An Idiot's guide to Ancient Woodland management

[Khriss]

 

[the village idiot]

13 minutes ago, Khriss said:

 

It was probably nesting in her hair.

 

Looks like pretty good habitat.

[AJStrees]

On 12/04/2020 at 21:29, the village idiot said:

Thanks AJS

 

I'm not popping the champagne corks just yet. I am hoping we get a variety of 'herby' vegetation coming up in what will be our zone 2's along the rides. If we just get solid grass then the mulching will not have been a 100% success. 

 

I'm confident we will get a variety, but it is still a bit early to tell.

 

We don't fence our coppice compartments. The regrowth usually gets hammered by Deer in the first year but comes good in years two and three as the bramble gets going. This situation would be unacceptable for some but we are OK with it.

 

If we did not get much bramble then I imagine we would be forced into fencing of some kind.

I am sure bramble will be back, its usually pretty good at getting everywhere. 

 

Do you know what deer you have there, is it mostly roe?

[the village idiot]

1 minute ago, AJStrees said:

I am sure bramble will be back, its usually pretty good at getting everywhere. 

 

Do you know what deer you have there, is it mostly roe?

Roe and Muntjac.

[Lfservices]

Morning all.

 

Thought I'd put up a little post about my small Ash dieback site..

 

Now the grounds started drying up, I have managed to start sorting out the timber I cut in the winter. 

 

I spent last Saturday moving the cut timber into stacks with the quad bike and Just by hand. 

 

I have hired my friends avant with log grab tomorrow to move more of the timber to either roadside or to the other accessible woodland track. I'm hoping to move the majority of the cut timber out and stack any remaining brash in a lump to burn at a later stage. 

 

Hoping to get everything moved ASAP so that trees etc can start to naturally regenerate this year 

 

 

Liam 

[the village idiot]

It's a magical time of year in the Woods at the moment, absolutely brimming with wildlife.

 

Most of it is cunningly well hidden but occasionally you get lucky!

 

[ABtrees]

13 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

It's a magical time of year in the Woods at the moment, absolutely brimming with wildlife.

 

Most of it is cunningly well hidden but occasionally you get lucky!

 

How good is that TVI - spectacular photo. 

[the village idiot]

35 minutes ago, ABtrees said:

How good is that TVI - spectacular photo. 

Not my handywork.

 

I had a couple of campers in the Wood over the weekend and they took the picture.

 

Just a phone camera shot I think.

[monkeybusiness]

57 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

Not my handywork.

 

I had a couple of campers in the Wood over the weekend and they took the picture.

 

Just a phone camera shot I think.

Had they shot it first?!

[openspaceman]

4 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

Had they shot it first?!

The kid will stay completely still even if discovered and only start squealing if touched, it's a survival trait and still to be found in domesticated cattle to some extent.

 

When I first got a brushcutter I was doing heavy weeding of broom and chestnut coppice regrowth in a failing douglas plantation and my saw passed right over a roe kid, it stayed so still I though I must have hit it. I still have a photograph the ranger I summoned took somewhere, complete with sawdust on its spotted hide. It had stayed put for the hour or so it took me to find him (well before any mobile phones).