New hotel in Manchester, The Treehouse, has set up a number of birdboxes around the city to help the local wildlife and encourage people to get out and about over Easter - so that’s exactly what we did.
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00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World on a lovely, lovely day in Manchester and boy oh boy am I glad it's a lovely day
00:06because the theme for today's video is all about the great outdoors.
00:10Now here in Manchester we've got a ton of great places that you could go to relax or unwind
00:14but we wanted to make this video have sort of a purpose really, something that was a bit more entertaining for you
00:19and as luck would have it, new opening in Manchester, the Treehouse Hotel, have set up nine awesome looking bird boxes
00:26across the city as a little trail. Now they're inspired by the National Trust and the idea is to try and support local wildlife
00:32so let's go. And we started off in the perfectly sunny Mayfield Park. Because I don't want to ruin the trail
00:38I'm not going to show you the exact location of all of them but to be honest this one took me quite a while to find
00:43it's way up in this tree behind me and that's Depot Mayfield. I mean what a great sunbathing spot
00:49we've not had all of the nice weather so it's definitely worth a visit but on to the next
00:54and from there it was into the Gay Village towards the famous Sackville Gardens
00:58So number two, the Sackville Gardens. I'll give you a clue, the bird box is somewhere behind me here
01:02and this is right in the centre of the Gay Village, another massively important part of Manchester
01:07That's stop number two. Over there to a bit less of a traditional sort of sunbathing
01:12and nature place really in St Peter's Square but when the sun catches it in the way that it did today
01:17it really was lovely and right down at the bottom of St Peter's Square you can see the bird box here
01:22it's possibly the best view that you get of them and then from there over towards the Science and Industry Museum
01:26to Castlefield. Now this is right near the Science and Industry Museum, another lovely little green area
01:31give it a quick look around, I promise you you'll find this one quickly
01:34So this is actually two stops in one, we've got Manchester Cathedral here and one
01:38and to here the Glade of Light which was opened by a couple of members of the Royal Family back in 2022
01:46I'm going to show you one of them, which is the Glade of Light one, I'm not going to show you exactly where it is
01:50but I'll show you that it's there, but the Manchester Cathedral one I'm afraid you're on your own
01:55Now, we're near the end, let's keep going
01:57So I'm on Bengal Street now which is our third from last stop, after this is Angel Meadow
02:01and so far this is the first one that probably stands out as not really being a grassy area where you might hang out
02:07but when you understand how much impact little trees like this down residential streets
02:12weirdly have an impact on people's mental health, it really is substantial
02:16and when you consider that this specific bird box is out front of the mustard tree
02:20which has recently celebrated 30 years of combating poverty and homelessness in Manchester
02:25it does make more sense
02:26So at this point, lots of travelling, so my legs were getting weary
02:29but up to Angel Meadow which is over towards Noma
02:32and again, a lovely little spot to spend some time in the sun
02:35and then finally, we made our way to the Northern Quarter
02:38and thus ends our journey
02:40you won't see the exact location of the final one, you've got to do some work yourselves
02:43but here in the Northern Quarter, near the Northern Soul Grilled Cheese
02:47you will be able to track it down
02:48it's worth noting, there is a link to the full map on the Treehouse website
02:53so you can have a little look around for that
02:55but for now, for Manchester World, this has been Theo
02:57and this has been The Great Outdoors here in Manchester