tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48474699032235047582024-03-16T18:52:09.876+00:00Cardiff Naturalists SocietyNews and events for the Cardiff Naturalists SocietyShenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-3753234657087389882023-07-18T10:48:00.001+01:002023-12-28T16:00:48.492+00:00Has Bird Photography become too easy OM-1 vs Morrey Salmons Glass plate camera ?<p> I recently had the pleasure of visitng Skomer to photograph puffins with bird photography expert <a href="https://www.robcottleimages.co.uk/gallery_762895.html" target="_blank">Rob Cottle</a> and the technical experts from <a href="https://explore.omsystem.com/gb/en/" target="_blank">OM System UK</a> where I was kindly loaned their latest flasgship camera the OM-1 </p><p>I was easily able to get some excellent pictures of the puffins as I hope you agree from the small selection of images that follows here. </p><p>One of the key aspects of the day was to try and get pictures of the puffins in flight and the Bird AI features of the OM-1 really did lock in on the eye of the bird and enable you to track and get multiple pictures of the birds</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-1NXwFAk_OaTXHCnhWlGABrfPE-ZHZl1FF5dgMNJgvsyx0tTnCWb3yNAfLj9Pza6u741PMQUAJadP7Xz2nu4SnZ3jhtkEb2zbjiGxiACy7ggNGdU523SmkBrhrLGt6q10fRmvEzSnyUv0UgMvIueZ2-SYQWjEZb6QSxZ-FiLR_rQgqmZE6F7yV0XaTVs/s2000/Skomer%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-1NXwFAk_OaTXHCnhWlGABrfPE-ZHZl1FF5dgMNJgvsyx0tTnCWb3yNAfLj9Pza6u741PMQUAJadP7Xz2nu4SnZ3jhtkEb2zbjiGxiACy7ggNGdU523SmkBrhrLGt6q10fRmvEzSnyUv0UgMvIueZ2-SYQWjEZb6QSxZ-FiLR_rQgqmZE6F7yV0XaTVs/w640-h480/Skomer%2001.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puffin in Flight</td></tr></tbody></table><br />It was equally good at locking on the birds on the ground of course <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfsXDU-iF_dhMq4ULLZMe9iZeHfE1cTmN7qD5JMX7SP5dGOrwAiYXcz6yyrMoxXmSWzggzR5ZSumKKCGcZdWFwWw2027E6XNn34awEHAAnqTcrM6k7tO9pgh5hLplr9ZKrcOcR2VyabQBYvGrM74cRA9TLcajBzOC2FEOyFjLICwLBXgZCZ8Ri6JCizY/s2000/Skomer%2002.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfsXDU-iF_dhMq4ULLZMe9iZeHfE1cTmN7qD5JMX7SP5dGOrwAiYXcz6yyrMoxXmSWzggzR5ZSumKKCGcZdWFwWw2027E6XNn34awEHAAnqTcrM6k7tO9pgh5hLplr9ZKrcOcR2VyabQBYvGrM74cRA9TLcajBzOC2FEOyFjLICwLBXgZCZ8Ri6JCizY/w640-h480/Skomer%2002.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Puffin with Sand Eels</td></tr></tbody></table><div><div><br /></div><div>And dealing with extemes in dark and light in the same picture </div><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD13CEkwM65hW2A7wb2erBdQIpAo-ypSa9xlhlcrSX-3vZDjYfOI3pblvHDC07S6z8qvFs9aYEQhqychiKoQVXczzlPhlDGq8Fboahz2dEBSVWP4ys-rSeb0sIFgxQPVuTH4pKePJbJ6uzMwe-w82qFqlbbSumj2WnzMlcdEE4QXO_OOs0LXATPwKRHA/s2000/Skomer%2003.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFD13CEkwM65hW2A7wb2erBdQIpAo-ypSa9xlhlcrSX-3vZDjYfOI3pblvHDC07S6z8qvFs9aYEQhqychiKoQVXczzlPhlDGq8Fboahz2dEBSVWP4ys-rSeb0sIFgxQPVuTH4pKePJbJ6uzMwe-w82qFqlbbSumj2WnzMlcdEE4QXO_OOs0LXATPwKRHA/w640-h480/Skomer%2003.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Razorbill resting</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--TxWSSwIwUv6zLBqaJ8WcUR98RMX8VTRM_Z6b3IvFF2fyb6b83qNkJvqhkkX1TRBAi9q5ZV90C7WQx8axmSi0KqFvm4JP1MEixrBSvPRfhH4ZMdY-yoThn1zWzg5hWDqYnLGdvTALTxohAWByzdAR0jnhRsfOx6ehHy02zWNGyLkS5zXbpAbgOD5Xt0/s2000/Skomer%2004.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj--TxWSSwIwUv6zLBqaJ8WcUR98RMX8VTRM_Z6b3IvFF2fyb6b83qNkJvqhkkX1TRBAi9q5ZV90C7WQx8axmSi0KqFvm4JP1MEixrBSvPRfhH4ZMdY-yoThn1zWzg5hWDqYnLGdvTALTxohAWByzdAR0jnhRsfOx6ehHy02zWNGyLkS5zXbpAbgOD5Xt0/w480-h640/Skomer%2004.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guillemot keeping an eye on things</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>This got me thinkging about the amount of equipment that I was carrying (and my shoulder did feel the weight of the camera bag by the end of the day) and the number of images that I had taken (over 500 across the 2 cameras I was testing) and how that compared to the incredibly hard work that Morrey Salmon, his photographic partner Geoffrey Ingram and various other family and friends went to to get one or two images at a time (depending on the camera back that they were using) </p><p>Take this for instance it is simply titled GSCI (Geoffrey Ingram) photogrpahing Herring gulls nest 22 June 1911. We have not been able to identify the location as yet, but clearly the Welsh coast or islands because that was the limit of their travels at this time. From the scan of the full negative you can see the safety rope from the cliff top (BTW thatis not approved belaying technique)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvm6VQ3NelUh6xRmZRc0uIafEx-v9AVjXuYQsH_EEXCRhnj0J3bY9nIvTRY93Alp3Ic8N90eAfs2WdE8R5vhzQLkVIk0kcXug9N9MvAgN7j0onLs3nTpSwuq4FnjrjESg4K8PAIKevLkMVRpLkvN2A_wHITeLiOUTUQ_cjVacS2iaArIB5fhFZLp_JRQ8/s2000/Morrey_Salmon%200319_BoxG_19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvm6VQ3NelUh6xRmZRc0uIafEx-v9AVjXuYQsH_EEXCRhnj0J3bY9nIvTRY93Alp3Ic8N90eAfs2WdE8R5vhzQLkVIk0kcXug9N9MvAgN7j0onLs3nTpSwuq4FnjrjESg4K8PAIKevLkMVRpLkvN2A_wHITeLiOUTUQ_cjVacS2iaArIB5fhFZLp_JRQ8/w480-h640/Morrey_Salmon%200319_BoxG_19.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div>And from this cropped in version you can see the size of the camera and tripod and the size of his accessories bag which is about the same size as the camera bag I was carrying <b>three cameras and lenses</b> in for my day out.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHdMvRvHfqzrSfyg1Cx03XcKM-mAnh6GvLLVgUH76uFprkunATq82R0puTrftIFBLZoyUq9M10HaLUiLj4gnrK36jePpSTlSUlyCVb8MDEGX9-23MIDX8ao9o8lHaG4vdhNLhA-jNsUnTVfIqAmDKh8BM9nSarbFB05L90B0c40Rn3kxZuzekPeU-0d4/s2000/Morrey_Salmon%200319_BoxG_19_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibHdMvRvHfqzrSfyg1Cx03XcKM-mAnh6GvLLVgUH76uFprkunATq82R0puTrftIFBLZoyUq9M10HaLUiLj4gnrK36jePpSTlSUlyCVb8MDEGX9-23MIDX8ao9o8lHaG4vdhNLhA-jNsUnTVfIqAmDKh8BM9nSarbFB05L90B0c40Rn3kxZuzekPeU-0d4/w480-h640/Morrey_Salmon%200319_BoxG_19_cr.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div><p>As if climbing down a relatively gentle sloping cliff wasn't eough, Morrey and Geoffrey weren't averse to lugging their camera up a tree to get a picture. This photo by Morrey Slamon shows geoffrey Ingram up a tree to photograph a Spassowhawks nest</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSry4dcrAU8unCbxZuFD19I8TXdSqmEUjX3GQxw4BlIbilWX5XT7C5RUktbKpOb38z52Euoix2MM_bQ7ARSCQ7brJ9fG2_iGSPO1YmMuEpKALqdgYgYzM9OO1CTdCNfBw2Q3aHY-lOmmxNOpiMlFm_uH15sDQMu7vcv1ZAyiq4q1RdaNz4sX7_mfjojgk/s2000/Morrey_Salmon%200291_Box_F_41.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSry4dcrAU8unCbxZuFD19I8TXdSqmEUjX3GQxw4BlIbilWX5XT7C5RUktbKpOb38z52Euoix2MM_bQ7ARSCQ7brJ9fG2_iGSPO1YmMuEpKALqdgYgYzM9OO1CTdCNfBw2Q3aHY-lOmmxNOpiMlFm_uH15sDQMu7vcv1ZAyiq4q1RdaNz4sX7_mfjojgk/w480-h640/Morrey_Salmon%200291_Box_F_41.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><br /><p>Cropping in a little allows you to once again see the scale of the equipment</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtUvO_fiGc5ZN6Meq6t3ze1c1r8TgQRaP6cXkis5UccvintTKnbKm0mZS-TiKZAlWj3Et_C06U3qmpyzKawO2hIZ0qsEJQb7QuTmWxf8OfMu5HFSNjWPZrnhOiiVJuC_bCafQlZGL9_XLQqfgrmArYfPiritVyEMy1GuoP6B4S37F-a30mZSugYJl_Jo/s2000/Morrey_Salmon%200291_Box_F_41_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOtUvO_fiGc5ZN6Meq6t3ze1c1r8TgQRaP6cXkis5UccvintTKnbKm0mZS-TiKZAlWj3Et_C06U3qmpyzKawO2hIZ0qsEJQb7QuTmWxf8OfMu5HFSNjWPZrnhOiiVJuC_bCafQlZGL9_XLQqfgrmArYfPiritVyEMy1GuoP6B4S37F-a30mZSugYJl_Jo/w480-h640/Morrey_Salmon%200291_Box_F_41_cr.