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Photos of GM trials site [cambridge]

Crow | 22.04.2007 16:17 | Bio-technology | Ecology | Health | Cambridge

These photographs were taken in the afternoon of Sunday 22 April.

This lane runs along the eastside of Girton Woods. The fields are just ahead.
This lane runs along the eastside of Girton Woods. The fields are just ahead.

This is the field in which the six digit OS reference lies.
This is the field in which the six digit OS reference lies.

The right-hand edge of the field. Notice Histon in the background.
The right-hand edge of the field. Notice Histon in the background.

Just ahead of here there's this sign, and...
Just ahead of here there's this sign, and...

... this is why. But if the trials go ahead, bee keepers will remove the boxes
... this is why. But if the trials go ahead, bee keepers will remove the boxes


From the available evidence, it looks like the potatoes haven't been planted yet.

If you decide to go and have a look for yourself, the loud bangs are from a sound gun to keep birds away. However, I also found plenty of gunshot cartridges lying around.

Crow

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Beehives...

22.04.2007 22:01

Does anyone know when the beekeepers would remove the hives? Would they do this immediately when the potatoes are planted, or only just before they start to flower? Reason I ask, if the former, the removal of the boxes would indicate that the spuds are (about to go) in the ground. Another indication would be if the sparse grass that now grows on the field were to disappear, as it presumably would when the spuds are planted.

Also, no sign yet of the promised three foot high electric fence, although some of the adjacent fields had one-foot high electric wires (at least that's what it looked like to my untrained eye). This system uses yellow plastic poles, with hooks at roughly one, two and three feet off the ground. Presumably these are to keep wildlife out.

Crow