#brownsea island

[tainted-pale]

#my photo #house in woods #brownsea island #dorset #nature #dark cottagecore

[dansnaturepictures]

Red Squirrels 2023

#2023 #red squirrel #brownsea island #dorset #dell woods #cairngorms #newborough forest #anglesey #england #scotland #wales #uk #britain #earth #outdoors #europe #nature #mammals #photography #wildlife #happy

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Brownsea Island

Red Squirrel

By Jenny Usherwood

#jenny usherwood #photographer #flickr #red squirrel #brownsea island #animal #mammal #wildlife #rodent #nature

[photographic-archive]

#brownsea island #brownsea #island #Dorset #35mm #film #photography #kodak #disposable camera

[fourstarsandahamster]

hello! i'm back from my brief hiatus. i was on a small island staying in a castle, near Dorset, seeing red squirrels and birds and sika deer, and there was a thunderstorm that literally shook the window panes i thought they were gonna break. i've had my Enid Blyton Character Arc and now i'm back to go absolutely bananas over Max Headroom again

i took some really nice photos, though. i might post some if you want?

#wish i had some fine field glasses like george kirrin though #brownsea island #enid blyton #famous five #five on a treasure island #blytonposting on main

[aigle-suisse]

messy eater par Emma Varley Via Flickr : Well...who doesn't scatter a few crumbs eating nuts?! I've been looking through my archives at the photos of red squirrels on Brownsea Island that I'd never processed. It would be wonderful to go back one day - much as I enjoy watching grey squirrels, the reds are something special!

#squirrel #red squirrel #Brownsea Island #UK #autumn #nut #flickr

[dianaashworth]

Island Sanctuary

We didn’t actually fly in to Brownsea Island in our sea plane. Aerial photograph displayed in NT Visitor Centre We arrived by boat, crossing Poole Harbour which is a large natural inlet on England’s south coast. Brownsea Island sits in the middle and affords unique protection to the species that live there. Arriving at Brownsea quay. This is what we came to see. Red Squirrel at British…

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#Brownsea island #Naturetrek holiday #Poole Harbour #Red squirrels #spoonbills

[jbrasseul]

Solent

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#Île de Wight #Bargate (Southampton) #Brittany Ferries #Brownsea island #Cherbourg #Chichester #Commerce antique de l&039;étain #Cowes #Evacuation de Dunkerque #Haslar marina (Portsmouth) #Horse Sand Fort (Solent) #Jacob Rees-Mogg (ministre) #John Alden #Lakeyard marina Poole #Longfellow #Lymington #Mayflower #Medina river #Naiad Errant #Old Harry Rocks #Osborne house #Phéniciens #Poole #Portsmouth #Solent #Southampton #The Needles #Titanic #Town Quay marina Southampton #Victoria I

[theepilepticblogger]

Our summer holiday bucket list

What do we have planned for the summer holidays? I let my 8 year old take control of the plans... #windsorCastle #BrownseaIsland #SchoolsOutForSummer

This year Shaniah has come come up with a Summer Bucket List, I think it’s such a great idea as we now have something to refer to during the days where originally we don’t have any plans for. Photo by Sonya Livshits surprisingly, she hasn’t gone for really adventurous things that I often assume she would want to do during the holidays and that really eased my mum guilt. Being on the 10 week…

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#blog #blogging #Brownsea island #children #family #family time #family. #Life #lifestyle #Summer holiday #Windsor castle #Woolacombe bay #Woolacombe vay

[goffjames]

Spotlight Art - Woodland Water, Brownsea Island 2 - Painting of the Day by David Wiseman

Painting Attribution © David Wiseman, Woodland Water, Brownsea Island 2, 2018 Source Attribution https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Woodland-Water-Brownsea-Island-2/312810/4359214/view View more works from the Spotlight Art Gallery Thank you for your visit and sharing your time with me Happy Looking at Art Day My Friend goffjamesart.wordpress.com Art Music Photography Poetry Quotation

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#Art #Art Music Photography Poetry Quotations #Artist #David Wiseman #Goff James Art Music Photography Poetry Quotations #goffjamesart #Painting #Woodland Water Brownsea Island 2

[ducktoonsfanart]

Junior Woodchucks and Chickadees - Kids scouts group - Duckverse

This is also my gift to my friend from Instagram and Deviantart, but I also drew this for Scouts Day, which is celebrated on February 22nd. Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, was born on that day in 1857, who was also the founder of scouts (the first scout camp was Brownsea Island Scout camp) in 1907. On the same day, his wife Olave Baden-Powell was born, but in 1889, she too was credited with founding the Girl Scouts, just as Robert Baden-Powell was credited with founding the Boy Scouts. While the whole world celebrates the Scout Day on February 22, in America it is celebrated on February 8. Yes, those scout groups of either boys or girls help to improve their knowledge and skills and to get along better in nature and not be at home all the time in a closed space. Those scouting organizations are still active today.

