heavily mulched over and would need to be dug out. Trees were then individually checked for buried tags, which was pretty slow going.

The feedback asked whether each tree was dead (thankfully none were), it's height, number of stems and thickness of the trunk. Measuring tapes and rulers were in demand as each tree's vital statistics were recorded for a variety of species, such as oak, gorse and cherry, which will help Tiny Forest in understanding the health of this site.