Woodland management

[low plains drifter 10,800]

Get on up! 

Get on down!

 

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Edited May 26, 2024 by low plains drifter
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[low plains drifter 10,800]

Done before dinner, must be on me holidays be fecked 

Thinning out along boundary line, and weighing up the options, looks like a promising patch for a willow coppice

 

[mackem 28,089]

  On 27/05/2024 at 11:13, low plains drifter said:

 

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Reminds me a bit of the arboreal forest in northern Ontario,word for the day…..nemophilist.

[low plains drifter 10,800]

Back at it 

Rib eye steak with chips, and some fried diced potatoes for afters

 

[low plains drifter 10,800]

Flash floods this morning, visit from the woodpecker and a bit of thinning 

 

[low plains drifter 10,800]

Clearing some awkward leaners on the boundary fence line, it doesn't always go to plan

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Felling a big leaner and some thinning 

 

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Let the light shine through 

Natures fire lighters 

What do reckon, young sparrowhawk remains?

Split level under pressure 

One for the wall, abstract 

Drifting away

[low plains drifter 10,800]

Another day of rest

Strimming and thinning, and building up existing and new habitat piles

 

 

[mel b 2,863]

  On 18/08/2024 at 15:02, low plains drifter said:

Another day of rest

Strimming and thinning, and building up existing and new habitat piles

 

 

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You certainly like to graft dude .

Do you shoot the deer in your woodland?.

[low plains drifter 10,800]

  On 18/08/2024 at 17:03, mel b said:

You certainly like to graft dude .

Do you shoot the deer in your woodland?.

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Got to keep at it Mel, trying to make the most of the daylight hours getting as much thinning done as possible, get some suitable spacing between these conifers 

No I don't shoot the deer, I haven't got a FAC, but have been looking into DSC1 etc recently, do you shoot them in your place?

[mel b 2,863]

  On 18/08/2024 at 18:21, low plains drifter said:

Got to keep at it Mel, trying to make the most of the daylight hours getting as much thinning done as possible, get some suitable spacing between these conifers 

No I don't shoot the deer, I haven't got a FAC, but have been looking into DSC1 etc recently, do you shoot them in your place?

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Unfortunately we don't have any deer at my place .  A red was spotted about five years ago just down the road , and a few munties are being caught by the local keepers , when they catch the birds at the end of the season,  so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I start seeing them sooner or later. All of my deer shooting is done on my other shooting permissions. 

We made a few paths through our woodland at the end of the pheasant season , and a small flat camping area . At the end of the coming pheasant season , I'm hoping to treble the size of the camping area , and make another path of about 400 yards , and build a meditation platform,  that overlooks a waterfall. 

My back is aching just thinking about it .

I've spent the last two weekends trying to nail a few squirrels,  before they eat all the hazelnuts.  It was a bumper harvest last year , and it looks like this year might be quite good as well.

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The calm after the storm, before the storm 

Few hours on the saw, opening up another ride, and building up a bit of winter habitat, few new spots for the woodcock to get tucked in, and got a few hedge sparrows making use of the dead hedges

 

 

 

[low plains drifter 10,800]

Another day of rest

First few pics are branches stick in the ground from felled trees, gone about a foot deep, wouldn't fancy one of them in the back of the Gregory  

Bit of a tidy up, building the habitat piles etc