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Larus serranus
A somewhat surprising find on the coast. It was interesting to see the bigger size in relation to the commoner Brown-hooded Gulls.
I think this is a first winter bird ( there are hints of brown showing in the coverts...)
Another walk round Newcastle produced another species of Ladybird I had not seen before.
The Cream-streaked (or 4 spotted after 1 of its other forms) is a specialist on Pine trees and this one was right underneath one.
A passing similarity to the much commoner but closely related Harlequin probably means it is overlooked but there are not many records round here.
The white head pattern, it’s slightly smaller size and ‘flatter’ look help separate it. This one was the classic colourations which show the streaks on the back that give it the name on paler adults these are not as obvious.
This bridge over Roman Road was built by the third Duke of Bridgewater in the early 19th Century. He wanted a carriage drive that would allow access along Golden Valley to his fat old pile at Ashridge House. This lane, still a public road, links Frithsden and Nettleden over an escarpment. The Duke had it dug deeper into the hill so that the nobility using the driveway did not meet the pesky commoners in the village.
The lane gets its nickname in deference to the ghost of a silent, robed monk who is said to appear here at regular intervals. The structure has been christened the Devil’s Bridge locally. The image of a Roman centurion guarding the bridge has also been sighted. Other stories of witchcraft covens, unnerving apparitions and strange happenings at this spot are merrily repeated on the internet. The high flint walls, narrow, dark path and invasive tree roots could conjure a little mystery in a certain light, I imagine.
In June, we visited Spitsbergen in Svalbard where Black Guillemots were one of the commoner seabirds and looked splendid in their summer finery.
In Sussex however, they are an unusual sight, so unsurprisingly, this confiding bird that has lingered in Eastbourne since 28 November has proved popular.
A selection of my favourite images from 2017 can be seen here.
The Clouded Apollo is commoner than the Apollo in some regions of the Alps, though in general it is a scarcer butterfly. It can also be seen it in the Pyrenees. It flies typically in June and July in a shorter flight season than its cousins, the Apollo and Small Apollo.
In flight it resembles the black-veined white but is quite distinctive when seen settled. Black-veined whites lack any black spots on the wings. Unlike the Apollo and small Apollo, the clouded Apollo lacks any red, making it equally easy to distinguish from them too. Like all apollos, it has characteristically translucent areas at the wing tips, making it less conspicuous at rest than you might imagine.
This is a difficult butterfly to approach closely, being very wary and capable of zooming off a considerable distance - usually over a steep slope - without any effort. It does stop frequently, though, and the photographer's best opportunities are on mixed cloudy/sunny days when advantage can be taken of the cloudy spells. The larvae feed on various species of Corydalis, hibernating fully formed in the egg and developing the following spring. For this reason, the date of its emergence depend strongly on when the winter snow melts.
Clouded Apollo (Parnassisus mnemosyne)_w_Eastern Austria
In the Diwan-i-Aam (or the Hall of Public Audiences) the Emperor, seated in a canopied alcove, would hear complaints and pleas of the commoners through a jharokha (balcony). The hall was ornamented with stuccowork and featured a series of gold columns. It also included a large railing that separated the commoners from the emperor. The Diwan-i-Aam was also used for state functions. The spacious mardana or courtyard behind the Diwan-i-Aam is surrounded by several interesting structures, though the function and purpose of some of them remain an enigma.
Wetenschappelijk: Clavaria argillacea
Scientific name: Clavaria argillacea
At the 2005 grassland fungi workshop
in Wales, Debbie Evans brought
along a specimen of a yellow clavarioid
fungus which she had identified as
Clavaria amoenoides Corner et al., a species
not previously known to be British but listed
in Nordic Macromycetes (Hansen & Knudsen,
1997) as occurring in Scandinavia. An
additional collection was made during the
workshop itself and further specimens were
collected at the 2006 upland foray in Wales,
in a pasture next to the foray centre.
It seems we now have three yellow or
yellowish Clavaria species in the British Isles,
all of them unbranched (tubular or clubshaped)
and distinctly pale or dull compared
with the much commoner and brighter
yellow Clavulinopsis species. As with the black
and brown Clavaria species (Roberts, 2007),
the literature on these species is scattered, so
a brief key and descriptions follow. ‘Q’ is
spore length divided by breadth.
Apparently the Kings of England fell in love with the swans there and made them subject to Royal rules, so commoners couldn't hunt them, etc... There were so many that I thought I'd do something different - a time lapse... These are all mute swans which nest at the swannery.
