David Beeson
We have been fortunate in having visited this area twice – once via Denver and again via Seattle. If you have the opportunity, go! The USA is easy to explore and booking hotels or AirB&B in advance is possible but not vital.
A few images to catch your imagination as the world may open up soon.











The articles published on the site are numerous – some 90. So, you may have missed one or two!! Perhaps you should see if any of these take your fancy.
INDEX: Oldest articles first – from late 2019.
- Harewood Forest – an introduction to an ancient UK oak woodland
- Along the river valley – the early stages of a crystal-clear chalk stream – River Anton, Hampshire
- Harewood Butterflies – high summer delights
- Bluebells – the iconic English spring bulb
- Heathland – acid lands north of Andover UK. Contrasting ecology.
- God’s Ponds – ancient man-made ponds
- Butterflies and chalk flora
- Holly leaf-miner – an unusual lifestyle
- Mammals
- Old Burgclere – an old chalk quarry, now a mini but rich nature reserve
- Snelsmore Common – acid heathlands with snakes, carnivorous plants and rare birds
- Stockbridge Down – chalk grassland butterflies and more
- Watermeadows – an ancient agricultural technique that still shows traces
- Watership Down – chalk hillside
- Longparish’s River – the amazing River Test
- Fungi
- Odonata 2 Mayflies and dragonflies
- Odonata 1
- February
- December
- Mammal mapping
- Good news
- March
- Lawns
- War! – Primroses v cowslips
- Botany and Geology
- You cannot see the wood for the trees – tree ecology
- Moss and plant life cycles. This article will surprise you.
- Dino-botany – horsetails
- March
- Today in the garden – ecogarden
- Of Dukes and Men – butterflies
- More creepy-crawlies
- Edge of the A303 – road verge botany
- Sidbury Hill 1 – Military ecology
- Was that a Sea Eagle?
- Being a male can be hard work – common blue butterfly
- Secret meadow – damselflies
- Like Southern England 200 Years Ago
- No Cut Lawn in May
- Edge of the A303, 2
- A Wet Meadow
- Damselfly Hunt
- Moths of Harewood
- Insects
- Harewood in Summer
- Wild Gladiolus
- Damsels
- Sampling and Recording Data
- River Test
- Ticks
- Grasses (Most Hated Wildflowers)
- I Poison Myself
- What do Insects Eat
- Children – water Ecology
- Ticks
- Nectar
- Eco-gardening
- Damsels and Dragons
- Plants are Clever, 1
- Early September
- An English Canal
- Dorset Heaths
- Re-introductions
- Dormice 1 (A Brilliant Day)
- Harewood Forest
- Dormice
- Oak Woodland in November
- Inside Plant Stems
- SE USA, Okefenokee Swamp
- Wildlife Encounters
- Photo Essay
- 1st January
- Hibernation (Feeling Sleepy)
- Inside Plant Roots
- Signs of Spring
- Natural Wold in Photographs 1, 2 and 3 (Damsels and Dragons)