A brief flight up through a break in the low cloud above the field.
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Category: Tipton’s Croft
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Poor ash
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It looked perfectly healthy, but a storm brought down this 200 year old ash tree. At least we’re not short of firewood for the next few winters.
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Freezing fog
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Category: Tipton’s CroftA frozen owl and a Garden Orb-Weaver in its web.
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Autumn hornbeam
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Lots of sky
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Category: Tipton’s Croft
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The Restoration: during
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Category: Tipton’s CroftNew gates, fences, paths. And no more rusty metal.
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The Restoration: before we started
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Category: Tipton’s Croft
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Yuk
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Category: The Old PondA grey, smelly, overgrown puddle, but with a bit of effort we hope to bring this old pond back to life.
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Hooty
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Category: Barn OwlsThe first sighting of this most beautiful of creatures, and a good incentive for the work ahead of us.
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2016 The Beginning
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Category: Tipton’s CroftIn March 2016 we took ownership of the field and started down a long road of restoration with the aim creating a natural wildlife haven based on a traditional English meadow.
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2009 A desert in Shropshire
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Category: Tipton’s CroftIntensive farming can create a desert-like landscape almost devoid of wildlife. Fortunately the field was soon afterwards abandoned to nature.
(photo courtesy of Google Maps)
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1838 Tithe map
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Category: Tipton’s CroftShowing the croft (No. 318), with almost exactly the same boundaries as today. Occupied by a Mr Richard Tipton, hence ‘Tipton’s Croft’.