Taken 22 April 2024 at Abbotsbury Swannery, England
Shichi-Go-San (literally "seven-five-three") is a traditional rite of passage and festival day in Japan for three and seven year-old girls and three and five year-old boys, held annually on November 15.
Over time, this tradition passed to the samurai class who added a number of rituals. Children—who up until the age of three were required by custom to have shaven heads—were allowed to grow out their hair. Boys of age five could wear hakama for the first time, while girls of age seven replaced the simple cords they used to tie their kimono with the traditional obi. By the Meiji Period, the practice was adopted amongst commoners as well, and included the modern ritual of visiting a shrine to drive out evil spirits and wish for a long healthy life.
The entire set from our trip to Kyoto can be seen here.
Waiting to photograph a rare bird can often lead to opportunities with commoner species as well. This Blackcap was coming to the same crop of berries as the Barred Warbler though slightly lower down. Because of this the shots are slightly more pleasing.
Most Blackcaps that we get on the north-east coast probably originate in Scandanavia and will winter in the Mediterranean. Nice life if you can get it!
"The Prince of Wales Hotel was built as an extension to the chain of hotels and chalets built and operated by the Great Northern Railway in Glacier National Park, Montana. Louis Hill, President of the Great Northern Railroad, picked the site for the hotel in 1912. It took until 1926 to get the land leased from the Canadian Government and construction began immediately thereafter.
When Mr. Hill decided to build the hotel, he planned for a building somewhat like the Many Glacier Hotel in Montana. The original plan called for a long three-storied, low roofed building with a central lobby and approximately 300 rooms. As the building progressed, Mr. Hill changed his mind several times so that some parts of the building had to be rebuilt four times. He wanted the building to resemble French or Swiss chalets. Hill's final vision stands today, a proud hotel overlooking the township of Waterton; complete with 86 rooms in seven-stories and crowned with a 30-foot bell tower.
All materials and supplies for the construction were shipped via railway to Hill Spring and then transported the last 25 miles by mule team. During construction the building crew faced numerous obstacles including a spring thaw that turned the 25 miles of road into a muddy quagmire and high winds that blew the building off center twice. The fear of these high winds almost caused the project to be abandoned but construction finally proceeded and the building was completed and officially opened to the public on July 25, 1927.
Occasionally the building will sway slightly when the winds are heavy, but there is no danger because the building was constructed to withstand even the fiercest of gales. The building is anchored to its site by means of large cables installed from its loft, through the structure and into the ground itself.
The hotel is named after the Prince of Wales, the popular Prince Edward, who was later to become King Edward VIII. He was admired and adored worldwide, even after his abdication of the British Throne in 1936 when he chose to marry a commoner from America. The hotel was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1992 with Plaque status granted in 1995 and was highlighted in the 2008 National Geographic™ Crown of the Continent Geotourism Map Guide." text taken from www.glacierparkinc.com/prince_of_wales.php
Thanks everyone and have a wonderful weekend!
Fulmar
Irish Name:
Fulmaire
Scientific name:
Fulmarus glacialis
Bird Family:
Tubenoses
amber
Conservation status
Status
Resident along all Irish coasts.
Identification
A gull-like bird with white underparts and pale grey upperparts. Also occurs in darker morphs ('Blue Fulmars'), which are commoner in the north of its range but not in Ireland. Has a thick neck and large head. Shows a pale primary patch on the upperwing. Does not show gull-like black tips to the primary feathers. Straight, stout bill with hooked tip and tube shaped nostrils on the upper mandible, giving distinctive bill shape if seen at close range. Nostrils used to excrete salt. Flies with very stiff wings, uses long glides at sea, with series of stiff, shallow wing beats. Hangs in the wind in the fierce updrafts generated by steep cliffs, where it can even fly backwards. Cannot stand upright, so needs to launch itself from a high ledge or patters along surface of sea to become airborne.
Voice
Vocal at the breeding colonies, with pairs cackling to one another with a guttural throaty series of "Ga, ga, ga ..." sounds.
Diet
A great variety of food taken including fish, discards from trawlers, crustaceans and whale flesh.