Yes, I drew Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie together as the Junior Woodchucks, in which they are much more disciplined than before, and there is Gyro's nephew, Newton who is also a member of the Junior Woodchucks. There is also Sonny Seagull (Garvey Gull), who, although not a member of the Junior Woodchucks, is still best friends with Donald's nephews, so he is often with them. Unfortunately, he is an orphan. Incidentally, it is also the anniversary of the comic "Operation St. Bernard" published in February 1951 and written and drawn by Carl Barks and that comic was the beginning of Junior Woodchucks. Besides them, there are also Daisy's nieces, April, May and June (version from the Dutch comics), but as the Littlest Chickadees, a girl scout group and dressed in uniform. There is also Bertie McGoose or Grand Mogul, the leader of the Junior Woodchucks, also one of Donald Duck's best friends from childhood. And there are their parents, Aunt Daisy, Uncle Donald and Uncle Gyro Gearloose from Little Helper, watching their kids have fun and socializing while in scout groups. I mostly drew by combining styles from European comics. And yes, Huey holds the Junior Woodchucks Guidebook, which contains all the important information and is a veritable encyclopedia for young curiosities.

I hope you like this drawing and sorry for some mistakes I made. Feel free to like and reblog this, just don't copy or use my same ideas without crediting me! Thank you! And once again, Happy Girl and Boy Scout Day!

#my fanart #world scout day #artists on tumblr #junior woodchucks #duckverse #duck comics #donald duck #huey dewey and louie #gyro gearloose #ducktales #daisy duck #april may and june #newton gearloose #scouts #disney ducks #chickadees #sonny seagull #garvey gull #bertie mcgoose #grand mogul #huey dewey and louie duck #april may and june duck #disney duckverse #boy scouts #girl scouts #duck family #fanart #disney duck comics #cartoons #comics

[tainted-pale]

#my photo #peacock #brownsea island #poole

[dansnaturepictures]

Leap Day; Red Squirrel at Brownsea Island last year, Roe Deer at Lakeside last year and our dearly departed dogs Missy and Ruby jumping into water in the New Forest in 2015.

#red squirrel #roe deer #dogs #photography #outdoors #leap day #leap #england #uk #earth #nature #europe #brownsea island #lakeside country park

[master-john-uk]

Many people are unaware that the beautiful county of Dorset has a large amount of oil reserves, much of which is untapped.

The first oil well in Dorset was at Kimmeridge Bay, bordering the MoD firing ranges at Lulworth. A single "nodding donkey" pump has been extracting oil form this site since 1959, making it the oldest working oil well in the UK. Kimmeridge Bay is part of a privately owned estate and visitors have to pay a toll to enter the area. The impact of the oil well on the local community has been minimal, but in 2018 it was revealed that the oil production plant has been releasing methane into the atmosphere since pumping began.

The oil spill reported this morning stems from the Wytch Farm oil production site on the Isle of Purbeck. The oil field extends under Poole Harbour, Brownsea Island, Sandbanks and south of Bournemouth. It is the largest on-shore oil field in Western Europe and has been operating since 1979. Fortunately this spill appears to be minor and has been contained, although the public are still being advised to stay away from the area, and not to go into the sea.

In December 2019, South West Energy applied for planning permission to drill a new exploratory oil well near Puddletown, not far from my Dorset Farm. The initial planning application was described as being "farm diversification"! There was huge uproar from the local community and a campaign was launched to stop this application from going ahead.

A little over a year later it appeared that Dorset County Council were set to approve this planning application. Personally, I was livid! I had been denied planning permission to erect a single wind-turbine on my farm because of the "visual impact" it would have in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [Hmmm, I accept your decision... but it is acceptable to drill a new oil well, which will almost certainly release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, in order to extract fossil fuels which will have an even more harmful effect on the environment?] I suspected that some very large brown envelopes had exchanged hands!

