Monday, February 17, 2014

Cycling Fife Coastal Path Sustrans CTC


John at  Kinross 01577 862839.  
The cycle path around all of Loch Leven is nearly complete and makes a great day out.

www.davesbikeshed.co.uk - Aberdour repairs


Cycle path starts yards from our holiday cottage and woodland camp.
Go  to the pretty harbour down from Inverkeithing High street,
 opposite Sandy Wallace cycles.
Walk or cycle along the estuary to Dalgety Bay and Aberdour.
Then as far as you like.
Look for the Chain walk.


Many who are cycling or walking for charity or fundraising or Lands end to John O'Groats
use our camp as an overnight stop. We are on the old north road (B981).
For example  Richard Toole, who is disabled, plans to walk from the Tay bridge to the Forth road bridge. - http://stores.lulu.com/RICHARDTOOLE
and http://www.justgiving.com/richards40dayshike09
and Richard Barr at http://www.cancerwalker.com/
See Google cycle link http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/03/biking_directions_added_to_goo.html

John at  Kinross 01577 862839.  
The cycle path around all of Loch Leven is nearly complete and makes a great day out.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Plants in woodland. Ancient woodland

Our woodland and meadows:-
11.5.2014
Speedwell at "Moonbeam" pitch


28.1.2014


 1.7.2013
Scarlet Pimpernel at "Axis" pitch

Wild mustard

Wild strawberries

Grasses




28.6.2013
Purple clover

Queen Anne lace



Yellow vetch

17.6.2013
Wood Avens


11.6.2013
Orchid and buttercup
Speedwell and purple vetch


Clover, stitchwort and horsetail

10.5.13 

 Wild whitecurrants


Emerging Ferns

Primroses at shack



Leopardsbane


Bluebells


Forget me not (mysotis)
Lesser celandines
Fernscomfrey


Apparently there are a few ways to tell if woodland is ancient,:-

1. If it is shown on early maps,

2.If it is irregular shape and not a rectangle as with modern tree planting because it is easier to fence.

3.Woodland on slopes was not easy to clear or farm, so it got left where it was.

4.Native primroses are paler yellow and native bluebells hang to one side.

5. Existence of ancient hollow way (an old track pasing through the middle of the wood.)

All of the above are evident in the valley of what is called "Hidden valley" on old local maps.


yellow archangel




scarlet pimpernel at entrance to "Hoot"

Primroses on the valley embankment.


Orange hawkbit at "Hawk"  near "Aero"


3 kinds of orchid:-
Early spotted, common spotted pyramid?


Thursday, January 23, 2014

Monday, January 20, 2014

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Animals - Hare video

Hare 2.1.2014
Just hopping around on the pitch "Axis".


Fungus - Algae - Moss - Lichen

25.3.2014
yellow moss on stick


20.1.2014 Doing some repairs at the campsite steps
 and saw this yellow frilly edged fungus


Spotted 2.1.2014




Velvet shank fungus on Pitch "Ox"

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Maintenance of woodland - Video of tree limb felling 2014

17.3.2014
Woodland spring cleaning - a leaning sycamore trunk


Felling for safety, more light and drying out pitch.
Video






 and of course a dead hedge windbreak using the brushwood





.....
10.12.2014
A bank of tangled elderberry scrub





and brush for dead hedging

a few buckets of debris