tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44933980680801073682023-11-16T07:31:28.179-08:00Where Beechmast FallsA journal of New Forest days.Dartford Warblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352965211143836326noreply@blogger.comBlogger365125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493398068080107368.post-5996368014742402712020-06-02T08:15:00.001-07:002020-06-02T08:15:43.108-07:00Early Morning by the Sea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I grew up near to the sea and always love to be near it ,whatever its moods. </div>
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Covid 19 Lockdown has meant that we haven`t seen the sea, some eight miles away, for over three months. </div>
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Health risks mean that we cannot travel around and mix with others while the Lockdown Easings come into effect. A compromise was reached. </div>
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We got up very early and were down on the coast by 6.30am.</div>
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The light of late dawn changed the sky as we watched.</div>
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Sunlight reflected white on chalk cliffs near Swanage, across Poole Bay. Tall white buildings, tiny and far away to the east in Bournemouth, shone with reflected light. </div>
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The Isle of Wight and the Needles looked near enough to touch. </div>
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Dawn cloud shadows over Hurst Spit and the Island beyond. </div>
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Sand martins swooped into nest holes in the sand and gravel cliffs. Tall grasses made cover for other nesting birds</div>
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Small pebbles crunched beneath our feet.</div>
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That rushing sound of pebbles, washed up and down the slope by waves and undertows.</div>
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The sound of my childhood beaches to the east, on the Solent shores.</div>
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A sea swimmer made progress along the shore.</div>
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A last view of the Island.We climbed wooden steps and walked beside thrift covered cliff tops. </div>
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Time to go home on quiet roads, before the rest of the world woke up. </div>
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For me, this Wednesday will mark nine weeks of The Solitude. </div>
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There is a longing to be Elsewhere. To see the sea again, to watch green hedges sweeping over Welsh hills. To follow clouds and the light changing on mountains. </div>
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Some photos of another time, another place. The cliffs between Looe and Talland Bay. Spring 2018.</div>
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A few weeks ago, on a sunny spring afternoon, we could see the yellow-gold of gorse shining through gaps in the boundary hedge. We climbed over the gate and set off for a short walk around a nearby valley. </div>
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A few New Forest ponies, looking well after early spring grass, grazed by the deserted road. </div>
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At the end of the storms, everywhere was wet. Just days before, we had been told that those with health vulnerabilities and those of a certain age should prepare to self isolate. We needed to get out, to think and find some peace. </div>
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Time to turn round, past pools and down the wooded slopes. A winter wood on the edge of spring. </div>
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I took a long break from posting on this blog. Life became busy and full of time with friends, family, groups in our community, of feeling useful and being a part of things, of learning new hobbies and activities that I enjoyed.<br />
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Throughout recent years, I have still walked and taken photographs, but I learned to paint again ( after a fashion). There was little time left in a busy week.<br />
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Here we are now, many weeks into the Coronavirus Pandemic. For all of us, life has changed utterly. Thousands have been gravely ill. Death tolls rise and fall but each number is someone lost. Someone who was loved. A time of grief, unprecedented change, of an unknown future.<br />
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If we stay well, here in our Social Isolation of weeks that may stretch into many months, I shall post some photographs from these days, from our corner of this Locked Down world. Sometimes I may look back for photographs of freedom. When we had freedom to drive, to visit and to walk in other places. There is some consolation, knowing that these places we love are still there and that one day, maybe, we will have a chance to return.<br />
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The winter storms that came this year were harsh, cruel and wild. Flooding here was nothing compared to other parts of Britain, but we watched the changing skies and counted through the days and howling nights.<br />
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Evening sun on bracken and silver birch.<br />
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Clouds darkened and changed......<br />
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...and still the storm anvils came.<br />
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The land was steeped in water. Ditches , streams and rivers overflowed.<br />
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Inside, we waited for spring . Little knowing what would come in the wake of winter.Dartford Warblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352965211143836326noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493398068080107368.post-56640592440273298452018-05-27T02:53:00.003-07:002018-05-27T14:36:42.603-07:00 May at Cranborne Manor Gardens<br />
