Not strictly tree related but countryside related

Matthew Arnold · May 28, 2014

After complaint after complaint about verges being uncut or stupid tufts left in ridiculous places. I managed to snap this Common Blue on a Rough Hawksbit on the side of a main road whilst i was surveying urban verges in my hometown. :thumbup:

mendiplogs · May 28, 2014

After complaint after complaint about verges being uncut or stupid tufts left in ridiculous places. I managed to snap this Common Blue on a Rough Hawksbit on the side of a main road whilst i was surveying urban verges in my hometown.

HI MATE is that the round about near the steam fair mate see you at the arb show mate thanks jon :thumbup:

Matthew Arnold · May 29, 2014

HI MATE is that the round about near the steam fair mate see you at the arb show mate thanks jon

Yup thats the one. We have Pyramidal orchids on there too but just waiting for them to come up. :thumbup:

mendiplogs · May 29, 2014

Yup thats the one. We have Pyramidal orchids on there too but just waiting for them to come up.

Hi Matthew nice one mate thanks Jon :thumbup:

Matthew Arnold · May 31, 2014

Nice afternoon for some picture taking. The light was just right for it. Even better I found a Southern Marsh Orchid on an area of Dry Calcareous Semi-improved Grassland. Sixth orchid species found on the site in 2 years. :thumbup:

Matthew Arnold · June 2, 2014

Another day another batch of Orchids which are new to the site. We haven't sewn them there. But we will be encouraging them to spread by hay cropping the site in Late August/early September. Oh and some pics of a pair of Yellow Tailed moths mating. :thumbup:

mendiplogs · June 2, 2014

Another day another batch of Orchids which are new to the site. We haven't sewn them there. But we will be encouraging them to spread by hay cropping the site in Late August/early September. Oh and some pics of a pair of Yellow Tailed moths mating.

HI MATTHEW great PICS there mate thanks jon :thumbup:

Matthew Arnold · June 3, 2014

The final day of college. Was a dull morning stuck in a computer room but the teachers asked about any special things we have achieved out of work and done in our own time so i brought up this thread. Everyone loved it. All the comments, pictures and "Arb slang" dotted about in the various threads i have started. They took alot of interest in this thread in particular and had alot of questions asked about various posts. Spent the afternoon in a bird hide then walking around a site known as Holton Lee (the Poole crew will know where that is). We did a Redshank survey which was cool. My ID skills came into their own this afternoon. We had a spare hour to kill as the tide came in so gave everyone a talk on the body language of the Oak trees on the site and explained why they are being left to their own devices. :thumbup:

silky fox · June 3, 2014

Nice pictures matt.

Matthew Arnold · June 13, 2014

Not alot to report other than the first site cut and baled this week. Got 3 more sites to be done next week "weather depending". One site we are leaving for a few more weeks as the bottom field is still saturated in one corner so we are tempted to leave that corner and chuck another pond in there to aid drainage and create another habitat for the meadow with an already established self maintaining/dredging pond. :thumbup: