A couple of pictures taken at Ranscombe Farm today...
Monday, 31 August 2020
Tuesday, 4 August 2020
Ranscombe...
A couple of shots from a short walk around the reserve today...
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| Bush Valley as seem from Brockles... |
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| The Medway valley, as seen from Nine Acres... |
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| Common Restharrow..... |
Sunday, 2 August 2020
Harvest time at Ringshill Farm...
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| Cuxton from Ringshill farm... |
Further down the valley the bales had already been gathered...
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| Cuxton from Ringshill Farm... |
Saturday, 18 July 2020
A Comet over Cuxton...
Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), as seen from the edge of Six Acres, looking north at around 23.30 on the 17th (last night). Combination of several 5s and 15s exposures at F6.3, ISO 400...
Monday, 22 June 2020
Kitchen Field...
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| Kitchen Field from the top of Brockles... |
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| Kitchen Field... |
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| Kitchen Field... |
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| Poppies and Chamomile... |
The poppies are finally giving way to Chamomile, which at the moment is giving a wonderful red and white contrast. There are several species of Chamomile and Mayweed, but the prevalent one here is called Stinking Chamomile. When the flowers are crushed they have an unpleasant odour and are currently giving Kitchen Field a smell rather like dogshit, which of course is perfectly normal for Ranscombe these days, unfortunately...
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| Marbled White... |
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| Vipers Bugloss... |
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Ranscombe...
A short stroll up to Brockles...
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| View from Terry Sutton's memorial bench at Brockles |
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| Towards Upper Bush... |
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| Poppies at Kitchen Field... |
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| Small Tortoiseshell... |
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| Meadow Clary... |
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| Twenty Acres... |
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| Looking south from the eastern edge of Twenty Acres... |
Monday, 15 June 2020
Luddesdown vineyard...
...although "vineyard" seems a bit of a misnomer for fields full of ugly steel wire, weeds and patches of dead, chalky soil. Still, it's early days I suppose...
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| View from Wrenches Shaw towards Luddesdown church... |
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| View from Wrenches Shaw towards Cobham... |
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| Court Lodge and Luddesdown Church from Wrenches Shaw... |
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| Common Spotted Orchid... |
There is a now-neglected farm track leading up from the bottom of Bavins, where a large number of Common Spotted orchids have popped up. I counted over 50 in about 100 yards.
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| Track down Bavins Bank |
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