Scotney Castle in the gloom

Looking for Hawfinches, but only found Mistle Thrushes, Blackbirds, Starlings, Greenfinch, Chaffinches and Blue Tits. Wandered around the car-park, and walking along the parkland/farmland trail anti-clockwise, deviating through Colliers Wood a little.

This is an interesting sign, but does not absolve the landowner from completing the normal visual tree safety and other assessments.

The woods had many monitoring tubes in them, all marked by hazard tape:

Out on the fields the oak trees had some tall modified Tulley tubes to protect them: