Edgelands are so important, as you say. Here in Edinburgh, the council have bulldozed most of a park and a complete woodland to make way for a cyclepath (and ironically, are planning to turn another, wooded, cyclepath into a tramway with the resulting loss of more vegetation. The lack of joined up thinking is shocking as is the loss of valuable habitat.
That is dreadful ... but not at all surprising. My current fight is a small meadow opposite a senior's residence that the town has recently purchased ... the prior owner used to scalp it to dirt mid-July but I have hopes it will be better managed this year at least.
What a relief about the redpolls!
Edgelands are so important, as you say. Here in Edinburgh, the council have bulldozed most of a park and a complete woodland to make way for a cyclepath (and ironically, are planning to turn another, wooded, cyclepath into a tramway with the resulting loss of more vegetation. The lack of joined up thinking is shocking as is the loss of valuable habitat.
That is dreadful ... but not at all surprising. My current fight is a small meadow opposite a senior's residence that the town has recently purchased ... the prior owner used to scalp it to dirt mid-July but I have hopes it will be better managed this year at least.
https://1001species.substack.com/p/the-maxwell-meadow
I read about the meadow there, thanks for pointing me to that post. I hope it's better managed this year.
As always, a delightful and enlightening read. And I do love our local flycatchers.
Thanks for speaking up for the edgelands. Their importance for wildlife is too often overlooked.