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p>And they were not limited to natural obstacles, old buildings were scaled with the same level of skill and amounts of equipment such as this odl mill from St-y-Nyll near cardiff pictures taken in July 1911 whereby you can see some once again non approved modern safety technique</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCgd9QKHkBKYyd2BWz9cFA8fcr97mMUKhX8bFXLYRtmLsaL-TRdrgBsTslCWbgwIIQDBr_tCchM3BosbUYAMmxFESZ1HDtFVzVWydHrFdGMTX1gy4B1OUeA_bZ9quyvJ45Z2Tw3IEgjr6E4pWf0SSi3KTAr_hvXj_diiESfZHsYKBN0HFkACP07LQVZc/s2000/Morrey_Salmon%200333_BoxG_30A(1).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJCgd9QKHkBKYyd2BWz9cFA8fcr97mMUKhX8bFXLYRtmLsaL-TRdrgBsTslCWbgwIIQDBr_tCchM3BosbUYAMmxFESZ1HDtFVzVWydHrFdGMTX1gy4B1OUeA_bZ9quyvJ45Z2Tw3IEgjr6E4pWf0SSi3KTAr_hvXj_diiESfZHsYKBN0HFkACP07LQVZc/w480-h640/Morrey_Salmon%200333_BoxG_30A(1).jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>They clearly both made it as can be seen in this picture and from the fact we know this partnership went on for another 5 years or so</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDCfeiI7AT2PqWbat32RMtssEtRX2_uJSjUQT-1_M1BOMGeC65LXYAKYLYlO5-UjgyVBkQcze20RZ869eb8My02OBu2FF35h_sZCJ1bdMuKSfYa2QuU8zL1UhuaGMZCRPsK4Z9_uS-JJQMlH6eAAHPXWFDrh6IusYmSAyziw52Z-t8t-jMuIVVS9BLs8/s2000/Morrey_Salmon%200334_BoxG_30A(2)_cr.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtDCfeiI7AT2PqWbat32RMtssEtRX2_uJSjUQT-1_M1BOMGeC65LXYAKYLYlO5-UjgyVBkQcze20RZ869eb8My02OBu2FF35h_sZCJ1bdMuKSfYa2QuU8zL1UhuaGMZCRPsK4Z9_uS-JJQMlH6eAAHPXWFDrh6IusYmSAyziw52Z-t8t-jMuIVVS9BLs8/w480-h640/Morrey_Salmon%200334_BoxG_30A(2)_cr.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p>So maybe things have become a lot easier, but we all owe a debt of gratitude to these pioneers who proved that it could be done, and done well as more pictures that we share will no doubt prove. </p><p><br /></p><p> </p></div></div>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-90300554103042673102023-06-19T08:22:00.001+01:002023-06-19T08:22:09.166+01:00The Salmon family visits the archive project<p> The volunteers working on the Morrey Salmon photographic project were honoured last friday (16/Jun/23) to have a visit by Hugh Salmon and his two daughters, Jennifer and Fiona</p><p>We described the process we are doing and Hugh made a short but moving speech about how much the family was feeling honoured by the dedication of all these people putting in their own time to clean and conserve the photographs </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwyggpU3wfZOpVtZ3-m1ipPf5WyOMGeXL5o2xEVfIwhZ1NlRSC5ZnrAhJ-FreVTd6V9vzzGUYkxyb71uw69VE1MVvxm3zLSVX_j5OaWIA6Ii8qtj34_ALjBuc3fD6Nq64us1Nftqc0bpiDLygl_-E4ieOy4Xy_3xSgdaQdwSVyyDFeOYK2Te5SoL2-dJA/s2000/Salmon%20family%20visit%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwyggpU3wfZOpVtZ3-m1ipPf5WyOMGeXL5o2xEVfIwhZ1NlRSC5ZnrAhJ-FreVTd6V9vzzGUYkxyb71uw69VE1MVvxm3zLSVX_j5OaWIA6Ii8qtj34_ALjBuc3fD6Nq64us1Nftqc0bpiDLygl_-E4ieOy4Xy_3xSgdaQdwSVyyDFeOYK2Te5SoL2-dJA/w640-h480/Salmon%20family%20visit%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hugh (seated) with Jennifer and Mike Dean to his left and Jana Horak (NMW) and Fiona to his right </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIDwljGDTFzG6hP30ap2L6aq6g9lCKf9FEBEj1TBoXHh_z_gorsRYoYrfmjX5AVXg6CoRmtn9syUhIubMDVCuQMB6-EUJCCaBcorMzmCD8-QTKmFe9giiyKaL7MKjw0-4_tM7eyug8CWGuh8JCDSd1di4-NpSwj90U-qqCOvs39D3C6mEcgYo559twP8/s2000/Salmon%20family%20visit%204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVIDwljGDTFzG6hP30ap2L6aq6g9lCKf9FEBEj1TBoXHh_z_gorsRYoYrfmjX5AVXg6CoRmtn9syUhIubMDVCuQMB6-EUJCCaBcorMzmCD8-QTKmFe9giiyKaL7MKjw0-4_tM7eyug8CWGuh8JCDSd1di4-NpSwj90U-qqCOvs39D3C6mEcgYo559twP8/w640-h480/Salmon%20family%20visit%204.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hugh, Jennifer and Fiona have the clenaing process described as Julian Carter (NMW) looks on and Julian Carter (CNS) cleans a negative</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlKUpi_HiWJ_z8xnG8h0MDkrM3_YsrOSZ5IHiT2EPNf4OGNNJNHYjkvEesV8TpdbtZyDIW5zS1xBw-VOz64s_sqssc8waQ8wU4wZ2bW9klEvMGFv4czHUdlZaLY5nsXZEa9xDnJnXobVIjB2dzhQENM4xEHP_lO3ro3vwcVGYi04-g1Wyw_Q1esh8FJY/s2000/Salmon%20family%20visit%207.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWlKUpi_HiWJ_z8xnG8h0MDkrM3_YsrOSZ5IHiT2EPNf4OGNNJNHYjkvEesV8TpdbtZyDIW5zS1xBw-VOz64s_sqssc8waQ8wU4wZ2bW9klEvMGFv4czHUdlZaLY5nsXZEa9xDnJnXobVIjB2dzhQENM4xEHP_lO3ro3vwcVGYi04-g1Wyw_Q1esh8FJY/w640-h480/Salmon%20family%20visit%207.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hugh, Jennifer and Fiona with Morrey's picture in the background </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p>As you can see from the pictures, we were hosted on this day by Jana Horak and Julian Carter from the National Museum of Wales. NMW staff have been overseeing us and helping us with all of the work </p>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-1620792207743867682023-04-01T15:43:00.020+01:002023-04-01T15:46:34.656+01:00Morrey Salmon Photographic collection <p>We're up and running fully now with the Morrey Salmon Photographic collection cleaning (and subsequently digitsing). </p><p>Here he is in the 1980s with his third camera </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfHLEBGeTEmR_q4__t-t7WswbY0yOS5tapbfaHc7FPuZByxLSJjHyEOz9Z5PcAL-zUVryIH_VVKDihh5-M9Zd5nFASf5F7UKovYApyPfKmNc_cpEO-mIo2nKifXzGlfLvG3Nfc4qKfx8FLznlTsN3Rn_sm6l_Siwk-CK0aanrpSG59m_D4fjNKTCko/s1020/Morrey%20Salmon%20%20with%20old%20plate%20camera%201981%20bwphoto.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1020" height="482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfHLEBGeTEmR_q4__t-t7WswbY0yOS5tapbfaHc7FPuZByxLSJjHyEOz9Z5PcAL-zUVryIH_VVKDihh5-M9Zd5nFASf5F7UKovYApyPfKmNc_cpEO-mIo2nKifXzGlfLvG3Nfc4qKfx8FLznlTsN3Rn_sm6l_Siwk-CK0aanrpSG59m_D4fjNKTCko/w640-h482/Morrey%20Salmon%20%20with%20old%20plate%20camera%201981%20bwphoto.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Copyright National Museum of Wales used under CNS licence</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>He was recognised as an incredible man notonly in this field but because of his military service in WW1 and WW2. Some of that is noted in his biography </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p>“Col. Morrey Salmon must now be regarded as the father of British bird photography” (Eric Hosking OBE. Bird photographer).</p><p>“He was a legendary figure from way back in the early days of conservation in this country” (Sir Peter Scott CH, CBE, DSC & Bar, FRS, FZS, Founder of the WWT and WWF).</p><p>“He – by quite extraordinary efforts well outside what might be regarded as a norm – made a major contribution to RAF operations in North Africa, the Mediterranean and the Balkans. His dedication and professional competence set a standard which has been reflected in RAF Regiment operations ever since” (Air Vice-Marshall Donald Pocock).</p><p>“I especially valued the leadership he was able to give in Wales in regard to ornithology and conservation” (Max Nicholson, President RSPB).</p><p>“He was a great Naturalist and a great Welshman” (Roger Lovegrove RSPB).