Hay cutting
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Hay cutting by Hugh Venables as part of the Geograph project.
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Hay cutting
Image: © Hugh Venables Taken: 19 Sep 2006
Grass was being cut using a small tractor and organised using hand tools - it is low intensity practices like this that have allowed Corncrakes to survive in the Hebrides and Orkney having been virtually wiped out on the Mainland.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.981792
Longitude
-7.498704