They are falling well here too. Unless your remark is cryptic of course. We have been living in a rain of beech leaves in the woods the last week or two.
We have found this with out wood. Where we cut coppice that hasn't been touched for 50-60 years, we suddenly get a mass of woodland flowers. This attracts insects, birds, bats and small mammals.
rust belt sites can be interesting to watch as they develop from "in use" to "wild" with a few interesting bits of archaeology poking out
in use has eco impacts, some more attractive or biodiverse than others
ex use, ditto
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8961 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 24 10:13 am Post subject:
Anyone noticed wasps still about?
Nextdoor neighbour has, indoors
The usual nest in my stock shed is empty, but that is an uninsulated wooden 6x4 garden shed
Only wildlife of sorts, but went up to the woods for the first time since the storms yesterday as husband and son have mainly been doing firewood, and I have had things to do at home. Went for a walk round to see some of the trees that are down; one large dead oak barring our way to the coppice, which is going to take some shifting, and a large beech branch still blocking one footpath, which is going to take a lot of consideration and shifting as it is resting on several branches. Hoping we can get our friend who is a cutter to come to help as with him cutting and son on forwarder to hold things, should be the safest way of dealing with both.
Love kestrels. Wonderful it was so close. We used to get a lot of them, but the highways people cut all the scrub along the motorway and dual carriageway banks, so don't see them so often as that is where they hunted.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8961 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 24 2:45 pm Post subject:
I had a walk around the village. Trees full of sparrows and starlings, the odd seagull and crows doing acrobatics...must be more Wind on the way
We get some starlings, but not as many as we used to. I do sometimes hear a bush twittering as I pass, so must be full of hedge sparrows, and do sometimes see them. We get gulls and rooks, mainly in the fields after work being done, but some gulls have taken up residence down our local shops. We are about 15 miles from the sea, so not really seagulls any more.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8961 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 24 10:20 am Post subject:
Gulls move to the food.. unfortunately that is humans' rubbish...and there aren't so many fish in the sea
The ones at the shops might be there for rubbish, although on the whole this isn't a particularly dirty area. Think they mainly come for the pickings from the fields as this is semi-rural.
Went down to help at an activity centre in the New Forest yesterday and there was a deer out in one of the fields. Clear up work as they had some fallen trees. One of the trees; a medium sized oak had about half a dozen varieties of lichen on it. Really wonderful.
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