</p></blockquote><div><br /></div><p>From his first bird photograph taken in 1909 to his later work we will be looking at it all </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOwEsnU46bHToJzcPkCDXSO_O8JuFW1BuoloO9c0EDa8c0fRwPMH5bQTJHyTY91NjzR2RsQ4eKrZ_BPhH7NR5iKRrF0SOro2VnEd_O01A0sPtNpbKVgIr7TXWauX7ofjRqNjOXfDMz-g8UYegZi8oAOWVz5ilWHMMznubUzJiYYwdNK9BA75zdbir/s2048/lapwing%20-%201909%20-%20Copy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Lapwing by Morrey Salmon copyright National Museum of Wales used under CNS licence" border="0" data-original-height="1424" data-original-width="2048" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMOwEsnU46bHToJzcPkCDXSO_O8JuFW1BuoloO9c0EDa8c0fRwPMH5bQTJHyTY91NjzR2RsQ4eKrZ_BPhH7NR5iKRrF0SOro2VnEd_O01A0sPtNpbKVgIr7TXWauX7ofjRqNjOXfDMz-g8UYegZi8oAOWVz5ilWHMMznubUzJiYYwdNK9BA75zdbir/w640-h446/lapwing%20-%201909%20-%20Copy.jpg" title="Lapwing by Morrey Salmon copyright National Museum of Wales used under CNS licence" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lapwing by Morrey Salmon copyright National Museum of Wales used under CNS licence</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>After the introduction training a couple of weeks ago where Lisa from the National Museum of Wales taught us how to clean glass lantern slides and glass negatives we had our first full session today with about 100 glass negatives cleaned and repackaged into acid free archival envelopes. </p><p>This is a "long haul project" with over 3600 objects currently noted to be dealt with and that doesn't mean just cleaning and repackaging we have to identify the pictures and locations and put information togetether about each one from his diaries and notebooks and other CNS resources so there is a long way to go. </p><p>But we thought you may like to see a few pictures of the current volunteers at work and some of the pictures we are already working on. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwUDBfIeGJLpKrmUYLF2LXXFj4pjf6mbT6jaLjnH6uT--5_L6JKjjIN2_LKW_EGQOuv5ZDaxRcXOQXtVUv9pEwz6KBOZc0CzVShnZ_nupb5Q9aSIUCGzLWGCQ7CFNsXayKq0j8jjAK1Lz6SJTTcgVr8WQ39KZyJKOzZUqpwOpSl0XVdF_hJfLN2v_/s2000/P3100025_Sml.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEwUDBfIeGJLpKrmUYLF2LXXFj4pjf6mbT6jaLjnH6uT--5_L6JKjjIN2_LKW_EGQOuv5ZDaxRcXOQXtVUv9pEwz6KBOZc0CzVShnZ_nupb5Q9aSIUCGzLWGCQ7CFNsXayKq0j8jjAK1Lz6SJTTcgVr8WQ39KZyJKOzZUqpwOpSl0XVdF_hJfLN2v_/w640-h480/P3100025_Sml.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>As you can see from the sparrow on the birdbox some of the pictures are sadly in a bad way, but many more are in almost perfect condition and the quality of the photography given the equipment available is nothing less than amazing. </p><p>There is a lot more of this story to tell so keep watching out for future posts.</p><p><br /></p>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-69978530710422027562022-06-25T19:41:00.001+01:002022-06-25T19:41:20.162+01:00Howardian Bioblitz / survey day<p> We used to call them wildlife surveys, but the "in" term these days seems to be bioblitz </p><p>Anyway when you get a whole load of eyes on the plant and animal life in one location with people of all abilities calling out what they have noticed and a scattering of experts along to help with the trickier identifications you can find a whole load of things and add them to the records for the site </p><p>CNS members recently went to the Howardian Local Nature reserve with the friends of the reserve and spent a valuable few hours looking for and identifying things and we have a nice new species list on our website <a href="https://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/reserves.htm">https://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/reserves.htm</a> to show for it </p><p>The Friends group already have an impressive list on their website, but if you look carefully you can find things on this new list that are not as yet on the howardian site <a href="http://www.howardianlnr.org.uk/">http://www.howardianlnr.org.uk/</a> (we are sure they will update to include them soon, so by the time you read this it could be updated)</p><p>There will be a full write up of the day in the next newsletter, but for now why not take a look at what we found and enjoy these pictures taken by Rob and Linda Nottage </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="665" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1WqyZ9eT90VH8jBX_r5ZQRJqDA10HC98AHCVhNC9xjK2zbBH5DKxlrdFZm-lWJ5aTZftWCYbO0q-7AwZyiplkB_1RAhqBDGA6u-RK5S3wKbU9eiz4PIZ701N1D-lI_QdjF_6lDH2zyyltVSXrzAuCc17eC2oYUuRv64cTy8VivqccRSY2QlGD1oin/w400-h311/5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Oedemera nobilis </i>Thick Legged Flower Beetle</td></tr></tbody></table></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs-hxrzE7tpsAxcqruA6TdXkr5Xzma4Wc4vadtPs2ce8cgK7RM7rAspd96Z9UOlNziiyTqFk7mR8Wc-MP_7vtKEfMBjdcFfU8S9XM9LlQkIpsuY45bwE5q2i_0bQin08BCKOvRo2CbafHVh17_OnbR2WAq2fYt7VGJ2WtHYUVo-uYQXVMYcsiqPYUx/s646/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="514" data-original-width="646" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs-hxrzE7tpsAxcqruA6TdXkr5Xzma4Wc4vadtPs2ce8cgK7RM7rAspd96Z9UOlNziiyTqFk7mR8Wc-MP_7vtKEfMBjdcFfU8S9XM9LlQkIpsuY45bwE5q2i_0bQin08BCKOvRo2CbafHVh17_OnbR2WAq2fYt7VGJ2WtHYUVo-uYQXVMYcsiqPYUx/w400-h319/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Arge cyanocrocea</i> Bramble sawfly</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-76068160808099506802022-02-15T11:57:00.005+00:002022-02-15T13:33:33.284+00:002021 and 2022 Newsletter update2021 and 2022 (to date) Newsletters are now being posted to our website. <div><br /></div><div>Due to a technical hitch the 2021 newsletters were delayed, but issues 121, 122 & 123 are now available along with 124 for Jan 2022</div><div><br /></div><div>Many thanks to our excellent editor Stephen Nottingham and all the authors and photographers for giving us these fascinating articles to read and these wonderful pictures to look at <br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRcpaL4f2hoidtN4cua-ZWDcv4dfPjAmEWM1NyNNdwrahnehfe_8G7z9kIIPfEiec0eNi6hRpBhwjEbucpXYYJiqu2OyfXqGrWIKuwgtH37cvJhHI_QhKI5Lz1ak5MB9K-ebVN5F3KIOCWY-IAtHm6HbRZpiiApj32fyXUB43iCmav6o3zzoQGXb3n=s880" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="599" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRcpaL4f2hoidtN4cua-ZWDcv4dfPjAmEWM1NyNNdwrahnehfe_8G7z9kIIPfEiec0eNi6hRpBhwjEbucpXYYJiqu2OyfXqGrWIKuwgtH37cvJhHI_QhKI5Lz1ak5MB9K-ebVN5F3KIOCWY-IAtHm6HbRZpiiApj32fyXUB43iCmav6o3zzoQGXb3n=w437-h640" width="437" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-16863791854346742402021-07-11T17:11:00.007+01:002023-05-08T10:41:54.399+01:00Gill Barters Fields<p> Many members may not be aware, but some years ago our very own Gill Barter purchased a number of fields near Pencoed in order to ensure that they were conserved in line with their SSSI status. </p><p>Yesterday members of the society were treated to a guided tour of the highlights of the fields with Gill acting as tour guide </p><p>We had a wonderful trip and here are some of the highlights with identifications from me. if any of them are incorrect please leave a comment or send a message via the contact us form</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-CQW_cpb7-mvQVLUTXl4cw2AkTnwk4s6jhtt_l4FtgyFKh6Z_AG090gbFecE9roSs0ZWSZy70_isgsSiEljW8fl7C-TfgQWetF-qanBu1Xqov_HQzK2knZD2ko9Kr-Ahxd3rPh4BfGo/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00005.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU-CQW_cpb7-mvQVLUTXl4cw2AkTnwk4s6jhtt_l4FtgyFKh6Z_AG090gbFecE9roSs0ZWSZy70_isgsSiEljW8fl7C-TfgQWetF-qanBu1Xqov_HQzK2knZD2ko9Kr-Ahxd3rPh4BfGo/w640-h480/Gill+Barters+Fields_00005.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of a field, Whorled Caraway <i>Carum verticillatum</i>, Sedges etc.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkkyFonmI0Rvh0HjGpAEpQwJpw4DLweLPvBo28z_p8J960dHYH_VcTtQ9iLLVrMu_OLoMJeZNpOZtw12sW6YgPVnjU1yjcN3gUrCksKFSB5D4i7pejeQkLF5H8wgRLwT2G5VT51nhc0g/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00007.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkkyFonmI0Rvh0HjGpAEpQwJpw4DLweLPvBo28z_p8J960dHYH_VcTtQ9iLLVrMu_OLoMJeZNpOZtw12sW6YgPVnjU1yjcN3gUrCksKFSB5D4i7pejeQkLF5H8wgRLwT2G5VT51nhc0g/w480-h640/Gill+Barters+Fields_00007.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Green Grasshopper <i>Omocestus viridulus</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4EM69fQwcY1nAxovSiH9hmV28twZU6mAOuImmfqK6QCt0kM3xG2OU8sVOjlCHxOlioNVws_s1zNkgiAY6OHOnMfoQzIVKNymm9GKIzSSRJ9kAu74Qd89vwvI_BsL0IPI_dFuVpzxdFaY/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00010.