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Even if I say so myself, there's some good footage of Red Kite and Great Bustard on this video. The Red-legged and Grey Partridge and Stone Curlew bits are just average 😂
#UKBirding #SalisburyPlain #Wiltshire #nature #wildlife #birdsofmastodon
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1/2 I sneaked away from the family holiday to visit #SalisburyPlain. Have to say, it felt odd on my own (as we normally bring a car full of birder mates) but I had a great day.
#UKBirding #Wiltshire #birdsofmastodon #nature #wildlife📷 Corn Bunting
📷 Red Kite
📷 Red-legged Partridge
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2/2 There were many highlights: Corn Bunting, Red Kite, Red-legged & Grey Partridge, Stone Curlew and Great Bustard. Thoroughly enjoyed it. #SalisburyPlain.
#UKBirding #Wiltshire #birdsofmastodon #nature #wildlife📷 Great Bustard
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Good news! #GreatBustards found breeding in new location
by Peter Davison, January 24, 2026
"Great bustard nests have been found for the first time on #CranborneChase.
"This week, Cranborne Chase Landscape Trust confirmed that bustard chicks had been found in the designated National Landscape last May.
"The #bustard - the world's heaviest flying bird - was hunted to extinction in the 19th century, but the species was secretly reintroduced to #Wiltshire in 1998 using chicks from Russia.
"The two new nests were found in a field of sainfoin north of the Wylyle Valley, after a farmer informed the Great Bustard Group (#GBG) that he was about to start mowing a crop.
"Since 2004, the GBG has released hundreds of chicks on #SalisburyPlain in Wiltshire.
"As a precaution, two volunteers used drones funded by the government-backed Farming in Protected Landscapes programme to check the field.
"The eggs were rescued under licence, incubated and hand-reared. The birds have since been released back onto nearby Salisbury Plain.
"The trust released a drone image of a bustard sitting on its nest, camouflaged amongst the tall crop.
" 'What it shows is the slow, but steady, expansion of the breeding range of the great bustard - and that the bustards had a good year last year,' said David Waters from the GBG.
"The bird has been Wiltshire's county emblem since Wiltshire Council was established in 2009.
"Speaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire, Waters said the UK population, which is all in Wiltshire, are doing well.
" 'The numbers are going up slowly. But in the rest of the world, many of the Great Bustard species are not doing well,' he added.
" 'They're the only bird in the UK which is globally endangered.' "
Source:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ygrn24w4oArchived version:
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I am beyond excited to read this.
Keep your Marvel blockbusters and Bond Premieres, your must-see series and TikTok ephemera - I'm about to be immersed in a world long gone and meet people I will care deeply about.#kenfollett #Stonehenge #philharding #prehistory #fiction #historic #StoneCircle #neolithic #flint #storyteller #stories #salisburyplain #circleofdays
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"I Need You" is a song by the English rock band #theBeatles from their 1965 album #Help It was written by #GeorgeHarrison, the group's lead guitarist, and was the second composition of his to be released by the Beatles. The track appears in their film Help!, in a scene filmed on #SalisburyPlain where the group were under military protection from a murderous cult. Harrison wrote "I Need You" about #PattieBoyd, the English model whom he married in January 1966.
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Bulford Camp from Beacon Hill, Wiltshire, 1922 - Kingsway RP Postcard
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A fabulous day spent in Wiltshire with Dave B., Dave L. and Charlie F. Good views of a single Stone-curlew but the highlight of the day for me was the fabulous views of displaying male Great Bustard. I can't recall seeing these so well.
https://youtu.be/W6KQXi4VLeU?si=sAxt_5kwpLQ1nYr0
#UKBirding #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Wiltshire #Otis #GreatBustard #SalisburyPlain
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Horrific story
Why were 50 dead hares dumped outside a Hampshire shop? | Hampshire | The Guardian
It goes on to say dead animals were also dumped outside a Primary School.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/19/cruel-remains-of-50-hares-and-birds-of-prey-dumped-outside-hampshire-shop#DeadAnimals
#Hampshire
#Hunting
#Broughton
#WallopBrook
#HareCoursers
#SalisburyPlain
#Awbridge
#PrimarySchool
#Totton
#HampshirePolice
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Stonehenge under gales & a lowering sky today, sheep grazing on it. Prehistory is more important than ever at times when the roar & clamour of now seems to drown us. To stand with the megaliths and barrows, their cultural urgency in Neolithic Britain dissolved into monumental uncertainty, relic & grazing status, is to understand the absurd futility of lines on maps.
#stonehenge #salisburyplain #neolithic #deeptime #prehistory #prehistoric #stoneage #overvieweffect #ozymandias #megalithic
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That time I got to visit Stonehenge in 2012. The wind was whipping and the sky was enormous. #StoneHenge #SalisburyPlain #StandingStones
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A very cold ride out in Salisbury Plain this morning. Will I ever feel my ears again? #salisburyplain #ebike #cycle
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Looking towards Stonehenge from the Heel Stone. The Heel Stone is probably the first stone that was standing at this magnificent site.
#stonehenge #history #SalisburyPlain #neolithic #travel #olympus #photography -
Another of the morning photos I took of Stonehenge just before Christmas 2022
#stonehenge #neolithic #salisburyPlain #Olympus #olympusUK #photography -
This is looking roughly south west with the #Sun centred above the stones and the monument in silhouette.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Winter #SalisburyPlain #History #Culture #Archaeology #Science #Astronomy #Stoneage -
Many were happy like us to walk the roughly 2 km journey from the visitors’ centre but shuttle buses were also going up and down the stretch of road. It’s a little unfortunate that you can only get within about 50 m of the #monument but it’s still impressive.
This is a view looking approximately north west.
#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Winter #SalisburyPlain #History #Culture #Archaeology #Science #Astronomy #Stoneage
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Back to South Georgia for today's #PhotoOfTheDay of King Penguins on Salisbury Plain.
#photography #wildlife #penguin #KingPenguin #SalisburyPlain #SouthGeorgia #travel