THE RETURN OF THE WANDERING MAN

After a somewhat lengthy hiatus ... I am back.

I can only apologise for my absence in this areas as I was more of less attacked by a couple of evil publis services throughout last year. The details of which are really for my corruption blog, are referred to in posts there and will be revealed in a few months time.

I will also state that I am almost back to full fitness, for doing these things and getting these things as I have to be able to cycle around 25 miles each time I go out.

I first lost a great deal of weight and then without realising it and as I had fought back from the brink of somewhere dark I then put a load of weight on without realising it.

I then ended up in hospital, or a couple of hospitals even, last year and then a couple of times this year, in no thanks to these evil public services in the UK. It turns out that one of said hospitals made a serious mistake in February, just gone, according to another hospital as I was taken into A&E and seen three times like bloody lightning, having loads tests and my blood pressure testing quite high.

As I pointed out to a very nice A&E Doctor there who was worried about my diastolic blood pressure being at 110, it was 121 before I left the house and I can tell you this ...

If the heart palpitations and chest pains were indeed down to my blood pressure then it has been a damned site higher than the 197/121 that I tested before leaving to go to A&E! Several times too!

Anyway ...

Not only am I back ... again but I am going to have a very good 12 months starting from today ... as I am already back out filming had to get mountain bike repaired too another fiasco. Not only am I back out filming but I also have two major things that have been going on. Well .. I mean other than the damned health issues I have two major things.

Two good things.

Both of these will mean vast increases in videos and photographs in ALL subjects, including some blogs that have been somewhat ... neglected but are close to my heart. No I am not talking about palpitations again! Lol.

There will be a vast increase in tools acquired and I cannot emphasise how vast this is.

Added to this there will be vast increases in frequency, quality and quantity and my range will vastly increases and soon enough to ranges that will surprise a lot of people.

These will take place throughout the rest of 2017 starting in about a month or so's time and continue throughout 2018 too and sky is the limit from then on in.

Although both things are inevitable, there is no one that can disappear and/or stab me in the back this time as took place a year ago.

So here are a few things I recently filmed while out ...

Some English Primroses at Forty Hall ..

An uncommon video of a Heron Preening, probably just after it ate a dozen of my mates, the frogs lol.. Hook Marsh Scrape ... if I have the name in the right order? Lol

A Young Greylag that had me stumped ... well it was very far away, lol ...

Good old Gadwalls ..

Three videos of Teal and a few others .. at Marsh Scrape Hooks

Some Shoveler Ducks.. at Hooks Scrape Marsh lol

SOUTHERN MARSH ORCHID - (Dactylorhiza praetermissa)

Somewhat late appearing, being 27th May, and curiously bunched together and with no appearance of the Early Marsh Orchid, or Bee Orchids for that matter, here are a neatly bunched group of the British Orchid the ...

Southern Marsh Orchid ...

A selection of the surrounding flora ...

Ah now if you can see it, or them rather, in the pictures above and below those dots, or green blobs, you can see everywhere...those are the Primrose seed heads.

Those peculiar few orange and red flowered ones have a few bunches on the far right, on the line of bushes. Plus a couple not far off the centre, just a little to the right and towards the camera lens.

VIDEO OF RED AND ORANGE ENGLISH PRIMROSES

LOL!

Those red and orange Primroses the video of which I forgot to post up here.

A Bumble Bee on a Primrose.

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.