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Birds and trains and history and all of the things that I enjoy

4496 Dwight D Eisenhower

4496 was built in 1937 and was originally destined to be called Sparrowhawk. However, when it left the works, it…

A4 locomotive, Dwight D Eisenhower, Mallard 75, National Railway Museum, York

Bird Pictures: Great Crested Grebe

I dont have any photos of the young birds so here is one by Stefan Berndtsson (http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbern/) They are just…

Birds, Great Crested Grebe

Naturelog: Thursday 8th August

A walk around the Tarn this afternoon as I hadn’t done a butterfly count there for over a week and…

Azure Damselfly, Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Eltham, Gatekeeper, Naturelog, Tarn

Naturelog: Wednesday 7th August

After a morning appointment I stopped off at Sutcliffe Park LNR to do today’s Butterfly count. The predominant butterfly species…

Birds, Butterflies, Common Blue Butterfly, Dragonflies, Grey Wagtail, Meadow Brown Butterfly, Naturelog, sutcliffe park

Views of the Tarn

All photos by Sue

Tarn

Naturelog: Tuesday 6th August

After a morning working at home I went for a walk around Eltham Palace Gardens. Although the palace itself was…

Butterflies, Dragonflies, Eltham, Eltham Palace, emperor dragonfly, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Naturelog

Naturelog: Monday 5th August

Off today to look for Dragonflies and Butterflies at Rainham Marshes. A walk around the Tarn on the way to…

Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Naturelog, Rainham Marshes, RSPB

Roman Mosaics: Halicarnassus (2)

Many of the Mosaics from the 4th Century CE villa at Halicarnassus featured hunting scenes of wild animals These scenes…

Halicarnassus, Mosaics, Roman history

Moon

Pictures taken using Harvard NASA telescope

Astrophotography, nasa telescope

Patch update July

27 bird species were seen on the patch this month. This brings the years total to 48 and increases the…

Birds, Butterflies, Dragonflies, Eltham, emperor dragonfly, Naturelog, Tarn

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