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4EM69fQwcY1nAxovSiH9hmV28twZU6mAOuImmfqK6QCt0kM3xG2OU8sVOjlCHxOlioNVws_s1zNkgiAY6OHOnMfoQzIVKNymm9GKIzSSRJ9kAu74Qd89vwvI_BsL0IPI_dFuVpzxdFaY/w480-h640/Gill+Barters+Fields_00010.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Saw-wort <i>Serratula tinctoria</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqXeiloabfJvZUu5cm-RkpJoHvEpO82rVr3FVY6ERBqi_XfrxkgsOGTqdOQ74b8Vvaydx2GqPj8HfkJ3exgEQ7t_PecmyIVQFrn0lraKopO6CbkNbPIpwsFC804O2I1lzR-X2lh8a3sw/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00011.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqXeiloabfJvZUu5cm-RkpJoHvEpO82rVr3FVY6ERBqi_XfrxkgsOGTqdOQ74b8Vvaydx2GqPj8HfkJ3exgEQ7t_PecmyIVQFrn0lraKopO6CbkNbPIpwsFC804O2I1lzR-X2lh8a3sw/w480-h640/Gill+Barters+Fields_00011.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red Sword-grass, <i>Xylena vetusta </i>Catterpillar</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcSpEnqf-jb1V9rX8ka12ZWeC_ldYHs_jb_ycAKIBjRbVoSiYxkUl9Q0scnICc4VJJo9b0Z2z4cJbQ7XOfNEwUSSuFsd1foQINgbs25LhYaJJhyH6GTdV1IZX3u6NkESqcqdFMzV1e9PM/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0U6fCTfXpbng0iq6VB7_LIqHGWRKdHXNQDlUHZij-f9j0uLmrtmh2v_kSnIsLgIUeFU4pOezpZzoUTH64MMr09h4az9I24QhqeA7yDTZe3i0SsBbEGWk_bNa6Y7SbMObydf9oJ4r9Ek/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00013.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0U6fCTfXpbng0iq6VB7_LIqHGWRKdHXNQDlUHZij-f9j0uLmrtmh2v_kSnIsLgIUeFU4pOezpZzoUTH64MMr09h4az9I24QhqeA7yDTZe3i0SsBbEGWk_bNa6Y7SbMObydf9oJ4r9Ek/w480-h640/Gill+Barters+Fields_00013.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nuthatch <i>Sitta europaea</i> nesting hole</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9GysuZkaEwkh09UYbhz-dpLsEtzhsjf5fIn9apiADhxpW2UkLGVDoKd1pPWFD2gaSatMb9xBcQO6SwKtbiS3o8YfxyWQ9cclUAfffQWQtj7IQVWrN8pKVhLwovSTlUjilxBuU3Y9XNI/s1600/Gill+Barters+Fields_00014.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT9GysuZkaEwkh09UYbhz-dpLsEtzhsjf5fIn9apiADhxpW2UkLGVDoKd1pPWFD2gaSatMb9xBcQO6SwKtbiS3o8YfxyWQ9cclUAfffQWQtj7IQVWrN8pKVhLwovSTlUjilxBuU3Y9XNI/w640-h480/Gill+Barters+Fields_00014.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Common Sundew <i>Drosera rotundifolia</i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-24068503789074810202021-04-14T16:13:00.002+01:002021-08-02T17:01:15.706+01:00Eleanor Vachell will be featured on this Thursday's episode of The Great British Menu<p> We've had a message from the family of <a href="https://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-03.htm" target="_blank">Eleanor Vachell</a> our 64th and first female President </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/graphics/EV5a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="392" src="https://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/graphics/EV5a.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">Dear all</p><p style="text-align: left;">I thought that you might be interested to know that Eleanor Vachell will be featured on this Thursday's episode of The Great British Menu. Apparently Eleanor was the inspiration for one of the Chefs, Ali Borer. No idea is what capacity but I thought people might be interested. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Here is the link:</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000v4gv/great-british-menu-series-16-11-wales-mains-and-dessert">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000v4gv/great-british-menu-series-16-11-wales-mains-and-dessert</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>So how does a famous botanist inspire a famous chef? You will need to watch to find out. </div><div><br /></div><div>Ali Borer is now head chef of Nutbourne Restaurant in London.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-31770714741016356432020-09-30T09:04:00.005+01:002020-09-30T09:04:44.791+01:00From our friends at the Ruperra Castle Preservation Trust<p> RUPERRA CASTLE PRESERVATION TRUST VIRTUAL OPEN DOORS EVENT SEPTEMBER 2020</p><p>The link below will take you to our approximately 55 minute virtual Open Doors event for 2020 instead of our usual walk around the edge of the Ruperra Castle estate as part of Cadw's Open Doors festival.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="361" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/T_AHCBpS3OM" width="472" youtube-src-id="T_AHCBpS3OM"></iframe></div><br /><p>RCPT was fortunate to be awarded a grant from the National Lottery to celebrate their 25th anniversary this year together with a donation from the Cooperative Society Community Fund to help local people during the Covid crisis. </p><p>We are grateful to both of them for permission to use these funds to commission a local film-maker to make this video for us. We hope that RCPT members, local people in Caerphilly and those from further afield will enjoy it.</p><div><br /></div>Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-43428040593000758672020-06-18T15:16:00.004+01:002020-06-18T15:20:14.438+01:00No Mow May .. or should it now be... Just leave it June!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We had an email passed on from Plantlife regarding their "No Mow May" tagline ...<br />
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<span style="color: #331c54; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Our road verge campaign hit the headlines in April and May with fantastic coverage on this spring's flower-filled verges. The potential benefit of lockdown keeping the mowers at bay was covered by BBC News, The Times, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Independent to name but a few...</span></span><span style="color: #331c54; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #331c54; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">You might’ve also spotted BBC Countryfile Magazine’s guide to road verges and writer Matt Gaw penned a lovely article for The i newspaper on taking a walk on the roadside and the wonderful wildlife you might find along the way. Our campaign was highlighted in international news by CBS in the US, and in '5 good news stories for the planet' by video-journalists at Brut. media.</span></span><span style="color: #331c54; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #331c54; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Closer to home, this time of year can make it clear which councils are taking progressive steps by leaving verges wild flowers to bloom and set seed, and which ones could do more for nature by implementing our best practice management guidelines. Social media has been abuzz with images of gorgeous verges allowed to flower - and an abundance of orchids! - alongside some instances of wild flowers razed to the ground as the mowers start to return.</span></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #331c54; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">This stark contrast was highlighted in <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52708577" target="_blank">a recent BBC Wales article</a>, however it’s been heartening to see councils such as Ceredigion and Denbighshire taking more sensitive approaches to managing verges.</span></span></blockquote>
