Rory Morrisey’s Nature Web
The New Forest
In July 2013 we spent a week in and around the New Forest in Hampshire, England. We stayed in Lymington.
The New Forest is home to many species of creatures and habitats that we don’t have in our own home county.
At the time we went, there were thousands of silver-
We also saw a few dragonflies that we don’t have locally, notably the beautiful demoiselle,
golden-
This photo shows some of the New Forest ponies come to drink at the pond near Holmesley; there are yellow water lilies in the foreground.