Tuesday, 30 April 2013
WALLEY THE WASP
Well apart from no stinger this wasp looking flying insent looked quite neat and had red legs to boot so I snapped him as he was being quite accommodating, lol.
YELLOWHAMMER - EMBERIZA CITRINELLA
I occasionally see a bird fly into a bush and disappear! Grr...
...but what I do is focus on on here it landed, I have keen eyesight for movement, and take a few shots. Sometimes I get the birds but you cannot make out what the are...
...and sometimes you can!
...but what I do is focus on on here it landed, I have keen eyesight for movement, and take a few shots. Sometimes I get the birds but you cannot make out what the are...
...and sometimes you can!
TREE FELLING FOR KICKS
Only a few pictures but there were absolutely dozens of felled trees and the locals to the park have expressed pure ire to me over this.
This following picture is by the magic Orchids, lol.
I did not take pictures of the first dozen trees and then decided to snap them on the way back. Only I ended up using a different route, lol.
I have also forgotten to downsize a few for posting, lol.
This following picture is by the magic Orchids, lol.
I did not take pictures of the first dozen trees and then decided to snap them on the way back. Only I ended up using a different route, lol.
I have also forgotten to downsize a few for posting, lol.
MAGIC BRITISH ORCHIDS
Magically appearing Orchids where there were NONE before.
There are supposedly 3 or 4 species of Orchid at this spot but the only one I am interested in spotting is the Common Twayblade. Supposedly the commonest of all in this park I have yet to see a single flower.
I did find a couple of plants last year that looked like they could be them, or the year before, but did not find them again.
Now that I have looked at the pictures I took, difficult when not in flower, I had though these were Marsh Orchids of the Dactylorhiza genus but now realise they look more like Bee Orchids, not listed as being present, while one likely not an Orchid at all and I am not about to dig them up looking for their tubers, lol.
Despite doing a good impression the star like pattern arrangement of the leaves I have now noted suggests this is NOT one of the Marsh Orchids?! Still I will keep a check on them nevertheless.
They are also not Twayblades with have round spoon shaped leaves and only TWO, lol.
As a matter of fact all the Orchids I am familar with so far have a bilateral shape. Could possible be Pyramidal Orchids I cannot remember what the leaves look like, lol.
Whatever these and the others turn out to be they was not there last year or the year before.
Theses look far better than the other Orchids I have visited.
There are supposedly 3 or 4 species of Orchid at this spot but the only one I am interested in spotting is the Common Twayblade. Supposedly the commonest of all in this park I have yet to see a single flower.
I did find a couple of plants last year that looked like they could be them, or the year before, but did not find them again.
Now that I have looked at the pictures I took, difficult when not in flower, I had though these were Marsh Orchids of the Dactylorhiza genus but now realise they look more like Bee Orchids, not listed as being present, while one likely not an Orchid at all and I am not about to dig them up looking for their tubers, lol.
Despite doing a good impression the star like pattern arrangement of the leaves I have now noted suggests this is NOT one of the Marsh Orchids?! Still I will keep a check on them nevertheless.
They are also not Twayblades with have round spoon shaped leaves and only TWO, lol.
As a matter of fact all the Orchids I am familar with so far have a bilateral shape. Could possible be Pyramidal Orchids I cannot remember what the leaves look like, lol.
Whatever these and the others turn out to be they was not there last year or the year before.
Theses look far better than the other Orchids I have visited.
THE COWSLIP CONUNDRUM PART FOUR (Primula veris) GIANT LEMON SHERBERT
OK NOW THEN!
Some distance away from the other mysteriously appearing Primroses, Primula veris, I am walking along and taping a cacophony of birds singing, to be uploaded and linked in later.
Now as I am walking along very slowly with my eyes peeled and camera at the ready a bird flies past me into some bushes where the light is blocked somewhat.
I see a small clearing and as I look I see what appears to be more Primroses? AT first I am somewhat confused as these look a different colour to the last three I just photographed and I am literally scratching my head here trying to understand what in the world is going on?!
Admittedly I am not as familiar with this site as I am the others but as I get closer I suddenly realise there is yet another variation with these ones along with the colour!
These flowers are over twice the size of the other Primroses?!
Now there have been curious things with the National Park over the years and none have made sense. I have emailed the Park Authority in the past with advice they thanked me for but failed to act on for two years!
