We used loppers and ropes to clear brambles from around a tree |
it needs to be felled for road safety reasons |
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The brash is cut with loppers |
and dragged into piles for shredding later. |
Showing Sailis how to use a pruning saw safely. |
Another felled spruce |
Elderflower, Sambucus niger, was tangled under the brambles |
and took some effort to remove |
The traffic safety team ready for felling the last tree, |
but not actually looking at the road! |
Last in the row was a Norway Spruce, Picea abies |
Edgar felled it at noon |
and it lay across the car park |
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I marked the rings on the stump in tens - it dates from 1956 |
The felled tree contained a Woodpigeon nest, |
with two fledgling Columba palumbus, Woodpigeon, |
young pigeons are called "squabs" |
The task of clearing the brash begins ... |