Philip Amies
@amiesphilip.bsky.social
Interested in history, earth science, biology.
Without protection farmers and labourers killed and ate deer, both for crop protection and for food. Cranborne chase was one of the last to be disenfranchised, in Forests and Chases coppice had to be protected by dead wood fences, crops were as well. After disenfranchisement the deer were killed
November 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Without protection farmers and labourers killed and ate deer, both for crop protection and for food. Cranborne chase was one of the last to be disenfranchised, in Forests and Chases coppice had to be protected by dead wood fences, crops were as well. After disenfranchisement the deer were killed
I make it 59, but some of the marked blurred shapes are questionable, so may be less, my estimate 40 is as ever an underestimate, a consistent pattern for almost 50 years.
November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I make it 59, but some of the marked blurred shapes are questionable, so may be less, my estimate 40 is as ever an underestimate, a consistent pattern for almost 50 years.
I think we lose something if we don't value natural history as a fundamental start, something Niko Tinbergen captured in his book "Curious Naturalist".
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I think we lose something if we don't value natural history as a fundamental start, something Niko Tinbergen captured in his book "Curious Naturalist".
Strictly speaking a species has a habitat, British maybe English language usage treats habitat as an entity, perhaps akin to a biome or ecosystem, the physical environment tends to be included so it is not an equivalent to a plant community although sometimes it
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November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Strictly speaking a species has a habitat, British maybe English language usage treats habitat as an entity, perhaps akin to a biome or ecosystem, the physical environment tends to be included so it is not an equivalent to a plant community although sometimes it
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The 1990s National Vegetation Classification (NVC) is a five-volume book set called British Plant Communities, edited by John S. Rodwell, which describes the plant communities of the United Kingdom.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The 1990s National Vegetation Classification (NVC) is a five-volume book set called British Plant Communities, edited by John S. Rodwell, which describes the plant communities of the United Kingdom.
Heathlands by Nigel Webb, published in 1986 focussing on southern lowland heath, dominated by heather just as is upland moor but a very different ecosystem in many ways.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Heathlands by Nigel Webb, published in 1986 focussing on southern lowland heath, dominated by heather just as is upland moor but a very different ecosystem in many ways.
Mountains and Moorlands by William Pearsall published in 1950 perhaps reflects the tendency to view Britain in a geographic fashion, with climate, latitude, and especially altitude reflecting a deep cultural division between upland and lowland, often west to east.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mountains and Moorlands by William Pearsall published in 1950 perhaps reflects the tendency to view Britain in a geographic fashion, with climate, latitude, and especially altitude reflecting a deep cultural division between upland and lowland, often west to east.
"Downs and Dunes: Their Plant Life and its Environment" by Sir Edward Salisbury published in 1952 is also, both have to consider human land use history.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Downs and Dunes: Their Plant Life and its Environment" by Sir Edward Salisbury published in 1952 is also, both have to consider human land use history.
"Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone" by J. E. Lousley, published in 1950 is framed around a geology topic.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"Wild Flowers of Chalk and Limestone" by J. E. Lousley, published in 1950 is framed around a geology topic.
British works rarely are overtly geobiological, A. G. Tansley, Types of British Vegetation (1911) and The British Islands and their Vegetation (1939) recognised geology and landform.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
British works rarely are overtly geobiological, A. G. Tansley, Types of British Vegetation (1911) and The British Islands and their Vegetation (1939) recognised geology and landform.
We still need to look at soil in varied ways, for most of us the geological source material is a starting point into the complex reality which has a historical element.
November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
We still need to look at soil in varied ways, for most of us the geological source material is a starting point into the complex reality which has a historical element.
Audubon saw Ivory-billed Woodpecker regularly during his
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
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travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Audubon saw Ivory-billed Woodpecker regularly during his
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
No Ivory-billed Woodpeckers seem to have been recorded in the sunk lands.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
No Ivory-billed Woodpeckers seem to have been recorded in the sunk lands.
It bred in disturbed swamp forest and may have been associated with Arundinaria gigantea cane brakes, males sang in the tree canopy, and made song flights, but nests were well hidden in undergrowth.
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It bred in disturbed swamp forest and may have been associated with Arundinaria gigantea cane brakes, males sang in the tree canopy, and made song flights, but nests were well hidden in undergrowth.
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
While the Mersey Barrage is a risk to birds, not so much for Ruddy Shelducks unless things have change more than I imagine.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
While the Mersey Barrage is a risk to birds, not so much for Ruddy Shelducks unless things have change more than I imagine.
You can click on 'view surveys' which gives you past surveys and condition assessments, what I don't understand is this is only working on some units.
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You can click on 'view surveys' which gives you past surveys and condition assessments, what I don't understand is this is only working on some units.
No ownership details for these plots in NWT land, some of the failed Hiam development which Hiam must have sold before NWT purchase in the 1960s.
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
No ownership details for these plots in NWT land, some of the failed Hiam development which Hiam must have sold before NWT purchase in the 1960s.
The National Trust owns much of the Bird Observatory, the NOA owns Redwell Marsh and has purchased a part of the observatory dunes.
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The National Trust owns much of the Bird Observatory, the NOA owns Redwell Marsh and has purchased a part of the observatory dunes.
Le Strange estate owns a large part of the dunes, saltmarsh, foreshore, the golf course.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Le Strange estate owns a large part of the dunes, saltmarsh, foreshore, the golf course.
Thornham Drove Farm
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thornham Drove Farm
4th Baron Melchett
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
4th Baron Melchett
If you ever visit Holme next the Sea and look at the 'grazing marsh' a polder (embanked and drained saltmarsh created in 1860) these are the owners
Robinson
Robinson
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you ever visit Holme next the Sea and look at the 'grazing marsh' a polder (embanked and drained saltmarsh created in 1860) these are the owners
Robinson
Robinson
Seahenge 2 image taken in 2025, near the site of excavated Seahenge 1.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Seahenge 2 image taken in 2025, near the site of excavated Seahenge 1.