British Isles habitats and landscapes
 

Aesculus hippocastanum Horse Chestnut

 

Alnus glutinosa Alder woodland for qtvr

 

Alder woodland Stockgrove country park

 

wet Alder woodland Alnus glutinosa

 

Wet woodland with ferns Alnus alder

 

Wet woodland with ferns Alnus alder

 

Wet Alnus glutinosa Betula woodland

 

Wet woodland with Alder Alnus glutinosa

 

Wet woodland with rootplates

 

Wet woodland with rootplates

 

Alders along stream, cerne abbas

 

Birch woodland Craigellachie, Aviemore, Scotland

 

Birch tree in heathland, New Forest

 

Frost and birch trees, New Forest

 

Birch trunks, Stannage, Peak District

 

birch snow pond near Loch Morlich

 

Holme fen with birch woodland and narrow buckler fern (probably)

 

Birch and bracken autumn color New Forest heath

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Morrone birkwood

 

Morrone birkwood

 

Wet woodland Roydon common, Norfolk

 

Root plate on shallow rooted birch Betula on waterlogged soil

 

Carpinus betulus Hornbeam coppice

 

Carpinus betulus Hornbeam

 

Castanea sativa Sweet chestunut coppace

 

Newly coppaced sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) at kings wood near Challock Kent with snow

 

Sweet chestnut coppace (Castanea sativa) with bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scriptus) and red campion (Silene dioica).

 

Sweet chestnut coppace with bluebells, Kent

 

Hazel wood Tokavaig, Skye, Scotland

 

Corylus avellana Hazel coppaced woodland with abundant lichens Tokavaig

 

Corylus avellana Hazel coppaced woodland with abundant lichens Tokavaig

 

Hawthorn, sheep, oilseed rape, blue sky, Ashridge

 

Bluebells beech wood Downe, Kent

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland with some oak trees Quercus

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica and bluebell woodland

 

Fallen Larch tree in bluebell wood followed for as it decays April 1995

 

Fallen Larch tree in bluebell wood followed as it decays

 

Fallen Larch tree in bluebell wood followed as it decays 26 April 2008

 

Hyacinthoides non-scriptus Bluebell

 

Bluebell woodland covered in snow some blue flowers visible in places 6 Apr 2008

 

Hyacinthoides non-scriptus Bluebell

 

Hyacinthoides non-scriptus Bluebell

 

Bluebell woodland covered in snow some blue flowers visible in places

 

Bluebell woodland covered in snow some blue flowers visible in places

 

Bluebell wood with ash trees, Ashridge

 

Bluebell wood, Kent

 

Beech Fagus sylvatica holly Ilex aquifolium woodland

 

Beech trees on ancient bank, spring foliage, Ashridge

 

Snowy beech trees, Ashridge

 

Snowy woodland

 

Beech trees Fagus sylvatica on ancient bank

 

Beech trees (Fagus sylvatica) on ancient bank Ashridge

 

Beech trees Fagus sylvatica on ancient bank

 

Beech trees Fagus sylvatica on ancient bank

 

Beech woodland Fagus sylvatica

 

Beech woodland Fagus sylvatica in spring with bluebells

 

Pollarded beech trees Epping forest

 

Beech tree Ashridge

 

Pollards Epping Forest

 

Beech wood snow, Woburn

 

Autumn colour on beech trees New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Fagus sylvatica Beech

 

Beech woodland Bramshaw New Forest

 

Beech wood with autumn colour, Bramshaw, New Forest

 

Track in forest beech trees autumn colour, Shere, Surrey

 

Ancient pollarded beech, New Forest

 

Fallen beech tree Fagus sylvatica storm damaged severe stress in the trunk

 



 

Beech plantation on very thin soil over chalk rock, Chilterns

 

Ancient woodland interior New Forest

 

Brickhill woods autumn

 

Brickhill woods autumn

 

Trees dawn castlerigg

 

Trees in field with newly emerged cereal crop, Woburn

 

Ride in coppice woodland

 

Willan poplar plantation and blue sky taken with fisheye lens

 

Willan poplar plantation and blue sky taken with fisheye lens

 

Poplars farmland Gayhurst Buckinghamshire

 

Poplars farmland Gayhurst Buckinghamshire

 

Dead oak tree in middle of conifer plantation Quercus robur

 

Dead oak (Quercus robur) trees caused by raised waterlevel area being turned into swamp

 

Dead oak (Quercus robur) trees caused by raised waterlevel are being turned into swamp

 

Wooded valley near Devils bridge.  Wales

 

Woodland Ynys Eidiol, Wales

 

Woodland Ynys Eidiol, Wales

 

Ancient tree, New Forest

 

Embankments beech woodland interior, New Forest

 

Embankments beech woodland interior, New Forest

 

Forest interior, New Forest

 

Forest interior, New Forest

 

Forest interior, New Forest

 

Embankments woodland interior, New Forest

 

Johnny's wood oak woodland

 

Johnny's wood oak woodland

 

Lime woodland, Kings wood, Heath and Reach

 

Oak beech woodland new forest Fagus sylvatica Quercus

 

Oak beech woodland new forest Fagus sylvatica Quercus

 