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When I last visited Cranborne Manor, in 2016, it was a warm June day and the roses were at their finest (see earlier post). We had walked along mown paths, through long, grassy meadows where the wild flowers had mostly finished and had hoped to return one day, to see them in bloom.<br />
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May is the best time for wild flowers here, so we made the journey again through narrow Dorset lanes awash with cow parsley ( Queen Anne`s Lace), red campion , comfrey, wood avens and hawthorn blossom . Woods were in young leaf of so many vivid greens and hawthorn blossomed pale cream in the hedgerows.<br />
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At Cranborne, the Manor Gardens were quite different without their roses. There was a sense of waiting for the main event, yet the wild flower meadows beyond were blooming in profusion.<br />
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A little weir, a pond and the clear stream that runs through them. I sat on the bank in cool grass, under a weeping willow, and watched moorhen chicks swimming and a pair of grey wagtails catching insects by the running water. </div>
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Wild flower meadows of buttercup, yellow rattle, red clover, germander speedwell, vetch and salad burnet. Cow parsley fringed the steam. </div>
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In the peaceful walled garden behind the Manor, a colour palette of pale mauves, white, silver and shades of green softened the wide borders. </div>
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We found a long, formal garden between high walls, where herbaceous perennials were spaced with room to grow into their summer finery. A garden to return to when the wall-climbing roses flower again.</div>
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We have had so many grey, dull days this winter. These photos were taken on a rare day of cold sunshine, before the snow and east winds came. A silver shine reflected on smooth beech trunks and a haze of young buds tipped twigs with light against the sky.</div>
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I caught the sparrow hawk on guard at the top of a horse chestnut. It often watches from this tree, in wait for unsuspecting small birds feeding on grass or at the garden bird table. I have seen it take a blackbird from the lawn in a wild, precise sweep down and across the grass. This week it has taken a wood pigeon in the field. A long stretch of grey feathers on the grass marks their passage and a pigeon`s last airborne fight for life.</div>
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Under the oaks and beeches, holly and ivy grow. Ivy flowers are heavy now with seed and provide welcome food for hungry birds, as well as dense, safe shelter in the worst days of winter, </div>
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This holly on the heath was the last to lose its berries this year. Sweeter berries in the hedgerow hollies are cleared before Christmas, by blackbirds, the garden song thrushes and travelling flocks of mixed thrushes. Some hollies seem to bear more bitter fruit, which goes untouched until the birds are desperate with hunger. By the last days of our recent snow, this bitter holly had been stripped bare by redwings, fieldfares, mistle thrushes and song thrushes. Within days the berries were gone and the migrant birds had moved on. </div>
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The old wilding apple trees survived another winter on the hill slopes, with their dense, gnarled branches showing silver green under years of lichen growth. </div>
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Many of our village ponies were born in the gorse bushes on the hill, so we have known them since their earliest days. We are familiar to them as we walk and share the heathland spaces. This mare and her companion came over to me as I walked back from a walk around the hill. </div>
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In the old boundary hedge, oak and beech twisted and stretched their branches upwards under a cold, late winter sky.</div>
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On a warm June Wednesday I drove across the Hampshire border with some friends, for a visit to Cranborne Manor Gardens, in Dorset`s Cranborne Chase. </div>
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The Gardens are approached through a colourful and well stocked Garden Centre.We met for coffee and then made our way through rose-covered walled gardens, where beds of vegetables grow alongside drifts of wild flowers and sown cottage garden blooms.</div>
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Through a door in the garden wall, we walked along mown grass pathways, through meadows of wild flowers, towards the Manor House.</div>
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Yellow rattle, daisies, orchids and salad burnet, buttercups and clover grew among the grasses.</div>
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Cranborne Manor has been a family home for centuries and is not open to the public. Its current owner is Viscount Cranborne, eldest son of the seventh Marquis of Salisbury.</div>
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The original house was built in the twelfth century, as a hunting lodge for King John. The countryside of Cranborne Chase had been a Royal hunting ground since the Norman Conquest.</div>
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In 1604, the estate was given to Robert Cecil, Chief Minister to both Elizabeth I and James I, in thanks for overseeing a smooth transition between the Tudor and Stewart reigns.</div>
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Changes and additions to both house and gardens have taken place over the centuries. I was fascinated to discover that the early 17th century gardens were designed by Mounten Jenning and planted by the great plant hunter John Tradescant.</div>
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This and more information about the house, garden and the modern Estate can be found on www.cranborne.co.uk</div>
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Through a wooden gate in the garden wall, we walked around to the back of the house, where the rear doorway gives a feeling of great antiquity and a sense of countless passing feet, over so many centuries.</div>
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From the back of the house, the view stretches down across the ha-ha and over a gate, into an avenue of green limes and lush pasture.</div>
