A Really Wild Walk

On a beautiful day we walked out to Gainsborough Square to find out more from Eric (Lockleaze Community Ecologist) about what local residents have achieved with the Really Wild Lockleaze Project. We also talked about how global warming and the dry spring has affected the growth of the latest meadow planting on the square. We followed the Field Stories sculpture trail, which you can do too!

We started at the totem pole on the Square, listening to some of the Field Stories - local children describing their early connections with nature. The stories were so sweet. We learnt more about the Field Stories art project and that the children had also provided the artwork that is chiselled into the totem poles - with a seat shaped like the butterflies that each pole is dedicated to. 

On Thorneycroft we enjoyed the beautiful Ox Eye daisies that had been grown and spotted a variety of other butterflies and insects also enjoying them. The Field Stories here were more from older residents talking.

We then went to the last totem behind Lockleaze Sports Centre, stopping to take in the view of the pond that has been created and the many birds feeding on the insect life living there.

We learnt so much about nature in general and now have a much better appreciation of what we see as well as the climate action work that has been done and loved hearing the voices of local people.

"We learnt how to treat Nature and how to look for different plants - things that I thought were weeds but in actual fact they attract different animal users"

“It is surprising what you can see when you stop and look for a while rather that just walking past areas that you think that you know.”