Valentine's Day Massacre

About four years ago  a local school and myself put up a living willow shelter at the Scottish Wildlife Trust Cathkin Marsh site. A popular bird watching location and quite a unique area just south of Glasgow. However it seems the shelter became a regular spot for more amorous activities, which did not go down well with the local 'twitchers'. This resulted in one of the more unusual commissions to date, that is taking down a perfectly good live structure that had not been vandalised or over run  by some nasty willow disease.

It was a strange experience taking down the structure and seeing it as a pile of twigs at the side of the path.

However it was not all destruction, as I had another job to do. The local cows, who occasionally browse the Marsh, had caused their own damage to the original 'fedge'. This screen was put up to create cover for those entering the viewing platform in the hope it would not distract the birds. It was decided a new screen behind the old one would maintain the original purpose but be out of reach of the cows.

So happy cows and bird watchers but a bit of a Valentine's day disappointment for the more energetically romantic users of the Marsh.