The dark shape is the stump of a tree cut down in winter last year. This area had been protected from bracken by the large mature trees. Now the bracken is returning and will soon dominate unchecked by the natural competition from birch.
"Well we can spray weedkiller on it as you do in a nature reserve"
"But I thought that the EU had banned Asulox weedkiller?"
"Oh no we can get round that. Anyway we're voting for Brexit. We're sure Govey and Bojo will make sure we 're allowed to poison as much as we like.
............ after all it's a nature reserve you know"
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