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Personally I have been enjoying the wildflowers in the local lanes and have enjoyed the progression that I have seen through all this nice weather (Ok except today) and I agree wholeheartedly that a bit less mowing is making the world a much nicer place and is of course a much better situation for wildlife. it will be interesting to see if there are longer term benefits from mowing less and I hope we can persuade our local councils to keep to this minimal mowing (only for safety and "do it once and clear the cuttings") approach<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-89900041529757778882019-10-31T10:56:00.001+00:002023-05-08T10:42:17.294+01:00Have any members got a picture of a Male Green Huntsman Spider ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When reading the excellent article on <b>Poisonous Plants: Wenvoe Field Trip 29 June 2019</b> by Bruce McDonald in <a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/pdf/newsletters/cnsnewsletter117.pdf" target="_blank">Newsletter 117</a> Eirian Edwards noted that a “stock picture” had been used to illustrate the article and wondered if that was because no pictures were available to the author or editor from members.<br />
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That was something she felt that she could easily remedy as she had some pictures on file from visiting Rhodes in April 2017<br />
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Bruce Talked in that article about the link with Harry Potter and the uses that Mandrake had been put to, in my brief further reading I was interested to read how much of a confusion there was in the identification of species (or not depending on your opinion) in this genus.<br />
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In one treatment, Mandragora autumnalis is the main species of Mandragora found all around the Mediterranean, in Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, southern Portugal, southern Spain, southern Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, and Jordan, being absent in northern Italy and a region on the coast of former Yugoslavia, where it is replaced by M. officinarum. In another treatment, Mandragora autumnalis is native only to the Levant (from Syria south to Israel), the species found elsewhere around the Mediterranean being M. officinarum.<br />
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Anyway back to the pictures… In this set you see the following<br />
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<b>An overall view of the plant</b><br />
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This then left another mystery to be solved and a quick search on the internet using the term "Green Spider on Mandrake" turned up some images that looked exactly the same and then other pages on the internet provided the following information<br />
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Micrommata virescens, common name green huntsman spider, is a species of huntsman spiders belonging to the family Sparassidae<br />
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The cephalothorax and the long legs of the females are bright green, with a lighter green abdomen showing a darker green median stripe. The eight eyes are arranged in two rows and surrounded by white hairs.<br />
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Males are dark green-olive and have a narrower abdomen, with red sides and a red to red-brown median stripe bordered yellow.<br />
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Young spiders have a yellow-brown cephalothorax, with dark marginal and median stripes. Only after the last molting in the following spring the juveniles assume the typical coloration of the adults.<br />
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So from this I think we can be sure that Eirian spotted and recorded a female<br />
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So what does the male look like… for now we will have to revert to using a “stock picture” which is kindly provided by Luc Viatour / <a href="https://lucnix.be/">https://Lucnix.be</a> and used here under <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/" target="_blank">CC licence </a><br />
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So … <b>Have any members got a picture of a Male Green Huntsman Spider ?</b><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">if you have we would love to see and with your permission share the pictures</span><br />
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Useful links and references<br />
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<a href="https://www.uksafari.com/green_huntsman_spiders.htm">https://www.uksafari.com/green_huntsman_spiders.htm</a><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrommata_virescens">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrommata_virescens</a><br />
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Ungricht, Stefan; Knapp, Sandra & Press, John R. (1998). "A revision of the genus Mandragora (Solanaceae)". Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Botany Series. 28 (1): 17–40. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofnatura28natulond#page/17/mode/1up">https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofnatura28natulond#page/17/mode/1up</a><br />
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We are adding to our programme this event for Sunday 19 January 2020<br />
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Cosmeston’s two lakes attract plenty of waterbirds, and the surrounding bushes, reedbeds and meadows support a variety of other birds. Afterwards we may go on to a different site depending on the weather and other birding opportunities, such as last January’s Black-necked Grebe in Cardiff Bay. Mostly we will be on firm level paths.There is a café (with toilets), or bring a packed lunch.<br />
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This is a joint meeting with the Cardiff Group of the Wildlife Trust of South and West Wales, led by Linda and Rob Nottage<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-77384675703099694762019-10-15T10:07:00.000+01:002019-10-15T10:07:30.680+01:00T-shirts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As our latest newsletter (117) has been with members for a few weeks now we are also now making it available online<br />
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This edition includes articles about the following: -<br />
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<li>Poisonous Plants: Wenvoe Field Trip</li>
<li>The Colonel Morrey Salmon Project</li>
<li>Howardian Local Nature Reserve</li>
<li>Gigrin Farm Red Kite Feeding Centre</li>
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Howardian Nature reserve is definitely looking good as you can see from the picture below<br />
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As an update the lecture that was still to be arranged when the Newsletter went to print has been arranged and there is an update on the <a href="https://cardiffnaturalists.blogspot.com/p/programme.html" target="_blank">Programme page</a><br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-54550332412415290152019-09-24T16:55:00.003+01:002019-09-24T16:55:59.433+01:00Professor Anthony Campbell 120th President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Congratulations to Professor Anthony Campbell on becoming the 120th President of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, after a vote at our AGM last night (wearing the presidential medal in photo).</div>
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He has worked extensively with bioluminescence, animals that produce light, and on how calcium regulates processes inside cells</div>
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Tony believes passionately about communicating science to the public, and in exciting pupils and students about natural history and cutting edge science. This led him to found the Darwin Centre (<a href="http://www.darwincentre.com/">www.darwincentre.com</a>) in 1993</div>
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The Society is proud to have him as it's new President</div>
