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The Flood Plain

Scything complete.

Start of the day.

Scything sedge.

Tea time.

Pollarding willows.

Afternoon, lots of sedge cut and piled.

Group photo. Excellent job everyone!

A stand of willows ready to be coppiced to let ligh on the stream and meadow.

Perfect fell

Start for the felling cut

Work in progress

End of the day, stupms will be taken down by chainsaw

Brash pile

Log pile

A plume of water fleas.

First area to cut, a mix of sedge, canary grass and water mint.

Setting up the scythes.

Work in progress.

Scythes at work.

Patches of water mint (Mentha aquatica) and water forget (Myosotis scorpioides) were left as the flowers are good for insects.

Cut and raked. Cuttings added to the habitat piles.

Greater water parsnip (Sium latifolium) is a nationally rare species.