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Welcome to the Waresley and Gransden
Woods website
This website is dedicated to providing
information on all topics relating to the Waresley and Gransden Woods reserves of
The Wildlife
Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire.
For directions to visit the reserve follow this link.
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Autumnal Transformation
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21/11/2021 - at this time of year the woods are being rapidly
transformed as trees shred their leaves. While a few leaves still
remain at the lower levels, those in the high canopy have mostly
gone. Looking up now reveals more of the sky and the
silhouettes of trunks and branches.
Please
respect the Trust's wishes that visitors keep to the paths,
especially as the wood's paths can be muddier at this time of the
year - Graham.
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21/11/2021 - as you can see from the image below, the
"shelter" around the bench has now been fully coppiced and
extended. There just remains about five hazel poles to be
layered in this section before we move on to the next conservation
task (of more coppicing!).
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07/11/2021 - conservation work in the box junction coppice section
is nearly complete. Today I started to cut back the hazel
surrounding the bench in this area. My aim is to extend hazel
coverage at both ends so as to provide more shelter. Although
the results look brutal, so long as a part of the hazel's bark
remains intact, the stem will continue to live (I hope!).
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04/11/2021 - at this time of the year the three spindle trees planted
in Brownes' Pieces are aglow with colour. Their pink fruit cases
have opened to reveal the tree's orange seeds inside.
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Sunday
conservation
work parties are now running once a fortnight until March 2022
Contact
me for more details if you are interested in joining us
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Last Conservation Update
26/11/2021
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The coppice section shown above is one
of the quadrants in the box junction. This quadrant was last cut in
2015 and since then its hazel stools have grown sufficiently to
begin shading out ground flora. Click here
or the on the image to open the conservation work webpage to see our progress so far.
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