Exiting British Nature

A site saying how the island of Britain does have some interesting nature after all,
The site details, predators, past predators scary things, and more.
So here we go, the first thing.

Cottages to stay in Britain

Britain has a history of earthquakes,

There are 10s a century that shake the ground, in Britain, I have been in 2, in Nefyn, and in The Conwy Valley. The first was the largest recorded onland.
The records are only good since 1580, a couple of people at least died in London of that of falling masonry,
That year there was a quake in the Straits of Dover, which certainly destroyed houses, and killed some people in England, and destroyed houses in France too. It also sunk some ships aswell, in freak waves.
Another large quake was in Inverness in 1769, when many houses were destroyed, and again there were several fatalities, the largest in terms of fatalities in Scotland.
Another quake was in 1884 in Colchester , known as the Great English Earthquake, with 3-5 deaths. Damaging 1200 buildings.
Some quake deaths are from falling stones, or building collapses.
Another quake was in 1931, this time off the coast of Eastern Britain. Though maybe many of these off the coast quakes were not mentioned. Such as in Dogger Bank, the quake saw houses in Hull make the chimneys collapse, and made a mini tsunami. It was the greatest of recorded ones at 6.1 on the Richter scale.
The Nefyn earthquake I was in officially killed nobody but a spire was affected and a chimney fell down, with 5.4 on the Richter scale, the highest recorded onland, in 1984, it apparently sounded like tractor going up the road, rumbling for ages, but I did not wake up. But I heard one in the Conwy Valley the smaller quake shaked my unstable sash window, for a few minutes. In the 2000s,
It is said that Loch Ness was violently agitated during the Lisbon quake of the 18thC,

In the seventeenth century there was a tsunami, that pushed into Wales,

The largest in Britain was like a one in Shetland, that occurred 8,000 years ago,
When a tsunami, caused by a land fall of rocks in Norway,
Sent 20-40 ft waves over the Atlantic to there,
Harming the land bridge, and Dogger Bank that land bridge
With the continent, infact the land bridge was almost washed away by it. historically those tsunamis occurred a few times.

That one that pushed into Wales, was in the wearly 17thC a huge waves and water from a Earthquake in the Celtic sea, some feel caused this, and it killed some people ruined proprty and flooded much of Glamorgan, and Somerset, some thought of course iot was punishment from God.

In 1782 a British warship was wrecked off Spithead in East England 900 died, Spanish Armada storms killed 4000 Spanish people via storms, off the Armada,

So here is some more fascinating factuality.
Now here on former dangerous animals in Britain.
Undangerous, beavers went extinct in the 1100s in Britain.
The auroch a dangerous creature really as it could knock you down, went extinct in England in 300BC, and in Scotland by 1000,
The Lynx went extinct in 2700BC in Britain,
The brown bear went extinct in Britain around 900 or 1000AD some say strangely 500BC but others say the Romans exported them from Britain for their gladiatorial evil,
Wild boar went in the 16thC say many, but they have been reintroduced, some famous figures boated for killing the last in their area, well they would be a bit dangerous

it is said 6500 wolves were in Britain in the past at single times in say 10,000 BC to some, or that Britain could sustain so many, some want to bring 250 back to the Highlands, said to be a ridiculous thought by some, it is said the last wolf in England and Wales died in 1500 or earlier, and in Wales probably earlier than England,
The last wolf in Scotland to some was in 1680, or the last killed, with the last seen in Sutherland in 1691,

Some links, then hey back to this page, a dangerous place to come to the top of,

Eas Coul Aulin the tallest waterfall in Britain , In Sutherland

The View off the top of this

http://www.normist.co.uk/waterfall.htm While Ben Nevis is the tallest mountain Ben Nevis

The last Irish wolf maybe 1770 or 1786

Stirling hunted wolves in the 17thC,

A royal hunt killed 5 wolves and 360 deer in 1563, a king boooh, was chased by one in 1010 in Scotland, but a family member killed it, in legend

1743 to some is a date of the last wolf kill in Scotland, but some find this unrealistic certainly almost 100% certain they extinct by 1769,

It is said there were reindeer in Britain till 600bc wild horses 7000bc wolverines to 6000bc Irish elk 6000bc mammoths to 10,.000bc grey whale to 1700 saiga antelope to 10,000bc

