Landscape: Trees

Project: Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall was built by the Emperor Hadrian as a defensive fortification in Roman Britain. It was started in AD 122 and was more or less completed within 6 years. The Wall is made up of forts, turrets and milecastles which were manned with Roman troops. There was a milecastle built every Roman mile, and two turrets were built equally spaced on either side of the milecastle. The Wall is roughly 84 miles long, from Wallsend on the east coast to Bowness-on-Solway on the west coast.

These pictures were taken with the Samsung PL50.

(Images are slowly being uploaded)

Turret 26B (Brunton Turret)

Cilurnum Roman Fort

Cilurnum: Main East Gate

Cilurnum: Bath-house Changing Rooms

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Turret 35A

Knag Burn Gateway

Turret 36B

Milecastle 37

Vindolanda Roman Fort

Vindolanda: Latrine

Vindolanda: Mausoleum

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Milecastle 39 (AKA Castle Nick)

Turret 49B

Wildlife: Molluscs

Garden Snail  Helix aspersa

Grove Snail  Cepaea nemoralis

Wildlife: Insects

Hoverfly

Cricket

Landscape: The Farne Islands

The Farnes are a group of islands off the coast of Northumberland, England. They are roughly 3 miles east of the mainland, and consist of about 20 separate islands. The islands are home to many species of bird (including puffins, guillemots, cormorants and terns), but are also frequented by atlantic grey seals (see Mammals post).

Wildlife: Mammals

Atlantic Grey Seal  Halichoerus grypus

These Atlantic Grey Seals were photographed on the Farne Islands, off the

 east coast of England.

European Rabbit  Oryctolagus cuniculus

Wildlife: Reptiles

Slow Worm  Anguis fragilis

Wildlife: Birds

Robin  Erithacus rubecula

Juvenile Blue Tit  Cyanistes caeruleus

House Sparrow  Passer domesticus

Northern Lapwing  Vanellus vanellus

The Lapwing has a small crest on its head which is not visible on this image, sadly.

Greater Spotted Woodpecker  Dendrocopos major

Black-headed Gull  Chroicocephalus ridibundus

Eurasian Coot  Fulica atra

Mute Swan  Cygnus olor

Chaffinch  Fringilla coelebs

Greylag Goose  Anser anser

Atlantic Puffin  Fratercula arctica

Thrush

Starling

Common Eider  Somateria mollissima

This image of Common Eider (a drake and two hens) was taken at the Farne Islands.

Wildlife: Butterflies

Green-veined White  Pieris napi

The green butterfly is the female and the white butterfly is the male.

Peacock  Inachis io

Red Admiral  Vanessa atalanta

Orange-tip  Anthocharis cardamines 

Small Tortoiseshell  Aglais urticae

Speckled Wood  Pararge aegeria