Breeding
A bird that has expanded its breeding range throughout Ireland over the last century, beginning in Mayo in 1911. Comes to land in the day, unlike its relatives the shearwaters and other petrels. Mainly breeds on sea cliffs, but will nest on level ground, on buildings and in burrows and crevasses. Will use both steep rocky cliffs, grassy cliffs and steep slopes above cliffs. Both incubating adults and chick use projectile vomiting as a defensive against predators, the oily stomach contents effectively fouling the plumage of other birds.
Wintering
Winters at sea, but can be seen in Irish waters throughout the year. Attends colonies in the winter sporadically, with breeding cliffs deserted one week and full the next.
Monitored by
Breeding seabirds are monitored through seabird surveys carried out every 15-20 years.
To the delight of the children of Albion the local flower merchant shows off a bit of her magic. How a commoner flower vendor knows this ancient magic, no one knows. And she has drawn more onlookers than just children. A knight on horseback is intrigued, his interest piqued. More concerning is the rogue in the background standing by the inn. What are his intentions? Why is he at this place at the exact moment she cast her spell for the children?...
A Guilds of Historica build. Guild of Avalonia
Just your run of the mill dandy lions being drunched in sunlight that is filtering through the limbs of a giant live oak. These guys are the lucky ones, they are in the field that hasn't been sold to residential developers. That means they don't get mowed down every other week.
What is it that makes one species rarer than other apparently very similar ones? That was the question that came into my head when my son Tom and I found a single female blue ground beetle (Carabus intricatus), one of the rarest ground beetles in the UK found only in a few ancient woodlands in Devon, Cornwall and one site in south Wales. It’s restricted to a rare habitat, but there are dozens of such places where the beetle is absent. It feeds mainly on a few species of slug associated with these woodlands, but again the prey species are to be found far more widely in the UK. To make matters more complicated, the same species of beetle is much commoner throughout continental Europe including dry habitats and gardens, so it can’t be that it needs the humidity of temperate rainforests. It also appears to need a ground layer of moss and leaf litter, and can’t cope with bramble for example, so it was disappointing to find that despite recommendations from Buglife among others that this nature reserve has become overgrown on the forest floor with bramble, presumably the reason why we could only find one individual, and suggesting that this particular population may well go extinct soon.
Tribute to PMS, Parekkara Motor Service. Once they were the masters of Kerala high ranges. They toiled and opened up several routes across the most rugged terrain. Recently, they have faced tough, if not unequal competition from Kerala Govt. KSRTC went on putting buses just 5 min ahead of set schedules of PMS. Thus many of their schedules have been wiped off. They have even closed their age old PMS Body Building Unit in Kothamangalam. Yet they still continue to hold their place in the heart of commoner. Seen here is a brand new bus, KL-44-A-0145. It's a Fast Passenger in Aluva-Kattappana route. Look at the alloy wheels and radial tyres!
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Actually, the correct term is a 'Heraldic Achievement'. Apparently.
Challenge to make my own achievement was thrown down by Fechtbuch, and this is the result.
I had lots of fun researching various elements and have tried to play by at least some of rules. I shouldn't really have a dexter supporter (Rabbit) or a sinister supporter (Squirrel), because I'm a commoner, nor should there be the mount or compartment at the bottom, but because this was for fun, I wanted them :) The biggest liberty is with the shape of the shield - I should have a diamond, because I'm a woman, but where's the fun in that?
I've added a lot of notes to explain why there are the elements there are, which you can read or ignore....
If you want to have a go at making your own (go on - it was so much fun!), www.americancollegeofheraldry.org/ is a good place to start - the FAQ are really helpful and lead on to other useful pages, such as the heraldic meanings :)
More pictures in the first comment and album.
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For Kings and commoners, the most famous and busiest tavern in all of Faldia. Not many kings have visited though, it is frequently used by the Royal Falcon Guard and the main Black Falcon army.
Today we all gathered for the event, and we have a special surprise, the Fantastic Fauns are currently playing in Faldia, at our tavern.
Please welcome them with a round of applause.
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The Golden Crown is run by the Ryan family, who are known for their hospitality.
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Aht and Minke (Fantasy figbarf – Whispering Woods I and IV) are still playing a board game at the window to the right.
Aht: “I can see why you wanted to return to the city, really lively here, although I’m fonder of the woods myself.”
Minke: “Yeah, when the position of captain of the Royal Falcon Guard came free, I couldn't turn it down, thanks for the recommendation Aht.”
Aht: “No problem, glad I could help you.”
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Also to the right are two members of the trade guild discussing some new trade opportunities with Felisia, located south of Faldia.
