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Stour Valley Summer A Buzzard soars over Conygar forestry plantation on an early reconnaissance, against a fading moon in the clear dawn sky. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer Fading light over Shillingstone. A view from The North Dorset Trailway to the south east of the village. The old original concrete posts still mark the boundary, of what used to be the Somerset and Dorset Railway line. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer An approaching summer storm. Cookwell, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 6 people have added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer A new day 5.30am 27/07/10 sunrise over Shillingstone, the Stour Valley This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer Late evening in August. Cookwell, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 4 people have added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer Marble sky sunset over Gonygar Forestry Plantation, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer This Speckled Bush Cricket kept a close eye on me while I photographed it. It's one of many species of crickets and Grasshoppers to be found on the vegetation, along the banks of Cookwell Brook and the River Stour. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer Leptophyes punctatissima The speckled bush-cricket is a species of bush-cricket common in well vegetated areas The eggs are laid in late summer into tree bark or plant stems where they remain over winter. The nymphs emerge in May and June and mature as adult speckled bush crickets by mid August. The hollow Hog Weed Stems on the river bank seem to provide an ideal breeding habitat. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer Leptophyes punctatissima The speckled bush-cricket is found in large numbers along the Stour Valley during the summer months. It's unusual for one to perch on your finger long enough to be photographed. They can jump many times their own length and usually do so to avoid capture. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer It's hard to imagine that approximately eight weeks after this picture was taken, this newly-fledged Swallow chick will make it's way across the English Channel, through France, Portugal and Spain into Africa. Hopefully, like it's parents have done it will return to Cookwell, Shillingstone next summer, to raise a family of it's own. Truly one of nature's little heroes. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer A swallow chick, asks one of it's parents for a feed. Cookwell, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer The sunset over the Wheat fields. One of three images captured on the same evening at Cookwell Brook, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 2 people have added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer The sunset over the Wheat fields. One of three images captured on the same evening, at Cookwell Brook, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 2 people have added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer The sunset over the Wheat fields. One of three images captured on the same evening, at Cookwell Brook, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer A noisy Swallow chick, Cookwell, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer A view of Hanford Farm situated between the iron age forts of Hambledon Hill and Hod Hill, from the North Dorset Trailway. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 1 person has added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer Enford Farm situated below Kite Hill Copse on the right and Shillingstone Forest to the rear. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer Early Birds. Two Wood Pigeons watch the sunrise. 5.20am 27/07/10, Shillingstone. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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Stour Valley Summer The Stour Valley in the late evening sun. The iron age earthworks here on Hambledon Hill are more pronounced than those on Hod Hill further down the valley. Both forts played an important roll in the Roman occupation of Ancient Britain. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL 10 people have added this picture to their favourites |
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Stour Valley Summer The bridleway across Broadclose Field, Shillingstone giving access to the North Dorset trailway. This picture appears in the following picture tours: Camera Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL |
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