Recent Work

TRACTOR WHEEL: A discarded tractor wheel has eventually become overgrown with climbers, ground vegetation and moss.

Tractor Wheel

MILK CHURN: A battered milk churn with its bottom rusted out.

Milk Churn

ANCIENT VEHICLE CHASSIS.: A vehicle chassis from the 1930s or 1940s lies on its back rusting in the forest margin.

Ancient vehicle chassis.

RUSTING WHEEL: A recently upturned wheel lies rusting deep in the woods.

Rusting wheel

COLLAPSED HUT: All that remains of this forest shelter is the corrugated iron roof, some galvanised guttering and some planks of wood.

Collapsed Hut

RUSTY PHEASANT FEEDER: A home-made pheasant feeder lies rusting in the understory.

Rusty Pheasant Feeder

FOREST BIVOUAC: A part built bivouac erected in the middle of a fir tree plantation.

Forest Bivouac

IMPROVISED SHELTER: The builders of this improvised shelter used the available trees to construct a two-storey hut complete with a fireplace.

Improvised Shelter

ABANDONED TRAILER: A van trailer lies abandoned and overgrown in the heart of the forest.

Abandoned Trailer

CORRUGATED IRON: Sheets of corrugated iron lie amongst the fir trees.

Corrugated Iron

ASBESTOS DUMP: Probably seen as too difficult to recycle, a pile of asbestos roofing has been dumped in the middle of the woods.

Asbestos dump

FRIDGE: An ancient quarry has been filled with a range of household and farm discards.

Fridge

CUCKOO BEE: A cuckoo bee, Nomada flava, is captured drinking nectar from white flowers. This species does not make its own nest. It lays its eggs in the nests of miner bees.

Cuckoo bee

LARGE RED DAMSELFLY: A Large Red Damselfly rests on a blade of variegated aquatic grass.

Large Red Damselfly

SOUTHERN HAWKER DRAGONFLY.: A Southern Hawker dragonfly, Aeshna cyanea, emerges from the nymph.

Southern Hawker dragonfly.

BARRED GRASS SNAKE, NATRIX HELVETICA.: A Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica, hunts for frogs and newts in a garden pond.

Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica.

BARRED GRASS SNAKE, NATRIX HELVETICA.: A Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica, hunts for frogs and newts in a garden pond.

Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica.

BARRED GRASS SNAKE, NATRIX HELVETICA.: A Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica, hunts for frogs and newts in a garden pond.

Barred Grass Snake, Natrix helvetica.