View of the Ochil Hills from Menstrie

Volunteer(s) monitoring site:

Children from Menstrie Primary School are monitoring the Ochil Hills.

What is being monitored:

Flora and fauna of the Ochil Hills from a distance though seasons.

Monitoring Photographs and Descriptions

December 2013

Group 1 - View of the Ochil Hills from our school playground

You can see that it is very dark. The trees are naked. The sky is light. The hills have changed a different kind of green colour. The trees in the middle still have some leaves.

Group 2 - View of the Ochil Hills from the school entrance

You can see the lovely hills are very gloomy. You can see the Dumyat Centre has its lights on even though it was the middle of the morning.

There were still some leaves on one tree. It was dark and as you can see the hills were darker than before.

Group 5

That tree is turning yellow, and most of the leaves have blow off. That hill is lovely. The sheep are grazingon the hillside today

November 2013

Group 2 - View of the Ochil Hills from the school entrance

The hills have changed colour. The sun light is shining on the tops of the hills. The dark, dark clouds are nearly purple.

Group 3 -The hills are brown. One tree has lots of yellow leaves still. The other is almost bare. The sun has stopped shining on the hills.

October 2013

Group 1 - View of the Ochil Hills from our school playground .

The hills were dark green . The leaves were gold and dark green.

Group 2 - View of the Ochil Hills from the school entrance

P2/3 went for a walk for the and the hills where changing colour and it was yellow.

Group 3 - This is a nice picture of the hills and the trees changing different colours red, brown, gold, yellow and orange . With the hills in sight and the hills are slightly changing colour.

Group 5 - View from Menstrie Castle.

September 2013

Group 1 - View of the Ochil Hills from our school playground . We can see the hills and we can see trees. There are a lot of green leaves on the trees and hills.

Group 2 - View of the Ochil Hills from the school entrance. There is the Ochil Hills and we think there is some rain coming.

Group 3 - We took these photographs at Menstrie Burn and we were amazed with what we seen on the Ochil Hills. We seen grass, brambles, stinging nettles and a path up the edge.

Group 5 - We went for a walk and saw some stinging nettles. We took some pictures of the Ochil Hills by Menstrie Castle. There is a tall tree in the distance.