A favoured shelter for foxes. This was originally planted to protect the end of the pond from trampling using bramble brought in from Dulwich Upper Wood. Look to the left into pioneer woodland, and notice trees burnt back in the fire of 1992/3, with regrowth of Aspen, Oak and Alder. A proper description of the Great tit's language would almost require a book by itself, for no other British bird uses such a wide variety of different notes. Some of the most familiar calls are rendered, "teacher-teacher-teacher," "ze-too, ze-too" "p'tsoo-ée, tsoo-ée, tsoo-ée," ching-see, ching-see, ching-see" (Nicholson and Koch, 1936, p. 109).