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niqvassieart · 9 months ago
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Gouache painting of long-tailed tits for the upcoming book about my local nature reserve.
Long-tailed tits make stretchy nests from a base of moss and spider silk. On the outside they’re covered in lichen for camouflage and inside are lined with feathers for cosiness!
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unkn0wnvariable · 11 days ago
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Ling Flowers
The delicate pink flowers of ling (aka common heather), soaking up the sun in one of the clearings at Holme Fen.
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rattycatcat · 2 years ago
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Impacts of invasive species on native freshwater populations in the UK
Freshwater habitats are amongst the most vulnerable in the United Kingdom. The anthropological impacts on freshwater environments are disproportionate to those of terrestrial environments as fragmentation, pollution and climate change have greater impact on an already unstable habitat (Eatherly, 2019). As a result, the impacts of invasive species in aquatic environments are greater than those in…
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theknitpotato · 5 months ago
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In 1850, a farmer found a secret village. It was later determined to be older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Archeologists estimated that 100 people lived in this village named Skara Brae, the "Scottish Pompeii." The houses were connected to each other by tunnels, and each house could be closed off with a stone door.
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petitworld · 5 months ago
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Iford Manor Gardens, Iford, England by Stacy Cartledge
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janasojka · 6 months ago
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Night drive, daffodils.
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ancientsstudies · 2 months ago
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Bishop's Palace by wordyelaine.
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maureen2musings · 2 months ago
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illustratus · 9 months ago
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Transept of Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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etherea1ity · 8 months ago
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Jurassic Coast, Southern England by Ernest de Kat
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niqvassieart · 9 months ago
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Painting I was commissioned to do for an upcoming book about my local nature reserve here in North Yorkshire, UK.
All the digital paintings i made for the book are of real places. It was so lovely to be asked to illustrate my home and fun trying to capture the seasonal light and mood of somewhere I know so well!
Here is a lesser spotted woodpecker visiting the area in winter. Pictured with barn owl, roe deer and gulls coming into roost on the floodwater.
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unkn0wnvariable · 11 days ago
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Foxglove Flowers
The bright pink trumpet flowers of a fox glove, flowering in a sunlit clearing in Holme Fen.
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yz · 20 days ago
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Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts.
October 2024.
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reasonsforhope · 3 months ago
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"Inspired by an innovative Chilean forest restoration effort, the English town of Lewes is enlisting the help of dog walkers to rewild a local nature reserve.
Heavily degraded by foot traffic, the project co-opts dogs’ tendency to run about in the woods to spread wildflower seed from saddlebags strapped to a harness around the dog’s abdomen.
The idea mimics the function that wolves once played in that part of England, roaming over vast distances getting grass and flower seeds stuck in their coat, only to fall off and germinate somewhere else.
This helter-skelter seed-spreading is actually how many plants evolved to reproduce, and it’s key to maintaining a biodiverse and native ecosystem.
“We’re really interested in rewilding processes, but they often involve reintroducing big herbivores like bison or wild horses,” said manager Dylan Walker from the Railway Land Wildlife Trust who organized the project back in 2019.
“In a smaller urban nature reserve it’s really hard to do those things. So, to replicate the effect that those animals have on the ecosystem we aimed to utilize the vast number of dog walkers that are visiting the nature reserve daily.”
The saddlebags are filled with a variety of perennial plant seeds mixed together with sand. This allows the seed to be spread for longer across larger distances, while also providing a helpful tracking sign to inform the Trust’s employees where dogs are walking.
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2 Beavers Named Hazel and Chompy Reintroduced to English County–the First Ones to Live Here in 400 Years
“I signed up because it sounded like such a good fit. I was asked to place a harness on my chocolate cocker spaniel called Bertie and he ran around spreading seeds like wolves used to do many years ago,” Cressida Murray, a dog walker who regularly uses the nature reserve, told The Guardian. 
Wolves were persecuted to extinction in England as early as the reign of Henry VII, who reigned during the latter third of the 15th century.
“A community-based project like this not only helps engage and teach people about the ecological impacts of wildlife but also allows us to make our wildlife and environments richer in the process,” said Walker."
-via Good News Network, July 30, 2024
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internetiquette · 9 months ago
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Mill ruins from 1786
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petitworld · 8 months ago
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Manor Garden, Snowshill, England by Warwick Hunt
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