Little Oak Lodge- 150 trees planted

In our drive to plant and own 3200 trees (800 tonnes of carbon per family member to offset a lifetime's carbon footprint) we planted a hedgerow of Wild Cherry, Wild Pear and Buckthorn yesterday at Little Oak Lodge. It was only 150 tree whips (which need to survive for 100 years!)  but this adds to the several hundred more mature trees we have on our Bulgaria site (which we will need to expand). Also we have a large margin of error as not only are we reducing our carbon use (to try and get below 10 tonne each a year which is the UK average) but also we are not carbon accounting for the soils and other plant life etc so 3200 trees on wilding land will hopefully be way beyond out family footprint so hopefullly we will be firmly nature positive. Not sure any of this is an exact science but broadly along the right lines. 

A Robin flew into the conservatory while we working and we had Reed Bunting, Firecrest and 2 Egyptian Geese go over too while in the garden. 

There have been a few rare moth migrants blown in with Storm Bert incuding a Levant Blackneck in Dorset (found by Joe). So I've been persisting with the moth trap but no such luck here. However there were a few moths yesterday night with 2 Rusty-dots,  Angle Shades, 2 December moth, November moth, Feathered Thorn and 2 Yellow-lined Quaker. The weather is set to improve this weekend for insect migrants so will keep at it despite it being winter!   

Hedgerow planting. Still want to add another 5-6 specimen trees across the garden and plant up borders and beds with plants for pollinators and also grow some wildflower margins

First-winter Robin - aged by moult contrast in greater coverts which have rusty colour hooks to the inner greater coverts