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Photo: Hurst Castle, Hampshire, UK

Date Taken: 17th February 2022

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We had a lovely walk at Pennington today, with the fields carpeted in ragwort as the first picture I took today in this photoset shows, mudflats beautified more by purple sea lavender as the fourth picture I took in this photoset shows and the reeds a delicious lush green colour just like the trees and grass. It was interesting to note the consistency of my last three days at Lakeside, Knepp and here with ragwort doing very well and giant bindweed coming out well at all three which shows how connected nature really is with these three locations quite far from each other bursting into these colours in unison. Skylark with its stunning melody would open and close the walk, the first we had done at Pennington since the Easter weekend. I really enjoyed seeing Swifts skillfully gliding through the air walking down the old trip towards Fishtail lagoon as we did the whole walk and as we do so often see here at this time of year. I took the second picture in this photoset of a view here too. I enjoyed seeing adorable Little Ringed Plovers on Fishtail lagoon with some appearing young.

There were also adorable baby Shelducks on this lagoon about half a dozen with a beautiful adult, great birds to see they looked like tadpoles by comparison of the huge lagoon, great little balls of fluff. I managed the sixth picture in this photoset of one, alongside another photo I tweeted on Dans_Pictures. It was a strong flower walk too with bright red poppy which I took the third picture in this photoset of and white campion which we saw a lot of today brightening up the grasses beside fishtail lagoon. We would also see some exquisite looking brown Linnets here today, a fantastic shade in their strong pallet of variable colours. Other nice flowers to see today included lots of broad-leaved clovers nicely, hawk’s-beard, sorrel, probably carrot, yarrow, lots of pink mallow, silverweed and lovely chamomile.

I took the fifth picture in this photoset of our dog Missy and the seventh of Keyhaven lagoon. The emperor of the reedbed as it quite often does flew up and soared over Keyhaven lagoon when we got there, a pretty and ferocious Marsh Harrier being mobbed by gulls we got some amazing views of it. Coming back beside fishtail lagoon and it was lovely to see more Swifts flying over and Sand Martins too. This made it the four species of Swift and the three hirundines that I had seen well over the course of four days which feels like a great summery thing to celebrate. As well as Avocet, Oystercatcher in the eighth picture in this photoset and Little Egret among the many birds put up by a helicopter and flying well over our head with amazing views we saw Common Terns flying getting towards the end of the lagoon along the path. Today was the first time at the coast for me since Anglesey two weeks ago and the last night there at Cemlyn where we saw the sensational terns including many common so this was nice. Another bird we saw in Anglesey Eiders made a nice sightings today too in offshore bits of land. I took the ninth picture in this photoset of a view out to sea. Then getting towards the jetty was got a fantastic view of a dainty Little Tern shooting through the sky with its mustard bill and cute white stature.

We then headed back to the car and some more floral delights awaited us on the way going into grassland. A white variation of mallow, as well as possible silverweed, self-heal, buttercups, a few of the ones seen earlier, my first centaury and some prominent and pretty Purple Loosestrife. We got our best view yet this year and first time landed in 2021 of a rich orange Gatekeeper butterfly on some vegetation really getting to make out this typical summer species. We saw Meadow Brown well on the walk too. There were some great landscape focal points of beautiful things to see today, like Sway Tower which I’d never got in a picture before, the Needles which I got a zoom in picture of, Hurst Castle and Hurst Spit looking nice. A really nice Sunday walk for us. When home as well as taking in interesting sky scenes later on I liked seeing my first love-in-a-mist and sweet William flowers in the back garden alongside oxeye daisies and others, adding some fantastic colour and flair to the flower areas. It was a phenomenal, packed and wonderful wild weekend for me again one of my best of the year with the football too even if England sadly couldn’t quite go all the way but it was some wonderful memories. I hope you all had a good and safe one.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: Three of my favourite birds the Great Crested Grebe out to sea nicely, Little Egret and Shelduck, one of my favourite butterflies the Red Admiral, Marsh Harrier, Linnet, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler, Swift, Sand Martin, Blue Tit, Goldfinches well again today, Mallard with ducklings too, Eider, Tufted Duck, Coot, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit with some nice and bronze coloured, Avovet, Oystercatcher, Lapwing well today, Curlew, Little Ringed Plover, Canada Geese well today with one making a great splashing noise in the water just outside the lagoon very close to us which was special, Common Tern, Little Tern, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Great Black-backed Gull I had a great day for gulls seeing them fly over really well too, Peacock butterfly, Gatekeeper and Meadow Brown.

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Ghost Photo: Castle Spirit

A man visiting Hurst Castle in Hampshire, England got the fright of his life when he spotted an apparition with glowing eyes lurking near the window.