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You can read more about Tony at <a href="https://theyoungdarwinian.com/anthony-campbell-ma-phd-fls-flsw/">https://theyoungdarwinian.com/anthony-campbell-ma-phd-fls-flsw/</a> </div>
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-67345467128671797972019-06-03T22:06:00.000+01:002023-05-08T10:42:42.741+01:00Cosmeston Lakes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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if you were not on the walk you have just missed a lovely evening looking around the Cosmeston Lakes Country Park with Sharon Mullins</div>
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And the Absolutely fabulous new carved oak nature themed statue that is in the area<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-51876213257900093122019-03-29T10:40:00.001+00:002023-05-08T10:42:54.070+01:00Oonah Lessware wins student bursary award for 2019<br />
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We congratulate Oonah Lessware for winning this year's CNS Student Bursary, awarded in memory of Prof Ursula Henriques and Dr Mary Gillham.<br />
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Oonah received her award at the meeting on 11 March 2019 from Mike Dean (photo by Andy Kendall). She delivered a fascinating talk about her fieldwork project looking at the responses of coral reef fish to coral damage.<br />
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Oonah Lessware writes:<br />
"An assessment of coral reef fish assemblages and how
they may shift towards or away from specialism in response to coral damage,
bleaching or death.<br />
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The study aimed to gauge the effects that global climate
change and therefore coral reef bleaching and mortality will have on reef fish
assemblages. The goal was to determine whether the reef fish assemblages will
shift towards becoming more generalist or specialist in response to coral
damage or death. The reefs in this study were within the Tunku Abdul Rahman
Marine park in Sabah Borneo. Species richness and abundance data was collected
for both generalist and specialist fish species and areas of varying coral
damage and death were sampled. The general findings showed that both generalist
and specialist species significantly decreased in abundance and species
richness as the amount of coral damage increased."<br />
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Photo after a beach clean in the marine park by Oonah Lessware.Stephen Nottinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13631785676516057114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-33911282039498817062018-11-07T09:05:00.004+00:002023-05-08T13:29:26.789+01:00Members in His Majesties Forces<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Here is the record of the members of the Society who served as at 1915 when volume XLVIII of the transactions was published. Sadly we did not continue this tradition </div>
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You nay like to read about the service of some of our members who became presidents of the Society and are on our 150th anniversary website<br />
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<a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-42.htm" target="_blank"><b>Dr Alfred Sheen</b></a> C.B.E., M.S., F.R.C.S., (1869-1945) 39th President<br />
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<a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-53.htm" target="_blank"><b>Geoffrey C.S.Ingram</b></a> (1883-1971) 53rd President<br />
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<b><a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-59.htm" target="_blank">Archibald Henry Lee</a> </b>O.B.E., M.C., M.A. (1890-1970) 59th President<br />
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<a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-05.htm" target="_blank"><b>Col Morrey Salmon</b></a> CBE, MC, DL, DSc, (1890-1985) 72nd President<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-20272306731970672332018-07-20T21:19:00.000+01:002018-07-20T21:20:25.235+01:00Outstanding and Famous Speakers of the last 150 years<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As the 150th Anniversary year comes closer to drawing to a close, the weather has been so wonderful that it has been hard to find time to sit behind a computer and do more work on the pictures we took from the Society archives.<br />
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However I have managed to place another page into the 150th Anniversary pages on the website regarding <a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-lectures.htm" target="_blank">Outstanding and Famous Speakers of the last 150 years</a> (well as far as 1922) which us where I have got to for now.<br />
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From Fridtjof Nansen ...<br />
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Through Winston Churchill...<br />
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To George Mallory ...<br />
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There have been some incredibly well known names who have spoken to the Society and to the public on behalf of the Society.<br />
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It was in this spirit that we put on the wonderfully successful Iolo Williams lecture at the start of our 150th anniversary year.<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-54546346694683407512018-07-02T09:25:00.002+01:002023-05-08T10:53:15.521+01:00Insole Court Tree Walk: Saturday, 9th June<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Heritage Day, Cardiff Naturalists’ Society agreed to organise a tree walk which
was led by Chris Powell, ex-Cardiff City Parks department and currently leading
walks in Dyffryn Gardens. There is only limited information on the trees at
Insole; a list of champion trees on the Cardiff City website and another list
derived from a walk around the garden in 1902 with Tony Titchen. The notes from
Tony’s walk were helpful although inevitably in the intervening 16 years some
trees had disappeared and there has been some new plantings of, principally,
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Chris kindly passed on his own
notes that were the basis for this tour and what follows is essentially what
was covered on his perambulation. Fine weather was on offer and a large group of
31 assembled outside the Visitor Centre to look at the trees. With some of the
paths narrow and winding a group of around a dozen would have been ideal and
with over 30 it was inevitable that people at the back did not always hear what
was said.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It seems that a self-guided
tree trail would be a good idea and we hope that the Society will be able to
design and publish one as part of its decades long involvement with Insole.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The house was acquired in 1856/7
by James Harvey Insole (1821-1901) who had extensive coal and shipping
interests. The garden developed initially in 1861 by local nurseryman William
Treseder and then Insole’s daughter Violet added a national collection of
Irises and a large rockery containing an extensive collection of alpines which
has since disappeared. A horse Chestnut avenue was planted in 1882. Cardiff
Council then acquired the house in 1932 by compulsory purchase for the creation
of Western Avenue and new housing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Today there is a large collection
of interesting trees some of which are Glamorgan and Welsh National Champions.