In 2022, South West Energy withdrew their initial planning application. But this was not the victory campaigners were hoping for. Legal advisors recommended that SWE should submit three separate planning applications to cover exploration, building infrastructure and full production. Permission is more likely to be granted in this three phase approach.

I have received no updates on this issue since April 2022. I will be doing a little deeper research as soon as I have time.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 8.9

48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths. Valens is killed along with over half of his army. 1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete. 1329 – Quilon, the first Indian Christian Diocese, is erected by Pope John XXII; the French-born Jordanus is appointed the first Bishop. 1428 – Sources cite biggest caravan trade between Podvisoki and Republic of Ragusa. Vlachs committed to Ragusan lord Tomo Bunić, that they will with 600 horses deliver 1,500 modius of salt. Delivery was meant for Dobrašin Veseoković, and Vlachs price was half of delivered salt. 1500 – Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503): The Ottomans capture Methoni, Messenia. 1610 – The First Anglo-Powhatan War begins in colonial Virginia. 1810 – Napoleon annexes Westphalia as part of the First French Empire. 1814 – American Indian Wars: The Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia. 1830 – Louis Philippe becomes the king of the French following abdication of Charles X. 1842 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains. 1854 – American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau publishes his memoir Walden. 1855 – Åland War: The Battle of Suomenlinna begins. 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope. 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Big Hole: A small band of Nez Percé Indians clash with the United States Army. 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. 1897 – The first International Congress of Mathematicians is held in Zürich, Switzerland. 1902 – Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1907 – The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England. 1925 – A train robbery takes place in Kakori, near Lucknow, India, by the Indian independence revolutionaries, against British government. 1936 – Summer Olympics: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games. 1942 – World War II: Battle of Savo Island: Allied naval forces protecting their amphibious forces during the initial stages of the Battle of Guadalcanal are surprised and defeated by an Imperial Japanese Navy cruiser force. 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war. 1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. 1945 – The Red Army invades Japanese-occupied Manchuria. 1960 – South Kasai secedes from the Congo. 1965 – Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the only country to date to gain independence unwillingly. 1969 – Tate–LaBianca murders: Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent. 1970 – LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground. 1971 – The Troubles: In Northern Ireland, the British authorities launch Operation Demetrius. The operation involves the mass arrest and internment without trial of individuals suspected of being affiliated with the Irish Republican Army (PIRA). Mass riots follow, and thousands of people flee or are forced out of their homes. 1973 – Mars 7 is launched from the USSR. 1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president. 1991 – The Italian prosecuting magistrate Antonino Scopelliti is murdered by the 'Ndrangheta on behalf of the Sicilian Mafia while preparing the government's case in the final appeal of the Maxi Trial. 1993 – The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership. 1999 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet. 2006 – At least 21 suspected terrorists are arrested in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot that happened in the United Kingdom. The arrests are made in London, Birmingham, and High Wycombe in an overnight operation. 2007 – Air Moorea Flight 1121 crashes after takeoff from Moorea Airport in French Polynesia, killing all 20 people on board. 2013 – Gunmen open fire at a Sunni mosque in the city of Quetta killing at least ten people and injuring 30. 2014 – Michael Brown, an 18-year-old African American male in Ferguson, Missouri, is shot and killed by a Ferguson police officer after reportedly assaulting the officer and attempting to steal his weapon, sparking protests and unrest in the city. 2021 – The Tampere light rail officially started operating.

#Events

[dog-house-riley]

Boy Scouts marching; from an earlier more innocent age.

Robert Baden-Powell was a Lieutenant General in the British Army who had served in India and Africa in the 1880s and 1890s who held the first Scout camp at Brownsea Island in Dorset.

Since his boyhood, he was fond of woodcraft and military scouting, and therefore, as part of soldiers training he showed his men how to survive in the wilderness.  He noticed it taught them to develop independence and to think for themselves, rather than just blindly follow  orders and so towards the end of his military career he wrote the principles of Scouting in his book ‘Scouting for Boys’ which was based on his earlier military experiences, and in so doing started the Scouting movement.

Being in the Scouts was genuinely good preparation for later life because it taught discipline, purpose and respect and some truly useful skills like first aid and survival, using an axe and a compass and lighting fires without the aid of a cigarette lighter

Up to the 1960s, no one questioned the motives of people who gave up their time to be Arkela or Baghera in the Wolf Cubs, Skip or Bosun in the Scouts because these were decent people who gave up their time for the benefit of others - they were just good men and women who volunteered because they had a sense of duty and because they enjoyed doing it.

#scouting