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Cold morning and thankfully the Wild Life Area is neither wet or much dirty. It is actually a fine wintry morning, the kind that were we living in the countryside would make a good case for a stroll.
As it is it makes instead, citizen, long for the warm embrace of the bed.
In any case the usual suspects turn up.
It is a pleasure to see that the earth embankment that has been built in the previous year is doing well, dumping down the wattle hedge put in place by the BBC initiative but always a problem as a fire invitation. Yet again apart for a largish fire we have been lucky. The wattle underneath is slowly decaying and gently giving way while the top is being colonised by plants communities. eventually it will become a raised embankment and hopefully by the time some kind of fence will delineate the area more open to the public to the one less accessible. Still there have been some minor problems with homeless, poor people, making a sort of camp under the overgrown Buddleia clumps behind the embankment and some prostitution activity during the summer in the same place.
Yet again there has been a lowering of the level of rubbish dumping partly due to our increase clean up operations and partly because fly tipping has subsided a little. But in a place like this you never sure things improve slowly and deteriorate quickly.
All together however the place looked in better shape than have been for some time.
Some fox hunting activity present is always a good sign. The Oak (Quercus robur) that was planted earlier on in the autumn after the tree-surgeons arbitrarily cut down one of the old elder trees [the details of how the oak has been obtained is contained in the page notes] on the site (of course no sign of any kind tell people that this is part of the park!!) is doing reasonably well ie has not been broken up or chewed by dogs to smithereens and I have great hope for it. It may well be, if it survives, that this wild life corner of the park, will be maybe saved in future years, by this single iconic tree.
Lets hope that the area will never come to be threaten again but the presence of the oak is one more arrow in the quiver for this most unlikely place survival.
Some rubbish but not much and we did a good cleaning job anyway.
At the end one could even forget that the site has spontaneously evolved upon the ruins of demolished buildings. In fact this is what would happen to cities if they were abandoned. A sobering thought indeed.
So we managed at the end to collect a seizable amount of rubbish. It shows that no matter how much one strives there is always more refuse than the chance of carting it away !!
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