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......and free range chickens, contentedly foraging in the shelter of garden walls.</div>
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There are richly planted herbaceous borders in the walled area between the Manor House and Cranborne village. Early delphiniums promised a fine display, beside Church Walk that leads to the churchyard gate.</div>
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Masses of pinks and old roses filled the warm air with summer scent.</div>
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An apple archway spans drifts of nepeta (catmint) and allium.</div>
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Such an old and lovely place to walk, surrounded by birdsong and the sights and smells of summer. This is a garden to return to and enjoy again. </div>
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On a warm, grey day last week, a group from our village met for lunch and our summer outing. This year we visited the hamlet of Bucklers Hard, which slopes down to the Beaulieu River and has long been a part of the Beaulieu Estate.</div>
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Bucklers Hard was a ship building community for centuries, using oak wood from the New Forest to fashion into ships. The skilled carpenters and shipwrights lived in cottages bordering a wide passageway, along which the timber could be brought down to dry docks at the edge of the water. Ships were built in wooden scaffolding frames for support and a small ship was often built beside a larger vessel, so that leftover small lengths of wood from the larger vessel could still be used.</div>
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Shipbuilding here was at its busiest during the eighteenth century, as the Royal Navy built its fleet to answer the threat posed by the French. Under the direction of Henry Adams, three "ships of the line", HMS Euryalus, HMS Swiftsure and HMS Agamemnon, were built here. They were part of Admiral Lord Nelson`s fleet that won the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Nelson`s own ship, HMS Victory, was built in the deeper waters of Chatham Dockyard in Kent.</div>
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The inlets below are the remains of the two docks where ships were built.</div>
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Today`s peaceful grassy sward was once a busy, bustling, noisy yard where the craftsmen plied their trades and where horses and carts came and went, delivering wood and supplies.</div>
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The rows of Georgian houses at Bucklers Hard were home to those who built the ships. From senior ships architects to the lowliest carpenters, they lived alongside each other in houses that reflected their status in both size and facilities.</div>
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Below is the reconstructed interior of a shipwright`s home in the late 1700s.</div>
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One of the cottages is a small chapel where the community worshipped. </div>
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This plaque commemorates the life of a more modern sailor, Sir Francis Chichester, who kept his Gypsy Moth yachts in the marina that is now the mainstay of maritime life at Bucklers Hard. </div>
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Chichester was the first yachtsman to sail solo around the world, and in both directions.</div>
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Today, the Beaulieu River at Bucklers Hard is crowded with yachts of all descriptions. A pleasure boat takes visitors for trips along the river.</div>
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Seventy years ago, this tranquil waterway was a hive of activity. Motor torpedo boats were built here during WWII and the river was an embarkation point as the Allies planned and launched Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Nazi Occupied France. Many troops embarked and sailed down the Beaulieu River to reach the Solent and the English Channel, before heading south for the Normandy coast and the D Day landings of early June, 1944.</div>
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Across the Beaulieu River are the marshes and woods of the Exbury Estate.</div>
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A great variety of seabirds and waders live and breed on the river.</div>
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Fenced off from the public are two areas of the Bucklers Hard quay, where oystercatchers have built their nests in shallow shingle scrapes.</div>
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Below, the female oystercatcher is sitting on her nest in full view of the world.</div>
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As we watched, her mate arrived, the chicks emerged from their mother`s feathers and ran to meet him, to be fed.</div>
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This gave the mother bird a chance to stretch her legs, so she walked along the water`s edge, partly hidden from our view by grass and oxeye daisies.</div>
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The final instalment of our Blue Tit webcam began with one healthy chick remaining in the nest. The second chick had been slow to feed. One night it disappeared. We assume that it must have died in the night and was removed by the parent bird. The top photo shows the remaining chick snuggled up in the nest with its mother.<br />
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The chick changed and grew daily, gaining more and more markings and characteristics of an adult Blue Tit.<br />
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The unhatched eggs were still in the nest.<br />
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In this fuzzy picture, both the parent birds arrived at once to feed the chick.<br />
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The days went by, but a change came on the seventeenth day after hatching. We switched on the webcam images in the morning to find that the mother bird, so diligent and always with her chick when not out finding food, had disappeared. </div>
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The hungry chick was peeping and moving around its nest. We feared that it had been abandoned.</div>
