Bridgewood in March

Posted by Tanos on Wed 17 Mar 10, 4:43 PM

Tags: bridgewood, wildlife

Since my last post, I've finished the North Ride and begun work on the South Ride. Together these two form a circular track near the perimeter of the (square-ish) Bridgewood site, with the existing Middle Ride as a diagonal, rather like the red part of a "no parking" sign. I've also taken another photo of a buzzard.

This first picture shows a stretch of the North Ride, on the the right of the photo, with a row of felled poplars that I took down to let more light in and encourage more undergrowth to come up. The crowns of these bigger trees will also provide some screening near the boundary of the wood for a few years. Once the brambles, grasses, nettles, and other annuals have grown up, these branches will be draped with a tangle of stems that will even last through the winter.

Earlier this month I took this picture of a buzzard, high in the branches of an ash tree. That day there seemed to be several buzzards around, soaring overhead or flying out into the fields and then back into the high trees in the wood. The pheasants were understandably quite skittish too!

Edited Fri 26 Mar 10, 4:03 PM by Tanos