Borrowdale oak woodland, Lake District

 

Wall in woodland Borrowdale, Lake District

 

Ancient oak trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Ancient trees and bracken in Bradgate park, Leicestershire

 

Broadbalk wilderness, Rothamstead

 

Woodland, Heath and Reach

 

Tree roots, Aira force, Lake District

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

Trees and snow heath and reach

 

Oak trees Woburn winter leafless

 

Moss on cut branches of beech on forest floor

 

Moss on beech tree base

 

Tree stump in forest

 

Conservation volunteers lighting fire in forest

 

Ferns along drainage ditch in conifer plantation, Scotland

 

Ferns along drainage ditch in conifer plantation, Scotland

 

Tree tubes

 

tree tubes, woburn woods

 

Dowles brook Wyre forest

 

Oak tree New Forest

 

Glade New Forest

 

Ancient woodland interior with oak Quercus

 

Ancient woodland interior with tree trunks covered in green moss

 

Ancient woodland interior with tree trunks covered in green moss

 

Storm damage to mature trees after hurricane of 1987 Olanteigh Wye Kent

 

Misty woods with coppaced oaks, Stockgrove park, Heath and Reach, Bedfordshire

 

Oak woodland, Norleywood, New Forest

 

Misty oak woodland

 

Oak trees with conifers Elan Valley

 

Oak woodland with bracken Quercus and Pteridium

 

Oak woodland Quercus

 

Oak woodland Quercus

 

Oak woodland in autumn

 

Path through Betula Birch woodland

 

Quercus robur English Oak or Pedunculate Oak

 

Rocky oak woodland

 

Oak tree beside Exe estuary, Devon

 

Oak tree beside Exe estuary, Devon

 

Snowy woodland

 

Woodland ride with open areas

 

Dowels mill Wyre forest

 

Alium ursinum Wild Garlic Cheddar Gorge Somerset

 

Sunrise oak, Woburn

 

Snow in woodland, Peak District

 

Ulmus sp. Elm

 

Young spruce and larch plantation with heather in flower Picea Larix Calluna vulgaris

 

Fields and forestry

 

Fields and forestry

 

Mixed woodland Aviemore, Scotland

 

Larch plantation

 

Larix sp. Larch

 

Logs in pine plantation

 

Pinus sylvestris Scots pine Loch an Eilein near Aviemore Scotland

 

Conifer plantation

 

Conifer woodland

 

Forestry plantation on hillside, Loch Lochy, Scotland

 

Mechanised forestry, flow country, Scotland

 

Scots pine forest, Glen Affric, Scotland

 

Conifer plantation, ferns, Woburn

 

Buttermere, Lake District. Pines

 

Caledonian pine forest Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Caledonian pine forest, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Forest ride, Loch an Eilein, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Pines Castle Head, Keswick, Lake District

 

Sunbeam, Woburn woods

 

Conifer wood with early morning mist, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood with early morning mist, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood early morning mist landrover, Brickhill

 

Conifer wood early morning mist landrover, Brickhill

 

Misty pine woodland

 

Misty pine woodland

 

Misty pine woodland

 

Pines mist the Lodge RSPB, Sandy

 

Pines near Woburn

 

Pine plantation with braken, Woburn

 

Pinus sylvestris Scots pine forest

 

Pinus sylvestris scots pine Glen more forest park near Aviemore

 

Pinus sylvestris scots pine Upper Tullochgrue Rothiemurchas near Aviemore Scotland

 

Pine roots, Loch Garten, Scotland

 

Snowy pine trees in kings wood

 

Pine cones in Scots pine forest

 

Browsed tree, Scotland

 

Caldeonian pine forest and stream, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Calluna vulgaris Heather

 

Heathland, Ampthill

 

Heathland Ashdown forest

 

Dawn cattle New Forest

 

Heathland Ampthill, Bedfordshire

 

Heathland gorse and heather Haldon, Devon

 

Gorse and heather on hillside, Lake District

 

Heathland, New Forest

 

Heathland with heather Calluna vulgaris

 

Heathland with heather Calluna vulgaris and birch

 

Pteridium aquilinium Bracken

 

Syderstone heath

 

Heathland Ashdown forest

 

Burnt gorse (Ulex europaea) with regenerating seedlings and bracken

 

Burnt gorse (Ulex europaea) with regenerating seedlings and bracken

 

Hartland moor boggy pool

 

Heathland after fire with regenerating heather Calluna vulgaris

 

Lowland bog

 

Lowland bog

 

Lowland bog with cotton grass Eriophorum

 

Sphagnum bog with bog plants and wet flush

 

Bog

 

Cors Caron raised bog

 

Cors Caron raised bog

 

Cors Caron raised bog

 

Cors Caron raised bog

 

Cors Caron raised bog

 

Colley hill chalk grassland 1984, Reigate, Surrey

 

Colley hill chalk grassland with scrub invasion on the north downs 2009

 

Chalk grassland near Great Cheverell, Salisbury plain

 

Chalk grassland and exclosures, Castle hill, Sussex

 

White horse in chalk, Cuckmere, Sussex

 