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At last, the male bird appeared with a maggot and fed his chick. He seemed to realise that it was now his job to care for this youngster and he went off hunting again. For two days, the male bird fed the chick, who grew rapidly and began to spread his wings and hop around inside the nest box.</div>
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The mother never returned. She must have been predated by a magpie, a crow, a sparrow hawk or a cat. Our own cats are on curfew while the birds are fledging, but it could have been the black cat from along the lane.</div>
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A sad ending for a hard working and attentive little bird, but that is the way that nature works.</div>
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Here is the male bird feeding his chick.</div>
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Last Friday, in the middle of the morning, the bird had flown!<br />
Mr DW went outside to see both parent and chick on the roof of the house, not far from the nest box.<br />
The chick was fed and then both birds flew off together. We hope that they reached the cover of a nearby old oak tree and that one healthy chick and his father escape the predators and have the chance to live.<br />
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The Swanage Railway in Dorset is a volunteer-run service taking passengers from the seaside town of Swanage, north through the Purbeck Hills and almost as far as Wareham at the mouth of the River Frome.</div>
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The railway was initially closed by the 1960`s Beeching Cuts but has been reopened and restored in recent years. The sight of one of its steam locomotives puffing through the Purbeck Hills is nostalgic, always exciting and a testament to the hard work of the many keen men and women who have strived to restore the railway. More information is on www.swanagerailway.co.uk</div>
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For four days in early May, 2016, Swanage Railway held a Diesel Gala and Beer Festival, which attracted enthusiasts from all over the country. Restored diesel engines took over the work of the usual steam locomotives and pulled carriages up and down the line from Swanage. They reportedly carried over 4,000 passengers during the Gala.</div>
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The blue engine above and below was being used for a "Train Driving Experience" and Mr DW was lucky enough to have been given this experience for his birthday. We set off early from the New Forest and drove westwards to the Purbecks on a sunny Saturday. At Norden Station, near Corfe Castle, Mr DW and our elder son climbed aboard and enjoyed a wonderful morning learning to drive the train, on the up-line from Norden to just south of Wareham where the track now ends.</div>
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While they were busy "playing trains", I walked up towards the main station with our daughter-in-law and the Slate Grey Dog, who was about to experience something completely new and exciting.</div>
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This little train once carried clay from Purbeck quarries to the local potteries. The Purbecks have a history of water and sewage pipe manufacture and clay smoking pipe production. It is hard to dig in a local cottage garden without discovering broken stems of old clay pipes that were smoked by previous inhabitants.</div>
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A few days had passed and the two hatched chicks were growing and feeding well.<br />
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The female regularly flies out to collect food but spends much of her day brooding her chicks and keeping them warm. She is a busy mother and fusses around moving feathers and fluff. She still appears to be turning the unhatched eggs, which we assume must be either unfertilised or addled by now? </div>
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This morning was an anxious one. Only one gaping mouth was feeding when we first looked in at the nest. Had the larger chick or the mother bird trampled the smaller chick? Had the wet, colder days taken their toll?<br />
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Two hungry chicks are now waiting for more and the parent birds are out in this morning`s sunny garden, on their perpetual hunt for food.<br />
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A recent birthday present was a bird box with a webcam already installed. A great idea as we love watching the webcams on the BBC Springwatch programmes every year.<br />
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We put the box up on a north facing wall that is sheltered from the worst of the rain and the hottest sun. A wire leads through into the house so that we can watch the nest via the television.<br />
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Within a few days, a pair of Blue Tits had taken possession of the box and started to build a nest. Bottom layers of hay, dry bracken and moss were built up to make a thick, firm structure. Over the next few days, the birds added moss and horse hair from the moulting New Forest ponies outside.<br />
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The dark hair comes from Jay and the grey-white hair is from the Grey Pony. They have been moulting heavily so have appreciated a few good grooming sessions. We left piles of shed hair out in the yard and watched from a distance while birds of all varieties gathered it up as nesting material.<br />
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Some of the feathers may have been found, but we have watched the parent Blue Tits out on tree branches near the nest, preening each other and removing old feathers as part of their courtship and bonding behaviour. Both birds have brought the feathers into the nest, but the female seems to have been in charge of arranging and rearranging them, to make the nest soft and warm for herself and the coming chicks.<br />
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Mrs Blue Tit slept in the nest from an early stage. Within days of completing it, she began to lay her eggs. A total of six have been incubated over the last two weeks. The female only left the nest to feed herself at this stage and spent a lot of time fluffing herself up and rolling the eggs around under her body.<br />
