or the woodland being created by me at the Hall of Heddle. just ordered my winter stock for planting, (hazel, hawthorne whitebeam, willow ,alder, rowan and birch) a further 500 to add to the 1200 or so already in the ground, to augment the three and a half acres of naturalising garden landscaping i am doing. the big problem this year is that winter started in July, that makes it a long haul to May 2008. i already have symptoms of SAD which doesn't normally happen until mid December. everyone in the uk has had a bad summer but we seem to simply have missed it altogether this year. feral cats and domestic cats that range widely for hunting are absolute vermin, especially here due the ground nesting nature of many of our birds. if the RSPB were brave they would campaign very loud and hard for rigorous and thorough pest control measures but unfortunately cats have very good PR and they say very little. Any found on my land are very unwelcome indeed. Hen Harrier nesting at Durkadale starts in about a month as breeding pairs split up and is an amazing place to go at sunset on a beautiful winters night. simon ----- Original Message ---- From: Norman Tulloch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, 9 September, 2007 5:35:54 PM Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] Wind On woodlands, how about the Happy Valley, created by the late Edwin Harrold in Stenness? http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1262/1350613235_c14dac8918_o.jpg ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message