The location details.
Let the coppicing begin...
Teddy bears picnic..? Oh no...tea break 😃
What a team effort.
Neat..but rather huge habitat piles.
(perhaps for hibernating grizzly bears..?)
Although the day started cold, it was lovely to see the sun again. Having parked up in the town car park ( FOUR pounds for 4 hours 😏) it was a nice stroll along the banks of the River Yar, past the old mill house to Mill Copse. Mark decided that the van would have problems with the mud if he tried to get up the track so it was left down at the bottom. Grab some tools...head to the woods and start coppicing to make a clearing - thereby encouraging the lower ground cover plants to thrive in their new found sunlight. Soon the woods were reverberating with the shouts of T-I-M-B-E-R as one by one, the clumps of hazel tumbled to the forest floor. Any useful material (straight and around 6 foot long) was piled separately for future use but the majority of the cuttings were grouped into habitat piles (as photographed above). Attendance for this session was particularly good - perhaps because it had FINALLY stopped raining?
Nature Note.
No...not an ancient cannon ball but a fungus called King Alfred's Cakes (Daldinia concentrica), poisonous to humans despite the name.
Thanks to Terry for the photographs and to Sue for the "cannon ball" research.
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