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Fleabane, but I was reminded of an orrery when i saw this, and liked the effect.
Seen at Dixton Embankment Gwent Wildlife Trust reserve.
Two crimson waxcaps, looking a bit battered. Some Hebridean sheep have been introduced to the reserve for winter grazing, and many of the fungi were looking a bit worse for wear as a cosequence.
Probably a larva. Almost certainly of some sort of fly, and it wriggled a bit, so not totally rigid. Posted because of the nice colour.
Gwent Wildlife Trust have put up a new donations box at Magor Marsh reserve, and I was delighted to see that they were using one of my water vole pictures from last year. I gave permission previously, and they have credited me.
I'm pleased.
GWT HST power car 43018 leads the 1A82 09:00 Penzance to London Paddington service on 20th March 2019
Same specimens as the next shot, from below. I suspect that these fungi are rather old and their appearance is not typical.
Posed in front of the former depot of Fretwell, Bentley (taken over by Dearneways), GWT 235J is a short Leyland Leopard with Plaxton Elite coachwork new in 1971. It would pass to SYPTE in 1981 and receive fleet number 1025.
DCC Archives
Back Row: Councillor GWT Christie; Deputy Mayor, HIs Worship the Mayor, Mr CG Skeggs, JP; Mr AK Carr, Town Clerk
Middle Row: Councillors BK Arnold; MRD Guest; IW McMeeking, JP; RF Walls
Front Row: Councillors MRS Archer; EJ McLean, OBE; M Joel, QSO, ED; I Williams, OBE, JP; TKS Sidey, CMG, JJ Herd; Sir James Barnes, MEB, JP
Orchid number three, again at Pentwyn Farm. I only discovered that there were Twayblade at Pentwyn last year.
This plant rejoices in the name of Sneezewort, or Achilla ptarmica if you want to be technical.
It confused the heck out of me, as my book says it grows in damp acid grassland, yet this picture was taken today in dry limestone grassland at Dixton embankment nature reserve. Probably the plant had not read the book and didn't know any better. Careless of it.
My thanks to Jim Horsfall for posting his excellent picture of this plant that confirmed the identity of mine.
In a holly above commercial hives at Pentwyn Farm reserve. I could hear this long before I saw it. The buzz was incredible!
The barquentine May Newton the last of Alexander Newton’s ships, was the end of an era of ships built at the Pelican Shipyard, Manning River NSW.
Details :
Name: May Newton
(Named after Alexander Newton's youngest daughter Maria Alexandria Newton. [May] )
Type: Barquentine / Schooner
Length: 144 ft
Beam: 22.8 ft
Draft: 8.9 ft
Gwt: 214 tons
Builder: Captain Alexander Newton Snr.
Launched: 15th October 1878
Official number: ON075003
Signal letters: WNLF
Registered: Sydney 3rd January 1879
Owners:
-Alexander Newton Snr /Alexander Newton Jnr
Construction:
- Carvel built from locally sourced hardwoods.
- White beech decks.
- Hardwood planking and copper fastened throughout.
- 3 stepped masts/ White beech topmasts
- Round Stern
- Figure Head: Female Bust
PART I - EARLY LIFE (1878 - 1887)
1878
The barquentine May Newton appears to be one of the last large sailing vessels built on the Manning River NSW. Named after Alexander Newton Snr’s daughter, she was launched from his Pelican Shipyard. The proportions of the May Newton were somewhat different to his earlier vessels, in that she was long and narrow with a shallow draft, maybe intending his last vessel to be a steamer.
1879 - 1881
Alexander Newton Jnr. as Master followed by William Newton as Master. For two years, the May Newton was a family affair with Alexander Newton Jnr as master, William Newton as mate, and Robert Newton as ordinary seaman. William soon worked his way up and took over the command of the May Newton in 1881. After trips to New Zealand and South Africa, the May Newton made a succession of voyages between Sydney and the Richmond River NSW.
"The May Newton was another of the list which made many a fast trip when she got the wind, and she frequently beat the supposed fliers from other parts of the world."
“In the eighties of the last century the three masted barque May Newton used to load girders at Tinonee for New Zealand, under the command of Captain Newton Jnr. We well remember seeing her passing down fully loaded for her foreign ports”. The Northern Champion 3rd December 1927.
Captain Alexander Newton Jnr, was a daring young navigator, and there in lies a tale. When entering the river in his own ships as a passenger, in very rough weather, Captain Alexander Newton Snr, has known to be heard to tell the commander while crossing the Harrington bar, “Stick her into it, she must come over,” meaning that a rising tide would carry a strong vessel in, even if she grounded for a while. The black hull of the May Newton was very prominent, even though her name was not very distinct, she would pass by the Government wharf and anchor near the junction of the Manning and the Dawson Rivers.
1884
Robert Newton joins crew of the Alexander Newton. Robert sailed as mate on the Alexander Newton under the command of his eldest brother for approximately six months, between September 1884 and early 1885.
1885
Robert Newton transfers back to the May Newton as Master: When the May Newton and the Alexander Newton were together in Sydney on 25th May 1885, Robert transferred to the May Newton, gaining his qualifications as master in the following year and spending most of his working life on the May Newton.
1886
Dismasted: After leaving the Richmond River on the 7th July bound for Melbourne, the May Newton was dismasted, and badly damaged. She was picked up by the steam tug Secret and towed safely to Sydney.
Death of Alexander Newton Snr: After the death of Alexander Newton Snr in September 1886, the remaining Newton family formed a partnership. Ownership of both the Alexander Newton and the May Newton was taken over by Alexander Newton Jnr, who managed the partnership and the Pelican property.
For her later life (1888 - 1892) see PART II - LATER LIFE
Image Source: "Crossing the Bar" written by Rebecca Linton .
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Juvenile male Marsh Harrier with green wing tags on both wings numbering I6. I will report the sighting as they like to know where these gwt birds get to.
I pu the camera on a tripod low in the meadow at Magor marsh and simply let it record. I find it nice just to listen to this.
Finally found it, as it only grows in one spot on the side of a tussock at Henllys Bog. Southernmost site in the county.
I would like to introduce this Welsh Mountain pony who spent much of my midweek trip to Beacon Hill Gwent Wildlife Trust reserve pestering me for food.
I didn't mind, because she was gentle and polite about it, and most of all because she is beautiful.
She is one of five horses who graze the site and help with the management of it.
Growing on the top of a dry stone wall at Pentwyn Farm, Penallt. The first moss that I have identified without help.
I had to include this shot, because the angle makes the hedgehog look very apprehensive, which it may well have been. It went down a storm with the visitors though, who loved it.
Tiny little red mites scurrying around on stone walls in the sun, about half a millimetre long, view the world rather differently to the way we do. This is the landscape of a stone windowsill on the medieval barn at pentwyn farm reserve, Monmouthshire.
Please view large.
GWT 630 is a Burlingham-bodied Albion Valkyrie CX13 which was new in December 1947 (66 years old), and with a top speed of 30mph. It has been preserved as South Yorkshire (Pontefract) 61, being owned and operated by GP Lawson trading as Yesteryear Coaches - I have a photo of this in York outside the former LNER offices (Cedar Court Hotel)