The mid Victorian period was a time of great interest in gardening spurred on
by the plant hunting expeditions that were introducing new plants from North
and South America , Asia and in particular China. Plant hunters like George
Forrest introduced Rhododendrons from the Himalayas and Ernest Wilson added new
species from China. The fashion for planting exotics was spurred on by the new
found wealth acquired as a result of the Industrial Revolution and there was
considerable competition to outdo neighbouring estates such as Bute Park,
Dyffryn Gardens and the Plymouth estate in St Fagans. Insole Court includes a
good range of New Zealand plants as well as others from the northern hemisphere
which were able to thrive in this area of Wales</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cornus nuttallii </b>Pacific Dogwood W N America introduced 1835. Large
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sequioa sempervirens </b>(Californian Redwood)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>introduced by Archibald Menzies in 1794<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>can reach over 100m in Californian forests soft and spongy bark
which is fire resistant. Slightly drooping branches. Grow on seaward side of
coastal mountain ranges. Tallest tree in Devon in 1970 reached 40m <span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>but are often struck by lightning in Britain.
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sequoiadendron giganteum </b>Wellingtonia having the widest in girth
(24m) grows in the western slopes of Sierra Nevada in California. Said to be
the oldest living thing in the world. 3000 years plus. Reddish brown bark
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pinus nigra</b> (Austrian pine) has roughish greyish brown bark
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eriobotrya japonica</b> (Loquat) from Japan. (Wales Champion 2017).
Large shrub or small tree growing 6-10 m with blackish bark cracked with age. Leaves
deeply veined and brown and woolly on underside. The flowers are white hawthorn
like followed by yellow pear shaped fruit which ripen the following summer. It
seldom fruits in Britain although its large evergreen leaves make for an exotic
effect. (Rosaceae)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2 Magnolia grandifloras </b>from SE America usually grown against a
south wall on houses. The large white flowers are scented and appear in July
and August.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Pinus nigra var. caramanica</b> Crimea Pine from West Asia broad
conical habit more compact habit than Pinus nigra introduced in 1798. Thrives
in chalky soil. Trunk divides into several stems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gleditsia triacanthos </b>Honey Locust E United states introduced in
1700. Pinnate leaves resembling mimosas flowers greenish followed by flattened
shining brown seed pods.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gingkgo biloba </b>Maidenhair tree ancestors found in Britain 160
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Magnolia grandiflora </b>Bull Bay Magnolia – S E United States often grown
against south facing walls. Large creamy white flowers produced throughout
summer and able to be smelt through open windows. Lime tolerant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Myrtus luma syn M. apiculata. </b>Chilean
Myrtle<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>Wales Champion in 2005 with
orange brown bark peeling white. Dark green fragrant leaves with white single
flowers appearing in late summer and early autumn. Naturalised in parts of
southern Ireland, the red and black fruits are edible and sweet.</span></div>
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Zealand. Leaves pendulous and with 20-40 leaflets In May yellow flowers appear
in clusters followed by winged seed pods. Rare Wales Champion 12m tall in 2017.
Introduced in 1772.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">X Cupressocyparis leylandii </b>- Leyland
Cypress. Fast growing tree bigeneric hybrid slightly drooping sprays. First
originated from Leighton Hall in Montgomeryshire in 1888 and 1911. Wales
Champion 2017 next to Gingko.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cedrus libani</b> (Glamorgan Champion) from Asia Minor and Levant grows
35-40 m with flattened tops and deeply cracked stems. Level branches as opposed
to Cedrus atlantica with upturned branches and Cedrus deodara with pendulous
tips to branches. Tree was declared a Glamorgan Champion in 2005</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Liquidamber styraciflua - </b>Sweet Gum
from Eastern N America and Nicaragua - a large tree with deeply lobed alternate
leaves and a corky bark. Very good Autumn Colour with red yellow and purple tints.
Glamorgan Champion in 2017.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Corokia Cotoneaster- </b>Wire netting Bush
New Zealand with twisted branch system and tiny yellow but attractive flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fagus sylvatica purpurea</b> Purple Beech
purplish leaves selected from seedlings. Grows up to 40m tall with yellowish
green flowers in May</span></div>
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tree with broader crown as it matures. Suitable for clay and chalky soils.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cornus
capitata</b> Bentham’s Cornel – An evergreen tree with large sulphur bracts in
June July followed by large strawberry like fruits</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cryptomeria
japonica – </b>Japanese cedar large tree with reddish shredding bark and
spreading branches. Likes moist soils. Similar to Wellingtonia but with less
spongy bark.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Griselinia
littoralis-</b> Cornacaea introduced from New Zealand in 1850 an evergreen
leafy shrub often used as a coastal hedge.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Quercus
petraea </b>Sessile Oak native oak growing in west and north. Long stalked
leaves and sessile fruit</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Podocarpus
totara – </b>Totara. A tall tree from New Zealand with yellowish green leaves
leathery stiff and sharply pointed. It likes the protection of other
evergreens.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eucryphia
x nymansensis – </b>A deciduous shrub with pinnate leaves<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">. </b>A profusion of white flowers in July and August. Hybrid between
cordifolia and glutinosa.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aesculus
indica – </b>Indian Horse Chestnut from N W Himalayas with later flowering
large panicles of red flowers. Introduced in 1851</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Thuja
occidentalis </b>American Arbor-vitae columnar tree with reddish brown pealing
bark. Branches horizontally spreading up curved at tips. Leaves have
conspicuous resin glands dark green above pale green below. Pleasant fruity
smell when crushed. Important timber tree in N America coping with colder
conditions.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stuartia
pseudocamellia – </b>Japan a small acid loving tree with lovely autumn colour
and flaking bark. A member of the Tea family closely related to Camellias with
large white camellia flowers occurring solitary in leaf axils</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Acer
sacchirinum – </b>Silver Maple A large fast growing tree from N America with 5
lobed leaves silvery underneath. Introduced in 1725.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chamecyparis
nootkatensis pendula – </b>Nootka Cypress from western N America with drooping
branchlets. Introduced in 1853 the sharp point scale like leaves are strong
smelling.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Picea
brewerana- </b>Brewer’s Weeping Spruce. From North West California and Oregon. It
is a rare tree in the wild (Siskiyou Mountains). Makes a majestic tree when
mature. </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cupressus
macrocarpa Lutea </b>Monterey Cypress a tall columnar tree becoming broader
with age, with soft yellow foliage becoming green. First Introduced in Britain
1893.</span></div>
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were flowering Bescheria yuccoides, Cestrum parqui, Abutilon megapotimcum growing
on the west facing wall along the Acer Lawn. In the area behind the former
rockery were Crinodendrum hookerianum (Tricuspidaria lanceolate) Chilean
lantern, Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip tree).</span></div>
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Stephen Nottinghamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13631785676516057114noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-76677905858758896772018-04-08T17:33:00.001+01:002018-04-08T18:01:53.386+01:00All the Presidents Men and Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
No this is not a reference to the 1976 film about the Watergate Scandal and no it does not include Robert Redford or Dustin Hoffman, but it does include a few scandals and a few hero's and gives some thoughtful insight into the history of the Society and the changing history of the way people view science, culture and wildlife over the ages.<br />
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The <a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-08.htm" target="_blank">President's pages</a> are now all live on the <a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/index.htm" target="_blank">website</a> and the <a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-00.htm" target="_blank">Society history section</a> is now substantially complete so what does all of this tell us.<br />
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One thing is that we have a lot of information available about some fascinating people and it has been a real pleasure to explore all of this and share it with the people of Cardiff and through the internet the world.<br />
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In doing this I have amassed a personal archive of over 1000 images, snippets of information and I have created 117 webpages with about 350 images on them totally a bit over 70Mb if information (which admittedly is a very small number in terms of file sizes these days)<br />
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Interestingly in these days of social media and where GDPR regulations are coming into force to ensure that people's personal details are kept private, it is the earliest presidents who were the easiest to research as the details of the daily lives of the forward thinking people who formed the Cardiff Naturalists' Society were documented on an almost daily basis in the local newspapers of which there were many, covering what was at that time a relatively small, but fast growing town.<br />
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The details recorded about people's attendance at scientific lectures and the events of the Society in those early days would probably have people reaching for lawyers in order to sue someone these days.<br />
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The research into those early years was massively helped by the wonderful <a href="http://newspapers.library.wales/home" target="_blank">National Library of Wales Newspapers on-line</a> site. it is fantastic how those early newspapers (up to 1919 as far as I can tell) are scanned and OCR'd to make the information available<br />
