Foraging Collection

Two Badgers in a wood
Two badgers (Meles meles) forage for food in a wood. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

A bare-faced steal! A large bear takes a fancy to the contents of a large metal drum on the bacl of a country wagon. Date: 1906

Wandervogel Movement - vegetarian hikers forage for food
The leader of an expedition of vegetarian hikers gives a lecture on foraging for food ini the great outdoors. Date: 1932

Blackberry picking 1880
A woman on the edge of a field picking wild blackberries. circa 1880

Gathering wood violets 1872
Two young women gathering wood violets, sweet scent of this flower was popular in Victorian times and was used in sweets and baked goods. Date: 1872

Gathering cowslips 1872
Two young girls picking wild cowslips from the woods. Date: 1872

Gathering blackberries 1872
Victorian women and a girl picking blackberries from a blackberry bush. Date: 1872

GATHERING NUTS (IN MAY?)
Some elegant ladies and children gather nuts from the tree and put them into baskets. Date: 1883

ERMINE STOLE, SCARF, HAT
A young woman wears an ermine muff, hat and scarf to keep out the winter chills while out foraging for fir tree branches to decorate her home at Christmas. Date: 1915

French Countryfolk and their Pigs - the caption reads: " The campaign to promote repopulation has its effect in the region." !! Date: circa 1920s

COLLARED LEMMING - x 2 in winter feed on dwarf willow (Dicrostonix torquatus). Tundra of Taimyr peninsula, Russian Arctic

Northern red-backed vole - feeds on Siberian stone pine (Pinus sibirica Mayr) seeds - a cone on the left (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas)

Tailless tenrec Common tenrec adult searches for food and shelter at dawn sea beach near Poste de Flacq June East of Mauritius

Water shrew, adult, searches for food; (Neomys fodiens). valley of river Pra, a tributary of river Oka; near Ryasan town, european Russia, Nature Reserve Okskii ; autumn (September)

Crimean War, foraging party after landing at Kerch
Crimean War -- a foraging party after the allies landed at Kerch, showing soldiers catching poultry and pigs. 1855

Picking berries by the roadside, 1927
A family group pause from their motoring trip to pick berries by the side of the road. Date: 1927

Telfairs skink Round Island skink adult searches for food on forest floor endemic to Mauritius subject to a Mauritian Wildlife Foundation regeneration programme June Ile aux Aigrettes island nature

European HEDGEHOGS - young behind mother, autumn (Erinaceus europaeus)

Red SQUIRREL - eating fir cone (Sciurus vulgaris). Ural Mountains, Russia

HEDGEHOG - searching for food (Erinaceus europaeus). Ural Mountains, near Ekaterinburg, Russia

Malayan Pangolin (Manis javanica). Vietnam

Asiatic Black BEAR - eating berries (Selenarctos thibetanus). Gunma Prefecture, Kanto Region on Honshu Island, Japan. Japanese Sub Species

Demoiselle Cranes - feeding. India

Asian / Indian Elephant - baby (Elephas maximus)

SIBERIAN LEMMING - feeding on grass (Lemmus sibiricus). tundra of Taimyr Peninsula, Russian Arctic

Siberian lemming - adult in winter, on snow in tundra; quickly digs snow in attempt to escape (Lemmus sibirica). Taimyr peninsula, Kara sea shore, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic

Darkling Beetle - runs around a sand dune in search of grass sprouts - feeds in dusk and dawn (Sternodes caspicus Pallas). Central Karakum desert - Turkmenistan - former CIS - Spring - April

Tundra / Root Vole - feeds on plants at river Negustyah bank at night (Microtus oeconomus (Pall.)). (tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan) typical across Siberian plains; Uganskii Nature Reserve, Siberia

Northern red-backed VOLE, two young brothers feed on taiga-forest floor near river Negustyah (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas)

Northern birch mouse feeds on bird cherry (Prunus padus L.) buds and flowers (Sicista betulina Pallas). river Negustyah bank, a tributary of river Bolshoi Ugan

Molothrus ater, brown-headed cowbird
Plate 99 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1827-30), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Muscardinus avellanarius, common dormouse
Detail from plate 136 Dormouse. Original watercolour drawing from The Naturalists Library, Mammalia, Vol. 3, 1833-1843, by Sir William Jardine (1800-1874)

The Straw-Yard, Winter. Horses in the snow in a farmyard Date: ca. 1865

Autumn painted by Pauline Baynes
A boy and a girl in the Elizabethan era pictured picking blackberries while in the background, horsemen are hunting a stag

Germany / Shortage / 1922
Hamsterfahrten - foraging journeys into the countryside made by city dwellers

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