Naughty Naughty!!

[Tom D]

I was working on a science park south of Edinburgh today, they have just had a load of tree work done by another contractor. I found this birch felled and dragged into the wood a little. Full of Piptoporus, definately needed felling, in fact looked like the root plate may have heaved at some point too....

 

But... there was a nest in the stem with wood pecker chicks in it! Tut Tut.

[Matthew Arnold]

Chicks still alive?

[Tom D]

Chirping frantically, I suspect that the tree has not been down long, maybe only days, it is possible that the parents are still feeding them of course, though I didn't have time to wait and see.

[Matthew Arnold]

Try and get hold of the company that did that and report em to RSPB, RSPCA. Would be a hefty fine for them and maybe 6 months prison for bloke who felled the tree.

[Stephen Blair]

Nice find, not an easy thing to see when felling.

[Tom D]

Nice find, not an easy thing to see when felling.

 

Which is why I won't be reporting them to anyone.

 

Still a little careless though, the tree was felled into a large oak and then ripped out with a winch takeing the bark off some other trees and limbs off the oak. I think this is a very short sighted approach as the damage will mean that in a few yeaers other trees will need felling due to cavities and infections caused by the careless felling. Further more a more cautious approach may well have found the nest as well as causing less damage.

[Le Sanglier]

Anyone working with trees or hedges in the summer months is going to find nests,

Halfway through a job (especially on leylandii) you cannot stop and walkaway.

I was taking out a load of leylandii the other day and found a goldcrest nest,

Luckily they were fledging and the mother continued to feed the surviving chicks, It was upsetting, but what can you do? I am not paid by a government body, so to misquote that northener " no workee, no payee"

[treequip]

Anyone working with trees or hedges in the summer months is going to find nests,

Halfway through a job (especially on leylandii) you cannot stop and walkaway.

I was taking out a load of leylandii the other day and found a goldcrest nest,

Luckily they were fledging and the mother continued to feed the surviving chicks, It was upsetting, but what can you do? I am not paid by a government body, so to misquote that northener " no workee, no payee"

 

 

Well maybe in France but in the UK you run the risk of a fine up to 30K and a possible 6 months in pokey.

 

In the UK you start and continue under that risk

 

I walked away from a leylandii today with a Pigeon nest in it. We will go back when they have fledged.

[Le Sanglier]

Just to qualify I had knocked the tree over before I found the nest.

[Le Sanglier]

Well maybe in France but in the UK you run the risk of a fine up to 30K and a possible 6 months in pokey.

 

In the UK you start and continue under that risk

 

I walked away from a leylandii today with a Pigeon nest in it. We will go back when they have fledged.

 

Did you get paid?