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Sunday 18th May

18 May 2014

Sunrise 05.16 Sunset 20.56 BST What a week, the weather has improved and we have had a couple of really […]

Thursday 1st May

1 May 20141 May 2014

Sunrise 05.44 Sunset 20.30 BST Another rainy day but the Cuckoo has returned to home. I had heard one a […]

Monday 21st April

21 April 201422 April 2014

Sunrise 06.02 Sunset 20.14 BST After a day of heavy rain on Sunday, Easter Monday turned out to be a […]

Sunday 20th April

20 April 201422 April 2014

Sunrise 06.05 Sunset 20.12 BST What a glorious week, although the mornings have been frosty and some days a little […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tuesday 14th January

16 January 20146 February 2014

Sunrise 08.06 Sunset 16.30 GMT We’ve had some awful wet weather and high winds at times and just when you […]

Christmas Day 2013

25 December 201325 December 2013

Sunrise 8.09 Sunset 16.08 GMT We were up as usual to take the dogs out nice and early, around 7.30am, […]

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 […]