Yesterday (26th) I walked up to the Brook House Nightingale area and found a territory that has been used for at least twenty years or more trashed (for a carp swim).
I then walked along the Streamside Lake and found S W S (with conservation) blazoned) over their van (fishing Cub) using chain saws to remove scrub.Since this new fishing club in the Country Park has taken over there has been a lot of scrub removed to make way for large carp swims.
This morning 27th,I walked around Brookland lake (on the eastern side of the railway) and saw that large areas of vegetation had been cut down (apparently yesterday) to ground level and another Nightingale territory trashed (I have since found out it was the EA).Apparently being short on staff they have got behind,hence work being carried out at the wrong time of the year (but why trash a Nightingale site on the lake edge,its beyond me.
The Water Board usually mow the bank and some years get the timing wrong.However it is never as bad as this..,
All this and in the breeding season too.((IT MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL).
Photos 1 - 4 trashed Nightingale territory (Brookland)
5 - 6 Bramble vegetation cut Brookland)
7 Nightingale territory on 25th,before being trashed (Brookland).
8 - Trashed Nightingale territory (Brook House,Country Park)
9 - S W S
Yes Alan and they think they are doing the right thing.
ReplyDeleteThey turn up,not knowing what`s breeding and trash the area.
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