“I didn’t see the figure until I watched the footage, but the whole time I was in the castle I felt something watching me,” the man, Tony Ferguson, told an English tabloid.

But is it really a ghost? To many, the video footage seems to show…

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Hurst Castle, Hampshire. March 2017.

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7/6/20-Flowers in the garden, Pennington walk and sky when home

I took the first picture in this photoset of a rose on the bush in our garden that has looked lovely all week and one of a hanging basket in good flower too. This was whilst my Mum shaved and cut my hair in the garden earlier. We then made another big return to New Forest nature reserve Lymington-Keyhaven after our Lymington visit on the last bank holiday Saturday, coming to Pennington for the first time since a Saturday afternoon trip here two days prior to the announcement or lockdown. It was a really good walk today with two bird year ticks and more. I saw so much today.

As we walked down from the old trip car park it was brilliant to see so many Swifts flying so closely over our heads very nice. I took the second and third pictures in this photoset a view from here and a Swift. As we got down to the channel of water beside fishtail lagoon it was fantastic to see beautiful Sand Martins fly very close over too. We enjoyed an exceptional afternoon for these birds with so many around we just kept seeing them over the sea wall and fishtail lagoon with some landing on an island on the latter. So special to see as it was a year tick on our last Pennington visit in late March. As the first of our hirundines and Swifts seen this year we then obviously did not see them again in the circumstances. So it was really nice to catch up with these birds well today. On this channel we got really good views of a Common Tern fishing too we got so nicely close to it and it was really good to observe. I took the fourth picture in this photoset of the view towards Hurst Castle there the sea looking nice and blue and fifth of the Common Tern which I was pleased with.

As we scanned fishtail lagoon we managed to spot a plover far back on the shingle. After a lot of looking more closely and some deliberation we saw as hoped it was a Little Ringed Plover. Really the bird I still needed to see this year that prompted me to suggest coming here today a reserve I had in mind to safely get to and see them. The fifth year running I’ve seen this species in now. So it was a very satisfying moment as my next year tick for birds this year. We saw one really well later on passing this lagoon on the way back too which I took the seventh picture in this photoset of. Even more delightful when seeing this top bird was that we noticed it had some very little chicks with it. Great to see.

Chicks and young birds were the order of the day as it was great to see Avocets (one of a few young ones about shown by the sixth picture I took today in this photoset), Shelducks, Moorhen and Mallards with young too, a young Whitethroat and my first Mute Swan cygnets this year with parents adorably shuffling in a line across the path from butts lagoon, down the bank and all eight of them into the sea as we passed here later on. I took the eighth picture in this photoset of this.

Back to beside fishtail lagoon earlier on and we scanned out to sea and the little islands off shore as we still needed to see Eider Ducks this year. We scanned and caught sight of birds and zoomed in with cameras and were delighted to see they were Eiders. This was another great moment with one of our best birds seen this year, we saw more far out later in the walk too. It was definitely a relief to see this iconic duck, my longest wait in a year to see my first of the year since 2015’s July sighting at Lepe after May here, January at a Hill Head, January in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland and January here respectively in the last few years. Seeing them no matter how far away brought back fond memories of the amazing sightings we got of them our best ever as one of the stars of our Northumberland holiday for the Farne Islands and more which I can’t believe we’re only a couple of weeks off the one year anniversary of I shall have to mark that somehow.

These took my bird year list to 155, making 2020 my fourth highest my year list has ever been on on this date in year, behind my last three years 2019, 2018 and (only by one) 2017. I am very happy with this.

As we walked on we got more great bird moments such as cracking Sandwich Tern and Marsh Harrier views, sight of a Little Tern to complete the set of three common tern species for a second occasion at this reserve this year over Keyhaven lagoon. I also saw my first Hampshire Black-railed Godwits of 2020 on butts lagoon having only previously seen them at WWT Slimbridge in Gloucestershire this year when I saw them for the first time this year in January. A great walk today on a dry and sunny afternoon before showers as we travelled home, one very packed with lots of amazing wildlife sightings and views. I took the ninth picture in this photoset pre-shower before we left and tenth and final post-another-shower with sun rays coming back through from my room when we got back home. It was a very nice end to a wild full New Forest weekend where we really made the most of being out and this phenomenal place.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: My first Little Ringed Plover and Eider Duck of the year, three of my favourite birds the Great Crested Grebe, Shelduck and Little Egret, Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Little Tern, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Great Black Backed Gull, Herring Gull, Black-headed Gull, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Marsh Harrier, Sand Martin, Swift, Reed Warbler, Whitethroat, Linnet, Goldfinch, Blackbird, Magpie, Meadow Brown and I heard Mediterranean Gull and Cetti’s Warbler.