Philip Amies
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Interested in history, earth science, biology.
Audubon saw Ivory-billed Woodpecker regularly during his
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Audubon saw Ivory-billed Woodpecker regularly during his
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
travels down the Mississippi River near Arkansas Post in 1820. Audubon also painted the extinct Carolina Parakeet.
www.audubon.org/magazine/we-...
No Ivory-billed Woodpeckers seem to have been recorded in the sunk lands.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
No Ivory-billed Woodpeckers seem to have been recorded in the sunk lands.
It bred in disturbed swamp forest and may have been associated with Arundinaria gigantea cane brakes, males sang in the tree canopy, and made song flights, but nests were well hidden in undergrowth.
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
It bred in disturbed swamp forest and may have been associated with Arundinaria gigantea cane brakes, males sang in the tree canopy, and made song flights, but nests were well hidden in undergrowth.
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/...
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.
While the Mersey Barrage is a risk to birds, not so much for Ruddy Shelducks unless things have change more than I imagine.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
While the Mersey Barrage is a risk to birds, not so much for Ruddy Shelducks unless things have change more than I imagine.
You can click on 'view surveys' which gives you past surveys and condition assessments, what I don't understand is this is only working on some units.
November 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
You can click on 'view surveys' which gives you past surveys and condition assessments, what I don't understand is this is only working on some units.
No ownership details for these plots in NWT land, some of the failed Hiam development which Hiam must have sold before NWT purchase in the 1960s.
November 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
No ownership details for these plots in NWT land, some of the failed Hiam development which Hiam must have sold before NWT purchase in the 1960s.
The National Trust owns much of the Bird Observatory, the NOA owns Redwell Marsh and has purchased a part of the observatory dunes.
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The National Trust owns much of the Bird Observatory, the NOA owns Redwell Marsh and has purchased a part of the observatory dunes.
Le Strange estate owns a large part of the dunes, saltmarsh, foreshore, the golf course.
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Le Strange estate owns a large part of the dunes, saltmarsh, foreshore, the golf course.
Thornham Drove Farm
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thornham Drove Farm
4th Baron Melchett
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
4th Baron Melchett
If you ever visit Holme next the Sea and look at the 'grazing marsh' a polder (embanked and drained saltmarsh created in 1860) these are the owners
Robinson
Robinson
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If you ever visit Holme next the Sea and look at the 'grazing marsh' a polder (embanked and drained saltmarsh created in 1860) these are the owners
Robinson
Robinson
Seahenge 2 image taken in 2025, near the site of excavated Seahenge 1.
November 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Seahenge 2 image taken in 2025, near the site of excavated Seahenge 1.
The scandalous and shocking thing is the important dunes and golf links between Hunstanton and Holme are not an SSSI, such a bad historic mistake.
November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The scandalous and shocking thing is the important dunes and golf links between Hunstanton and Holme are not an SSSI, such a bad historic mistake.
Le Strange estate a major landowner here, a number of landowners own the Holme NNR not just the NWT, personally I've been impressed by recent Le Strange management of dunes here, had a chat with the owner who was very open and keen.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Le Strange estate a major landowner here, a number of landowners own the Holme NNR not just the NWT, personally I've been impressed by recent Le Strange management of dunes here, had a chat with the owner who was very open and keen.
You do not get obvious financial information, but you have the scheme name, the SSSI unit gives you area, payment rate for area is public information so you can work it out.
November 7, 2025 at 5:55 PM
You do not get obvious financial information, but you have the scheme name, the SSSI unit gives you area, payment rate for area is public information so you can work it out.
Hopefully this thread will empower you to ask what condition your local designated site is in. You can also use MAGIC to see what public money a land owner has had access to, map layer, land based schemes, Agri-Environmental schemes, then I've chosen Environmental Stewardship Agreements
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Hopefully this thread will empower you to ask what condition your local designated site is in. You can also use MAGIC to see what public money a land owner has had access to, map layer, land based schemes, Agri-Environmental schemes, then I've chosen Environmental Stewardship Agreements
The 2021 plan for Holme Dunes did include input from local residents as well as organisations, don't assume local residents do not care about the conservation status.
November 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The 2021 plan for Holme Dunes did include input from local residents as well as organisations, don't assume local residents do not care about the conservation status.
Unit 1
"With the dune features being deemed in unfavourable-no change condition, the overall unit then falls into a similar condition status. This also follows the Little tern and other bird species assessments outcomes in 2021."
"With the dune features being deemed in unfavourable-no change condition, the overall unit then falls into a similar condition status. This also follows the Little tern and other bird species assessments outcomes in 2021."
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Unit 1
"With the dune features being deemed in unfavourable-no change condition, the overall unit then falls into a similar condition status. This also follows the Little tern and other bird species assessments outcomes in 2021."
"With the dune features being deemed in unfavourable-no change condition, the overall unit then falls into a similar condition status. This also follows the Little tern and other bird species assessments outcomes in 2021."
Unit 2 Holme Dunes is actually
unfavourable no change
and explains why
unfavourable no change
and explains why
November 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Unit 2 Holme Dunes is actually
unfavourable no change
and explains why
unfavourable no change
and explains why
Unit 2 is Holme Dunes, the condition is favourable, but let us click the 'hotlink' to unit details.
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Unit 2 is Holme Dunes, the condition is favourable, but let us click the 'hotlink' to unit details.
I've zoomed into North Norfolk, you can see SSSI area mapped, and numbers showing units, you now need to select black icon with an i on the top row called identify an click on a unit number.
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I've zoomed into North Norfolk, you can see SSSI area mapped, and numbers showing units, you now need to select black icon with an i on the top row called identify an click on a unit number.
Click on map layer icon again to hide it, you can click on the map to zoom into a place or use the dialogue box to search for a place.
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Click on map layer icon again to hide it, you can click on the map to zoom into a place or use the dialogue box to search for a place.
Left side, topmost icon is map layers, select designations, then land based destignations, then statutory, then choose which designation suits your purpose, I'll choose SSSI England.
November 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Left side, topmost icon is map layers, select designations, then land based destignations, then statutory, then choose which designation suits your purpose, I'll choose SSSI England.