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On the balcony are Lord Biron and his wife, who are currently staying at the tavern, he isn’t really happy about all the noise downstairs though.
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Many locals are also frequently visiting and get together at the tavern.
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Build for Brickscalibur 2022, Trading places category.
Medium-sized gull with a long, slender bill. Breeding adult has a clean white head and dark red bill, and frequently shows a strong rosy-pink flush to the underparts. Non-breeding adult similar, but may show slight smudge on the head. Immature has orange bill with small brown patches on the wings, most readily seen in flight. Compared with Black-headed Gull, note longer bill, sloping forehead, and "snouty" profile of Slender-billed Gull. Breeds in colonies in inland and coastal wetlands, but restricted to coastal wetlands when not breeding. Away from main range, found singly or in pairs, at times in association with much commoner Black-headed Gull. eBird
Taken at Hakone Shrine, along the banks of Lake Ashinoko, in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Hakone Shrine was founded sometime in the Nara period, and has been in its present location since 757 AD. It was an important place of worship in Japan's medieval period for samurai as well as for commoners traveling along the old Tōkaidō Road during the Edo period.
Halkyn Mountain
Exploring somewhere i've not been to for nearly 10 years!
An open land that was mined for lead, Mine shafts Capped or fenced off all over the hill. Its almost like a Super Mario landscape! The Quarries are pretty cool and you dont even need to pay to park!!
www.halkynmountain.co.uk/explore-halkyn/
"Come and explore Halkyn Mountain and enjoy fabulous views over the Dee Estuary and the Clwydian Range. This wild open landscape has never been enclosed and is still common land. Around 200 properties hold commoners rights including that of pasture and over 1500 sheep graze the common, keeping the gorse and bracken in check and maintaining the open character of the landscape.
You can wander freely over the Common but there are also plenty of public footpaths that were created years ago by people going about their daily business, on their way to work and school, or to church or chapel on Sunday. The Lead and Limestone Trail explores the central area of the Common where you can find interesting rocks and evidence of lead mining and quarrying. It is also a good place to see some of the special flowers that grow on the mountain."
They have, in a side view, rounded bodies, remarkably narrow end-on, helping them slip easily through reeds. Two commoner species in the UK, the moorhen and the coot, are larger and less secretive, living at the water’s edge or swimming on open water. One, the corncrake, lives in much drier habitat, where tall grass replaces similar waterside plants.
This member of UNESCO World Heritage List is located on top of a small Nereditsa hill, to the east from Rurik's Gorodische. From the hill one can see entire Novgorod, fields and meadows, the lake and the Volkhov river.
The church was built in 1198, to the order of Prince Yaroslav, after the demise of all his children. This last prince's building looked no different from modest churches of the late 12th c., which were financed by boyars, merchants and commoners. It has the form of a cube and one dome, and its interior is very simple. It was decorated with frescos in 1199, and the paintings gave the closest impression of the system of Russian temple frescos of the time.
The World War II turned this fabulous monument of architecture into hideous ruins. The building itself was reconstructed, thanks to the previous measurements, but the immense fresco ensemble was lost forever. All that remained are expressive fragments of «The Last Judgement», and a few saints and martyrs. They give one some impression of the peculiarities and depth of the former grand frescos.
Currently restoration works are in progress on the church.
description (c) - eng.tourism.velikiynovgorod.ru/
Ouzel is a lovely word isn't it? Sounds a bit like Woozles from Winnie the Pooh. Ouzel was originally the name for Blackbird which persisted until the 17th Century. So the Ring Ouzel was the Blackbird with a ring. Water Ouzel was also an old name for Dipper but Ring Ouzel is the only bird that has retained the name. There are close parallels with the name Chough, which was originally the name for Jackdaw, with Cornish Chough distinguishing the red-billed species. So Chough and Ouzel were both once the name of a commoner bird that has been retained for a rarer relative.
I photographed this female Ring Ouzel on a drystone wall in the Peak District this morning, freshly arrived from Morocco. She's facing away but you can just about see the pale gorget (sullied brown as it's a female). You can also see the pale edging to the flight feathers and the pale fringing to the belly feathers creating a hairnet effect. Both of these features distinguish it from the closely-related Blackbird.
The New Forest Drift takes place each year, from August to early November. It is when the Commoners of the New Forest National Park conduct The Drift and round up all the New Forest ponies.
