The Man Who Counts Butterflies
All through the winter massive changes were happening in the woods, as a change of owner bought in new woodland management policies. The Midland Bank Pension fund had sold it on. Now, the Kent Wildlife Trust have cleared large areas of pine trees to allow livestock to graze in large fenced off areas of land.
Highland cattle were bought in during the spring but suddenly dissapeared a month or two ago.
I wondered if they had been ‘Rustled’?
But yesterday I met a man counting butterflies who told me the recent hard winter had lowered the population of certain butterfly spieces. He also told me that Highland Cattle eat by wrapping their tongue around long grass and pulling it out of the ground. Now as their grazing area used to be thick pine trees and has only existed since the spring it has not established long grass yet, they ate the long grass and are unable to eat the short grass and have been moved to another woodland in Kent.
What was astonishing, was just how orange these cows actually are. May be the green of the woodland (which is really really green) exagerated it. But a great colour combination.
