#britscape just passed Harrow. On the way up I happened to catch a glimpse of their playing field, a truly shocking green. Seed and roll for 500 years *works*
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#britscape closer to London more woodsy bits. 2nd growth as in US?
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#britscape just after Berkhamstead ? Station ruined stone building, mowed lawn inside
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#britscape typing on phone, pray for me.
S of Leighton Buzzard, fields of sheep, tops of giant windmills peering over Chilterns
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#britscape actual #goldenrod, I thought that was native to North America?
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#britscape if I see a black bird flying across an English field and my brain says "Red-Winged Blackbird!" by the size, is it a Jackdaw or a Blackbird?
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#britscape south of Stafford, paralleling canal. haven't seen any barges yet but saw quite a few barge-houses on the way up. No sign of any doing *hauling* any more
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#britscape in an area just north of Stafford, near the R. Sow, where there's a wetland with many Canada Geese, a couple #GrayHeron, also some #Egrets
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#britscape a Lapwing! standing up all pretty next to an agricultural pond beside the track!
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#britscape I think I just saw another #buzzard, only my second one on this trip (I saw 1 on the way north). Striking bcuz on a comparable Northeastern US train trip in I'd see many Red-Tailed Hawks and innumerable vultures, Turkey and Black
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#britscape another white draft horse, this one without feathered hocks. But the muscular curve of the neck is so distinctive, nothing like the neck of the riding/dressage horses in the NJ fields
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#britscape another hayfield mid-harvest, mid-bale, next to a maize field. I assume most of the maize is for animal feed. Is #silage a big thing in England? I'm not sure how much it's done in US
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#britscape S of Crewe hayfields are mix of mid-harvest (machinery working), waiting for baling, and with faint bright green of new growth. Do they get 2 hay crops/year? London temp. today says global warming may be tending that way ...
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#britscape just before Crewe, seeing unbaled hay in one field, lovely black and white draft horses in another. There are a lot of horse farms in my part of NJ but they're riding (esp dressage) horses, v few working.
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#britscape south of Wigan, starting to see harvests. Is it hay? Is it wheat? How would I know?
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#britscape my ears say we've actually gone up in altitude as we head into Oxenholme, with connections to the Lake District. So I guess this has been Cumbria, not Yorkshire ... but I'm not sure how much of difference there is in that distinction
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#britscape What is that yellow flower on the roadsides and neglected fields? I haven't gotten a good look at it ... There's a lot of Liatris being all invasive
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#britscape back to a heath or moor as in Scotland. Are they hilltops that have been basically barren since the Ice Age?
at least here there's a deep river valley with oaks or similar down in it. Even if it looks like a creek to me
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#britscape not sure exactly where this is -- westmoreland? == but I wonder how old these stone fences are.
we must be near #Yorkshire, a bank of fog is rolling in
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the land can't be too fertile, because there are stone fences. Looks like pretty much all pasture (a lot cows) and hay, not much people food
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After Carlisle, #britscape has flattened WAY out. No more heather, that's for sure! Patches of what looks like mixed woodland, almost
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but I haven't been able to easily spot fields of legumes.
In NJ only grain grown is maize, rotated w/soybeans & nowadays winter cover crop of rye (plowed back in for green manure)
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#britscape south of the border hills & passed 1st fields of #maize. On the way north I didn't see any fields of soybeans--what do UK farmers rotate with maize for N fixation? I see graminae (various), hay (the stuff that's closest to harvest or even past harvest at this date) & some maize
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#britscape passing by a lumber mill, which makes an odd contrast to me to the sheep and hay fields a bit further on. I guess conceptually it's a bit like Wisconsin, but the feel is very different
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#britscape I feel as though we're going over a crest of higher ground between the valley of the Clyde and I guess the lower lands toward England. I have no idea what this area would look like without pine plantations
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#britscape I guess sheep may safely graze to a considerable degree in the UK, what with the lack of coyotes, pumas, or even most raptorial birds
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That's a LOT of sheep, spread fairly evenly over a hillside. It's very striking how many sheep you see in the UK, compared to how uncommon they are in the US. These sheep don't look like they're particularly monitored--I don't see obvious dogs or humans with them.
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#britscape Now as I start to see hills rise up to the south there are LOTS more cows. Fields seem pretty large, mostly cows, some sheep (in largish herds).
There's a hill with #heather and its friends. And starting to see some plantations of pine trees, I assume Norway pine
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I just saw a buteo, circling over some cows just north of Cleghorn. Is that a Common Buzzard?
I think we just crossed the River Clyde and it is such a wee thing, omg.
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I should really tag these #britscape, sorry, I'm not used to liveskeeting.
I hadn't realized before this trip how unusual American wood-frame houses are, compared to the European house shapes from which they were derived
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