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Garish medium-sized laughingthrush-like bird. Olive overall with a bright red face and wing panels. Note pale eyes. Furtive and shy, typically foraging in dense undergrowth, often in mixed flocks, but also often singly or in pairs. Favors dense hill forest. Song is a repeated “chew-chew-weee?-chew”; gives dry rattling calls. (eBird)
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We'd had good looks at these lovely birds the day before, but in very difficult lighting, so I was very happy when this one popped up in the open. The light really showed off his bright red face. So nice when a bird has a sensible name :-)
Here's a link to our Thailand bird trip list: ebird.org/tripreport/328567
Doi Pha Hom Pok National Park, Doi Lang, Chang Mai, Thailand. February 2025.
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Probably my favourite photo I took this year so far. That moment had everything we love about going hiking on Dartmoor - epic scenery, wild animals and Bronze Age relics.
The photo is from Rippon Tor in the heart of Dartmoor. There are fantastic 360 degree views across the National Park with Haytor in the background of the shot. The top of Rippon Tor is full of remnants of ancient fortifications and must have been the perfect spot to overlook all of the land below.
The young Dartmoor pony foal could not have been much older than a few days, such a lovely encounter!
For anyone interested in the entire 12.5km hike, have a look at the video: youtu.be/KB83Cu_G9c4
Réalisé le 20 février 2013 à Doi Lang, Thailande, à la frontière avec le Myanmar.
Taken on February, 20th / 2013 in Doi Lang, Thailand, at the boundary with Myanmar.
A shot from this morning's sunrise at Rippon Tor on Dartmoor looking across to Saddle Tor and Haytor in the distance.
I have to say there is something special about arriving on Dartmoor in the dark and trekking up a tor and waiting for the sun to rise.
I've thought I should show why the Eastern Spinebills were gathering in this particular area of the Rippon Lea Estate. Purple Tubeflower shrubs were in full bloom. They are hummingbird-pollinated species in their native South America but our Australian spinebills seem to be up to the task as well.
(Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)
(Lochroma cyaneum)
I was nicely surprised during my recent visit to Rippon Lea Estate: several Eastern Spinebills were frolicking near one of the paths. The only problem was their speed and shadows cast by the shrubs along the path.
(Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris)
A shot from Sunday evening exploring Rippon Tor and the Nutcrackers area of Dartmoor. I had two visits to Dartmoor last weekend and was treated to amazing light both times!
Amazing temperature Inversion from Rippon Tor looking towards Haytor & Saddle Tor on Saturday morning :) Shot with a Sony A6000
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A shot from Saturday evenings trip to the Nut Crackers below Rippon Tor on Dartmoor. In between the spells of rain,wind and more rain were amazing patches of fast moving light which made for some pretty atmospheric conditions.
This is a 5 shot bracketed exposure.
After capturing Haytor the other morning I decided to see what the hill fog looked like from Lowman's Rock. Initially it was enveloped in fog (I started to wonder if I was in the right place) but as the sun rose it started to thin. The sight looking towards Saddle Tor, with Rippon Tor just behind was breathtaking!
Moments before the sun began to breathe life into the surrounding landscape, I had enough time to use my 100-400mm lens to compose several long distance shots. From the shallow end of the lens, this first frame captures the fiery red sky near the horizon as the sun begins to break over Rippon Tor. Thanks for looking – Mk
Rippon, North Yorkshire. National Trust. I have several photographs of the Cellarium. What impressed me was the vast open space of the vaulted structure. Impressive for a building constructed around the 12th and 13th centuries. It is in remarkably sound condition despite the best endeavours of Thomas Cromwell.
Looking across the sunlit landscape from Emsworthy Rocks to Saddle Tor and Rippon Tor. Thanks for looking. Mk
Looking across the sunlit landscape from Emsworthy Rocks to saddle Tor and Rippon Tor. Thanks for looking. Mk
As I drove onto the moor, the sun burst through the cloud to produce this jaw-dropping colour on the slopes of Rippon Tor, accentuated further by the dark sky over head. This was not a photo opportunity to be missed! Thanks for looking – Mk.
Fountains Abbey ~ Rippon ~ Yorkshire ~ England ~ Thursday August 21st 2014.
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Fountains Abbey ~ From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~
Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately three miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The abbey is a Grade I listed building owned by the National Trust and part of the designated Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey UNESCO World Heritage Site.
