Today we went to look around Kelling Heath. It's been years since we last were there. First impression was surprising - not only were there paths leading through much of the heath making so much of it completely accessible to walkers and less favourable for wildlife, also we couldn't understand why so much of the heath had been cut so short all at the same time. We understand that Silver Studded Blues occur here, and hope this practise of cutting the heather is tried and tested and does not adversely affect them.
There seemed to have been large scale cutting of heather covered areas.
There was a great deal of gorse, but the majority of heather was extremely short with taller clumps of the kind where Dartford Warbler will nest, very scare and mainly around the heath perimeter.
View towards Weybourne
Gorse plants are already flowering.