We ran into the tail end of a Drift as we walked today. We hadn't seen any signs , so it was a bit of a surprise.
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Someday I'll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night's dream.
~Ryokan
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One portion of the temple exterior is devoted to carvings of the kama sutra. Our temple guide explained this as pictoral sexual education for the illiterate commoner. The illiterate commoner was probably better informed of bedroom gymnastics than your average American.
I had a hard time trying to make this shot look interesting. The lack of contrast in the carvings was giving me a lot trouble. In the end, I settled for this rather cheesy shot with a shallow depth of field. This shot doesn't show a lot of the variety in the carvings, but I like it as cheesy as it is.
This solitary New Forest Pony was munching a gorse bush just down from our holiday cottage.
The New Forest pony is one of the recognised mountain and moorland or native pony breeds of the British Isles. Height varies from around 12 to 14.2 hands (48 to 58 inches, 122 to 147 cm); ponies of all heights should be strong, workmanlike, and of a good riding type. They are valued for hardiness, strength, and sure-footedness.
The breed is indigenous to the New Forest in Hampshire in southern England, where equines have lived since before the last Ice Age; remains dating back to 500,000 BC have been found within 50 miles (80 km) of the heart of the modern New Forest. DNA studies have shown ancient shared ancestry with the Celtic-type Asturcón and Pottok ponies. Many breeds have contributed to the foundation bloodstock of the New Forest pony, but today only ponies whose parents are both registered as purebred in the approved section of the stud book may be registered as purebred. The New Forest pony can be ridden by children and adults, can be driven in harness, and competes successfully against larger horses in horse show competition.
All ponies grazing on the New Forest are owned by New Forest commoners – people who have "rights of common of pasture" over the Forest lands. An annual marking fee is paid for each animal turned out to graze. The population of ponies on the Forest has fluctuated in response to varying demand for young stock. Numbers fell to fewer than six hundred in 1945, but have since risen steadily, and thousands now run loose in semi-feral conditions. The welfare of ponies grazing on the Forest is monitored by five Agisters, employees of the Verderers of the New Forest. Each Agister takes responsibility for a different area of the Forest. The ponies are gathered annually in a series of drifts, to be checked for health, wormed, and they are tail-marked; each pony's tail is trimmed to the pattern of the Agister responsible for that pony. Purebred New Forest stallions approved by the Breed Society and by the New Forest Verderers run out on the Forest with the mares for a short period each year. Many of the foals bred on the Forest are sold through the Beaulieu Road pony sales, which are held several times each year.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Forest_pony and
www.newforestliving.co.uk/guides/new-forest-ponies
Like much of England, the site of the New Forest was once deciduous woodland, recolonised by birch and eventually beech and oak after the withdrawal of the ice sheets starting around 12,000 years ago. Some areas were cleared for cultivation from the Bronze Age onwards; the poor quality of the soil in the New Forest meant that the cleared areas turned into heathland "waste", which may have been used even then as grazing land for horses.
There was still a significant amount of woodland in this part of Britain, but this was gradually reduced, particularly towards the end of the Middle Iron Age around 250–100 BC, and most importantly the 12th and 13th centuries, and of this essentially all that remains today is the New Forest.
There are around 250 round barrows within its boundaries, and scattered boiling mounds, and it also includes about 150 scheduled ancient monuments. One such barrow in particular may represent the only known inhumation burial of the Early Iron Age and the only known Hallstatt culture burial in Britain; however, the acidity of the soil means that bone very rarely survives.
Following Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain, according to Florence of Worcester (d. 1118), the area became the site of the Jutish kingdom of Ytene; this name was the genitive plural of Yt meaning "Jute", i.e. "of the Jutes". The Jutes were one of the early Anglo-Saxon tribal groups who colonised this area of southern Hampshire. The word ytene (or ettin) is also found locally as a synonym for giant, and features heavily in local folklore.
Following the Norman Conquest, the New Forest was proclaimed a royal forest, in about 1079, by William the Conqueror. It was used for royal hunts, mainly of deer. It was created at the expense of more than 20 small hamlets and isolated farmsteads; hence it was then 'new' as a single compact area.
The New Forest was first recorded as Nova Foresta in Domesday Book in 1086, where a section devoted to it is interpolated between lands of the king's thegns and the town of Southampton; it is the only forest that the book describes in detail. Twelfth-century chroniclers alleged that William had created the forest by evicting the inhabitants of 36 parishes, reducing a flourishing district to a wasteland; however, this account is thought dubious by most historians, as the poor soil in much of the area is believed to have been incapable of supporting large-scale agriculture, and significant areas appear to have always been uninhabited.
