Arborpro Tree Services

29/07/2026

01/07/2026

Huge site clearance job completed two days robo flail and Avant 640 with flail and cutting team removing unwanted trees

19/06/2026

Crazy busy few weeks two big take down today in Bunwell was very hot 🥵 team worked really hard

09/06/2026

Lots of reduction work carried out this week great effort for the teams very happy customers

09/06/2026

Two teams out today both in Long Stratton good work guys

02/06/2026

Busy day stump grinding and a Silver Birch that had failed at the base

02/06/2026

🐦 HEDGE CUTTING & NESTING SEASON — WHAT THE LAW ACTUALLY SAYS

Every year social media fills up with posts saying “hedge cutting is illegal between March and August.”

That is NOT strictly true.

Here’s the actual law in simple terms:

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is illegal to intentionally:
• damage or destroy an active bird’s nest
• disturb nesting birds
• destroy eggs

What matters is WHETHER THERE IS AN ACTIVE NEST — not simply the act of cutting a hedge.

✅ LEGAL:
• Trimming or reducing a hedge after checking properly and finding no active nests
• Carrying out essential maintenance carefully
• Stopping work if a nest is discovered

❌ ILLEGAL:
• Continuing to cut when you know birds are nesting
• Throwing nests out so work can continue
• Deliberately disturbing nesting birds
• Recklessly destroying an active nest

This is why professional tree surgeons and hedge contractors inspect before starting work.

If a nest is found:
➡️ work should stop
➡️ the area should be left undisturbed
➡️ work is rescheduled once the nest is no longer active

There’s also a difference between residential hedge cutting and agricultural hedge management.

Farmers often use large hedge cutting machinery (flails) for field hedges, which is why there are additional rules and guidance around cutting dates in the countryside and under farming schemes.

For homeowners and tree surgeons, the law still comes back to one thing:
👉 active nesting birds must not be harmed or disturbed.

Good contractors don’t just know the law — they work with wildlife, not against it.

29/05/2026

Busy week lots of stump grinding carried out hedge reductions and trimming artic loads of chip out of our yard garden clearance and reductions carried out by the team great work boys and girls

21/05/2026

23 conifers removed on a site in Mildenhall lots of pruning and felling work on a NHS site been a busy week guys and girls have worked really hard to get these jobs completed on time

17/05/2026

Nice big declining Oak with lots of root decay pollarded to maintain and keep the tree