Foxes & Fairlies

Spawn.

The frogs were busy when we visited in mid March, unfortunately some pools they had laid spawn in had already dried up. We plan to create some more permanent pools, ponds and scrapes in the marshy areas later this year.

Lizards coming out of the stumps looking for the spring sunshine.

These trees will be coppiced in the years to come to provide fuel as well as craft and building materials.

This small strip is the only section that feels like longstanding, established woodland and it has an atmosphere that hopefully will be recreated elsewhere on the land in years to come.

Despite most of the land being a clearfell sitka spruce plantation it was reassuring to see a good quantity and variety fungi across the area. Lifting some of the brash it was evident that large networks of mycelium were doing an effective job of breaking it all down.