Also my offer of a more regular hands on wok with this area was also rebuffed and I was actually told that the sites were....NATURAL and all flowers are naturally occurring.
Only one problem with that....IT IS NOT and I was well aware te whole site was artificial before several old people who live a couple hundred yards away told me thre years ago they watched it being built and pointed out the underlying liners that run the length of three fields?!
At the time I failed to understand why they would lie about this. The day I took all these photos and there were far more oddities I took snaps of as well as having TWO very weird conversations and I realise what it is...
...MONEY or more accurately the fraudulent acquiring of large sums of money from British taxpayers?!
I think these flowers were planted so that they could gain their yearly budget to carry on with their extremely bad management of this park.
Also what they have now managed to do is introduce, in my estimation, several non-native Primula flowers that are now likely to be cross pollinated with the wild Primroses which will over time completely infiltrate the gene pool leaving no genuine wild British Primroses, or Cowslips, left growing wild.
More of a concern than even this is I now realise they are doing the same thing with the Orchids in the park too. They have long since confused me too and I have some very bizarre photographs of something going on with the soil and land at a couple of Orchid sites also discovered on the same day?!
In fact two dozen Orchids have appeared in one site when I have failed to find a single one for the past two years?! I will get onto this in the next post.
Basically and as I predicted to my local Pet Shop owning friends and recently been proved by hitting the news is cut backs to do with wildlife and its protection.
I think they have been planting these plants so that they can acquire a sizeable budgetr to 'manage' the park which they also do extremely badly. On this same day I saw dozens of trees hacked right back to ground level and some local old people have expressed absolute fury of what they have been doing.
A couple years back the mowed a field of Teasel down so that it looked like turf good enough for Wembley Stadium and in so doing wiped out thousands of Blue and Copper Butterflies that had been attracting Butterfly enthusiasts with camera in hand.
When I told them they needed to clear the reeds in the ponds with the Great Crested Newts in or they will wipe out the whole colony, the newts resorted to using the other pond in desperation, it took them two years to do it, lol.
I think this would count as large scale fraud would it not?
Also and due to the overhead shrubs and trees this lot in the pictures will not receive any light at all throughout the summer and I would be stunned if come next Spring these will still be alive anyway?! In fact I would be somewhat surprised if they were still there come this September.
All the others nearby only grow in full sun all day with no shade whatsoever. Well the ones I see from year to year at any rate, lol.
Some distance away from the other mysteriously appearing Primroses, Primula veris, I am walking along and taping a cacophony of birds singing, to be uploaded and linked in later.
Now as I am walking along very slowly with my eyes peeled and camera at the ready a bird flies past me into some bushes where the light is blocked somewhat.
I see a small clearing and as I look I see what appears to be more Primroses? AT first I am somewhat confused as these look a different colour to the last three I just photographed and I am literally scratching my head here trying to understand what in the world is going on?!
Admittedly I am not as familiar with this site as I am the others but as I get closer I suddenly realise there is yet another variation with these ones along with the colour!
These flowers are over twice the size of the other Primroses?!
Now there have been curious things with the National Park over the years and none have made sense. I have emailed the Park Authority in the past with advice they thanked me for but failed to act on for two years!
Also my offer of a more regular hands on wok with this area was also rebuffed and I was actually told that the sites were....NATURAL and all flowers are naturally occurring.
Only one problem with that....IT IS NOT and I was well aware te whole site was artificial before several old people who live a couple hundred yards away told me thre years ago they watched it being built and pointed out the underlying liners that run the length of three fields?!
At the time I failed to understand why they would lie about this. The day I took all these photos and there were far more oddities I took snaps of as well as having TWO very weird conversations and I realise what it is...
...MONEY or more accurately the fraudulent acquiring of large sums of money from British taxpayers?!
I think these flowers were planted so that they could gain their yearly budget to carry on with their extremely bad management of this park.
Also what they have now managed to do is introduce, in my estimation, several non-native Primula flowers that are now likely to be cross pollinated with the wild Primroses which will over time completely infiltrate the gene pool leaving no genuine wild British Primroses, or Cowslips, left growing wild.
More of a concern than even this is I now realise they are doing the same thing with the Orchids in the park too. They have long since confused me too and I have some very bizarre photographs of something going on with the soil and land at a couple of Orchid sites also discovered on the same day?!