History ~ After a dispute and riot in 1132 at the Benedictine house of St Mary's Abbey, in York, 13 monks were expelled (among them Saint Robert of Newminster) and, after unsuccessfully attempting to return to the early 6th-century Rule of St Benedict, were taken into the protection of Thurstan, Archbishop of York. He provided them with land in the valley of the River Skell, a tributary of the Ure. The enclosed valley had all the natural features needed for the creation of a monastery, providing shelter from the weather, stone and timber for building, and a supply of running water. After enduring a harsh winter in 1133, the monks applied to join the Cistercian order and in 1135 became the second house of that order in northern England, after Rievaulx. The monks subjected themselves to Clairvaux Abbey, in Burgundy which was under the rule of St Bernard. Under the guidance of Geoffrey of Ainai, a monk sent from Clairvaux, the group learned how to celebrate the seven Canonical Hours and were shown how to construct wooden buildings in accordance with Cistercian practice.
After Henry Murdac was elected to the abbacy in 1143, the small stone church and timber claustral buildings were replaced. Within three years, an aisled nave had been added to the stone church, and the first permanent claustral buildings built in stone and roofed in tile had been completed.[citation needed]
In 1146 an angry mob, displeased with Murdac's role in opposing the election of William FitzHerbert to the archbishopric of York, attacked the abbey and burnt down all but the church and some surrounding buildings.[7] The community recovered swiftly from the attack and founded four daughter houses. Henry Murdac resigned the abbacy in 1147 to become the Archbishop of York and was replaced first by Maurice, Abbot of Rievaulx then, on the resignation of Maurice, by Thorald. Thorald was forced by Henry Murdac to resign after two years in office. The next abbot, Richard, held the post until his death in 1170 and restored the abbey's stability and prosperity. In 20 years as abbot, he supervised a huge building programme which involved completing repairs to the damaged church and building more accommodation for the increasing number of recruits. Only the chapter house was completed before he died and the work was ably continued by his successor, Robert of Pipewell, under whose rule the abbey gained a reputation for caring for the needy.
The next abbot was William who presided over the abbey from 1180 to 1190 and he was succeeded by Ralph Haget, who had entered Fountains at the age of 30 as a novice, after pursuing a military career. During the European famine of 1194 Haget ordered the construction of shelters in the vicinity of the abbey and provided daily food rations to the poor enhancing the abbey's reputation for caring for the poor and attracting more grants from wealthy benefactors.[citation needed]
In the first half of the 13th century Fountains increased in reputation and prosperity under the next three abbots, John of York (1203–1211), John of Hessle (1211–1220) and John of Kent (1220–1247). They were burdened with an inordinate amount of administrative duties and increasing demands for money in taxation and levies but managed to complete another massive expansion of the abbey's buildings. This included enlarging the church and building an infirmary. In the second half of the 13th century the abbey was in more straitened circumstances. It was presided over by eleven abbots, and became financially unstable largely due to forward selling its wool crop, and the abbey was criticised for its dire material and physical state when it was visited by Archbishop John Romeyn in 1294. The run of disasters that befell the community continued into the early 14th century when northern England was invaded by the Scots and there were further demands for taxes. The culmination of these misfortunes was the Black Death of 1349–1349. The loss of manpower and income due to the ravages of the plague was almost ruinous.
A further complication arose as a result of the Papal Schism of 1378–1409. Fountains Abbey along with other English Cistercian houses was told to break off any contact with the mother house of Citeaux, which supported a rival pope. This resulted in the abbots forming their own chapter to rule the order in England and consequently they became increasingly involved in internecine politics. In 1410, following the death of Abbott Burley of Fountains, the community was riven by several years of turmoil over the election of his successor. Contending candidates John Ripon, Abbot of Meaux, and Roger Frank, a monk of Fountains were locked in discord until 1415 when Ripon was finally appointed and presided until his death in 1434. Under abbots John Greenwell (1442–1471), Thomas Swinton (1471–8), John Darnton (1478–95), who undertook some much needed restoration of the fabric of the abbey including notable work on the church, and Marmaduke Huby (1495–1526) Fountains regained stability and prosperity.
When Marmaduke Huby died he was succeeded by William Thirsk who was accused by the royal commissioners of immorality and inadequacy and dismissed from the abbacy and replaced by Marmaduke Bradley, a monk of the abbey who had reported Thirsk's supposed offences, testified against him and offered the authorities six hundred marks for the abbacy. In 1539 Bradley surrendered the abbey when Henry VIII ordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.....
(Hemsworthy Gate & Rippon Tor, Dartmoor National Park)
I’ve been eyeing up this location for several years and just happened to be in the right place at the right time on this occasion. With the light hitting the sweet spot, this was an opportunist moment I could not afford to miss. Thanks for looking – Mk.