Steve Bell chalk cartoon figure of John Major, south downs, Sussex

 

Cerne Abbas giant figure carved out of chalk down, Dorset

 

Chalk grassland Old Winchester hill

 

Grassland on oolitic limestone

 

Limestone grassland, Cotswolds

 

Chalk grassland and scrub, Stepps hill, Ivinghoe

 

Chalk grassland and scrub, Stepps hill, Ivinghoe

 

Chalk grassland and scrub, Stepps hill, Ivinghoe

 

Hawthorn in flower Dunstable downs

 

Ivinghoe beacon with storm clouds

 

Chalk grassland and view from the Pegsden hills

 

Chalk grassland and view from the Pegsden hills

 

Galium verum Lady's Bedstraw

 

Surveying grassland, Cricklade meadow

 

Grassland surveying, Pilch field, Buckinghamshire

 

Ridge and furrow Pilch field, Buckinghamshire

 

Ant hills Pilch field

 

Meadows Bakewell, Peak District

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Harvesting, Park Grass Experiment, Rothamstead, Hertfordshire

 

Buttercups, Park Grass, Rothamstead

 

Park Grass, Rothamstead

 

Park Grass, Rothamstead

 

Floodplain grassland, Cricklade

 

Cricklade meadow

 

Caltha palustris Marsh Marigold Cricklade

 



 

Plant communities at Cricklade

 

Fritillaria meleagris Snakes-head Fritillary

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Species rich meadow

 

Ridge and furrow grassland, Northumberland

 

Flowery meadow with Buttercups Ranunculus acris

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich damp grassland Tadham moor, Somerset

 

Species rich flowery meadow

 

Species rich flowery meadow

 

Species rich flowery meadow

 

Yarnton meadow Oxfordshire species rich grassland

 

Mixed wildflowers Yarnton meadow

 

Mixed wild flowers Cricklade

 

White barn and cattle Upper Teesdale

 

White barns Upper Teesdale

 

Barn in species rich meadow Upper Teesdale

 

Langdon beck YHA youth hostel Upper Teesdale with flowery meadow

 

Langdon beck YHA youth hostel Upper Teesdale with flowery meadow

 

Species rich meadows Upper Teesdale

 

Pasture Peak District

 

Small mounts in wet heathy grassland often the mounds have woody plants on

 

Barley crop at different shutter speeds

 

Barley crop still green

 

Barley crop still green

 

Linseed flowers and green seed capsules

 

Linseed crop in flower

 

Opium poppy field, Hampshire

 

Brussels sprouts in snow, Bedfordshire

 

Farmland with oilseed rape Lacy Green, Buckinghamshire

 

Fair weather cumulus clouds and oilseed rape, Warwickshire

 

Oilseed rape in flower with blue sky and fluffy white clouds but also woodland behind has been flattened by 1987 hurricane

 

Oilseed rape, pylon, blue sky

 

Oilseed rape in full flower with blue sky

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Oilseed rape and oak tree, Chichley hill

 

Broad beans in farmland Chichley hill

 

Hedge and ploughed farmland Chichley

 

Hedge Chichley hill

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape with autumn colour

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Snowy chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape with tramlines in field on chalky soil

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape with tramlines in field on chalky soil

 

Chiltern landscape with tramlines in field on chalky soil

 

Chiltern landscape with tramlines in field on chalky soil

 

Chiltern landscape after harvest with golden stubble fields

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape patchwork of fields hedges and trees

 

Mist inversion Ivinghoe beacon, Chilterns

 

Chiltern hills east from near Ivinghoe

 

Chiltern hills east from near Ivinghoe, snow

 

Mist inversion Ivinghoe beacon, Chilterns

 

Chiltern landscape after harvest with golden stubble fields

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chiltern landscape

 

Chilterns near Ivinghoe

 

Landscape with fairweather cumulus clouds

 

Landscape with fairweather cumulus clouds

 

Landscape with fairweather cumulus clouds

 

Farm and farmland 1989 Painswick Cheltenham

 

Farm near Painswick 1996, Gloucestershire

 

Spoonbed hill and farm Painswick 2006

 

Spoonbed hill and farm Painswick 2008

 

Farming landscape nr Chartham

 

Farmland from Glastonbury tor

 

Rolling Herefordshire farmland with red soils

 

Hedges

 

Quarry and farmland, Lake District.  Multiple use countryside

 

Furrows in soil.  Farmland, Casle Acre, Norfolk

 

Farmland near Devils bridge, Wales

 

Ash trees and storm clouds at pilch field

 

Farmland Weald Sussex

 

Fields and hedges with full grown trees Matlock, Peak District

 

Crataegus monogyna Hawthorn hedge poorly managed and overgazed

 

Layed hedge at pilch field

 

Layed hedge at pilch field

 

Ploughed farmland Tysoe, Warwickshire

 

Hedge snow.  Buckinghamshire

 

overgrazed grassland with thistles, Peak District

 

Farmland with pig arks, Hampshire

 

Farmland south downs, near Brighton, Sussex

 

Farmland south downs, near Brighton, Sussex

 

Fields divided up by stone walls Wensleydale

 

Fields divided up by stone walls Wensleydale

 

