Photo Gallery

A stand of willows ready to be coppiced to let ligh on the stream and meadow.

Perfect fell

Start for the felling cut

Hedge at the start of the day. It has been layered in the past.

Clearing the hedge line of bramble.

Laying the pleaches

Fen at the start of the day.

Cut, rake, bag and drag in progress

Start of the day. Reeds and grasses cut by the city council.

Rake, pike, bag, drag...repeat. Hard hats required because the fen sits by a golf course (the fen is filled with missed shots).

Footpath with scrub encroaching

Cuttings piled for habitat piles, good cover for slow worms

Start of the day

Raked grass is dumped onto tarpaulins to be dragged into the undergrowth.

Work in progress

New part of the reserve for us on the western edge (quiet away from the motorway)

Scrub to clear

Team photo at the end of the day.

Lunch in the freshly mown orchard

The sort section of hedge we laid back in February, just over five months ago.

Top wire replaced, and new intermediates installed.

Taking the wire off

Skunk Cabbage with a human being for a scale. (Photo taken in May 2021)

Lysichiton Americanus aka Skunk Cabbage. (Photo taken May 2021)

Skunk cabbage rhizomes with a size 12 wellington boot for scale

Popping hawthorn.

Bird's foot trefoil.

Introduction and safety talk.

Tawny owl nest box.

Hauling up a barn owl nest box.