{"id":1364,"date":"2014-09-03T08:50:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T08:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=1364"},"modified":"2015-03-09T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T11:35:18","slug":"surrey-heaths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/surrey-heaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Heaths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some photographs of the Vertebrates<\/a>, Insects<\/a>, Plants<\/a>, Fungi<\/a> and Landscapes<\/a> of the Surrey Heaths. All are from Thursley Common unless otherwise stated. The county of Surrey was once largely covered with heathland, with heather, birch and pine, and acid bog in the wettest places. Today most of the heath has been lost, with important remnants at Thursley and Chobham Common national nature reserves, among others.<\/p>\n

The images are all copyright and may be used only with written permission<\/a>. Click on the thumbnails to see the full images (which are often a different shape).<\/p>\n

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<\/a>Vertebrates<\/h2>\n

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\"Grass<\/a>
Grass Snake swimming<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Tree<\/a>
Tree Pipit in song flight<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Viviparous<\/a>
Viviparous Lizard, Lacerta vivipara<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/a>Insects<\/h2>\n

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Thursley Common is an exceptional place to see dragonflies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Black<\/a>
Black Darters Wheel on thin stalk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Four<\/a>
Four Wings Good, Eight Wings Better – Keeled Skimmers in cop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Keeled<\/a>
Keeled Skimmer male perched on Rush<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Four-Spotted<\/a>
Four-Spotted Chaser<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Small<\/a>
Small Red Damselfly, Ceriagrion tenellum, in cop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Male<\/a>
Male Emerald Damselfly on rush<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Emperor<\/a>
Emperor Dragonfly patrolling its pond at waist height<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Keeled<\/a>
Keeled Skimmer pair in cop<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Common<\/a>
Common Emerald female broken wing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Wood<\/a>
Wood Tiger Beetle Cicindela sylvatica<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"3-horned<\/a>
3-horned Minotaur (dung) Beetle<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Small<\/a>
Small Sand Wasp, Ammophila pubescens<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/a>Plants<\/h2>\n


\nLowland sandy heath and acid bog, once common habitats, are now scarce, along with the plants that flourish in them. Here are some of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Bog Asphodel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Round-Leaved<\/a>
Round-Leaved Sundew Drosera rotundifolia<\/span> in flower<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Southern<\/a>
Southern Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza praetermissa<\/span> in Mire<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Cross-Leaved<\/a>
Cross-Leaved Heath, Erica tetralix<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Potamogeton<\/a>
Potamogeton<\/span> pondweed with oily scum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"The<\/a>
The unretouched colour of Bog Asphodel in fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Gorse<\/a>
Gorse and Heather – yellow-purple harmonies<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Alder<\/a>
Alder Buckthorn, a characteristic shrub of acid bogs, in fruit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Tormentil\"<\/a>
Tormentil, the common flower of acid moorland, rather special in the southeast of England<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/a>Fungi<\/h2>\n

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\"Ghost<\/a>
Ghost Bolete, Leccinum holopus<\/span> (with sphagnum under Birch, rare)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Fire-blackened<\/a>
Fire-blackened Pine trunk with white Bracket Fungi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Larch<\/a>
Larch Bolete, Suillus grevillei<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/a>Landscapes<\/h2>\n


\nAt first sight, heathland may seem bleak, even featureless; William Cobbett famously excoriated the landscape between London and Bath as full of “rascally heaths”. But to our eyes it has a particular beauty. Perhaps these images may suggest what that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\"Thursley<\/a>
Thursley Common Bog Panorama May 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"<\/a>
Chobham Common<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Gently<\/a>
Gently peeling Birch Bark. Chobham Common<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Burnt<\/a>
Burnt Pine on Thursley Common<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Rippled<\/a>
Rippled scum in acid iron-stained peat bog outflow. Chobham Common<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Greeny-white<\/a>
Greeny-white symphony of Birch Trunks. Chobham Common<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Pond<\/a>
Pond scum patterns<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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\"Natural<\/a>
Natural oily surface of peat bog pool resembling arctic ice<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"Pine<\/a>
Pine bored by bark beetles<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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