Created to celebrate a decade of work by the Friends of Longrun Meadow, this video features flooding, litterpickers, wildflowers, flies, beetles, songbirds, birds of prey, one reptile, hedgelayers, snow, the willow cathedral and more…
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As part of a larger, collaborative project called Hedges and Edges, Longrun Meadow aims to create 150m of new hedge this autumn and winter and create a similar length of ecotones (a graded rise of vegetation from grass through to mature trees) around the planted trees.
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It’s August, the hay is gone, the volunteers are taking a break so what is happening on the meadow?
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With March beginning tomorrow, and the weather feeling very much like spring, it’s time to stop work on hedging and tree cutting and let nature get on with the rest.
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With 2020 approaching, I’m looking back at the wildlife I spotted on the meadow over the past year.
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Not much happens on the meadow in August; the hay is gone and the volunteers are taking a break, so I took a walk around the meadow in the evening to see what was around.
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Restoring grassland habitat is a slow process. Each year, we get another point on our graph that tells us how we’re doing and then we have to wait another twelve months. To get this year’s point, Helen and I have been out with a clipboard and quadrat, surveying Cathedral Field.
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Join us for a morning stroll around the meadow to see and hear how the meadow and its wildlife are changing with the season. We’ll look at the wildflowers, birds and other animals.
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It really is busy in the meadow now. Some of the grass species are in flower, the dandelions are already starting to go to seed, animals are getting on with life.
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