So anyway but what amazing animals are in the British isle today,
There is the weasel, 3500 wildcats, highland cows, cattle, dogs, big goats, seals, pine martins, deer, weasels, moles, mice rats, bats, squirrels, voles, 150,000 seals, in 2006, otters, ferrets, stoats, rabbit, hares, some say the rare walruses, adders, badgers, eagles, kites, kestrels, dolphins, basking sharks, foxes, squirrels, cats, dogs, many sizes, jellyfish, some poisonous, and also there are the intimdating, in some ways, flehs eating, crows, ravens,.
Spiky hedgehogs, you could cut yourself on,

If no de-imperialism, maybe we would not have seen these re-introduced

poisonous plants and lethal adders, (the only poisonous animal in Britain of which they can kill or just make you rather disabled for life), people fear them in some uplands when walking amid them, though some say there are some truths in myths some shrews could be poisonous, there are also carnivore plants little ones in Britain that feast on very small inects in the water, There are many poisonous things in Britain. I,e diseases and germs, and even some poisonous fungis, and adders. Some have been disabled or killed by the adders.;

escaped lions, and circus and zoo animals,

People have been hit by cows running after thenm, or stray dogs, even foxes have bit people, and rabid any animal like badgeers, and wild horses canm hurt people even if not wild, just running, and wild ponies,

Humans very dangerious at times,

seagulls that attack people, and steal chiops off them in the coast

Large spiders, and butterflies, the hornet is a very large type of bee, the largest for that, scary to many people, from abroad,

We often have allergies to cat fur, or whatever

Pinemartins and wild cats eat small animals even pets in the Highlands,
Myths ghosts kelpies, big cats, loch ness monster the supposed monster in Llyn Tegid in Wales

Humber Bridge 1410 metres
Forth 1005
Severn Tunnel 7 miles long
Canary Wharf 244 metres high

Squirrels sleep for 14mph the 6th longest sleep ion earth they are in Britain

shrew gestation period, 14 days gestation, shrews in Britain too, of mammals,

hedgehogs have 7 kids, the 7th largest of litters of mammals, they are in Britain

After primates dolphins are the next cleverest animals, then pigs which makes them cleverest

red deer are the 9th fastest mammal, they are in Britain and go at 42 mph,

mallards go at 65 mph and are among those in Britain

The largest bird in the UK is the Mute swan and is 145 - 160 cm tall,

many birds and species like red backed shrike are rare in the UK,

there are millions of livestock in Britain, i.e 29 million sheep,

there is a 63 metre high tree in Argyll, and 62 metre in Tayside,

and a 167 inch diameter tree in Dover and 345 cm in Tayside, and 342 cm in Powys

The Severn River is 220 miles long, The TAY 117m

Lough Neagh has a area of 147 miles squared Loch Lomond 27.5

The wettest place in Britain is Dalness in Strathclyde at 3306 mm a year, a place in North Wales has 2555 mm, Cumbria 2500mm

Driest is St Osyth in Essex 507 mm

Also what about Stonehenge, that group of stone lines on the Isle of Lewis, and Hadrian's Wall, amazing places.
The coldest place in Britain is Dalwhinnie on average 6 degrees Celsius

The highest waterfall in Britain is Eas a 'chual Aluinn In Sutherland, at 774 metres high,
there is a 90 metre high one on the Dyfed Powys border, 106 metres in Wicklow, and 111 metres in North Yorkshire,

The biggest of the 8 bores in Britain is the Severn River Bore, which can reach 2.8 metres high, make noise, and reach Gloucester, at 20kmhm

Loch Morar gets 1017 feet deep,

A dam, once collapsed killing 10s of people, in Northern England

Loch Ness has the greatest average depth 427 feet deep,

There is 1097 metre high loch in the Cairngorns,

In Ireland, in County Mayo, there is a 2298 metre high cliff,
there is also the Giants Causeway not giant steps off Ulster, and those sloping cliffs in Western Ireland like were in that Hollywood movie,

there are 396 metre high cliff in St Kilda, and a 280 metre drop in Sutherland

Scotland has 99 of the 100 highest peaks in Britain, Wales has one, of them
Peacocks, in gardens,

Pheasants and cows, and badgers foxes, voels, and stoats on raods, and birds, like crows,

StrAy dogs

Nettles, and thistles, cause nasty stings as rose bushes can cling to you and cut you, and also dandelions, can cause you to do the toilet if you eat them too much, most plants cam be poisonous if eaten too much,

