Hambledon Hill

Hares

19 August 2020

It’s been a good season for Hare spotting this year and also from sightings from my friends which is encouraging […]

11 August 202013 August 2020

Heading towards the end of July already, I can’t believe it, we had heavy rain yesterday this has been welcome […]

Glow Worms

8 August 2020

July is around the time for Glow Worms to be showing themselves, the females are trying to attract the males […]

Hambledon Hill

3 August 2020

A bit of a mixture the morning of 12th July, I noticed the mist forming when I got up and […]

Under Hambledon

29 July 2020

Into July and a nice morning so I headed for one of my usual haunts, a walk underneath Hambledon Hill. […]

Hambledon Hill

8 July 20208 July 2020

On the 26th June I decided to walk to Hambledon Hill in the morning I wanted to see if there […]

Hambledon Hill

1 July 2020

On Friday 5th June I went on an early walk under Hambledon Hill, we had some rain the day before […]

Hambledon Hill

14 May 2020

On the 5th and 6th of May I walked up Hambledon Hill both days, the weather was just lovely first […]

April Flowers

7 May 2020

I started taking images of the wildflowers trees and grasses as the lockdown started as I went on my one […]

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 […]