Not strictly tree related but countryside related

[Gareth Dalzell]

Excellent pictures. The previous ones of the tree planting - I always tell our customers that we aim to plant 10 times the number of trees we fell each year. It's not a hard target to hit but it drives home the fact to the public that replacement is important.

 

Are those Buzzards circling overhead? We've loads of them around our wooded areas.

[Matthew Arnold]

Excellent pictures. The previous ones of the tree planting - I always tell our customers that we aim to plant 10 times the number of trees we fell each year. It's not a hard target to hit but it drives home the fact to the public that replacement is important.

 

Are those Buzzards circling overhead? We've loads of them around our wooded areas.

 

Yup. They were circling above but they were courting at the same time.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

oh i like the water dragon lots! I also like the first violet shot and the last of the ash flowers in the set before the above ones, cracking tadpoles too well early!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

as for that water spider, well thats just awesome!

[Matthew Arnold]

Some of todays shots. The light was just right for it.

[Gareth Dalzell]

Nice shots. Things are really wakening up in the growth department. Just hope the cold snap that,s forecast doesn,t nip to much. "Fresh" I always think best describes nature at this time of the year.

[Matthew Arnold]

Some of todays shots. I don't think the sky could have been any more blue than it was today.

[Matthew Arnold]

Started on the annual maintenance run today. Did a 2 mile long footpath this morning with the DR as the BCS Flail was dead. The before and after pictures are of a footpath we strimmed. It only took us an hour and 25 mins to strim about a mile of footpath.

[Matthew Arnold]

Yet another footpath cleared. It was put down on the sheet as headheight brambles making footpath difficult to use. You couldn't use it before we cleared it and put a new stile step at a stile at one end.

[Matthew Arnold]

A very fine bench replacement. The wood is Iroko so is more rot resistant. We are putting it in as a memorial bench and will hopefully soon be replacing the steps with a ramp for wheel chair access.