Hello all and help

[squeek]

Originally Posted by david156

hi.

If you want some trees, it was mentioned on Autumnwatch that some trees are being given away free. Try here.

BBC - Breathing Places - Tree O'Clock

thanks for that, we heard about a similar scheme but lost that info. our garden has a few gaps in the hedge/trees. hope they are still giving them away.

[Scar_Magrar]

many thanks for all the replies, its horrible looking out at the back now, if i could post a pic i would

with the new houses going up behind ours and now that the trees have gone, they will be able to see into our bedrooms.

also in the mornings now the birds and squirrels have gone, no lovely robins, blackbirds, magpies and other assorted birds that i dont even know the name of.

if anything, its made me more aware of how lovely the trees were and how much we miss the wildlife..

i have complained to the council, the TPO office, the builders and my MP

we will have to wait and see what happens


many thanks

[Jason Claxton]

Hi,best of luck with it, and hope you enjoy WABJason

[posie]

Yes as Jason says, Good Luck, and I'm interested in your Avatar, though it's not brobably appropriate to discuss it on Wildlife thread, but you could put some info on your profile page I think. (Not sure)... Anyway, Best of Luck with that campaigne as well....Posie...

[squeek]

aww thats so sad
i wish you the very best of luck

i feel very lucky indeed with the wildlife i have visit my garden

the neighbour who cut down all their trees where i live, were a bit silly as they have no privacy, plus it must cut down all their wildlife visitors.
plus they done it when birds were nesting, i was very angry at the time !

[posie]

I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but in this area, people who do hedgecutting (with tractor and hedgecutter and some work by hand) as part of their living, will only do it out of the nesting season, no matter how hard the person who is paying them to do it pleads or bullies. I admire them for this because they could lose work by it, but they stick to their principles, for the sake of the birds..

[ceterach]

Originally Posted by posie

I don't know if it's the same everywhere, but in this area, people who do hedgecutting (with tractor and hedgecutter and some work by hand) as part of their living, will only do it out of the nesting season, no matter how hard the person who is paying them to do it pleads or bullies. I admire them for this because they could lose work by it, but they stick to their principles, for the sake of the birds..

Hi Posie

Not so much principles but rather to avoid breaking the law.

All the best

[Tursiops2]

Originally Posted by Scar_Magrar

any ideas what i can plant again and what actual trees to plant

Silver Birch - fast growing, attractive, good for wildlife. Also Hawthorn, Hazel, Rowan, Crab Apple, Field Maple - all good for wildlife.

Welcome to WAB
T2

[posie]

Originally Posted by ceterach

Hi Posie

Not so much principles but rather to avoid breaking the law.

All the best

JOHN...What a cynical thing to say. You do not know these men or their reasons.
How dare you make that sweeping statement. How dare you say that what I have said is not true. What right do you have to say that about people you do not know.Perhaps you would like to rephrase your post AND apologise to me for infering that my words were untrue. ........POSIE..

[ceterach]

Posie

Sorry, there was nothing cynical about it. I was merely pointing out (obviously too briefly) that their principles are subsidary to the fact that they would almost certainly be breaking the law.

Section 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 prohibits the intentional disturbance of nesting birds and although there is the potential for a "sorry guv, didn't know they were there" defence there are many other guidlines reinforcing the Act and so that does not wash nowadays.

Any professional (who may have not done it anyway because of his principles) would be aware of the law. Law takes precedence over principles (and applies to amateurs as much as professionals).

Sorry for my brevity.

All the best

Originally Posted by posie

JOHN...What a cynical thing to say. You do not know these men or their reasons.
How dare you make that sweeping statement. How dare you say that what I have said is not true. What right do you have to say that about people you do not know.Perhaps you would like to rephrase your post AND apologise to me for infering that my words were untrue. ........POSIE..