I'll be posting some short blogs for the events we've run to date as I know that we're a little behind on the biodiversity blog!
Back in April found a small number of us at Kingston Hill working to dig out rhododendron roots in an area which both volunteers and contracts had been clearing over the winter.
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| The area of the woods prior to digging |
As it was bird nesting season, we couldn't remove anything tall enough or dense enough to support ground or areal nesting birds, but there was plenty of single trunk stumps left for us to work on.
Little did we know that the two main stumps as shown at the top of the triplicate photo above, would prove to be giant icebergs and result in having to dig out the roots to the level that we could then bury tied volunteers (all to make sure the area looked nice and tidy afterwards :)
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| The root pile at the end showed the extent of the unearthing! - hard work, but worth it |
We were lucky enough to see lots of wildlife while on site, with birds calling all around us and lots of butterflies around, including a violet ground beetle and a red admiral that had been resting under a log, but soon flew off once it had warmed up in the sun.
We also spotted this tiny Nomad bee (Nomada sp) (identification thanks to Rosie and Lee). Nomad bees are one of the bees that are the cuckoos of the bee world, in that they lay their eggs in the nests of solitary bees and allow them to rear their young.
We are still debating the species so if any of you invertebrate experts can help ID from this image, please pop the answers in the chat below :)
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