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Or risked being fined £5000!
Give the birds a chance and leave it til late july at least
At the risk of bringing an old discussion up again, why should every hedge in the UK suddenly be OK to cut in late July, or later? I had blackbirds with young in my own hedge at home until well in to September last year; you have to treat every hedge individually, and judge it for yourself. There's no "safe" time that fits neatly on to a calendar, and any decent client will respect you explaining that there are baby birds in the hedge and you'll cut it as soon as they've left the nest.
Simon Smith said:
This is one of the very few areas where practitioners are trusted by law. Therefore is it not possible to actually put a supplementary charge on top of the work which pays you to survey the whole hedge, before work - looking and recording for any nesting birds? Thus avoiding a heavy fine as well as making extra money. If the LJN was to provide a downloadable pdf to print out explaining this with a method of surveying - would it be helpful (and help stop the calls for 'independent' consultants taking such money away from the practitioner base)?
We have one, dare I say it for pesticides, that we include in our commercial packs and give to residential clients.
If there were an element of an 'independant source', clients would be more accepting and not think they are being 'played'
I try to wait as long as possible as it helps nesting birds and also if you cut too early you might have to re-cut again before the winter.
Ok, so if I check for birds nests & wait until around the end of July I'm good to go?
its usually OK if you are just trimming this year growth. privet hedges get cut about 5 times a year hawthorn twice conifers sometimes twice depending on the customer
Depends so much on what the hedge is, and what the customer wants. I've cut all my Lonicera Nitida twice already, thanks to all the designers who recommend it! Privet has been done once, conifers are looking very overdue, and laurel is almost ready. Beech is slow this year where I am, but as my garden backs in to a beech wood I'm not surprised, as it was very late coming in to leaf.
Robbie Lynn said:
I have lightly trimmed to hedges to keep it into shape but always fully check for nesting birds prior to doing this.
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