May 5th. Glorious sunshine, 20 c degrees. Violets and Pink Purslane are flowering. Ash tree in flower. 

May 2nd. Thunder, lightning, hailstones and a downpour.

April 29th. Two red squirrels seen About 9 a.m. at opposite at North and South, extremes of Woodhead wood.

April 25th. Swallows are back. Hooray. Camera's now in situ. and linked to recording media.

April 21st. Visit to Windyhills by Petra  Vergunst, who is writing an article about Woodhead and Windyhills Community Trust, for the Green Diary.  Petra is self employed and her aim is to inspire, inform and otherwise support rural community groups in Grampian through writing about rural community
development, holding public talks, facilitating community discussions and community-based research.

The book I am planning to write this
summer, is about rural community groups who are developing their community assets.

Good luck with your work for Woodhead and Windyhills Community Trust

April 13th. A Heron now a regular caller at the pond. Two pairs of Yellow Hammers close by.

April. 7th. Easter holidays over and more snow and cold windy wet weather. Dvd and talk given at Kinbroon Day Care Centre, Rothienorman. No bird feeders allowed there.

 Woodhead School pupils 1928 approximately. Photo received from Betty Kelman. A few pupils have been identified including Betty Cruickshank and Vi and Hazel Pratt.

April 1st. Visit to Ellon British Legion, ladies section. Dvd of creepy crawlies is not so popular with townsfolk. They admitted they preferred not to have beasties in their gardens.

March 26th. Snow clearing slowly. Plenty tracks to be seen. A flock of 25 Curlews in Field next Community Centre and also a  pair of Lapwings and Oyster Catchers.

Measuring the boundaries at Sunnybrae.

March 18th. Film show of Flowers and wildlife found at Woodhead shown to Insch meadows community group. The group are planning to create a wild flower meadow, pond and picnic area at a site in the village of Insch.

15th March. Attended the Nesbrec Forum at Aberdeen and requested help for a Red Squirrel survey at Windyhills.

 March 8th. Happy to help with the tidying up after the coffee morning. Lynn, Rosemary, Sue, Isobel, Leon and Ian.

March 8th. Thanks to the fine home baking donated,  the visitors at todays coffee morning enjoyed a fine treat. Flower seeds have been sown for the plant sale at the end of May and to help enhance the summer displays in the village. Pictures of recent events, flora and fauna were displayed in the community centre.

7th March. Lots of clumps of frog spawn in the pond.

Feb. 25th. The sun shone for the squad of rubbish removers who spend the morning clearing the Birchwood area of litter. A job well done. Many thanks to everyone who helped. Many hands --

Feb. 9th. Fyvie Brownies with leader, Lyn Cleaver, spent the morning watching the birds from a room converted into a bird hide. The windows were covered with sheets of newspaper and slits were made at the appropriate height for lots of pairs of eyes to watch the birds without disturbing them, the birds, at the feeders. Blue tits, Coaltits, Great tits, Robin, Dunnock, House Sparrow and Tree Sparrow, Starling, Crow, Chaffinch, Greenfinch and Goldfinch were all spotted.  The birds favourite foods were peanuts in hanging feeders and oatmeal mixed with cooking oil and assorted seeds for the ground feeders.

Feb 8th. First flowers on the Hazel trees are out. Very few, tiny red styles protruding, close to stem of twig.

 Please send me your photographs of the flora and fauna for adding to the collection. Lizards have been spotted by three different people during the hotter days in spring and summer but so far nobody has managed to photograph them.

 Look out for the first flowers of the Hazel tree, Tiny red florets sprouting along the edge of the twigs.

Jan. 2008.  Touch of Frost for New Year's Day. Otherwise everything very peaceful and quiet. Very little traffic. The first unusual bird of the year was a Grey Wagtail. It has a yellow underside and grey-blue back. Mostly a summer bird in this area.