Showing posts with label hedge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hedge. Show all posts
Saturday, August 25, 2018

The American Enclosure Movement

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Female bluebird on barbed wire. The Enclosure Movement in the U.K. had a profound impact on the land, farms, and people in that coun...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Ghetto Palms In the Hedge

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It's a long way from "Tree of Heaven" to "Ghetto Palm," but that's the linguistic path that  Ailanthus alti...
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Friday, January 23, 2015

Record Numbers in the Hedge

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This is a repost from 2007. See side bar to this blog to order this, and other designs, on T-shirts, etc.  All money goes to support terr...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Attack of the Leafy Spurge

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This is the post no one will read. At some level, I don't blame them -- it's hard to learn about plants without seeing them, and s...
Friday, February 15, 2013

The Rise of Muliflora Rose

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When out digging the dogs, it is not uncommon to find a sette under a thick break of multiflora rose, with perhaps a few broken strands ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Hedge Craft: Good Things from the Hedge

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As I have noted before , you cannot really understand the history of dogs until you understand the Enclosure Movement in the U.K., which b...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Rebuilding a Hedgerow Sette

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Rebuilding a hedgerow sette is one of those things you should be doing . Sette reconstruction is not terribly difficult -- it's si...
Monday, March 16, 2009

If You Come Across a Fox Sette This Time of Year

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You can never be too careful this time of year, as fox can sometimes be found in groundhog settes that otherwise have little or no evidence...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Winged Weapons of Mouse Destruction

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A young Falco sparverius . The American Kestrel or Sparrow Hawk, sometimes called a "spar", is actually a small falcon. Humans lik...
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Sunday, May 06, 2007

Happy in the Hedge

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Mountain fresh from the hole . Today was nice and cool -- actually a little cold with the wind howling over the flat fields, but sunny all ...
Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Cruel Spring

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On the way to a farm on Sunday, I passed a small yellow-coated vixen that had been struck on the highway and killed within the last 30 minu...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

Hazards in the Hedge

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Teddy Moritz with Harris hawk, dachshund and rabbits. Teddy has worked dogs for 40 years, starting with a bull terrier and then moving to Ru...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Glass Middens

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There are odd things you find again and again in the woods, and one of them you stumble across every once in a while is an area replete wit...
Thursday, October 05, 2006

Virginia is Just Like Shropshire?

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The Fauquier Times Democrat (Virginia) has a piece on the huntsman for the Piedmont Foxhounds who compares Fauquier County, Virginia to Sh...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

Box Turtle Days

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Last week Chris and I found a box turtle cruising down a row of recently mowed barley. He seemed no worse the wear for having had a combine ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

The Mammoth in the Hedge

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Mammoths roamed the Eastern United States, just 9,000 year ago. Unbelievably, Steve and I were beat out by actor Ted Danson. Danson beat u...
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Sunday, June 11, 2006

A Few Hours in the Hedge

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A large plume of kickout, and the size of this hole, makes me think this is a fox sette. No one was home on this fine day ( no surpise in Ju...
Tuesday, May 23, 2006

The Multiflora Rose Is In Bloom

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When out digging the dogs, it is not uncommon to find a sette under a thick break of multiflora rose , with perhaps a few broken strands of ...
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