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Also the fact that we as a society agreed and made available our Reports and Transactions to be scanned into their <a href="https://journals.library.wales/" target="_blank">Welsh Journals on-line</a> site was a wonderful boon. The same scanning and OCR process has made searching for information about former members much easier than reading through about a meter of bookshelf every time I wanted to look something up. One note on this is that not all journal copies are coming up in the searches.<br />
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The National Library have been made aware and they say that they have scanned and OCR'd them all, but there is a problem with some metadata which is preventing some issues appearing. Hopefully they will sort this out sometime soon and I will be able to perform another set of searches to see if anything more comes up<br />
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The Glamorgan Archives have also been wonderful and a number of the pictures have come from materials that we have deposited at the archives and are available for any bonafide researcher to make use of.<br />
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Things got harder to research after about the 1950's whilst the society was still thriving at the time, the level of coverage in local newspapers started to drop and by the 1970's things seem to get very hard and it is not until the 2000's where we start to find information getting easier to find again in the internet age.<br />
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I suspect that gap will be filled in in some way with the scanning of further publications and a lot more information coming onto the internet, but there are likely to be gaps still in those years where the telephone took over from letter writing and there is nothing to place in the archives.<br />
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Also in those years the fragmentation of scientific interests led to many more specialist groups being setup and a loss in the overall place that a local general natural history society had in Cardiff's culture. Such is not uncommon, but also not always the case, but one thing is clear from my experience is that the published press have a much lower interest unless a story that could grab a headline is placed on their plate with little work for them to need to do.<br />
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Other institutions have been very helpful as I have come across items that relate to things in their collections and I would like to list some other information sources and institutions that have been particularly useful or helpful at this time (there are yet more people or institutions which are individually thanked within the pages)<br />
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<li>National Museum of Wales </li>
<li>Cardiff University</li>
<li>Guernsey Museum</li>
<li>Dr Mary Gillham Archive project</li>
<li>Vachell Family Archives</li>
<li><a href="http://www.cardiffparks.org.uk/">www.cardiffparks.org.uk</a> </li>
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Noting recent privacy aspects, we have left it up to living people as to whether they want a page in the system and some have not yet decided or got around to providing a set of information that they are happy with. There are also a few people who I have struggled to find any information about (mostly in that information blackout age) and I need to continue the search, but that will have to be as a much lower priority project.</div>
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-44578785635230647312018-04-07T17:49:00.000+01:002018-04-08T17:51:12.905+01:00Many thanks to the Archives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As regular readers of these blog posts will know we have been exploring the history of the Society and we have had a lot of help along the way from the staff and volunteers of the Glamorgan Archives<br />
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It was a real pleasure to give a talk to them recently an as an added attraction they brought some of the CNS materials out from the archives for us to have a look at.<br />
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One day I hope to go back and spend a week or two reading it all and looking for some more interesting stories<br />
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Especial thanks to Fiona Diggins (on left in the bottom picture) for setting it all up<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-9843401555673136902018-04-03T20:43:00.001+01:002018-04-03T20:44:33.873+01:00100 Presidents on-line<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The title says 100 Presidents on-line.<br />
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However it's not actually true, there are 104 if you count them one way and only 97 if you count another<br />
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The way I have been posting these updates is from the sequence of Presidential occupancies and not the actual web pages.<br />
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I have just posted Presidential occupancy 100 that being <a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-100.htm" target="_blank">Dr Joyce Lloyd</a> who I am glad to say I knew and was a lovely person to talk to about wildlife adventures she had had, and someone who said she enjoyed hearing about my adventures as well. However Presidential occupancy 101<a href="http://cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-101.htm" target="_blank"> Mrs Mairead Sutherland</a> is already on-line as we had a wonderful obituary of her in electronic format and it was easy at the start of this project to create that page.<br />
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There are some others already on-line out of sequence so the number of presidential occupancies is 104<br />
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However the number of files that have gone on-line is just 97 for the simple reason that some presidents were in post for a number of years, and that some were presidents for more than one term, just not in sequence<br />
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There are a few people who are still living who have not agreed for a profile to go on-line or have just not managed to get around to providing one. Anyway I'm still saying that 100 are on-line, and there are just 15 left to do to complete the project<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-68556500792642002102018-03-03T16:18:00.000+00:002023-05-08T10:43:41.369+01:00Thomas Henry Thomas Paintings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As many readers of this blog will know we have been exploring the past of members of the society though the ever increasing <a href="http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-08.htm" target="_blank">Presidents Pages</a>. Tthough this we have had some interesting internet comunications and some more fascinating information has come to us.<br />
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The family of <a href="http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-21.htm" target="_blank">Charles Tanfield Vachell</a> and <a href="http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-03.htm" target="_blank">Eleanor Vachell</a> made contact with the society via our <a href="https://twitter.com/cardiffnats?lang=en-gb" target="_blank">Twitter</a> account showing us some interesting pictures of them and other pictures tht were in an album belonging to Eleanor<br />
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In these we spotted a picture by another of our former Presidents <a href="http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-02.htm" target="_blank">T. H. Thomas</a> and after some emails back and fore we are able to now share with you some colour pictures by the illustrious artist and former president<br />
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We are very happy to have these to add to the information that we have about Thomas as the web pages we put together were a little "grey"<br />
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So now in colour (click images for larger versions)<br />
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Glamorgan in Purple and Gold from Quantox, Somerset ...<br />
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An Umbrella shop in ??? ...<br />
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Pandy Mill nr Bettws Y Coed in Winter...<br />
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We are extremely grateful to the Vachell family for sharing these treasures from their family archives with us and we hope to be able to continue this relationship in order to bring you more fascinating history of not only the Society, but of Cardiff and Wales as well<br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-27044603296286704122018-02-26T15:15:00.000+00:002018-02-26T15:16:33.617+00:0075 Presidents and counting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I got so wrapped up in the project that I forgot to make a post when 75 Presidents were on-line<br /><br />So now there are 82...<br /><br />There is also some wonderful news in that the Family of Eleanor Vachell known to the family as Alie have been in touch and have offered some more information and pictures and have confirmed the family archives are well and being cared for by the family.<br /><br />So we have been able to add some more previously unseen and previously published pictures to the <a href="http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-03.htm">Eleanor Vachell page</a> which gives a much more detailed picture of her as a young woman and as a developing scientist under her Father's guidance<br />
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It's certainly worth another look at that Page and at the <a href="http://www.cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/150th-21.htm" target="_blank">Charles Vachell page</a> to take in some of the new pictures <br />
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We are really appreciative of the generosity of the family in sharing these (and more to come) pictures and we are happy that the role that this influential family had in the development of Cardiff is once again being recognised <br />
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Shenstonehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10998696949225344945noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4847469903223504758.post-89428628197198294012018-02-23T19:29:00.005+00:002018-02-23T21:09:06.237+00:00Cwm Ivy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
For those who missed the fascinating talk by Corrinne Benbow on the Cwm Ivy saltmarsh last night, you can find out about how this National Trust site was transformed here<br />
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<a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/projects/coastal-adaptation-in-action-at-cwm-ivy" target="_blank">https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/projects/coastal-adaptation-in-action-at-cwm-ivy</a><br />
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Corrine has also kindly provided some links to YouTube video's that were made during the project so far.<br />
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