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[Tim Harrison]

Not particularly stunning images, but taken yesterday at a local wetland nature reserve Cossington Meadows. Don't let anyone try to tell you plants only grow like this in our aquariums...😉

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Not particularly stunning images, but taken yesterday at a local wetland nature reserve Cossington Meadows. Don't let anyone try to tell you plants only grow like this in our aquariums...😉

The Callitriche looks really healthy, it might be C. hamulata, but they are difficult to ID. The Hydrocotyle isn't H. vulgaris, but an invasive alien, I assume that it is <"Floating Pennywort"> (Hydrocotyle ranunculoides) from its growth habit.

Edit: I should have said it looks a cracking reserve, and something we might see more of with more joined up flood planning etc

cheers Darrel

 

[Tim Harrison]

I think you're right on both counts Darrel. The floating penny wort is becoming a problem, choking up drainage ditches and growing along the margins of the river Soar.

I should have said it looks a cracking reserve

Yes it's not bad.

something we might see more of with more joined up flood planning etc

We can hope. Maybe the Catchment Based Approach will help.

 

[Tim Harrison]

Another of Columba Park, Nottm, taken today.

 

[not called Bob]

a latergram of the view from being on top of Kjerags boulder

 

[not called Bob]

Dolphins at the office,

 

[foxfish]

Seasonal Santa run last Sunday, we are so lucky not to have any covid inGuernsey.

 

[zozo]

Seasonal Santa run last Sunday, we are so lucky not to have any covid inGuernsey.
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I realy expected them to be chased by a herd of red nosed reindeers, a La Pamplona... 😛

 

[Wolf6]

Dolphins at the office,

That is just awesome 🙂 Not saying I'd want your job but I could do with that view/those visitors 😛

 

[Tim Harrison]

Looks like fun.
And should I ever find myself in Guernsey in need of scaffolding, I now know who to call...😬

 

[foxfish]

Ha ha well, maintenance scaffolding is not allowed in town during the summer months so we get loads of it in the winter !
Marcel, there is a large bronze donkey statue in amongst that crowd as Guernsey people are affectionately known as Donkeys, so over here Santa’s sledge is traditional pulled by donkeys!

Also the steps in that picture, lead up to the market square and as a general rule only women who wish to get pregnant will walk up the middle !
I joke you not that even in this modern world folklore is still payed attention too and the majority of guernsey girls will only walk up the sides and not the centre!

 

[zozo]

Marcel, there is a large bronze donkey statue in amongst that crowd as Guernsey people are affectionately known as Donkeys,

Are you serious?.. We must have some distant family ties with Guernsey!?

This is our municipal mascotte Donkey standing since 1922 in the village centre square.




🙂

 

[foxfish]

Ha that is a good one !
We have a few dotted around and there is talk just at this moment about commissioning a really big new one !

 

[not called Bob]

Start of a farm between Anglesey and Liverpool a few years back.

 

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Winter walk

 

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Tandlehill Country Park views over Lancashire

 

[not called Bob]

Frost on an overgrown meadow

 

[Fred Dulley]

During a cold winter walk this Christmas. Spring in the middle of a field. Enters from the left and exists on the right.