It is difficult now to see the results of the fire, other than most of the fire damaged trees on the boundary have now died. Some have already snapped off or even fallen. Which is really rather rapid decay.
The noted effects include
- burnt pine fungus appearing
- a lot of grass initially growing on the four counties side, which became a favourite place for reed buntings, for the seed. Up to 100. These in turn attracted the odd great grey shrike.
- a number of the fence posts were so badly burned that we ended up replacing them
- now there is quite a nice lot of heather on the four counties side. You can just see the edge of the fire area
- we are talking about having more fire breaks, though i doubt if any fire breaks would have stopped this fire by iteself.
a few comments in the captions
martin
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| looking north with fence on the bank on the right |
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| the main area of burning on Old Lodge, from the track north westward | towards the bench |
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| looking a bit more north towards foresters cottage |
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| near a burnt environment pile, towards the boundary bank, some bilbury did not burn |
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| fire brigade landrovers rushed up and down the boundary, and held the line |
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