Bathford and Batheaston from Claverton down 1980 before major new road building

 

Brook village with countryside

 

Farmland with sheep and grass near Wye, Kent

 

Farmland looking west from the cotswolds, Gloucestershire

 

Old roller farm implement, in arable weeds, Chilterns

 

Conservation headland unsparayed or tilled field margin with poppies

 

Wild flowers in field margin.  Pitstone, Buckinghamshire

 

Conservation headland, Breckland

 

unsprayed field margin, poppies, Sussex

 

Poppy field

 

Papaver rhoeas Common Poppy

 

Papaver rhoeas Common Poppy

 

Papaver rhoeas Common Poppy

 

Chrysanthemum sagetum Corn Marigold

 

Farm, Lake District

 

Farm, Lake District

 

Farm, Lake District

 

Wasdale head campsite and fields

 

Seed drilling with tractor on south downs, Sussex

 

Seed drilling with tractor on south downs, Sussex

 

Seed drilling with tractor on south downs, Sussex

 

Crop spraying, Kent

 

Crop spraying

 

Crop sprayer

 

Crop spraying

 

Combine harvesting wheat

 

Harvesting cereal with combine harvester, considerable dust coming out the back.  near Bedford

 

Harvesting cereal with combine harvester, considerable dust coming out the back.  near Bedford

 

Combine harvester with loads of dust

 

Combine harvester harvesting wheat with loads of dust pollution

 

Combine harvester harvesting wheat with loads of dust pollution

 

Combine harvester harvesting wheat with loads of dust pollution

 

Combine harvester harvesting wheat with loads of dust pollution

 

Combine harvester at work

 

Hay turning with tractor, Sussex

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex.  High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex.  High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex.  High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Hay bales south downs, Sussex.  High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes and cirrus and cumulus clouds

 

Hay bales, south downs, Sussex.  High quality hay specially enriched with planted legumes

 

Straw bales south downs, Sussex and cumulus clouds

 

Big round straw bales after harvest

 

Big round straw bales after harvest

 

Straw burning, farmland, Kent

 

Farm near Snowdon, Wales

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland freshly sprouted cereal Oak tree autumn colour, Soulbury, Buckinghamshire

 

Farmland patchwork Brecon, Wales

 

Landscape near Ivinghoe beacon

 

Landscape near Ivinghoe beacon

 

Oilseed rape bright splash of yellow among conifer plantations

 

small enclosed fields Llyn peninsula

 

small enclosed fields Llyn peninsula

 



 

Stanage Edge

 

Stockbridge down rolling Hampshire countryside with patches of woodland between cereal fields

 

Stockbridge down rolling Hampshire countryside with patches of woodland between cereal fields

 

Stockbridge down rolling Hampshire countryside with patches of woodland between cereal fields

 

Tramlines in newly emerged cereal crop on chalky soil

 

View from Sutton Bank

 

View from Sutton Bank

 

View from Sutton Bank

 

M40 motorway, north of Aston Rowant, Oxfordshire

 

M40 Aston Rowant Oxfordshire countryside

 

View from Sutton Bank

 

Holcombe from Painswick hill

 

Pasture cows Peak District

 

Sheep downland

 

cattle grazing chalk grassland Pulpit hill chilterns

 



 

Red soils in a farming landscape Herefordshire

 

Red soils in a farming landscape Herefordshire

 

Bird hide in flooded chalk pit, college wildlife nature reserve, Buckinghamshire

 



 

College lake BBOWT nature reserve

 

Felmersham gravel pits

 

Fen Dry Sandford pit

 

Floodplain and surrounding habitats

 

Floods Thornborough bridge

 

Floods Milton Keynes

 

Floods Milton Keynes

 

Flooded river valley near Amberley, Sussex

 

Flooded river valley near Amberley, Sussex

 

Flooded river valley near Amberley, Sussex

 

Flooded farmland Gayhurst, Buckinghamshire

 

Flooded farmland Olney, Buckinghamshire

 

Flooded farmland Olney, Buckinghamshire

 

Stream in flood rarely seen at this sandy site

 

Flooded ouse washes

 

Flooded ouse washes

 

Ice Waswater, Lake District

 

Loughrigg tarn, Lake District

 

Pond, OU meadow

 

Fraxinus excelsior ash tree walkers Buttermere, Lake district

 

Fraxinus excelsior ash tree walkers Buttermere

 

Delta Derwentwater 1994, Lake District

 

Delta Derwentwater 2001

 

Delta Derwentwater 2012

 

Crummock Water, Lake District

 

Dead ash tree, Crummock water, Lake District

 

Dewpond, Sussex

 

Round pond Old Romney, Kent

 

Crummock water, Lake District

 

Ennerdale water, Lake District

 

Hatchet pond with water plants, New Forest.

 

Pond near Horsham

 

Reed swamp Fowlmere

 

Reedbed Wicken fen, Cambrideshire

 

View from Friar's crag at sunset Derwentwater

 

Loch an Eilein Rothiemurchas near Aviemore Scottish highlands

 

Ulswater, Lake District

 

White boat and lochan Rothiemurchas

 

Lake at Leighton moss, Lancashire

 

Llyn Idwal and water plants

 

Lochan na h-Achlaise Black Mount Rannoch

 

Lochan na h-Achlaise Black Mount Rannoch

 

Loch Morlich, mist, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Oak trees Elan Valley

 

Frozen Derwentwater.