In fact two dozen Orchids have appeared in one site when I have failed to find a single one for the past two years?! I will get onto this in the next post.
Basically and as I predicted to my local Pet Shop owning friends and recently been proved by hitting the news is cut backs to do with wildlife and its protection.
I think they have been planting these plants so that they can acquire a sizeable budgetr to 'manage' the park which they also do extremely badly. On this same day I saw dozens of trees hacked right back to ground level and some local old people have expressed absolute fury of what they have been doing.
A couple years back the mowed a field of Teasel down so that it looked like turf good enough for Wembley Stadium and in so doing wiped out thousands of Blue and Copper Butterflies that had been attracting Butterfly enthusiasts with camera in hand.
When I told them they needed to clear the reeds in the ponds with the Great Crested Newts in or they will wipe out the whole colony, the newts resorted to using the other pond in desperation, it took them two years to do it, lol.
I think this would count as large scale fraud would it not?
Also and due to the overhead shrubs and trees this lot in the pictures will not receive any light at all throughout the summer and I would be stunned if come next Spring these will still be alive anyway?! In fact I would be somewhat surprised if they were still there come this September.
All the others nearby only grow in full sun all day with no shade whatsoever. Well the ones I see from year to year at any rate, lol.
THE COWSLIP CONUNDRUM PART THREE (Primula veris) RED
After spotting hundreds of Primroses, Primula veris, were there had been NONE previously and then spotting ORANGE ONES I look around and start seeing RED ONES?!
Now this followed a couple of very curious events on what was a day out getting photographs and videos that I will get into over the next few days with posts. That is AFTER I have finicshed this Cowslip Conundrum series of which there is still yet more to come ...
Now this followed a couple of very curious events on what was a day out getting photographs and videos that I will get into over the next few days with posts. That is AFTER I have finicshed this Cowslip Conundrum series of which there is still yet more to come ...
THE COWSLIP CONUNDRUM PART TWO (Primula veris) ORANGE
RIGHT!
Now as previously stated I have visited these patches for 5 years or more and several times a week in the warmer months.
Nearby are three species of British Orchids and there are ALWAYS Wild Primroses, or Cowslips, too... BUT NOT HERE AND NOT IN THE AREAS SHOWN IN THE LAST POST?!
While stepping between them to get close up shots of some of the flowers I look round and to my amazement and along with these hundreds Primulas I have never seen in these areas before I look down and see bloody ORANGE ones?!?!
It gets better still...
Now as previously stated I have visited these patches for 5 years or more and several times a week in the warmer months.
Nearby are three species of British Orchids and there are ALWAYS Wild Primroses, or Cowslips, too... BUT NOT HERE AND NOT IN THE AREAS SHOWN IN THE LAST POST?!
While stepping between them to get close up shots of some of the flowers I look round and to my amazement and along with these hundreds Primulas I have never seen in these areas before I look down and see bloody ORANGE ones?!?!
It gets better still...
THE COWSLIP CONUNDRUM PART ONE (Primula veris)
This post is part of a four part series that will all be posted over the following 24 hours.
It will also be a cross-over with another blog and the area in question, which will remain secret, has been revealing some very, VERY curious secrets eve since I first visited the place 5 years ago.
Now before you study these photographs as well as the following posts you need to understand that I am up here a hell of a lot which includes 3 or 4 times a week in warmer months as well as in Winter when the lakes and ponds are frozen over.
It will also be a cross-over with another blog and the area in question, which will remain secret, has been revealing some very, VERY curious secrets eve since I first visited the place 5 years ago.
Now before you study these photographs as well as the following posts you need to understand that I am up here a hell of a lot which includes 3 or 4 times a week in warmer months as well as in Winter when the lakes and ponds are frozen over.
BEE ORCHIDS - OPHRYS APIFERA
Here are some Bee Orchids folowed by patches of ground where there are normally two dozen and hould have been 50 or more this year but curiously absent.
LITTLE EGRET - EGRETTA GARZETTA
How cools is THIS?!
Well maybe not that cool but personally I really like these guys, lol.
Watch out for the three videos coming up soon.
Well maybe not that cool but personally I really like these guys, lol.
Watch out for the three videos coming up soon.
Sunday, 21 April 2013
A SOARING BUZZARD
One of the pair I have followed for a couple of years now.
This was far away but closer than LAST TIME! LMAO!
This was far away but closer than LAST TIME! LMAO!
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