Rockall, is the remotest part of the British Ilses, many miles from Srt Kilda,. with birds on sometimes

St Kilda, and some other Hebrides communities were rmote with people with quite independamt cultures, and ways even collecting high cliffs birds,

Some large isles have no peopel today like the Flanna Islands, for ages, but see sopme triops from farmers, and som,e teaditional; trioips, and still have lod buildings of long ago nmonmks,

Oh yes much history of cathdrdals, and old lost towns, abandoned huts undertsoild archeology, etc etc,

Some rocks like Bass Rock are covered in birds,

Puffins, and seals are in some coves,.

An interesting thing in the Scottish Borders, is these deep valley like things in some hills, that go very deep and had cows hidden in them by border reivers as they were so deep and narrow amid hills, people not knowing of their geography could not find much in themm without direct looks

Fingle's cave in western Scotland is so big, it cam be used by opera singers, and musicians, as it is cathedral like and by the sea,

Cats chasing thjinsg about everywhere

Scottish remote lakes, with bridgfes 1234567
worst British tornado of the 20th century hit South Wales on Oct 27, 1913, killing six people in Edwardsville, near Cardiff.
1606 tsunami
Neolithic or Mesolithic tsunami
1607 Lynmouth
1638 Great Thunderstorm Written accounts by eyewitnesses tell of a strange darkness, powerful thunder, and "a great ball of fire" ripping through a window and tearing part of the roof open. It is said to have rebounded through the church, killing some members of the congregation and burning many others. This is considered by some to be one of the earliest recorded instances of ball lightning. 21st October
Plague 1347

The Eyemouth Disaster was a severe European windstorm that struck the southern coast of Scotland, specifically Berwickshire, on October 14, 1881. 189 fishermen died; most of them were from the village of Eyemouth. Many citizens of Eyemouth call the day Black Friday. Many smashed by storm when coming back to harbour, had bneen bad weather for weeks, till thuis time, a calm day they set out, then a huige storm arrived

· Great storm of 1703 At sea, many ships (many returning from helping the King of Spain fight the French in the War of the Spanish Succession) were wrecked, including HMS Resolution (1667) at Pevensey and on the Goodwin Sands HMS Stirling Castle (1697), HMS Northumberland (1679) and HMS Restoration (1678), with about 8,000 lives lost overall, particularly on the Goodwins
· The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed on November 27, killing six occupants.
1836 Avalanche in lewes
London fire and panic, July 1212

285 - 1000 Gordon Riots, London, 2-13 June 1780
Massacres of Culloden, and Berwick by royals,
Mining disasters, ships sinking and rail disasters have each killed over 100 and plane crashes and oil rig blown ups in Britain

Lightening thunderstorms, and floods can kill people

Floods have covered up some small towns, over the history of the land eroding away

Avalanches have killed British people, often in Scotland v mountaineers

Scotland has one of the5 biggest Maelstroms in the world

You can hear the Corryvreckan whirlpool from ten miles away. Named after a man it killed, of many, it forms, by hitting rock under the water and bubbling up, some boats rip a[art in it, oars are lost, and people drown, you canm see it bubbling close up,
The waters erode eastern England, and make the cliffs and overtime houses fall into the sea, people move as they are about to fall in, in some farms, the houses collapse, as in Western Ireland,. And in some hillforts

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Lifeboats have often rescued people,

1099 flood killed 100000 in England and Netherlnda as of sea levels, a 1950s fl;ood also flooded low land in East England and killed some, with metres high

The waters erode eastern England, and make the cliffs and overtime houses fall into the sea, people move as they are about to fall in, in some farms, the houses collapse, as in Western Ireland,. And in some hillforts

Midges tiny insects bit people allot in the Highlands,

There are some carnivorous plants in Britain,

Bladderworts, attract insects to their weater, and are eaten or absoerbed into the plants iont the water they are got into,
These are capable of absorbing water, which creates a partial vacuum. Any tiny animal - water fleas, midge larvae and worms - touching the trigger bristles at the neck of the bladder is sucked inside in a millisecond. Sundews, too, do itm, they in many parts of Brityain like watery areas the blassedrworts

Barcken is poisonous if eaten, and kills many animals that eat itm some flowwrs, are too, buttercups can be, so horses stop eating it after a while, as bad tatse

