Grew up in the Fens. Likes trees, hills, etc.
Sutton, Ely, UK
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Three ponds connected by a new planting of 1,200 trees. Seemed like a good idea to me...
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Another month goes by and still @CambridgeOCR have not issued GCSE Certificates for Witchford Village College students who sat Drama in 2025. It's totally unacceptable, and there is apparently nothing parents/students can do about it other than registering a complaint with Ofqual
The 2026 results are now out, but @CambridgeOCR still haven't provided an official grade for the students who took Drama at @WitchfordVC last year. Will they be issued nefore students complete UCAS applications?
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Forgot to quote the standard metric... 250mm rain is equivalent to an Olympic swimming pool per hectare (2,500 cubic metres). Our total area of saplings is c. 1.5Ha.
Post planting our Western field (1/1/25) the situation is crazy. We've had 14 from 19 months with less than avg rainfall, putting us 250mm down over that time (Avg annual rainfall is 580mm).
That's why it's too dry to replant this year unless we get a VERY wet autumn
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Today's "rain" has fizzled out, so where does that leave us at the end of September? Since the start of Spring (1st March) we are 140mm behind average, putting us in a remarkably similar position to last year.
Lt Blue: LTA, Orange: 2026 Actual, Dk Blue: 2025 Actual
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Post planting our Western field (1/1/25) the situation is crazy. We've had 14 from 19 months with less than avg rainfall, putting us 250mm down over that time (Avg annual rainfall is 580mm).
That's why it's too dry to replant this year unless we get a VERY wet autumn
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It might not just be swans that come into conflict with Vattenfall's proposed wind turbines. Their proposed site runs right up to the boundary of Sutton Meadows Airfield, home of the Cambridgeshire Microlight Club cambsmicrolightclub.co.uk/ai…
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The Vatenfall proposal to site up to 15 wind turbines at Mepal doesn't just impact the Ouse Washes, it is also immediately adjacent to the Block Fen Restoration Area, a key environmental scheme that is part of the Cambs Minerals and Waste Strategy
democracy.peterborough.gov.u…
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A more detailed map provded by a local Cllr shows the proposed wind turbine site even closer to the Ouse Washes than the outline.
We already lose plenty of swans to power lines, imagine the carnage 15 turbines right in their flight path will create
@NaturalEngland @TonyJuniper
Some fuckwit has decided it would be a good idea to build a wind farm right next to the Ouse Washes SSSI, an internationally important site for migrating waterfowl. Great idea @VattenfallUK !
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Top quality bit of fence sitting by our MP Charlotte Cane. The plans will work out like this.
image from BBC News story about swans hitting powerlines near Chatteris
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cew2…
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Link to BBC story that doesn't even mention the Ouse Washes in relation to the 'Chatteris' site (which isn't in Chatteris)
BBC News - 'Gargantuan' turbines could be built on farmland - BBC News
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyv…
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A while back I got into a discussion with @CPRE about whether a twice monthly motocross meet at Mepal would have a significant detrimental impact on the area.
Now we have a 24/7 industrial AD generation plant creating a constant racket and massive light pollution. And next...?
Some fuckwit has decided it would be a good idea to build a wind farm right next to the Ouse Washes SSSI, an internationally important site for migrating waterfowl. Great idea @VattenfallUK !
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Some fuckwit has decided it would be a good idea to build a wind farm right next to the Ouse Washes SSSI, an internationally important site for migrating waterfowl. Great idea @VattenfallUK !
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Western pasture planting, I think this is right, it's certainly near enough.
Total planting of 1,201, or 1,361 if I include trees already replaced once. Trees still alive after 2 years 441.
That's with watering (so far as possible), weeding and re-staking as necessary.
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I have started working out the survival rates for our 2024 planting. I still have 81 trees left to ID but so far best survival was Spindle, Hawthorn and Field Maple.
5 species were effectively a total loss: Aspen, Cherry, Hazel, and Silver and Downy Birch.
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The Eastern block of the Western field 'alive' counts. We replanted ten species blocks last winter, so 90 trees, only 21 of them are still alive. So that's 21 from 180.
Total alive this side 100 from 343 (433 planted ignoring acorns).
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Counting up dead trees by block in the Eastern field to get species totals for possible replanting.
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