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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 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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 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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 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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