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Sometimes, the male bird would bring a flying insect as a food gift to the female, but when we saw her bringing back a small white maggot in her beak, we knew that the first egg had hatched.<br />
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Two days later, two chicks had hatched and a third seemed to be emerging from its egg.<br />
Both birds began to feed them and the rate of growth has been astonishing to watch.<br />
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More to follow. Please excuse the poor quality photos, but it has been a real privilege to watch the secret life of a pair of our garden birds as the days have gone by.<br />
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Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post. Most people seem of a like mind. There is a feeling of discomfort at watching wild animals enclosed, however good and humane their treatment. On the other hand, conservation and the global breeding programmes for endangered species are essential if these creatures are to be protected for the future.<br />
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I have always felt unsure about keeping the Big Cats in captivity. I know it has to be done, but they do seem to exhibit pacing and other stereotypical behaviour. Having said that, the Siberian/Amur Tigers, the leopards and the cheetahs at Marwell are all in superb condition.<br />
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This beautiful Amur Tiger was viewed at close quarters through a tough, transparent wall.<br />
It followed the fence line around to the small pond and then looked at its own reflection in the water.<br />
The photograph below reminds me of the tiger in Judith Kerr`s wonderful children` book, 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'.<br />
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In the last week of the school holidays, we went on a family visit to Marwell Zoo, near Winchester in Hampshire. </div>
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Marwell Zoo opened in 1972, in the grounds of Marwell House, a fine country house with its origins in the fourteenth century. In the 1500s, the house was owned by the Seymour Family. Their daughter, Jane, was the third wife of King Henry VIII.</div>
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Marwell Zoo was founded by John Knowles, the then owner of the house and land. By building a collection of animals, many of which are extinct in the wild or severely threatened, the aims are to conserve species and to educate the public. The animals are well cared for in environments which are adapted to their specific needs and enriched to provide as natural behaviour as is possible within a zoo setting.</div>
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Grevy`s Zebra, grazing a large field alongside Scimitar Oryx from Sub Saharan Africa. Both species have been successfully bred at Marwell. The oryx was extinct in the wild but is now being reintroduced by the captive breeding programme.</div>
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A member of the large colony of Meercat who live at Marwell. Sunbathing under a heat lamp was the best place to be on a chilly afternoon.</div>
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Marwell House, behind part of the large, enriched enclosure for the Rhinos, who were all inside sleeping when we visited. We could stand on one side of a transparent wall and watch them dozing in a group, just yards from where we stood.</div>
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It was a busy day at Marwell when we visited. Spring daffodils brightened the park and many excited children were enjoying a day seeing animals from across the world. It was heartening to see the next generation being encouraged to learn about and to love the wild creatures so endangered in their native lands.Dartford Warblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04352965211143836326noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4493398068080107368.post-34827276213876063392016-04-23T03:01:00.001-07:002016-04-23T06:45:12.060-07:00A Happy Birthday Bonfire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The farmer lit the bonfire to loud applause, although the green prunings took a while to catch alight.</div>
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The local herd of red deer wandered nearer, as they usually do before nightfall, but were startled by the fire and a crowd of human beings on their familiar fields. They turned tail and headed back towards the woods.<br />
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People gathered to chat and exchange news. Cider and apple juice, from the local cider farm, were enjoyed. Children played in the field as the darkness fell, before being shepherded home to bed as they all had school in the morning.<br />
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Spring is here. Light evenings and ( sometimes) better weather means more time spent outside, so I am falling behind with my blog yet again.</div>
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Here are some photographs from Easter weekend, which began with warm sunshine when we walked through the grounds of Kingston Lacy, near Wimborne. It was a beautiful day. </div>
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The Slate Grey Dog is growing well and enjoys her outings with the family. She is pulling less and walked nicely around the woods and park. She met friendly dogs and children, which she loved.</div>
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An Easter Egg Hunt was in progress, so the woods resounded with the voices of children.......</div>
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....and the calls of birds.</div>
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Most of the woodland daffodils are the small, wild varieties but drifts of larger flowers grew nearer to the paths.</div>
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Trees beside the "snowdrop walk" have been coppiced.</div>
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Every winter there are tree works as part of the management of the New Forest. The Electricity Board tree surgeons have been pollarding and clearing branches or trees that are growing dangerously near to overhead power lines. Piles of pollarded holly have been left for the ponies and deer to eat.</div>
