Very few birds sing in autumn but Robins are thought to be setting out territories for winter feeding at this time of year. If that is the case, we shall be seeing more of this one as it was singing outside the front of the house for quite a while today.
I walked in the Sweet chestnut coppice wood this afternoon. A few chestnuts are falling off the trees but they are stuck in their spiny cases and are not likely to be ripe for a month or so. Coppicing allows a huge range of wildlife to live in the wood as there should be areas of sunlight with some areas of full shade and everything inbetween. The timber (in this case mostly used for fence posts) can be cut, leaving the tree to regrow from the base. This process is sustainable over hundreds of years: I love to think about all the people who worked in the woods in the past and saw these same coppice stools. This woodland hasn't been coppiced for a while and there is such a large deer population that the regrowth would really need protecting if it were done now. Sadly my photos from last time these were cut are slides so I can't show them to you tonight!
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