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Defra Blame EU for August Hedgecutting Ban
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<blockquote data-quote="ARW" data-source="post: 570700" data-attributes="member: 1910"><p>Imo biannual trimming ruins a prefect habitat for small nesting birds. A hedge cut annually will produce fruit every year and even after been cut it can still contain fruit where the machine has not touched. </p><p>The best Farm hedges I cut is about 500 acres, cut every year in February on the grass margins, leaving fruit all winter and creating a good habit come march for nesting period. </p><p>Biannual cutting was brought in so there is more winter forage but from what I see every year hedge trimming, the biannual hedges leafless, open, giving no shelter to nesting birds only pigeons!</p><p>With the cutting date moving to the 1st of September a lot less arable land hedges will get cut so we will probably see hedges getting 3-4 years growth on them before they get trimmed therfore leaving less hedges for small nesting birds.</p><p>For example we cut 500 hours worth of hedges in August, about 300-400 in september then we start grasses and roadsides. In this area most land is started to be drilled mid september and alot are finished by early October. So in theory we would have to compete 700-800 hours hedgecutting in september which is impossible. We will loose custom and there will be a shortage of a hedgecutter available in the short period of september, alot hedges will be left and try and cut them the next year. </p><p>We find this abit awkward as we see no real advantage as the only bird still nesting in August is pigeons. </p><p>More pigeons Yayyyyyy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ARW, post: 570700, member: 1910"] Imo biannual trimming ruins a prefect habitat for small nesting birds. A hedge cut annually will produce fruit every year and even after been cut it can still contain fruit where the machine has not touched. The best Farm hedges I cut is about 500 acres, cut every year in February on the grass margins, leaving fruit all winter and creating a good habit come march for nesting period. Biannual cutting was brought in so there is more winter forage but from what I see every year hedge trimming, the biannual hedges leafless, open, giving no shelter to nesting birds only pigeons! With the cutting date moving to the 1st of September a lot less arable land hedges will get cut so we will probably see hedges getting 3-4 years growth on them before they get trimmed therfore leaving less hedges for small nesting birds. For example we cut 500 hours worth of hedges in August, about 300-400 in september then we start grasses and roadsides. In this area most land is started to be drilled mid september and alot are finished by early October. So in theory we would have to compete 700-800 hours hedgecutting in september which is impossible. We will loose custom and there will be a shortage of a hedgecutter available in the short period of september, alot hedges will be left and try and cut them the next year. We find this abit awkward as we see no real advantage as the only bird still nesting in August is pigeons. More pigeons Yayyyyyy! [/QUOTE]
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