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Naturelog: Friday 6th June

Went down into Kent today to spend a day nature-watching with Keith and Brian. My first stop on the way…

Blue-Tailed damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly, Nightingale, Peacock Butterfly, RSPB CLiffe, RSPB Northwood Hill

Lachish in the Bronze Age

Tel-Lachish was probably first settled in the fourth millennia BCE by early Bronze Age farmers. By the third millennia it…

Lachish, Tel Lachish

Banded Demoiselle

The Banded Demoiselle is one of only 2 damselfly species with coloured wings in the UK. It is a common…

Banded Demoiselle

The Brownsea Island camp

Brownsea Island Phot by Allwyn Ladell (https://www.flickr.com/photos/alwyn_ladell/) The largest of the islands in Poole Harbour is Brownsea Island. As I…

Where is Lachish?

The site of Tel-Lachish or Tel- Duveir lies 25 miles south west of Jerusalem adjacent to the coastal hill range.…

Lachish, Tel Lachish

Views of Poole Harbour

Photos taken from boat on recent trip to Brownsea island

Poole harbour

Naturelog: Patch update May

The last month seems to have been rather quite. Our Blue Tits have fledged a brood and have moved away…

Lachish, the phoenix city

Tel Lachish Photo by orientalizing (https://www.flickr.com/photos/orientalizing/) Last July I published 3 posts about the capture of the ancient city of…

Lachish, Tel Lachish

Mary Rose (11) Music

A number of musical instruments were found in the wreck of the Mary Rose. A boxwood pipe made by the…

Mary Rose, Medieval musical Instruments, Portsmouth, Portsmouth Dockyard

Ring Nebula

Some new pictures of the Ring Nebula

Ring Nebula

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