Big old tree on field margin near Leitholm in the Scottish Borders
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Big old tree on field margin near Leitholm in the Scottish Borders
Image: © ian shiell Taken: 28 Aug 2019
These used to be a memorable feature to me as a child living on a farm but as many of these trees were elms, disease changed the look of the countryside. There were continuous lines of these round many fields. Perhaps they hosted fauna beneficial to crops but they also hosted their own demise in the shape of a beetle.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.69859
Longitude
-2.348877