Bridgewood pictures

See also the Bridgewood weblog posts for more about the wood. These pictures are sorted in date order so you can see how the site has progressed.

Holding Pen (10 May 10)
The Holding Pen in its clearing at Bridgewood.

Holding Pen (9 May 10)
The Holding Pen in its clearing at Bridgewood.

Wire, trees, and sky (3 May 10)
I've started building a holding pen at Bridgewood.

Eric's Gate (25 Apr 10)
Eric's Gate, located in a specially cut clearing that leads off the Middle Ride.

Signpost at the start of the North Ride (25 Apr 10)
The signpost in the T-Junction, at one end of the North Ride.

Signpost at the T-Junction (25 Apr 10)
The signpost in the T-Junction.

Treepod (5 Apr 10)
The "Treepod" is a hazel tree with three equidistant trunks, each about 6 inches in diameter. Before it was created in summer 2009, there were many more smaller stems, but I cut them back to reveal the three main trunks. It makes a good natural substitute for a St Andrew's Cross, and it's possible to use it for suspension work by lashing rope to the trunks.

Eric's Gate (4 Apr 10)
Eric's Gate at Bridgewood made by EricStanton in summer 2009.

Whipping Frame (4 Apr 10)
Whipping Frame and leather cuffs in the Glade at Bridgewood. The frame was made in summer 2009, using hazel poles cut in the wood a few days earlier.

North Ride with felled trees (8 Mar 10)
A stretch of the North Ride, on the the right of the photo, with a row of felled poplars that I took down to let more light in and encourage more undergrowth to come up. The crowns of these bigger trees will also provide some screening near the boundary of the wood for a few years. Once the brambles, grasses, nettles, and other annuals have grown up, these branches will be draped with a tangle of stems that will even last through the winter.

A buzzard, perched high in the branches (8 Mar 10)
On the day I took this picture of a buzzard, high in the branches of an ash tree, there seemed to be several buzzards around, soaring overhead or flying out into the fields and then back into the high trees in the wood. The pheasants were understandably quite skittish too!

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