Three stages of successionin a fen landscape
Three views of fenland with increasignly complex networks of inter dependent species, culminating in a rich landscape with wild flowers, a hobby hunting dragonfly, and heacy with insect life
Stone bridge over the River Evenlode
Traditional stone hump backed bridge with two arches crossing over the river Enelode which runs beneath it, flanked with maringal vegetation and plants
Wet meadow landscape
Wetland chalk meadow with stream running through it, flooded meadow withflowers and wild vegetation on the banks and a willow tree leaning across the stream
Reedbed
Watercolour reed bed showing the layers of reeds with trees and shrubs behind and distant hills
Oak woodland with lichens, moss, insects and birds
Oakland landscapw with details of mosses and lickesn and some insects that live in and on the oak trees including beetles and wasps; bird in the background include the nuthatch, pied flycatcher, warbler, and great tit
Okavango Delta landscape
Ink landscape of the wetlands of the Okavango delta in Botswana showing palm trees, wetlands, and associated wildlife such as hippo, cranes, termite mounds, storks, and crocodile
Peat bog landscape
Ink landscape of a peat bog upland with wading wetland birds including curlew, green plover or peewit, great northern diver, and golden plover in summer plumage all gathered around a shallow tarn or pool
Pond landscape with walkway
View of a pond bridged with a raised wooden walkway which wends its way between the reeds and yellow flag plants that border the pond, young wetland trees and reed beds behind
Rice paddy landscape
Wetland landscape of a rice paddy with a farmer tending the rice plants in the flooded fields and with Cattle egret, White crane, palm trees, and women planting rice in the distance near a hut or shelter, mountains loom up behind the pastoral scene as the crane flies overhead
Limestone cliffs at Malham cove with birds
Landscape with Malham tarn in the background and wild flower meadow in front; stream with grey wagtail, green woodpeckers, peregrine falcon, and kestrel in the sky
Rocky outcrop landscape with red kite
View of limestone rocky landscape with red kite circling overhead and rough grassland and occasional trees; based on the uplands at Gilfach nature reserve near Rhayder, Wales
Food chain
Foodchain consisting of a tuft of grass, a rabbit, and a predator fox
Grassland landscape showing associated species and best practice management
Landscape of fields speckled with buttercups and grazing herds of sheep and cows, in the foreground there are shrubs then wild flower patches which provide cover for grey partridge, gatekeeper burtterflies, seven spot burnet moth, adonis blue butterfly, green woodpecker, hoverfly, bees, tiger beetle, and oil beetle on bare soil. WIld flowers shown include meadow […]
Heathland landscape with animals and heather and other plants
Heath landscape based around heather and gorse with a distant sea and town; animals shown include rabbits, short eared owl, Stonechat, Sand lizard, blue butterfly, Adder, and Dartford warbler
Heathland landscape with hare
Heath landscape with a hare looking startled and an emperor moth and caterpillar in the foeground, plants include bilberry, cotton grass, rush, cloud berry, blueberry, rush; distant k=hills and an ascending lark behind
Close up view of heathland bog with sundew and spider
Close up view of sphagnum moss with sundew growing amongst rushes, a spider hides in the moss
Meadow with butterflies
Landscape showing distant valley with meadow land near to, wild flowers in the foreground include birds foot trefoil, harebell, tormentil, black knapweed and grasses; male and female blue butterflies rest and flutter around these flowers
Country pool scene
Landscape of a large pond or lake with distant reeds and trees behind a fence; butterflies, birds, frogs and dragonflies are in the foreground along with bullrush and wild flowers
Vertebrate embryos
Vertebrate embryos comparing growth forms in chart form
Husthwaite church village view
View of the old church at Husthwaite with winter trees in the foreground
Bluebell wood with redstart and a walkway across a woodland stream
Bluebell wood with the spring flowrs carpeting the forest floor, in the foreground a male redstart perches on a tree stump with lichen, behind are some butterflies and a pied flycatcher perches on the wooden bridge walkway that covers an area of boggy ground, beyond the path stretches away into distant airy woodland and sunlight
Arable landscape showing best management practice
Arable landscape showing how to encourage wildlife in a farming environment, including wild flower margins, skylark plots, leaving stubble, encouraging hedgerows. Species shown include marbled white butterfly, yellow hammer, green plover, lark, collared dove, knapweed, clover, ox eye daisy and blue butterflies behind a gate
Ancient oak woodland landscape with bullfinch, orange tip, and wild spring flowers
Old oak woodland with bullfinch, woodpecker, badger, orange tip butterfly, vole, and ground beetle in amongst the plants growing on the forest floor below the spreading oaks
Ancient woodland landscape with bluebells and moths
Landscape showing an ancient oak woodland with oak trees which were last pollarded years ago, the under storey is carpeted with bluebells, the trees are hung with lichen, and there are moths in the foreground settled on a patch of wild spring flowers