Mainly Stourhead

Images from Stourhead, my garden and on the Somerset Levels.

The Pantheon

Temple of Flores

Mallard and autumnal reflections

"Never mind the mealworms; let's pose."

Blackbird

... and that's your third and final picture!

Unknown (to me) fungus

Robin ...

... with something to say

Canada Goose

Coot

Mute Swan showing signs of a bite

Trawling for Pike.  I saw them net one c600mm long

'Stumpy' is back in the garden.  This is his third year.  He seems to arrive some time in November each year.  He gets bolder each year and is happy for me to be within 2m of him.  He even 'talks' back at me.

The final set are from Shapwick Heath and from Greylake, Somerset.

Kingfisher ♀

Gadwall

Buzzard

Workers had been putting in new fence posts and sorting out some old hedgerows. The freshly disturbed ground meant that it was easy to dig out earthworms.  That's what this Buzzard had been doing.  It was on the other side of a chain-link fence when I spotted it and I couldn't get a photograph.  We were very near to each other and eventually it flew up onto some freshly sawn posts and eyed me up.  I got my images and it went back down to find more earthworms.  (That's coarse sawdust on the post.)  The original image has been cropped only to straight the bottom edge.

Mute Swan