The New Forest, Black headed gulls and the New Forest Ponies
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British wildlife and wild birds filmed in their natural habitat
Bird lovers and lovers of nature will enjoy these short films of the Black headed gulls nosily feeding in the New Forest, and the New Forest Ponies. This lens also provides a quick overview from when we stopped to admire the New Forest Ponies and afterwards observed the Black headed gulls while enjoying a picnic in the New Forest. And for completeness this lens also gives a brief summary of the history and origin of the New Forest and other forests in the British Isles.
So sit back and enjoy.
So sit back and enjoy.
Black headed gulls
Chroicocephalus ridibundus
The Black headed gulls are part of the gull family but not a seagull, and their black heads are not quite black, more of a very dark brown or grey which they lose during the winter months having just mainly white heads. These birds, native to Britain, are also common throughout the rest of Europe, Asia and parts of Canada. Most of the population migrate south during the winter months, which in Britain is Southern Ireland and Southern England. These rather noisy birds breed in colonies on the ground in marshes, reed beds or on islands in lakes. Video of Black Headed Gulls
New Forest, Hampshire, England
Black headed gulls filmed in the New Forest one summer during a picnic while on a visit to see the famous New Forest horses.
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New Forest
Hampshire, England
These magnificent but rather noisy Black Headed Gulls (in the video below) were filmed while we were having a picnic in the New Forest. Our visit there was specifically to see the New Forest horses roaming freely which is what the New Forest is best known for.With its wildlife and natural habitat over half of the New Forest has been designated a 'Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The National Park, the largest remaining area of unspoilt natural vegetation in Britain, is conserved and enhanced by the New Forest National Park Authority who aim to promote education and enjoyment of this area of outstanding beauty with all its wildlife and heritage.
The New Forest, looking at the maps, covers an area of over 200 square miles of which about 90 square miles are woodland (a third having been re-established in the last 200 years) and about 60 square miles is heathland, grassland and wetland. I'm not sure what the other 50 square miles is but with its natural beauty and diversity of wildlife the New Forest is well worth a visit on a fine summer's day.
New Forest Ponies
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Remnants of British Forests
An Overview
After the end of the last ice age Britain quickly became forested. Over 8,000 years ago when Stone Age humans arrived in Britain the whole country was covered in forests; but from the Bronze Age, when humans switched from 'hunter gatherer' to farming, we began clearing the forests for agriculture and over the last 6,000 years have deforested the country so that today the New Forest is one of the few, and the largest, remaining areas of natural forest in this country.The Name 'New Forest' is perhaps a little misleading in that the forest is over 12,000 years old and was formed when deciduous trees such as oak and beech (now native to England) began to grow and colonise the country at the end of the last ice age. The forest was originally known as the 'Great Ytene Forest (forest of the Jutes), the Jutes occupying this part of the country (Hampshire) at the same time as the Angles and Saxons occupied other parts of England after the withdrawal of the Romans in the 5th Century. In the 'Domesday Book' of 1086 the forest was called 'Nova Foresta'. The word 'New' in Forest comes from when in about 1079 William I created it as a 'royal forest' by clearing over 20 settlements in the area.
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