 

Frost, Blue lagoon, Bletchley

 

Lochan na h Achlaise, Black mount, Rannoch, Scotland

 

Lochan na h Achlaise, Black mount, Rannoch, Scotland

 

Loch Lubmaig, Callander, Scotland

 

Kirkstone pass with snow Lake District

 

Elterwater, blue sky, leafless trees, Lake District

 

Elterwater, blue sky, leafless trees, Lake District

 

Lochan na h-Achlaise Black Mount

 

Pond in forest with fallen branch, Ashridge

 

Pond in woodland

 

Pond in woodland

 

River Duddon Lake District

 

River Duddon Lake District

 

Stream Peak District

 

Symonds Yat

 

Cattle in river Ouse, Cosgrove

 

River Ouse with willow trees, Cosgrove

 

High force waterfall and rock formations upper teesdale

 

High force waterfall and rock formations upper teesdale

 

Small island or ait in river

 

Small lochen with lots of vegetation

 

Boulder in green forest

 

Boulders in stream slow shutterspeed

 

Boulders in stream slow shutterspeed

 

Forest interior with stream

 

River Neath south Wales

 

Stream New Forest

 

Stock ghyll Ambleside, Lake District

 

Stream, alders, Lake District

 

Stream in woodland, New Forest

 

Glenariff forest park, Northern Ireland

 

Stream, Lake District

 

Dowles brook Wyre forest

 

Snow, Dowels brook Wyre forest

 

Stream in forest with reflection

 

Stream in forest with reflection

 

Stream in very green forest during rain

 

Stream in very green forest during rain

 

Stream in very green forest during rain

 

Stream in very green forest during rain

 

Afon Alun stream in woods

 

Afon Alun stream in woods

 

Swirly bubbles after waterfall

 

Devil's bridge waterfall

 

Waterfall Seatoller

 

Waterfall upper Swaledale

 

Stream ice, Lake District

 

White lady Waterfall Lydford gorge

 

Waterfall Lydford gorge

 

Devil's Cauldron Waterfall Lydford gorge

 

Scale force waterfall

 

Waterfall in green forest during rain

 

Burn O'Vat waterfall Deeside 1992, Scotland

 

Burn O'Vat waterfall Deeside 2009

 

The Vat

 

Water flowing round rocks

 

Strumpshaw fen

 

Reedbed Walton Lake, Milton Keynes

 

Reedbed Walton Lake, Milton Keynes

 

Reedbed Walton Lake, Milton Keynes

 

Reeds , Hickling Broad, Norfolk

 

Phragmites australis Common Reed

 



 



 

Reedbed brown in winter, Titchwell, Norfolk

 

Cut reeds in bundles

 

Strumshaw Fen

 

Strumshaw Fen

 

Snow on frozen lakes Summer Leys

 

Sheepleas gravel pits nature reserve

 

Summer Leys nature reserve

 

Thompson common and pingos

 

Typha latifolia Bulrush

 

Walton Lake boardwalk

 

Wetland centre London

 

Wetland centre London

 

Pools behind saltmarsh Ynys-hir

 

Pools behind saltmarsh Ynys-hir

 

drought affected reservoir, Hawswater, Lake District

 

Cracked mud during drought, Hawswater reservoir, Lake District

 

Seedlings in cracked mud, Hawswater reservoir, Lake District

 

Swamp near Horsham with luxuriant water plants

 

Bowder stone

 

Cheddar gorge

 

Limestone pavement Gait Barrow

 

Cirrus clouds over Cley marshes

 

Cobwebs on grass and mist, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes

 

Cracked mud, Lyme Regis, Dorset

 

Pebbols on beach, St Margarets bay, Kent

 

Fields farms and villages Swaledale

 

Fields farms and villages Swaledale

 

Transmitter castle hill Sussex

 

Bishop Middleham magnesian limestone quarry which contains characteristic grassland species

 

China clay tip St Austell

 

Coal slagheap with Calluna heather colonising slowly

 

Farms and mine cottages near Reeth Yorkshire

 

Old mine shaft near Reeth Yorkshire

 

Disused tin mines and mine waste Cornwall

 

view south from Rushup edge with smoking chimney and aerial perspective, Peak District

 

Walkers, cement works, Castleton, Peak District

 

Cement works with smoking chimney, Castleton, Peak District

 

Old granite quarry Haytor, Dartmoor

 

Wheal Betsy Old silver mine, Dartmoor, Devon

 

Mundays hill sand Quarry

 

Senecio jacobaea Ragwort

 

Weedy plants, shore line, Willan Lake, Milton Keynes

 

Taraxacum officinale Dandelion

 

Leucanthemum vulgare Ox-eye Daisys

 

Damaged road, severe subsidance, Mam Tor, Peak District

 

Ashness bridge

 

Morrone birkwood and Breamar area strong contrast between plantation and bare hillside

