Woodland Clearing
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Woodland Clearing by Mike Sharpe as part of the Geograph project.
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Woodland Clearing
Image: © Mike Sharpe Taken: 7 Sep 2009
Wonderful example of a cleared area within deciduous and conifer mixed woodland. The shrubs and trees around the boundary shelter a prodigious amount of birds and insects - Orange Tip butterflies in spring and four or five species of dragonfly, whose newly-emerged tenerals rest in the sunlight to dry their wings...
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Image Location
Latitude
51.07841
Longitude
0.833992