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| | Welcome to our newest member, Penali18 | |  | Posted 23-11-2008 at 02:13 PM by leifus Hi again!
Last saturday we went down to the south coast to a place called Keyhaven Marshes, a wonderful expanse of water pools and reedbeds on the edge of the sea.
We had barely passed through the gate when a man with a scope called us over. He pointed out a wonderful Red-breasted Goose that was feeding in among a big flock of canada geese. Apparently it has been a regular visitor both this year and last year.
Out on the marshes there were various ducks including lots of shoveler... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 20-09-2008 at 05:33 PM by leifus We went for a quick walk round the Back Drove Fields and, now that they have harvested the wheat, I could explore the arable land. I found field madder, black bindweed, scarlet pimpernel and some beautiful round-leaved fluellen. I took my camera to look for fungi and I didn't find any, apart from a patch of some sort of field mushroom I didn't fancy photographing due to the fact that a dog had decided to 'use' the place right next to it   Anyway, I didn't expect to get two new flowers... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 07-09-2008 at 04:22 PM by leifus This is the place I am going to do a study on (like the with Top Field) next year. It will be great: a rich chalk grassland/scrub four times the size of the Field with a huge butterfly population and instead of pyramidal orchids there are bee orchids and instead of common centaury there will be yellow-wort and autumn gentians!! I…can’t…wait!!!!
Anyway, a nice surprise when we pulled into the car park and saw a clump of spearmint and a couple of dark mulleins! Over the hill where the scrub/grassland... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 03-09-2008 at 03:28 PM by leifus Firstly I would like to mention that this is not a public place but I was lucky enough to be invited there by a friend who readily showed me the wonderful flora and fauna here.
There was quite a lot of red hemp-nettle (well - two patches ) and I got some great photos!! Along the old railway we also found dewberry, small toadflax, blue fleabane and juniper. There were lots of butterflies around including a brown argus (! ), common blues and a couple of small coppers. There was a little... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 28-08-2008 at 10:34 AM by leifus A warm but cloudy day at Titchfield brought quite a few birds! News came to us that an osprey had been around and also a grey phalarope. Along the coast there were ringed plovers and lapwings on the beach and common and sandwich terns wheeling around in the sky. In the reserve we spotted black-tailed godwits, a couple of snipe, a common sandpiper, a very handsome green sandpiper and that one grey phalarope. The phalarope was in winter plumage and I got some great photos!! There were buzzards around,... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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