Two of William's sons died in the forest: Prince Richard sometime between 1069 and 1075, and King William II (William Rufus) in 1100. Local folklore asserted that this was punishment for the crimes committed by William when he created his New Forest; 17th-century writer Richard Blome provides exquisite detail:
In this County [Hantshire] is New-Forest, formerly called Ytene, being about 30 miles in compass; in which said tract William the Conqueror (for the making of the said Forest a harbour for Wild-beasts for his Game) caused 36 Parish Churches, with all the Houses thereto belonging, to be pulled down, and the poor Inhabitants left succourless of house or home. But this wicked act did not long go unpunished, for his Sons felt the smart thereof; Richard being blasted with a pestilent Air; Rufus shot through with an Arrow; and Henry his Grand-child, by Robert his eldest son, as he pursued his Game, was hanged among the boughs, and so dyed. This Forest at present affordeth great variety of Game, where his Majesty oft-times withdraws himself for his divertisement.
The reputed spot of Rufus's death is marked with a stone known as the Rufus Stone. John White, Bishop of Winchester, said of the forest:
From God and Saint King Rufus did Churches take, From Citizens town-court, and mercate place, From Farmer lands: New Forrest for to make, In Beaulew tract, where whiles the King in chase Pursues the hart, just vengeance comes apace, And King pursues. Tirrell him seing not, Unwares him flew with dint of arrow shot.
The common rights were confirmed by statute in 1698. The New Forest became a source of timber for the Royal Navy, and plantations were created in the 18th century for this purpose. In the Great Storm of 1703, about 4000 oak trees were lost.
The naval plantations encroached on the rights of the Commoners, but the Forest gained new protection under the New Forest Act 1877, which confirmed the historic rights of the Commoners and entrenched that the total of enclosures was henceforth not to exceed 65 km2 (25 sq mi) at any time. It also reconstituted the Court of Verderers as representatives of the Commoners (rather than the Crown).
As of 2005, roughly 90% of the New Forest is still owned by the Crown. The Crown lands have been managed by the Forestry Commission since 1923 and most of the Crown lands now fall inside the new National Park.
Felling of broadleaved trees, and their replacement by conifers, began during the First World War to meet the wartime demand for wood. Further encroachments were made during the Second World War. This process is today being reversed in places, with some plantations being returned to heathland or broadleaved woodland. Rhododendron remains a problem.
During the Second World War, an area of the forest, Ashley Range, was used as a bombing range. During 1941-1945, the Beaulieu, Hampshire Estate of Lord Montagu in the New Forest was the site of group B finishing schools for agents[18] operated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE) between 1941 and 1945. (One of the trainers was Kim Philby who was later found to be part of a spy ring passing information to the Soviets.) In 2005, a special exhibition was mounted at the Estate, with a video showing photographs from that era as well as voice recordings of former SOE trainers and agents.
Further New Forest Acts followed in 1949, 1964 and 1970. The New Forest became a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1971, and was granted special status as the New Forest Heritage Area in 1985, with additional planning controls added in 1992. The New Forest was proposed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in June 1999, and it became a National Park in 2005.
For further information please visit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Forest and www.thenewforest.co.uk/
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I was out this morning trying to photograph Emperor Dragonflies on the same moorland pool near Holmfirth where I saw them last week. There were also a few Common Hawkers flitting about, regularly scrapping with the Emperors, though it was usually the larger Emperors that returned to the beat after an altercation. I could usually tell when a Common Hawker came near as they were a lot noisier, clattering about among the vegetation. I found Common Hawkers a lot more difficult to photograph in flight as they did not habitually hover like the Emperors. I did manage a few flight shots though, including this one, which was taken with 420mm at 1/5000 f5.6 which has just about frozen the wings.
The name "Common" is rather misleading as there are several species of large dragonfly that are commoner than this. Common Hawkers inhabit moors and heaths but are pretty scarce away from these specialised habitats. I live in the Pennines near to the moors, yet I see Southern, Brown and Migrant Hawkers more frequently than I do Common Hawkers. It is sometimes known as the Moorland Hawker, which seems like a much better name. It occurs in suitable habitat throughout the Northern Hemisphere including North America, where it is known as the Sedge Darner.