Eagles nest?

We called our arborist friends at Orchard Tree Care in this week to take down two failing firs.

A massive job for Nathan and Luke!

Removing the ailing trees would allow sunlight into the wood and give our native deciduous trees chance to flourish. Silver birch, rowan and field maple will now thrive. Holly too.

In doing so, they exposed a straggling, ivy-covered, lollipop-topped conifer that could be tipped over onto the surrounding trees or boundary fence in strong winds.

They proposed removing it.

But I had a ‘better’, certainly more eccentric, idea.

We’d get them to ‘top’ the tree at 35 feet. And then all they had to do was haul a wooden pallet up, stuffed full of brash to resemble a tree top nest. Once up there they had to secure it with six inch nails to make it secure. But the lads were game.

And here we have it…

Breeding storks? Ospreys? Buzzards? Red kites? Herons? Ravens? White-tailed eagles this way?!

Listen to me .. the BBC Springwatch team will be wanting to feature us and inevitably we’ll be asked to reserve a whopping parking space for Chris Packham’s limo and his entourage…