 

Cairn Lochan snow

 

Elan Valley

 

Elan Valley

 

Eroded footpaths on chalk downland, Ivinghoe beacon

 

Wind erosion of sugar limestone soil

 

Erosion on hillside stream cutting into steep hillside

 

Moorland, Peak district

 

Dry stone wall, Thurlspot, Lake District

 

Above cloud sea from Helvellyn, Lake District

 

Snowy Helvellyn towards Striding Edge, Lake District

 

Snowy Helvellyn towards Striding Edge, Lake District

 

Snowy Langdale pikes, Lake District

 

Borrowdale valley

 

Wasdale evening

 

High Stile mountain with Buttermere foreground

 

Sheep fold, Fairfield, Lake District

 

Cairngorm mountain railway and ski fences

 

Hillside dramatic lighting Hawswater, Lake District

 

Hillside dramatic lighting Hawswater, Lake District

 

Sallow trees on hillside near Tyndrum, Scotland

 

Limestone pavement and snow Ribblehead

 

Millstone grid and heather on mountain Peak District

 

Snowdon horseshoe, Llynnau Mymbyr, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Ridge towards Ben Nevis, Scotland

 

Mountains above Glencoe, Scotland

 

Mountains above Glencoe, Scotland

 

Snowdon above sea of clouds, Wales

 

cliffs in mountain snowdonia

 

looking down to the Fionn Loch from summit of A'Mhaigdean with Beinn a'Chaisgean Mor on the right

 

Gorm Loch Mor from the summit of A'Mhaigdean,\nwith Beinn Dearg Mor and An Teallach behind

 

Liathach mountain, Scotland

 

Crib-Goch ridge from Snowdon north Wales

 

Langdale with snow, Lake District

 

Near Langdale Lake District with snow

 

Scafell pike with snow Lake district

 

Sharp edge ridge in snow, Lake District

 

Ben Lawers

 

Striding edge Lake District

 

Cadair Idris and Llyn Cau

 

Dove dale with mist

 

Wet flush, morrone birkwood, Braemar, Scotland

 

Junipers Upper Tullochgrue, Rothiemurchas, Scotland

 

Croft and autumn colour on birch trees Loch an Eilein

 

Snow covered mountain Beinn Achaladair, Scotland

 

Snow covered mountain Beinn Achaladair, Scotland

 

Beinn Achaladair near Bridge of Orchy with snow

 

Cwm Idwal and devil's kitchen, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Cwm Idwal and Lyn Ogwen, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Cwm Idwal and Lyn Ogwen, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Devil's kitchen Snowdonia, Wales

 

Tryfan mountain Snowdonia, Wales

 

Miller's dale with flooded river Wye from Monsal Head

 

Buttermere lake, Lake District

 

Storm Stannage Edge, Peak District

 

River valley stone bridge and house Upperdale, Peak District

 

Stannage edge, storm, Peak District

 

Dovedale, Peak District

 

Moorland with heather and bracken, Peak District

 

tree near Kinder scout, Peak District

 

Hen Cloud, Peak District

 

Hen Cloud, Peak District

 

Mountain path and Glen Nevis, Scotland

 

View south over mountains from Ben Nevis summit, Scotland

 

View south from Ben Nevis summit, Scotland

 

View south from Ben Nevis summit, Scotland

 

Ice on rocks, Lake District

 

Raised footsteps in snow Cairngorm summit, Scotland

 

Hadrian's wall Haltwhistle

 

Buachaille Etive Mor, Scotland

 

Buachaille Etive Mor, Scotland

 

Buachaille Etive Mor, Scotland

 

View north east from Quirang, Skye, Scotland

 

coastline near Tote, Skye, Scotland

 

Old man of Storr, Skye, Scotland

 

Quirang, Skye, Scotland

 

Ribblehaead viaduct distant and limestone pavement

 

view south from Quirang, Skye, Scotland

 

Sunset from the Roaches, Peak District

 

Heather moorland for grouse, strips, Swaledale

 

Snowdon horseshoe, Llynnau Mymbyr, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Tryfan mountain, snow, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Tryfan mountain, snow, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Tryfan mountain, snow, Snowdonia, Wales

 

Ben Nevis covered in snow Scotland

 

Hillside with spring line and bushes, Longsleddale, Lake District

 

Scrub on hillside. Snowdonia. Wales

 

Moor burning, flames, smoke, Swaledale, Yorkshire

 

Moor burning, flames, smoke, Swaledale, Yorkshire

 

Moor burning, flames, smoke, Swaledale, Yorkshire

 

Moor burning, flames, smoke, Swaledale, Yorkshire

 

Burnt strips heather management for grouse

 

Stream Blencathra, Lake District

 

Pen y fan, Brecon beacons, Wales

 

Pen y fan Brecon Beacons Wales

 

Stanage Edge Peak District

 

Top of Brecon beacons Wales

 

Meall a Bhuachaille and Glen more forest park

 

Great Whin Sill Steel Rigg

 

Hillside

 

Hillside with sharp change in vegetation from moorland to pasture

 

Hillside stream Crummock

 

hillside Thirlmere

 

hillside Thirlmere

 

Ingleborough and snow

 

limestone pavement ribblehead and cumulus clouds

 

Limestone pavement Yorkshire

 

Loch Morlich

 

Mam Tor landslide A625 fallen apart

 

Monsal head and Upperdale

 

Moorland with heather, birch juniper and scots pine

 

Old man of the beacon rock structure

 

Dry stone sheep enclosure Crummock with stormy sky in background.

