I am gutted to say that, after more than 21 years of living in this neighbourhood, an integral part of the scenery is being cut down as I type:
We've seen other, smaller, trees being cut down in our time here but this is easily the biggest one. The worst thing is that when Limpy went to investigate why it was going the tree surgeon's response was 'because we can'. Absolutely gutted.
Sad.
It seems to be the way these days, to chop trees down. We had someone chop down two large trees a couple of years ago, which resulted in a pair of buzzards disappearing. I can only guess they found a new home, though we do have buzzards in the area again.
Many of you will recall the issues with trees being chopped down in Sheffield during the last year or so, in an industrial fashion.
Locally here, not just trees chopped down, but complete woodland areas are being decimated!
All the woodland and fields I used to play in as a child, are now housing estates, retail or business parks, and what was left, is HS2!
They call it progress!
We have two trees in our garden, a sycamore and cherry, both of which will stay with us unless their health dictates otherwise, though there are and never have been any nests in them, they do provide a perching area, so I have them trimmed around October time, every 3-4 years.