But some excellent brash use when doing glade coppicing among the standards... and it's worked :)

Would be good to have the herbaceous layer along with it but not going to happen with so many deer.

Clearly an ongoing issue with Deer numbers (and a depressing amount of grey squirrel)

Coppice rotation areas and any natural regen getting knawed to death...

But at least there is se control taking place.

Holy moly... the deer there must be rife! Is there any understory there at all?

Indeed, tho for my patch, we're a smaller operation, have flexibility of smaller kit suitable for the site & the time to use winch/skidding which helps no end!
That & doing the TSM works in summer with due care makes more time for felling in winter, extract in spring.
Appreciate luxury this affords

To be fair tho the ground needs it. Just not all in the space of a few minutes!

I know right, at the bottom too! Anyone I know has only ever had them at rest... It absolutely chucked it down for about 15mins at dawn just as I was waking up. Bound to have been other things. I'm happy tho, never had one of my own before.

Good-looking but had deffo be head banging in the trap going by that bald spot!

Snap on the Orange Swift this morning over in Wellington and picked up Rusty dot & Rush Veneer yesterday down Ottery way.

Jersey Tigers bloody everywhere!

Thankyou!
You know what makes this more embarrassing... I've had them before according to the star beside them!!

Fair few at mine this week too :) makes a change from C.rustics and LYUs. Glad to see them back in numbers but also they can piss off lf9r distubing everything on the traps with their continual fidgeting 😜