When cattle are brought in to do a job of work on Blacka part of their role will be to eat young trees to prevent them becoming older trees. Usually the tree mentioned as being the target is birch. Many people may not be aware that there is a quantity of young oak and other species which will also probably be eaten.
This is a pity in my view. I still think there is an inevitability about this site eventually progressing to woodland in the long term and that this can be managed with a light touch most effectively by an on-site worker. The deer that have come onto the site in recent years already browse saplings and it's hard to believe that the bovine brigade are the ideal characters to fine tune this process.
There are many saplings like this on Blacka and large numbers on Lenny Hill.
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