Doonhill Woods Starter Traditional Cache

This geocache is part of a series to encourage new geocachers in Dumfries and Galloway. It is on a well used all abilities path with a small slope. It is in a woodland where there is lots of different trees and wildlife including red squirrels. The cache is a small plastic box and contains trade items. I hope that you enjoy finding it.

Thank you to Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust, not only for this wonderful place but for giving Dumfries and Galloway Council Rangers permission to place this geocache at Doonhill Woods

The woodland is semi-natural and contains a mixture of sycamore, wych elm, oak and ash (5.5ha). It is extensively coppiced with a dense, high canopy. There appear to have been two different phases of coppicing within the woodland. In the most recent area of coppicing, bramble and bracken are co-dominants. The shrub layer is hazel, holly and hawthorn. Birds that can be seen include blackcap, wood warbler, garden warbler and spotted flycatcher. As well as the red squirrels up to five species of bats are commonly seen in and around the woodland