Different Habitats
It occurred to me whilst I wasn't able to get out so much that I have never described the different habitats on our land. The rather odd shape of our place is roughly outlined in red on the google earth satellite photograph below. The land extends to about 6 acres in total or between 2 and 3 hectares.
Copse and Stream
I propose to look at the habitat in turn. At the Eastern boundary we have a couple of of copses . There are around 80 trees of different sizes. Norway Spruce, Scot's Pine, one large Ash tree, some beech, some Hawthorne, one or two damsons, and some blackthorn. Some of the older trees have ivy on them. A stretch of sream (about a 40m length) separates the copse from the bottom field.
On woodland floor in the copse are lots of snowdrops and then bluebells in the spring, and some wood anemone. When we arrived here over 10 years ago this bit of woodland was used as a toilet by badges marking their territory. I believe that badgers were "discouraged" by people running a local pheasant shoot and we haven't seen them at this site for some years. There are plenty of rabbits and my trail cams pick up wood mice here.
In the tree canopy we get a variety of birds. There are always wrens, and we sometimes see gold crest and bull finch alongside the usual suspects.
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