Blacka Moor: February 2007

I've found 8 am to be a good time to have a chance of seeing deer on Blacka. They seem to enjoy the wildness of the place with a mix of fairly dense woodland and young birch (dismissively referred to as scrub by land managers).

Some Abbreviations

S.C.C. = Sheffield City Council

S.W.T. = Sheffield Wildlife Trust (note that there are many other SWTs, e.g. Surrey, Sussex, Staffordshire Wildlife Trusts - here it's definitely Sheffield Wildlife Trust)

SRWT = Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust - what SWT has begun to call itself. Sometimes facetiously referred to as SRAWT (i.e. Sheffield and Rotherhan Anti-Wildlife Trust)

N.E. = Natural England (sometimes flippantly referred to as Unnatural England)

P.D.N.P.A. = Peak District National Park Authority
C.P.R.E. = Campaign to Protect Rural England

FoBM = Friends of Blacka Moor

E.M.P = Eastern Peak District Moors Partnership

S.M.P. = Sheffield Moors Partnership

Blacka Moor

Thursday, 1 February 2007

Red deer browsing