Hemlock can be poisonous and some fungi, like in Dartmoor, that if you touch you die of, deadly nightshade too, can cause fatalities or illness, foxglobve a floweer can cause diarrhoea, if eaten, like if in hay of horses, yews too, can kills anaimls,

There are loads of stone circles, abandoned monasteries, a nd stone lines on hills from the stone age, sometimes on hills seen as "the seven sisters" 10s of miles away on mountaionous sky, or hurricanme force winds in the Western Isles, v lighthouses, and every few decades over more of the western isles, or other parts of Britain

West Ireland has some really steep clieffs and hill sides,

and a hillfort half eaten by c.liff erosion, And some hills that fall at steep almost 45 degrees for 100s of metres towards the Altlantic, where some farmed, also in legend off Ireland there was Brqaizl, which mystical; people lived in, and some tried to find it before the Americas was seen by Columbus, so they called Brazil Brazil, loads of Welsh legends of seeing isles like that in Atlantic, or cities being buried under water off the coast off North Wales, that are maybe m,yths,

Some people have died of sinkings in bogs, and in Ireland there re the bog people, the remnants of human sdacrfices of old Celtic religons, in bogs, the Anglo Saxons also had human sacrfice, the Picts had unusual cultures, of painting theselvesm and such, At times only 10s of people Neanderthals lived in Britain, clambering up rocks, and gorges chasing mammoths off cliffs, sometimes in the Ixce AGE there were 0, sometimes they chased Irish Elks, sometimes,

Highland Cattle in Scotland and Highland Terriers and Scottish terriers all very intresting,

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Cornwall has a summer way before the rest of Britaion, very important on 19thc as some got fruits earlier,.

from the coast yopu see more houses, as they cram up to see the sea, so they rise for fisghing boats like steps, while inj railways few need to see that, so they often just have large walls, as all you see,

There are many amazing traditions of the 19thC lost now, from little tales and traditins to anything, maypole dancing, rural accents songs, but some survive, in some forms,

Plockton Bay

Plockton Bay again

There have been many faiths in Britain pagan human sacrificem, Christian etc etc

Some people drowned in bogs or rivers, as too bays, and tides drowning people, not leaving where they go quicku enough ,

Stags

Many creatures spread disease like rats, and wild dogs,

Hornets and wasps, and bees can kill,

Hornets are the biggest bee type insects and are rare worldwide, and in Britain, like midges

Crickects makes noises that are interesting as too Cuckoos, and owls,

There are owl twit a twooing, and
And cuckoos, cuckooing hedgehogs are a very intresting species Robins, are also a bird that is tamer in Britain than in the rest of the world.

This site could be better but use your imagination, I have beeter written sites, and this is a nice subject, the world is even more intersting,

Also there are a few places where monsters are felt to be in Scotland, lyingly of course, Loch Ness, another loch in the Highlands, and a thing on the top of Ben Macdui, where there is a legend of mountaineers being followed by yeti like creature possibly caused by people panicking when hearing noises, and also seeing the grey man, a thing created by sunlight clouds, etc one man thought he saw a 30 feet high figure and knealt behind his Bible in fear

Ben Nevis was first climbed in 1771 by a Edinburgh Botanist, 1639 saw the first properly recorded clumb up Snowdon, also by a botantist, it was not realised Ben Nevis was taller than Ben Macdui till 1847, or not confirmed. I support the EU, and UN, as this makes us able to feel pat of those cultures too, as my own possessions,

You can see Iceland on some days from a mountain in Northern Scotland on the far North of the mainland

Britain also has unusual cultures, it has London, it has Maypole dancing, it has bagpipes and throat music in the Hebrides, and loads of stuff.

Here are some more sites, there are books and articles on the subjects in many internet places, or internet book shops,

A site on giant sloths, with mentions of animals that have been alive during the era of human history, that have gone extinct, from them to many other great species

100s of Great Websites

A graph of all human history very interesting, to the story of humankind, brilliant

The Last Neanderthals The 11 Highest Volcanoes on Earth in 2006

A site on islands, around the world, talking of them, as if they are lost worlds, you could go back to this page.

A site on dangerous animals, such as which are bigger than people, and which are poisonous

A site on magical things in nature, like herbs and such, and more exiting things,

A site listing the strange and unsual animals of the world

The Basic facts about the Epic of Gilgamseh