RSPB Nagshead Forest of Dean
* The Forest of Dean is a strange place its the most densely forested area I have been to in England . The towns within it are not pretty a reminder that until relatively recently it was an industrial area . It reminded me of some parts of the coal area in the American Appalachian’s region .
Dennis Potter the English playwright whose Dad was a miner wrote about the area in several of his works most famously in his masterpiece “The Blue Remembers Hills “
The area is characterised by more than 110 square kilometres of mixed woodland, one of the surviving ancient woodlands in England. A large area was reserved for royal hunting before 1066, and remained as the second largest crown forest in England, after the New Forest.
The forest is composed of deciduous and evergreen trees. Predominant is oak, both pedunculate and sessile. Beech is common and sweet chestnut has grown here for many centuries. The forest is home to foxgloves and other wild flowers. Conifers include some Weymouth pine from 1781, Norway spruce, Douglas fir and larch.
Until the end of the second world war the Forest of Dean was an industrial area the site of five deep coal mines . The small towns in the Forest are quite bleak more like Northern England mining towns than picture postcard southern England
The photograph was taken at RSPB Nagshead which is situated in mature oak woodland . We had a delightful walk and heard many birds Marys Merlin app was going crazy but we saw none clearly enough to photograph
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
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RSPB Nagshead Forest of Dean
* The Forest of Dean is a strange place its the most densely forested area I have been to in England . The towns within it are not pretty a reminder that until relatively recently it was an industrial area . It reminded me of some parts of the coal area in the American Appalachian’s region .
Dennis Potter the English playwright whose Dad was a miner wrote about the area in several of his works most famously in his masterpiece “The Blue Remembers Hills “
The area is characterised by more than 110 square kilometres of mixed woodland, one of the surviving ancient woodlands in England. A large area was reserved for royal hunting before 1066, and remained as the second largest crown forest in England, after the New Forest.
The forest is composed of deciduous and evergreen trees. Predominant is oak, both pedunculate and sessile. Beech is common and sweet chestnut has grown here for many centuries. The forest is home to foxgloves and other wild flowers. Conifers include some Weymouth pine from 1781, Norway spruce, Douglas fir and larch.
Until the end of the second world war the Forest of Dean was an industrial area the site of five deep coal mines . The small towns in the Forest are quite bleak more like Northern England mining towns than picture postcard southern England
The photograph was taken at RSPB Nagshead which is situated in mature oak woodland . We had a delightful walk and heard many birds Marys Merlin app was going crazy but we saw none clearly enough to photograph
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO
WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .