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Be a tourist

Visit your sit spot and imagine you are arriving there for the very first time, as a tourist.

The weasel walk

Walk like a weasel by keeping your body low over bent thighs and knees.

Making a leaf habitat

In autumn, allowing three to four hours for the build, drive four wooden stakes into the ground in a square, about ninety centimetres apart.

Bioblitz

Gather the learners and split them into smaller groups.

Building & positioning a swift home

Cut your timber to size following a nest box plan, then drill or cut an entrance hole in the front piece, which measures two hundred millimetres by one hundred and fifty millimetres wide, with the hol

Field guide 5

Gather field guides covering an area that interests you, such as poisonous, medicinal or edible plants and trees, or those used in natural crafts.

Using a sweep net

Hold the sweep net by its handle and walk slowly through long grass or low vegetation, swinging the net from side to side in a figure of eight motion, letting the rim brush through the tops of the pla

Nature names

Gather the learners in a circle and pass around a natural container filled with wooden cookies, each marked with the name of a UK mammal, such as red fox, roe deer, badger, stoat, hedgehog, rabbit, gr

Woodland layers

Stand at the edge of a woodland and look up, identifying the different layers of vegetation from the ground upward, the woodland floor, the field layer of low plants, the shrub layer of bushes and you

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