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 A stand of willows ready to be coppiced to let ligh on the stream and meadow.
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 Start for the felling cut
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 Hedge at the start of the day. It has been layered in the past.
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 Clearing the hedge line of bramble.
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 Laying the pleaches
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 Cut, rake, bag and drag in progress
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 Start of the day. Reeds and grasses cut by the city council.
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 Rake, pike, bag, drag...repeat. Hard hats required because the fen sits by a golf course (the fen is filled with missed shots).
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 Footpath with scrub encroaching
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 Cuttings piled for habitat piles, good cover for slow worms
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 Start of the day
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 Raked grass is dumped onto tarpaulins to be dragged into the undergrowth.
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 Work in progress
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 New part of the reserve for us on the western edge (quiet away from the motorway)
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 Scrub to clear
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 Team photo at the end of the day.
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 Lunch in the freshly mown orchard
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 The sort section of hedge we laid back in February, just over five months ago.
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 Top wire replaced, and new intermediates installed.
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 Taking the wire off
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 Skunk Cabbage with a human being for a scale. (Photo taken in May 2021)
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 Lysichiton Americanus aka Skunk Cabbage. (Photo taken May 2021)
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 Skunk cabbage rhizomes with a size 12 wellington boot for scale
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 Popping hawthorn.
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 Introduction and safety talk.
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 Tawny owl nest box.
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 Hauling up a barn owl nest box.
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 The section to be fenced off, a footpath by the dew pond.
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 Nearly completed by the end of the day.
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 The Warren. Hawthorne saplings and regrowth to be pulled up.
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 Can you spot the new rails?
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 New rails and a new (recycled) gate post.
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 The dam, to the left, just upstream form the top bridge.
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 The dam
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 We excavated rush and clay from the upstream sections to bolster and pack down the dam's timber cross pieces
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 A compartment where scrub has been cleared from encroaching on the juniper.
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 Fixing stobs to risers.
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 That's a newt!
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 Barrowing wood chip.
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 What a lot of stuff!
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 Even more stuff.
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 Sharpener hard at work.
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 One of the ponds.
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 The Cutteslowe Meadows is flooded by the river.
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 Tree popper and long rooted hawthorne.
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 Socially distanced break time.
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 Cutting scallops into the wall of dense undergrowth.
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 Rachel at work with a treepopper 'popping' hawthorn, complete with root systems, so no regrowth and no need for herbicide.
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 Tim and Ray levering out a well dug in gatepost
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 Lots of hawthorn on this bonfire, but only one elephant's nest all day,
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 Part of the length laid today
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 Note the new planting in the tree-guards at bottom right
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 The work done in March 2019, almost two years on.
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 The main hedge after the haircut
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 The pond. Pollarding the trees will let light on and into the water.
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 The newly laid stretch of hedge along the fence line with the WI car park
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