 

Ski lifts coire cas

 

Nantgwynant valley and rain

 

Stanage Edge

 

Trees on hillside in scree Waswater

 

Tryfan in snow

 

Tryfan in snow

 

Tryfan in snow

 

Tryfan in snow

 



 

Blackwaterfoot and basalt columns Arran Scotland

 

Caravans on unstable cliff edge

 

nr Cerneas Head

 

nr Cerneas Head

 

Great Whin Sill cliffs Dunstanburgh

 

coast path near Careg Wylan

 

coast path near Careg Wylan

 

coast path near Careg Wylan

 

coastline near Craig y Gwbert

 

Durlston head

 

Durlston head lighthouse

 

Gad cliff from Kimmeridge bay

 

Gad cliff from Kimmeridge bay

 

Bass rock with gannets Scotland

 

Beach cliffs Bedruthan steps, Cornwall

 

Coastline near Lands End, Cornwall

 

Sea stacks and cliffs, Duncansby head, Scotland

 

Sea stacks and cliffs, Duncansby head, Scotland

 

Sea stacks and cliffs, Duncansby head, Scotland

 

Sea stacks and cliffs, Duncansby head, Scotland

 

Sea stacks and cliffs, Duncansby head, Scotland

 

Sea stacks and cliffs, Duncansby head, Scotland

 

Giant's causeway, Northern Ireland

 

Giant's causeway, Northern Ireland

 

Giant's causeway, Northern Ireland

 

Giant's causeway, Northern Ireland

 

Kilt rock coastline, Skye, Scotland

 

Kilt rock waterfall, coastline, Skye, Scotland

 

Sunset Worms head, Wales

 

Sea cliffs Bullers of Buchan pink granite

 

Sea cliffs Bullers of Buchan pink granite

 

Stack rocks Green bridge of Wales

 

Nash point gelogical formations 1986, Wales

 

Nash point 2009

 

Nash point with liassic limestone shale and carboniferous sandstone 2013

 

Nash point with nash sands visible offshore

 

Nash point

 

Nash point

 

Nash point

 

Nash point

 

Nash Point south Wales

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash Point

 

Nash point with liassic limestone shale and carboniferous sandstone

 

Nash point with liassic limestone shale and carboniferous sandstone

 

Nash point with liassic limestone shale and carboniferous sandstone

 

Nash point with liassic limestone shale and carboniferous sandstone

 

Wave cut platform hard limestone

 

Wave cut platform hard limestone

 

Wave cut platform hard limestone

 

Wave cut platform hard limestone

 

Wave cut platform hard limestone

 

Great Whin Sill Cullernose point

 

Tarskavaig

 

Scurvygrass beach evening, towards Llyn peninsula, N. Wales

 

Ben Loyal and estuary from Tongue

 

Ben Loyal and estuary from Tongue

 

Ben Loyal and estuary from Tongue

 

Coastline and Ben Loyal, Scotland

 

Distant Cullin mountains from Tokavaig, Skye, Scotland

 

Seaweed on sandy beach with distant Cullins in background Skye Scotland

 

Seashore towards the Cuillins from Ord

 

Seashore towards the Cuillins from Ord

 

Distant Cullin mountains from Tokavaig, Skye, Scotland

 

Rocky shore Ellenabeich

 

Ellenabeich

 

Loch na Dal, Skye, Scotland

 

Pendeen watch coastline, waves, Cornwall

 

Kynance cove

 

Lamlash bay and holy island Arran Scotland

 

St Michael's mount

 

Ynys Gwylan Fawr Island

 

Menai bridge, N. Wales

 

Prawle point

 

Eroding soft sea cliffs Walton on the Naze, Essex

 

Eroding soft sea cliffs Walton on the Naze, Essex

 

Cliffs Walton on the Naze, Essex

 

Red cliffs Orcombe rocks, Devon

 

Dawlish warren

 

Multicoloured cliffs, Alum bay, Isle of Wight

 

Alum bay Eocene beds of soft sands and clays with oxidised iron compunds causing colouration

 

Kimmeridge bay

 

Kimmeridge bay

 

Kimmeridge bay

 

Lines in rock strata Kimmeridge bay

 

Lines in rock strata Kimmeridge bay

 

Nodding donkey oil pump Kimmeridge bay

 

Rock strata Kimmeridge bay

 

Rock formations Craig y Gwbert

 

Rock formations Craig y Gwbert

 

Crumbling cliffs Barton on sea

 

Crumbling cliffs Barton on sea

 

Crumbling cliffs Barton on sea

 

Beadnell shore with rocks

 

Cliff slippage Lyme Regis, Dorset

 

Fossil ammonite, Lyme Regis, Dorset

 

Cliffs and erosion Filey, Yorkshire

 

Grassland on shallow soil Portland bill

 



 

Lulworth cove sunset durdle door

 

Chalk foreshore and concrete sea defences Birchington

 

Cliff top chalk with very thin soil.  Beachy head, Sussex

 

Chalk cliffs seven sisters and cuckmere haven

 

chalk cliffs coastline Cuckmere haven Seven sisters Sussex

 

Chalk cliff with flints, Cuckmere Haven, Sussex

 

Chalk cliffs seven sisters and cuckmere haven

 

Waves, chalk cliffs.  Cuckmere haven, Sussex.

