FortyFouristheMagicNumber

Professional forestry consultant. Loves trees and riding bicycles. MICFor.

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@elonmusk
Adieu.
A final farewell.

[Miles Richardson @findingnature]

Take a moment to notice nature

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@townsendoutdoor I've converted to Locus app after being a Viewranger fan. I think I've tried all of these others and they're not as good. Do check to see if Locus could be of use to you too. Still cross that os maps app is so useless compared to the brilliant Viewranger.

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What?!?

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Had a lovely walk in the road this evening...
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@YPLAC

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It didn't end at those few

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@WildWestacre Wolf!?

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@andyheald @NEForestry I'll admit I'm partial to a good ale, and this reminds me that when I was in FC and was assessing a grant application from a brewery owner, an objective for their afforestation plan was to grow trees they could use to flavour their beers. I can't recall what they planted tho!

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@BrewDog 🦡🏆

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Operations on the steeper ground are paused whilst it's so damp in Yorkshire, but Ash management continues, as do the steam trains and silver washed fritillary butterflies.

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@AspectForest I will recommend a Collins book, if you are interested. It's not as complicated as other butterfly guides and is excellent for comparison species and focus on UK.
Written and illustrated by @rlewington2

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@AspectForest Silver washed fritillary. Can look similar colour to comma, but no wavey edge wings and actually a stunning butterfly to find. Much is made of these, and rightly so. Glorious butterfly species. Some of the sub varieties really are silvery, there's a type 'valezina' u can Google.

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@AspectForest @wildlifebcn @suffolkwildlife @JennyA_Rawson @stuttonsparrows @GrahamDenny9 @TrooperSnooks You got this. Red admiral. It's Latin name is 'Vanessa' so I somehow seem to say in my head every time I see these the name Vanessa. Which could be confusing to any passer by if I was muttering away to myself at all! 🤓

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@AspectForest @wildlifebcn @suffolkwildlife @JennyA_Rawson @stuttonsparrows @GrahamDenny9 @TrooperSnooks Comma. Look at the tatty wing edge, the bright orange upper wing, and if at rest, they have a white comma shaped mark in the otherwise very well camouflaged underwing, which when closed can make them hard to spot!

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@AspectForest Meadow brown. Not to be confused with very slightly similar gatekeeper when observing underwing at rest. Or ringlet, which are darker and slightly smaller. Most ringlet seem to have finished flying now it seems around here.

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@AspectForest Gatekeeper. Lovely and also quite aggressive to other butterflies as they 'keep their gate' territories

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@_JoelAshton @TheParksTrust I'll never forget my grandad saying "horse aren't stupid".

(In a Suffolk accent telling me countryman knowledge from the days of everyone knowing about horses and their uses before there were engines everywhere.)

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@jharphamtrees It's a very wet site! With very steep slopes! I actually never thought I'd see this actually get worked! I just hope it all dries up more from here on in...

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Finally started today after two years planning of this operation. Complicated by sssi, steep ground, lack of contractors, poor log prices, schedule 1 breeding birds and weather conditions being able to work the site. Let's see how this goes over the next few weeks!

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@WildWestacre @andyheald @CommonsEAC Totally recognise that view point and I know there are fantastic forestry professionals who are not chartered. I was torn about it myself, and think there has to be some other way of qualifying that 'trusted' agent / forester that is not just the chartered model.