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A good, thick moustashe helps when eating holly and gorse.</div>
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A group of ponies have been following the tree surgeons around, waiting for the spoils of their work.</div>
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This young pony was looking for her grey mother. Soon they had found each other and joined their family group as the ponies wandered off, through long established tracks across the heath.</div>
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After so many wet days, we had a drier afternoon on Thursday when we drove down to the coast.</div>
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Keyhaven Marshes is an internationally important wildlife reserve to the west of the Lymington River. It is managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists` Trust.</div>
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We walked past the harbour, where small boats sheltered from south westerly winds in the lee of Hurst Spit.</div>
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The coastal path eastwards is on the narrow sea wall that divides inland marshes from the Solent sea.</div>
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Westwards, Hurst Castle guards the entrance to the Solent, against a backdrop of the Island's western chalk cliffs and the Needles.</div>
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Sunlight turned reeds to gold. They shook and shimmered in a freezing wind. White yacht masts shone on the horizon, moored in the calm of Lymington Harbour.</div>
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A late afternoon walk on a wet and gloomy day. The Forest is waterlogged in many places, so it was good to come to an area where pathways are maintained and where there are sometimes deer to watch in the Bolderwood Deer Sanctuary. New Forest deer are free to come and go in this special area, but the grazing area in front of the viewing platform was empty.</div>
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In the New Forest, which was originally a royal hunting Forest for William the Conqueror, there are now four main species of deer :- Red, Fallow, Roe and Sika. Sometimes a little Muntjack can also be seen. </div>
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The notice below explains the changes that have taken place in the deer population over the centuries.</div>
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The Deer Sanctuary includes part of Bolderwood Arboretum, which has magnificent Giant Redwoods growing alongside smaller, mixed woodland trees. </div>
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On previous visits we have seen herds of fallow deer in these protected fields.</div>
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Piles of logs are left as insect habitat in the managed woodland glades.</div>
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Young stands of deciduous trees grow in proximity to managed ancient yews.</div>
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This raw patch of stripped bark was at deer browsing height. Their teeth had left scrape marks.</div>
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Slate Grey Dog was interested in the sweet smell of beech sap on the damaged trees.</div>
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She walks nicely to heel in a controlled space, but can pull strongly when we are out in exciting places.</div>
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She is learning to walk in a kind dog headcollar which reduces pulling and she seems much happier wearing it. At seven months old she is doing well and loves her Forest walks.</div>
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The light was falling as we walked back along the Forest tracks. Not a deer in sight today. Herds of pregnant hinds and their young from last year are keen to seek shelter in quiet places during late winter. The stags often roam the Forest in bachelor bands. A friend of mine saw three fine Fallow stags last week. They leapt across the road in front of her car as she drove home across the Forest at dusk.</div>
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Yesterday morning, I met a friend who now lives in Wales but who spent many happy days in the New Forest as she was growing up. It was a bitterly cold morning, with black ice, frozen puddles and a heavy frost. We planned a woodland walk before heading home to warm up again.</div>
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We turned off the Lyndhurst to Christchurch road and drove in shafts of sunlight through the Rhinefield Ornamental Drive. Huge Douglas Firs and Californian Redwoods tower over native trees along this narrow road. We left the car at Blackwater car park and crossed the road into Blackwater Arboretum.</div>
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The Rhinefield and Blackwater tree collections were once part of the estate of Rhinefield House, a grand old house which is now a hotel. The Redwoods were planted by 1860 and the older Blackwater trees during the later 1800s. </div>
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Both tree collections are now managed by the Forestry Commission. Blackwater is an enclosed collection of trees from across the world. High deer fencing protects them from New Forest deer and ponies. The access gates have been constructed from local trees.</div>
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With some imagination, he seems to be a woodpecker!</div>
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A gentle walk took us through mixed woodland. Tall conifers grow amongst deciduous trees.</div>
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I last visited in the autumn, when bright acers were in full autumn leaf. Today, delicate shapes of winter branches shone against a cold blue sky.</div>
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As older trees have died, new ones have been planted to replace them and to diversify the collection.</div>
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Another strange bird emerges from a carved tree stump.</div>
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Older branches are festooned with lichen. A sign of clean air.</div>
