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A sunny day and a walk in the woods! What’s not to like?

Just four litter-picking volunteers today – but all skilled and three of them able-bodied!

It’s Spring! Someone’s come well-prepared for multiple sessions!

Our keen volunteers dealt with the litter and sexual debris both sides of the car park, eventually returning with multiple full sacks. We’ve added some extra rubbish sacks to an area being more frequently used for crusing than before.

Then time for a break, refreshments and a bit of a chat.

Time to be off for more litter-collecting, dealing with areas further away. Someone seems to have misinterpreted the ‘bring some poppers’ message!

Then back to base one more time, with the sacks being placed on the road for collection. Today’s haul equates to 22 of our standard size rubbish sacks.

In the last month our brilliant ‘solo’ volunteers have been out and about regularly. The equivalent of 41 standard-size sacks collected by them. Giving a grand total of 63 sacks of litter in just over a month. Amazing!

 Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.

No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.

A great day for litterpicking and a good team of five volunteers to do it.

 Safety briefing over we headed off in two teams.

Although much of the area has been cleared of vegetation we OWLs know where to look!

Whether it’s in the bin or on the ground it gets collected. (such a pity that some guys can’t see that there’s a rubbish bag right beside where they carelessly chuck their litter).

Someone’s doing some advertising….

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With the entire area having been cleared, time to return to Base.

And to enjoy a chat and some well-earned refreshments.

Then simply the task of placing the bags at the roadside ready for collection.

Our total today – the equivalent of 17 of our standard-size rubbish sacks. Plus 29 collected by our solo litterpickers. Giving a total of 46 since our last OWL litterpick.

 Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.

No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.

Several of our regular litterpickers had understandable reasons why they couldn’t take part in the litterpick today. Meaning it was left to three of us to get the litterpick completed. Not a problem. We just got on with it.

Funny what you find in the woods. This was beside what was, before the clearance, the nude sunbathing area. Someone was maybe looking to be power-drilled?!

We were looking for something filling of a different nature – refreshments!

Then, since we’d cleared the main areas and emptied our bin and rubbish sacks, an opportunity to sweep across the cleared area, finding litter that had maybe been there, hidden in the undergrowth, for many years.

This sack was once in a very secluded hot spot that had in the past seen a lot of horny action. Probably wise not to have any repeats now?

Finally back to the car park for the tying of the bags and placing them ready for collection.

Today’s haul amounted to the equivalent of 11 of our standard-size bags. Plus 32 sacks collected by four volunteers who undertake ‘solo’ litterpicking. Making a total of 43 sacks in the last bit-more-than-a-month.

 Good work!

 Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.

No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.

Our first OWL litterpick of 2025. With the Habitat Restoration Project having done its nasty work there were less areas to visit, but nevertheless there’s still plenty of cruising going on in the areas that are left. Which is very good news. The bad news is that guys are still leaving lots of litter around. Which means that there’s a greater likelihood of complaints. Complaints can lead to ‘enforcement’.

But we OWLs are a positive, can do, group who value the opportunities that a good cruising area can offer. So, as usual, after a brief visit from an OWL generous enough to bring some refreshments, we set off cheerfully to clear the cruising area of sexual debris and other litter. Sometimes we litterpick alone. Often we work in twos and threes. Today we had four of us litterpicking. Two teams of two.

Although fewer areas to visit, there were still plenty of the cruising areas to cover.

 We took the opportunity to instal a number of rubbish sacks in ‘hot spots’ – nooks and crannies where guys go for some horny action. Hopefully these will be used for used condoms, sachets and wipes. And hopefully the twat(s) who has slashed and burned the sacks in the past, leaving piles of litter below where the sacks had been, will have got a life by now.

 A bit chilly, so we earned our warm mid-session refreshments. Our very kind OWL who couldn’t stay for the litterpick had dropped off some delicious, freshly-baked, sausage and vegetarian rolls. They went down well with hot drinks and other sweet goodies.

On to the other side of the car park after our break – the area between the car park and Eagle Pond where there’s plenty of vegetation to cruise in. Between us we collected quite a lot of litter there including the inevitable used condoms, condom and lube sachets and wipes. But at least it proved that there’s been some action there.

Then back to base to tie up the bags and place them at the roadside for collection by the Forest Warden refuse truck which calls by every day.

Today’s haul: the equivalent of 17 of our standard-size sacks. Added to the 24 equivalents collected by our three ‘solo’ litterpickers making a total of 41 sacks-worth.

 Another good haul.

 Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.

No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.

Our Annual Festive OWL litterpick.

Today’s litterpick was over some territory we’re not used to. The so-called ‘habitat restoration programme’ is underway with undergrowth having been removed and many of the Hot Spots having been completely destroyed.

One effect is that a lot of rubbish that had been deep in the bushes was now on the surface and ready to be removed by our talented OWLs.

A litter sack on a tree – the only evidence left of what used to be a very convenient, secluded, ‘hot spot’. (We called it the Leisure Centre as it was close to a Hot Spot we called The Gymn!)

If there’s litter ready to be picked then our OWLs will be onto it.

Having covered everywhere that was accessible, time for our Festive Refreshments. By tradition, and very welcome, mulled wine, a variety of Waitrose mince pies, and other festive goodies – a treat appreciated by all of the OWLs.

Then just time to tie the sacks and place them near the road ready for collection.

The equivalent of 16 of our regular litter sacks collected today. And in the last month 23 collected by our three solo Owls – giving a grand total of 39 for the month

 Please note that we respect everyone’s right to anonymity and only show pics of those willing to have them posted. There might have been more OWL volunteers taking part than are in the above pictures.

No inferences should be drawn from anyone’s participation in an OWL litterpicking session.