On and near water

Back to wildlife ...

This week I have images from the Stourhead Estate, Wiltshire, and from Blashford, Hampshire.

Stourhead:

Mallard

Tufted Duck

Hydrangea

Mute Swan

Autumn Crocus

(Often called 'Naked Ladies' because the flowers appear before there are leaves.)

Coot

Reedmace (Bulrush)

Blashford:

Great Crested Grebe

Mute Swan

Gadwall

Black-headed Gull

Coot

Lapwing

Moorhen

Little Grebe

(the youngster being encouraged to fish for itself)

Pied Wagtail

Grey Heron

Little Egret

And now for something completely different

For years I have been intending to visit a privately owned and operated light railway (narrow gauge) at Yenston, near Templecombe, Somerset.  I finally got around to doing so at the end of August.  The Gartell Light Railway (GLR) operates on only 12 Sundays each year plus some Bank Holidays.  I’m not a railway enthusiast, but I was interested and recognised the photographic challenge of a different genre.

I haven't edited the order of these images.  I left them in the sequence in which I took them.