A Perfect Marriage

The fauna and the vegetation are an ideal match. New fresh young trees and lush green undergrowth are just the thing to attract the wildlife that thrives in this setting. Simply looking at it confirms this. No amount of farm and grouse moor management in the past would have produced the excitement of this spring. Another sudden encounter this morning with wild deer and overwhelming explosions of birdsong.

We know this would not have happened like this if the managers had been in control for the last 50 years. And yes we know it's changing and we like change that is natural change, restoring something that was removed when unbalanced management exploited the vegetation for one specialised purpose. And I can put up with bramble and bracken and other minor irritations rather than the huge intrusion of barbed wire and barriers and clipboard-toting managers.