Spring Time

The clocks go forward, the evenings are brighter and campus is starting to light up with colour.

The first signs of Spring on campus are some of the additional 120,000 mixed bulbs that have been planted in the last two years. 

The grass is starting to grow and the grounds team are preparing the playing fields for the summer fixtures alongside getting ready for the Roses weekend of sport coming up.


This time of year you don't have to venture far on campus to stumble across nesting birds, geese, ducks, moorhens and coots. The Moorhens will sometimes take to the branches of a Willow tree to get out of the way and Geese can often be found on top of the covered walkways that link the old colleges.

 It may be nesting season but well behaved dogs are of course still welcome on campus but it's important that any dog walkers at this time of year keep their dogs on leads, and if an area is fenced off as a reserve then it really must be respected.

We will have more about Roses weekend and the University bird life in the coming weeks.

Welcome

So we have a new blog.  

Over the coming weeks we will hopefully start to fill some pages with useful and interesting  information about the University of York campus grounds for students, employees and residents of the local area.

The seasonal things to look out for as you walk around campus as well as information about the seasonal work that is taking place on the grounds and gardens and any new projects or improvements that we are undertaking.