 

Chalk cliffs Cuckmere haven, Sussex

 

Chalk cliff plants, Dover

 

Lulworth cove coastline, Dorset

 

Chalk cliff St Margarets bay, Kent

 

Old Harry rocks chalk cliffs and pinnacles near Swanage

 

Old Harry rocks chalk cliffs and pinnacles near Swanage

 

Old Harry rocks chalk cliffs and pinnacles near Swanage

 

Old Harry rock chalk cliffs and pinnacles near Swanage

 

The needles Isle of Wight almost vertical chalk strata that were heavily folded during Alpine Orogeny

 

The needles Isle of Wight almost vertical chalk strata that were heavily folded during Alpine Orogeny

 

The needles Isle of Wight almost vertical chalk strata that were heavily folded during Alpine Orogeny

 

The needles Isle of Wight almost vertical chalk strata that were heavily folded during Alpine Orogeny

 

Old Nick's Ground and The Pinnacles chalk sea cliffs and stacks near Swanage in Dorset

 

Old Nick's Ground and The Pinnacles chalk sea cliffs and stacks near Swanage in Dorset

 

Old Nick's Ground and The Pinnacles chalk sea cliffs and stacks near Swanage in Dorset

 

Very thin soil profile over chalk

 

Lower chalk over red chalk and carstone at Hunstanton

 

Lower chalk over red chalk and carstone at Hunstanton

 

Lower chalk over red chalk and carstone at Hunstanton

 

Red chalk cliffs Hunstanton

 

Sea covering causeway to Lindisfarne

 

Enteromorpha growing on rocks indicating high nutrient levels or pollution

 

Coastline Cuckmere haven, Sussex

 

Coastline and dunes Invernaver, Scotland

 

Invernaver sand dunes and rock

 

Invernaver sand dunes and rock

 

Seaweed on beach with coastline, Lyme Regis, Dorset

 

Seaweed on beach with coastline, Lyme Regis, Dorset

 

Waves on stormy sea, Brighton, Sussex

 

Waves on stormy sea, Brighton, Sussex

 

Waves on stormy sea, Brighton, Sussex

 

Waves on stormy sea, Brighton, Sussex

 

Waves groynes, Shoreham, Sussex

 

Dramatic wave crashing onto beach

 

sea pebbols chalk coastline needles, Isle of Wight

 

Sand and rocks the Gower, Wales

 

Estuary mud The Wash

 



 

Coastal lagoon

 

Light skimming across cracked mud

 

Eroding saltmarsh and mud

 

Eroding saltmarsh and mud

 

Eroding saltmarsh and mud

 

Eroding saltmarsh and mud

 

Cliffs and erosion Barton on sea Hampshire

 

Sunset over estuary near Caernarfon

 



 



 

Ripples in the sand, low tide.  Exe estuary

 

Ripples in the sand, low tide.  Exe estuary

 

Lugworm burrows, Folkestone, Kent

 

Salicornia glasswort, Dawlish Warren, Devon

 

Sand and posts evening

 

Saltmarsh Walton on the naze, Essex

 

Gully in saltmarsh, Norfolk

 

Saltmarsh Keyhaven

 

Saltmarsh Sunderland point

 

Saltmarsh

 

Saltmarsh

 

Saltmarsh and boats

 

Saltmarsh

 

channel in saltmarsh

 

Saltmarsh Keyhaven

 

Patterns in silty mud against the light

 

Patterns in silty mud against the light

 

Patterns in silty mud with small wooden posts

 

Patterns in silty mud with small wooden posts

 

Patterns in silty mud with small wooden posts

 

Wooden sea defences in front of sand dunes

 

Wooden sea defences in front of sand dunes

 

Wooden sea defences in front of sand dunes

 

Eroding dunes Croyde bay

 

Braunton burrows sand dunes

 

Sands of forvie dunes and estuary

 

Ammophila arenaria Marram

 

Bamburgh castle with sand dunes

 

Dune blowout, Kenfig, S. Wales

 

Dune slack with cottongrass, Kenfig, S. Wales

 

Dunes Sands of Forvie, Scotland

 

Eryngium maritimum Sea holly and sand dunes with dune species

 

Shingle plants, Norfolk

 

Shingle plants, Norfolk

 

Shingle plants, Norfolk

 

Crambe maritima Sea-kale

 

Rubbish on Shore line Thames estuary

 

Frozen sea Thames estuary march 1986

 

Frozen sea, Kent

 

Old fireplace shingle beach Dungeness, Kent

 

Shingle ridges with vegetation Dungeness Kent

 

Dungeness shingle and railway from old lighthouse