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Tringa
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A year on Jul 24, 2019 14:17:58 GMT teasel likes this

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Post by Tringa on Jul 24, 2019 14:17:58 GMT

Last July there was a large grass fire on Wanstead Flats, east London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanstead_Flats)

Just after the fire I took a few photos and repeated them today to record the re-growth.

Some areas are still quite barren but others have recovered well. The Common Ragwort seems to be doing particularly well and the plants are covered in Cinnabar Moth caterpillars.

A few shots from last year and today.

Fire 1 by Dave Marley, on Flickr

Fire 1_2019 by Dave Marley, on Flickr

Fire 4 by Dave Marley, on Flickr

Fire 4_2019 by Dave Marley, on Flickr

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Last Edit: Jul 24, 2019 14:22:51 GMT by Tringa

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A year on Jul 26, 2019 8:19:39 GMT

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Post by NellyDee on Jul 26, 2019 8:19:39 GMT

I am always surprised at how quickly nature recovers after fires. There was a bad fire on the route we take to Oban last year and you would hardly know there had been a fire. The grasses seems the quickest to reappear, followed by bracken and ling and surprised last week to see patches of bog aspodel and heath spotted orchids, ox-eyed daisies. Quite a few of the trees did not make it.

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