Brendan MinishNov 7, 2022
A caterpillar I found in May, A Mottled Umber perhaps.
We have a 22 Acre field of wet grassland that we have been rewilding over the last 25 years and it's slowly becoming a woodland teeming with wildlife.
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We very lightly Graze it with a few elderly horses, they do nearly all the work involved with keeping trails open for us to enjoy it.
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At 'scale' it looks a bit 'messy' but here you can see the trees self -seeding.
The bramble thickets and gorse act as tree nurseries by keeping predators away from seedlings.
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The real beauty is that when left alone, nature will set about occupying every part of the ecosystem.
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Throughout the year the fungal systems are very busy transporting and recycling nutrients throughout the soil system.

we only get to see a tiny proportion of the of fungal 'web' as ~95% of the activity is below ground but at this time of year we get to see the fruiting bodies.

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here's some very small fungal fruiting bodies
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At this time of year the edges of our field flood, during the spring and summer these are very fertile places.
#rewilding
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Even on these wet & windy Irish winter days, colours can be found.
#rewilding
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In support of the awesome & beautiful hash-tag #LichenSubscribe

Here are some photos from recent wanderings around our #Rewilding land.

Nov 10, 2022 at 6:35pmWeb