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🌳 Friends of Chill Wood 🌳
💚 Community-led, volunteer-powered.
🌿 Protect biodiversity • Rewild with us!
👇 Get involved & make a difference!

08/09/2026

🦇Join us for a Bat Talk & Evening Walk!🦇

Ever wondered what bats are in and around our village? Or why they’re such an important part of our local ecosystem?

Friends of Chill Wood are delighted to welcome Daisy Finniear, Climate & Nature Officer at Frampton Cotterell Parish Council, for an evening all about these fascinating creatures.

We’ll start with a short indoor talk before heading out on a guided evening walk around Iron Acton village and Chill Wood, using bat detectors to pick up high-pitched frequencies emitted by bats when navigating and hunting!

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📅 Tuesday 29th September 🕕 6pm 📍 The White Hart, Iron Acton
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Please wear suitable footwear for walking around the village and in the woods, and bring a torch if you have one.
Whether you already love bats or know very little about them, we’d love to see you there! 💚

03/08/2026

📢 REMINDER: NO FIRES OR BBQS IN CHILL WOOD

This summer has seen some of the worst UK wildfires in years. A significant blaze has torn through ancient pine and broadleaf forest in the Cairngorms, heath and grassland in Suffolk have suffered devastating fires, and fires have swept through woodland and marshland in Essex.

These fires are a stark reminder of just how fragile our green spaces are, and how quickly they can be lost.

The ancient woodland in Chill Wood took centuries to grow. A single spark from a BBQ or fire can spread fast in dry conditions, destroying the vital habitat that birds, insects, reptiles and small mammals depend on.

⚠️ Please continue to enjoy Chill Wood, but do not start a fire or use a BBQ when visiting - these are prohibited in Chill Wood. If you spot a fire, call 999 straight away.

🌳 Let's keep this woodland here for the next generation.

16/07/2026

Want to help to clear Balsam by Chill Wood?
Meet 10am at the Dam. I can vouch that it’s a fun and addictive job pulling it up!
No need to come all day; register and you can join the WhatsApp to find where the group is at the time you are free.

15/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who took part in the citizen science survey, which asked us to record birds visiting our greenspaces - including Chill Wood!

🔎 Submitted records will be analysed to understand just how important these spaces are for local bird populations 🐦‍⬛

Here’s what we recorded in Chill Wood:
✅️ Blackbird
✅️ Black cap
✅️ Blue tit
✅️ Chiff chaff
✅️ Crow
✅️ Great tit
✅️ Great spotted woodpecker
✅️ Green woodpecker
✅️ Goldcrest
✅️ Jackdaw
✅️ Magpie
✅️ Nuthatch
✅️ Robin
✅️ Song thrush
✅️ Woodpigeon
✅️ Wren

👀 What species did you see in Chill Wood? Get in touch!

⏰ And remember - if you haven’t already, please submit your data to the BTO by 31 July 2026 so it can be included in the analysis.

A link to their page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/The.BTO

Happy Birding! 🌳 🕊️

02/05/2026

🔍 Sunday species spotting in the woods 🔎

Last weekend we hosted Chill Wood's first-ever bioblitz, as part of the City Nature Challenge. In this event, cities from around the world compete to map the most species onto the iNaturalist app, and our team of 12 volunteers did their bit for Bristol 💪

David Hanks of Frampton Cotterell Parish Council led us on the trail of a huge range of biodiversity, including:

🌿 Edible and medicinal plants
🌸 Ancient woodland indicator flowers
🪲 Superhero composting beetles
🪜 Cave-clinging climbers

Check the photos in this post for a small selection of the species we found. If you go down to the woods this bank holiday, why not download iNaturalist and see what you can see?

Learn more at https://www.inaturalist.org/

24/04/2026

A reminder to get involved in some amazing data collection opportunities across our parish’s this weekend! ☀️

17/04/2026

📢 We are excited to invite you to join us for a free guided nature walk and bioblitz around Chill Wood! 🌳

David Hanks, Frampton Cotterell Parish Council’s Nature Officer, will be guiding us around Chill Wood to observe and record plants, animals and fungi 🐦‍⬛🌷🐛🍄

📊 Our walk is part of the City Nature Challenge, an annual global event that brings together communities, scientists and land managers to document the wild species living in and around our cities. The aim is simple but powerful: by finding and recording the nature around us, we can better study and protect it.

🗓 We will meet at 10am at Tubbs Bottom Dam on Sunday 26th April.

🌍 Every sighting counts, and together we will be contributing Chill Wood’s wildlife to a worldwide dataset. We look forward to seeing you there!

08/04/2026

🎉 Exciting News!! 🐦‍⬛

has launched its latest citizen-science survey on which birds visit greenspaces… and Chill Wood is on the project map! 🙌

📝 Sign up to their Birds in Greenspaces survey at https://www.bto.org/greenspaces

🌳 Visit Chill Wood and other local greenspaces listed on the project map, then simply record which birds you see and how many!

💫 Data collected by you will help the BTO understand just how important greenspaces are for birds, and people, shaping future management practices.

This interactive survey is open to ALL skill levels and ages - so get out there and help us show off this amazing habitat! ☀️

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