📅  Sunday 25th January
📍  Dreelside Woods footpath, behind the Dreel Tavern
🎟️  FREE to attend, no booking required, all ages welcome
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Join us for the Dreel Burn RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. Professor Will Cresswell, a local bird and ecology expert, will walk and talk us through what we see on the day. We will bring recording sheets to submit our results to the national database of sightings.

This will be a slow, casual walk, suitable for all ages, abilities and levels of bird experience. We’d love to see you there — bring binoculars if you can. We will finish with tea and biscuits at Dreelside Woods.

This is a FREE event offered as part of the Dreel Burn initiative and funded by NatureScot, in collaboration with The Scottish Government and in partnership with the National Lottery Heritage Fund

Join Dreel Burn and Footprint East Neuk for a friendly, hands-on afternoon caring for Dreelside Woods, our fantastic community asset!
 Pruning
 Coppicing
 Planting new trees in gaps where others have fallen or failed
 Checking on previously planted saplings to make sure they are thriving

 Sunday 7 December
 12:00–2:00pm
 Refreshments provided

No experience needed — all welcome! We’ll provide gloves, tools and guidance on the day. Just dress warmly and be ready to get stuck in. Let’s work together to keep Dreelside Woods healthy for years to come.

Meet 12pm on the bridge behind the Dreel Tavern
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Come and plant some joy for spring! We have lots of pretty native bulbs to plant around the woodland edges of Anster Wester graveyard to improve aesthetics and biodiversity. Tools provided.

 Saturday, November 2nd
 12pm – 2pm
 Anstruther Wester Graveyard
 All ages welcome
 Refreshments provided
 Bring gloves if you have them

This is a FREE event organised as part of the Dreel Burn initiative by Anstruther Improvements Association. For more information contact: heather@anstrutherimprovements.org 

Scottish Fisheries Museum, Fife Communities Climate Action Network and the AIA are partnering for the Museum’s annual beach clean at Castle Street Beach.

Meet at the Museum at 12pm or, if you arrive after 12.05, go straight to Castle Street Beach. Litter pickers, bags and clipboards will be provided, but if you have your own please bring them as numbers will be limited. Bring a strong pair of gloves if you prefer to pick up litter with your hands, for protection, and wear sturdy shoes. Don't forget waterproofs, hand sanitiser and any snacks and drinks you might want.

The Museum will create a survey of all litter collected as the data will be collated by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS). MCS has been running beach cleans and their flagship event, Great British Beach Clean, for 25 years. Every year, staff and volunteers head to beaches up and down the coast to collect litter and record data about what they find, contributing to citizen science. So far, 319 tonnes of litter have been collected at Great British Beach Clean events. The litter data collected informs various projects MCS are involved with, and is shared with the International Coastal Clean-up (ICC), contributing to a worldwide report on litter levels. All this data has helped inform new policies to tackle beach litter and plastic pollution in the UK such as the plastic bag charge, a ban on microplastics in personal care products and better wet wipe labelling.

Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult 

Join Donald from Wildside Nature to EXPLORE and DISCOVER the wildlife of our local Dreel Burn and Dreelside Woods.

Activities may include:
 Water sampling/river dipping
 Bug hunts, dam or den building
 Boat/duck race
 Animal treasure hunt
 Hibernation activity
Hammocks, slacklines, arts and crafts, skulls and nature exhibits

Age: 6-11 years
Bring: full waterproof body cover, wellies and a packed lunch
Free but booking essential here.

 Tuesday 21st October
 10am-3pm
 Dreel Halls, Anstruther, KY10 3DJ

Discover the magic of cyanotype printing with Kit Martin.

Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will create your own striking blue-and-white prints using natural items gathered from Dreelside Woods.

The session begins with an introduction to this fascinating photographic process, followed by time to experiment and make your own unique prints. The number of prints you will create depends upon the UV light on the day. All materials are provided – just bring your creativity.

Adults 14 yrs and over

This is a free event but booking is essential as places are limited. Please book here.

Discover the magic of cyanotype printing with Kit Martin.

Join us for a hands-on workshop where you will create your own striking blue-and-white prints using natural items gathered from Dreelside Woods.

The session begins with an introduction to this fascinating photographic process, followed by time to experiment and make your own unique prints. The number of prints you will create depends upon the UV light on the day. All materials are provided – just bring your creativity.

For children 8-14yrs

This is a free event but booking is essential as places are limited. Please book here.

Join us on Sunday 28th September between 2pm and 4pm for a free afternoon of river-related activities to celebrate and share our achievements since launching the Dreel Burn Project three years ago.

Learn about our citizen science activities: monitoring and identifying our invertebrate species, and water quality sampling

• Buglife, kick sampling and identifying invertebrates using microscopes
• Anstruther Primary School, Fish in the Classroom project display
• Invasive Non Native Species treatment information
• Dreel Burn Investment Readiness Partnership information
• Balcaskie Wetlands Project display
• Footprint East Neuk information and activity
• Dreelside Woods Magical Moths display

Find out more about the Dreel Burn Project and the ways you can get involved.

We will also have microscopes, children's activity table, games, refreshments and home baking.

All are welcome, drop in any time at Dreel Halls, High Street West, Anstruther KY10 3DJ

For more information email heather@anstrutherimprovements.org

Footprint East Neuk's Dreelside Woods project and the AIA's Dreel Burn Project are running a Magical Moths of Dreelside Woods event!

Meet between the footbridges in Dreelside Woods Community Asset on Saturday 16th August at 9.15am

The event is FREE, but booking is essential - please email heather@anstrutherimprovements.org

Explore the magical world of local moths with lepidopterist Susan Falconer. Come and see which moths are visiting Dreelside Woods in the month of August. Susan will identify the moths and explain their nature history before releasing them.

Come along and help Footprint East Neuk plant some trees in Anstruther on Saturday 29th March! 

11am to 1pm at Queens Gardens Park (What3words ///tortoises.nicely.toast)

1pm to 3pm join the team just near Dreelside Woods

Tree planting equipment will be provided - just wear suitable clothing and footwear.

Drop in any time, for as long as you want.