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Redstart (M) - Phoenicuros Phoenicuros
The common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus), or often simply redstart, is a small passerine bird in the redstart genus Phoenicurus. Like its relatives, it was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family, (Turdidae), but is now known to be an Old World flycatcher (family Muscicapidae).
Common redstarts prefer open mature birch and oak woodland with a high horizontal visibility and low amounts of shrub and understorey especially where the trees are old enough to have holes suitable for its nest. They prefer to nest on the edge of woodland clearings. In Britain it occurs primarily in upland areas less affected by agricultural intensification, but further east in Europe also commonly in lowland areas, including parks and old gardens in urban areas. They nest in natural tree holes, so dead trees or those with dead limbs are beneficial to the species; nestboxes are sometimes used. A high cover of moss and lichen is also preferred. They also use mature open conifer woodland, particularly in the north of the breeding range. Management to thin out the trees is thus favoured.
In England, where it has declined by 55% in the past 25 years, the Forestry Commission offers grants under a scheme called England's Woodland Improvement Grant (EWIG); as does Natural Englands Environmental Stewardship Scheme. It is a very rare and irregular breeding bird in Ireland, with between one and five pairs breeding in most years, mainly in County Wicklow.
It is a summer visitor throughout most of Europe and western Asia (east to Lake Baikal), and also in northwest Africa in Morocco. It winters in central Africa and Arabia, south of the Sahara Desert but north of the Equator, from Senegal east to Yemen. It is widespread as a breeding bird in Great Britain, particularly in upland broadleaf woodlands and hedgerow trees, but in Ireland it is very local, and may not breed every year.
The males first arrive in early to mid April, often a few days in advance of the females. Five or six light blue eggs are laid during May, with a second brood in mid summer in the south of the breeding range. It departs for Africa between mid-August and early October. It often feeds like a flycatcher, making aerial sallies after passing insects, and most of its food consists of winged insects. The call is chat-like and the alarm a plaintive single note, wheet, like that of many other chats.
The male’s song is similar to that of the Robin, but never more than a prelude, since it has an unfinished, feeble ending.
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Waldwirtschaft
February 2023 - Ferenberg-Bantigen BE, Schweiz
Mamiya 7II, 4/80 mm, Kodak Tri-X 400, D-76 (1+1)
Print auf Fomatone 132 mit Moersch ECO 4812
Selentonung MT1 1+9, 1:30 min
A larger view of the log piles in the previous post (see below) to put it in context.
We were on a walking trail in the Symonds Yat area.
HTT!
Felsentor / rock-gate Kuhstall, Bad Schandau, Upper Elbe Valley, Saxony, Germany
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Not mist but a controlled burn by forestry workers from a nearby conifer plantation that had been felled. An area that I'd visited numerous times over the years and from which I'd managed some lovely pictures, but nothing stays the same and I'd always known it was plantation and would be felled at some stage. Poignant all the same and although "my area" was closed due to the works this adjacent area had smoke drifting through which was backlit creating this mist-like effect and seemed to be a fitting finale.
The hybrid is thought to be a cross between Forsythia viridissima and F. suspensa var. fortunei. A plant of seedling origin was discovered growing in the Göttingen Botanical Garden in Germany by the director of the forestry botanical garden of the Royal Prussian Academy of Forestry in Münden, H. Zabel in 1878. Zabel formally described and named the hybrid in Gartenflora in 1885. It was introduced to the Arnold Arboretum in the United States in 1889.
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A tree display at the academic building where Forestry is taught. Morning light. I always like this living creation. The trees are Planes/Sycamores, favorites for this treatment.
UC Berkeley.
E&N on a propane run to Superior with 6 loads seen passing through the Coastland Plywood plant.
December 31, 2018
This one was taken just after a recent massive fire just outside town. This particular patch of forestry was in the process of being harvested when the fire came through, hopefully the timber will still be ok. The trunks were black as black can get and the needles were brown right to the top of these large trees, it was a very eerie place to be. I probably shouldn't have gone in to take this shot as the ground was riddled with soccer ball sized holes where the roots had burned underground but I was too busy looking up that I didn't see them until I was in there.... obviously I survived...
Routeburn Track
New Zealand
Some of the incredible forestry from the Routeburn track near the divide. It felt like I was taking a time warp walking through prehistoria at times!
Beckdale is a lovely forestry walk from the town of Helmsley in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, England.
Every year we take a trip to Cornwall in the Autumn. This year was no exception but a little different as we stayed on Bodmin Moor rather than on the Fowey Estuary. It was a trip of many facets, house hunting, walking but for me the last photo assignment of the year. I was to take images of fungus for my client in a Forestry Commission Plantation called "Halvana"
With war looming on the horizon at the beginning of the 20th Century, Britain could no longer rely on timber imports. Woodland resources in England covered just 5% of land area by 1917, due to demands during the First World War (especially trench warfare). In 1919 the Forestry Act came into force and Conifer plantations like Halvana were established to ensure a strategic reserve of timber. It is unfortunate that many of the ancient broadleaved woodland areas around England were cleared to make way for the faster-growing Conifer trees.
Whilst some plantations are gradually being replanted with native species, Halvana Plantation remains as a fascinating stretch of woodland to amble through and explore. The interior of evergreen plantations have a tendency to be dry dead places, due to the needles blocking out light and suffocating the forest floor. This forest is the complete opposite, with an endless carpet of moss creeping over everything, including up the trunks of trees and a huge selection of fungus spices.
So, off we went to Bodmin Moor with my new work camera in tow (Pentax 645Z Medium Format) more about this later, with my usual old Pentax K5II to take the very few snaps on our days out.
Here is the lush, green Halvana forest in all its moss covered glory.....the weather was typical of Bodmin Moor at this time of the year, one minute sunny but breezy and the next, torrential rain with flash flooding but in our converted stone cow shed with a wood burner we stayed toasty and warm. A fabulous trip, full of interest and wonderful Autumn colour.
All my life I have been fascinated with fantasy literature and movies. From DandD through to Magic the Gathering, I have always had a love for the fantastical and magical. I guess I find the made up worlds of imaginations preferable to our own reality. But sometimes, the worlds of the mind cross over into the world of the real ( how can it not, most worlds are based, in part on what their authors see around them).
I had a discussion today with a follower and he raised the question in my mind of what is MY style. I guess my influences are the magical tales of deep green forests far far away and misty woods inhabited by all sorts of strange and wonderful beings.
This iamge reminds me of the scene in LOTR where the Ents gather to discuss how to deal with Saruman and his Goblin armies laying waste to their forests for their own fires and war machines. I hope you like it.