Ringed Plovers safe space.
No Go Areas.
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Fox.
Our fox is equally at home within our woodland and farmland, or city streets. At the top of the countryside food chain, they consume a variety of animals. Their diet includes everything from birds and beetles to rabbits and rats. In the city, they scavenge around human activity waste bins and abandoned fast food is a favourite.
Farmland.
Some wildlife of the farmland on the South Downs.
Brown Hare.
A “spooked” Partridge by a running Hare
Common Buzzard.
Bucklers Hard.
Today, a walk along the banks of the Beaulieu River leads to the historic village of Bucklers Hard. It is a village stuck in time. It was a hub of past shipbuilding. More than 50 wooden ships were built for the Royal Navy from New Forest oak. Vessels built included HMS Agamemnon, HMS Euryalus, and HMS Swiftsure; they all fought at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. When the Napoleonic Wars ended, shipbuilding at Buckler’s Hard declined markedly. This decline was also due to the new iron warships.
Today the Hard is a peaceful haven.
You looking at me!
Another deer stalk in the New Forest looking for some handsome Fallow Bucks. A few shots of the best lookers.
Grebe
#Wordless Wednesday.
Paddington
Paddington Bear visits Southampton.
Christmas.
Mum & Dad’s St Nicolas Christmas decoration was brought home by Granddad on the Queen Mary from the Soviet Union in 1960. This special family item is now in our safekeeping. following mum’s death back in September. This tissue paper decoration has great memories linking to my childhood.
Faces of the forest.
The number of animals killed on New Forest roads has shown a downward trend following high-profile safety campaigns in recent years. Although in 2023 there were 92 accidents involving animals up by 10 in 2022. I saw a sign up last week saying 52 animals have been killed on the Forest roads to date this year.
Turning tide.
The weather this December so far has been very poor. I had several very damp walks where I took no pictures.We have another weather warning today with a storm due tonight. After rain all last night a brightish morning gave a few hours respite at Meon Shore and Titchfield Haven and a bit of bird watching. With the weather warning the Haven is planning to be closing to visitors this weekend.
These Sanderling and lone Black-headed Gull are holding on as long as they can to a little island on the shore as the tide comes in.
A pair of Northern Shoveler looking their best out in the sun.
Continued Reflections from my World. 