A Week on the Estate: Blue Skies, Agile Owl & Wolds Festival
We’re thoroughly enjoying this spell of high pressure and the calm, blue-sky days it’s giving us. Nesting birds, pollinating bees and our hard-working Estate team are making the most of it and building for a brighter future.
Life on a country estate is all about planning ahead. The weather may be getting warmer, but the Saturday Club are laying in fuel for next winter. Nearby in the Walled Garden, Clint Coughlan has given the lawn its first mow of the season and his rows are commendably neat and tidy. Out in the fields, Chris Hall and Jonny Clark have been busy ploughing ahead of the spring drilling programme.
Storm Eunice and her friends took their toll on our woodlands and casualties included a venerable beech tree. We’re harvesting the timber which will help us heat the Hall sustainably as biomass, and grow fresh produce around the Estate as wood chips.
Damian Furlong captured the aerial antics of one of our thriving barn owls. We particularly enjoyed the image of the owl appearing to give Damian an exasperated look for interrupting breakfast.