Low impact forestry in a small Scottish woodland
There is a feeling of spring in the air. The woods are suddenly full of birdsong – song thrushes, mistle thrushes, robins, chaffinches, various tits and even a blackbird today. The ditch is full of frogspawn and croaking frogs. However, it’s still early and the woods remain in winter mode. Much of the vegetation has […]
A woodland wander in early December took me past the Comar Wood holly tree, which seemed to make a good topic for a Yuletide blog post – so here it is. As far as I am aware, there is only one holly tree in our wood. It’s on a steep hillside amongst birch trees in […]
I find the month of November a very satisfying time of year to be in the woods. During the November that has just ended I have been trying to think exactly why this is. It has something to do with the sense of withdrawal and dormancy, plants and animals retracting for the winter. The visible […]
Following on from the previous post about what we currently have in the woodland, here is an overview of the proposed management plan. I fully expect that elements of it will change as I experience the realities of putting it into practice, but this is the current version. As you will have gathered, although it […]
Here is a more detailed description of the current state of the woodland. (For the idiot’s guide see my earlier post (https://womaninthewoods.net/we-bought-a-wood/). There is a post coming soon about our proposed management plan – they’re sort of linked, so I hope you are paying attention! Where is it? Comar Wood is in Strathglass, a fairly […]
Since I started spending a lot of time in Comar Wood I have realised that the species of birds that are most evident or noticeable varies with the time of year. In some cases this is because they only spend part of their year here and in other cases because they are more active or […]
All the wet weather recently has at least been good for one thing: mushrooms are popping up all over the place in the wood. Mushroom season has begun! The lack of ground cover under the spruce means it is easy to spot lots of different mushrooms and there are plenty of types that seem to […]