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Several varieties of Eucalyptus contrast their bright, white bark against the evergreens.</div>
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We saw a few small flocks of finches among the treetops. In spring and summer, the peaceful woodland and its variety of plants attract many birds and insects.</div>
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An elegant rustic gate, high as the deer fencing, allows access to foresters` vehicles when tree work needs to be done.</div>
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A dead tree skeleton rising stark in winter sunlight.</div>
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Other dead wood is sometimes left to provide food for invertebrates and then, in turn, for birds. These tree trunks were pock marked with holes made by greater spotted woodpeckers.</div>
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We emerged from the Arboretum to find a cross roads of Forest tracks. With more time, we would have followed one to see where it went. As it was, we turned towards the sun and let it warm our faces for a while, before a brisk walk back through the trees to find the car. By this time we were cold.</div>
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Tall, dense spruces, like giant Christmas trees, stood against a perfect winter sky.</div>
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Even at midday, the winter sun shone low through cold stands of pines.</div>
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The wind has changed and winter has arrived. Temperatures have dropped and there is a chill in the air.</div>
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In a sheltered corner of the garden, there are daffodils in flower.</div>
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A closer look shows that something has eaten part of a petal.</div>
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Hazel buds and catkins shine against the sky.<br />
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Another Lenten hellebore flowers early.</div>
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Ice covers the pools and puddles in a field where rain water drains away.</div>
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Out in the fields at feeding time, the sun had just dipped away. Salmon pink clouds drifted in on the cold north easterly air, above bare winter trees.</div>
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<i>Thanks to everyone for your comments on my last post. Just to reassure everyone -Woody was not unhappy for long! He had laminitis several years ago so he needs a smaller field and a careful watch on his diet.</i><br />
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The top field has been left to nature for two years. The other paddocks are grazed but this patch of land is reverting to wild meadow and is a place where birds come to feed and shelter. Voles, other small mammals and insects are plentiful and wild flowers are beginning to grow again in the summer months.</div>
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I walked up to the gate unnoticed, but as soon as they heard the click of the latch, Ginger Pony and the Chocolate Pony turned on their heels and trotted over their soaked field, unable to believe their luck!</div>
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Chocolate Pony has a thick, fluffy coat. He and Ginger will only wear rugs if the weather turns particularly cold and wet. </div>
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I left the two contented ponies grazing for a while. When I called them later for their evening hay, they happily left the wild field and cantered down towards their food. They won`t be so pleased when they realize that I have shut the gate behind them!</div>
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Here is Woody, watching his friends enjoying their time in the grass and looking a bit left out.</div>
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We spent a lovely afternoon in the gardens at the National Trust`s Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire. Their rose collection is a national treasure and was at its most beautiful that day.</div>
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This post is to cheer up a friend who is not feeling well today. I hope it brings a bit of colour to a winter`s day.</div>
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The first two photographs shows The Pilgrim, which grows in tall pillars at the entrance to the walled rose gardens. The rest are not named as I can`t find my list, but who needs words?</div>
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It has rained for several days. This morning it was hard to believe the blue sky and thin, high clouds.<br />
I took my camera up onto the heath where tracks were slippery with puddles and saturated ground.<br />
There is gorse in bloom, but the bare twigs of thorn bushes dripped with water and tree barks were dark from earlier rain.<br />
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A small herd of New Forest mares were grazing on new gorse sprigs or dozing in the welcome sunshine.<br />
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It was good to see that most of the ponies now wear reflective collars so that they can be more easily seen on the Forest roads at night. Even so, there is a continuous list of pony casualties each week in the local press. Drivers leave the fast A roads and cannot seem to appreciate the vulnerability and freedom of the New Forest animals that have ancient rights to move where they like across the Forest.<br />
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Looking back across the valley, wraiths of mist rose from the wet heath.</div>
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New shoots of holly and other woodland plants pierced the bright sphagnum moss and leaf litter underfoot.</div>
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Old silver birches, growing among their young descendants on the hill.</div>
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A scramble down the bramble bank took me down into the lane.<br />
A few hours later, we were drenched again with cold, heavy rain and wintery, icy sleet.<br />
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<i>Thank you to everyone who has visited and left a comment on my previous post.</i><br />
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