MarilynJane Photography Diary

Wednesday 2nd April

2 April 2014

Sunrise 06.42 Sunset 19.45 BST A pleasant day, quite warm with a few showers and a bit of thunder this […]

Monday 24th March

24 March 20146 April 2014

Sunrise 06.04 Sunset 16.28 GMT Just when you think spring is hear nature knocks you back. We were told by […]

Thursday 20th March

20 March 201420 March 2014

Sunrise 06.13 Sunset 18.22 GMT March is turning out to be very changeable as always. One minute it feels like […]

Saturday 15th March

16 March 2014

Sunrise 06.24 Sunset 08.13 GMT Thursday and Friday were very foggy in the valley but it cleared by Friday evening […]

Monday 10th March

12 March 2014

Sunrise 06.35 Sunset 18.05 GMT The weather has changed at last, it’s dry! Time for gardening . The fields are […]

Saturday 24th February

26 February 2014

Sunrise 07.08 Sunset 17.37 GMT A dryer day at last but still dull first thing, with sunshine later but it […]

Friday 21st February

22 February 201422 February 2014

07.09 Sunrise 17.38 Sunset GMT A better day today if you got out of the brisk wind, you could almost […]

Wednesday 19th February

21 February 201421 February 2014

07.15 Sunrise 17.32 Sunset GMT The weather is still changeable, though not the destructive storms of recent times. The river […]

Monday 10th February

10 February 2014

Sunrise 07.32 Sunset 17.16 GMT After a relatively dry day yesterday the river has gone down once again, still running […]

On the 28th July I visited Dean Mason’s Windows on Wildlife to photograph Harvest Mice for a couple of hours. Dean had a cancellation and I decided a little therapy watching these lovely little characters was just what I needed. They love to climb and are very quick so you have to be ready to […]

Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary and Buckfast Butterfly Farm 2

The second part of this post is about the Butterfly Farm which is in a large glasshouse next to the Otters. The Buckfast Butterfly Farm and Devon Otter sanctuary are on one site and throughout the day I alternated between the Butterfly House and the Otters outside. It was very hot and humid in the […]

Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary and Buckfast Butterfly Farm 1

On Sunday 12th June I went with members of Blandford Camera Club to Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary and Buckfast Butterfly Farm, we had a great day the Otters are characters. There were three species the small Asian Short clawed Otter up to mischief all the time and the Large North American Otter and my favourite our […]

Forest Falconry

I had a great day on Friday 25th March with friend Judy Vowles who had invited me to join her on a that day. It was a Christmas present from her brother to go to Forest Falconry in the New Forest with a friend where we handled their birds and walked through woodland paths with […]