Pond in a water meadow landscape with plants and animals
Woodstock water meadow view with wildlife pond in foreground; seen with otter, kingfisher, and Peacock butterfly
Hay meadow cross section
Hay meadow cross section showing mole burrow and roots below the soil and flowers, butterflies, and insects above ground
Woodland landscape for best practice management
Snipe flying across a ride clearing in woodland with forestry behind showing how to manage and harvest trees and related prodcuts such as charcoal, coppicing and timber; a distant pool and alder carr gives way to clear fell forestry on distant hills and patchy clearings; in the foreground wild flowers and butterflies are shown growing […]
Wet meadowland scene with butterflies
Distant landscape of hills and fiels with a tree in the midground, in the foreground butterflies such as the ringlet and meadow brown rest on orchids and buttercups
Welsh river landscape with boat
View of the river Wye over a still pool with overhanging tree and a little row boat moored by the river bank, distant hills behind
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
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
Traditional English village house in Coxwold
View of a traditional little house in the northern village of Coxwold with trees behind and wisteria growing up the front
Welsh river landscape 2
Welsh river landscape looking across a stretch of smooth water to the trees on the opposite bank
Wetland landscape
Wetland landscape with curlew and pearl bordered fritillary in the foreground on emergent vegetation, behind a flooded area of meadow tails into distant hills, cows and swans graze fields and yellow flag, blackberry and alder fill the foreground.
Wetland landscape with water rail and stream cross section
Wetland landscape with a water rail emerging from the fringing vegetation and a cross section of the stream shows fish, aquatic invertebrates, and a blue dragonfly; a frog rests below an orchid and pond skater sit on the water surface
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
Saltmarsh landscape
Salt marsh landscape showing mud and a cross section of the snails and invertebrates who live here, wading and predatory birds above in the glasswort and aquatic plants; further away from the salt estuary are soft cliffs and the distant sea
River landscape
View of a head water stream with dipper, wagtail, waterfall and damselflies then view of a river with a heron fishing from a shingle bank, sand marten flying low, and dragonfly and beetles at home amongst driftwood; the river meanders on to a wetland meadow delta with grazing herds and established aquatic plant communities flanking […]
Reedbed landscape with cross section of water
Landscape of a reed bed with a cross section of the water in the forground and showing fish and amphibians living in the water, along with a close up of some microscopic aquatic invertebrates; in the sky hobby hunt for dragonfly and damselfly and swallows fly; otter, bittern, and water vole hide in the margins […]
Reedbed
Watercolour reed bed showing the layers of reeds with trees and shrubs behind and distant hills
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
Meadow in summer with butterflies
Meadow in summer with red kite circling, green woodpecker feeding from distant ant hills, goldfinch on teasels, and a peacock butterfly on a knapweed bloom with a Painted lady on hawkbit. A family cycle past behind.
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]