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A transition day

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Yesterday was one of those late winter/early spring days that demonstrated the transition between the seasons. I woke to a slight frost and mist lying low over the valley. Hovering just over freezing and with a clear sky, it was a stunning dawn.

A few winter thrushes came to a nearby tree as I looked over the sheep fields while I could hear two great spotted woodpeckers drumming and a calling green woodpecker. With a tentative dawn chorus the birds of two seasons were making themselves heard.

At lunchtime I walked out of the back door and was hit by a warmth I hadn’t felt for months. I could feel the bright sun on my face but it was the warm breeze that really made the difference. The temperature has topped out in the low ‘teens’ Celsius and in just a few hours the seasons had changed.

Drifting fog at dusk

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Just as I was blocking out the last of a bleak mid-winter day, I noticed that the fog that had stubbornly hung around all day was finally starting to shift. Our house looks out over two shallow valleys (at least when the leaves aren’t on the trees) and I could see the tops of those valleys starting to peak out from above the fog. So I quickly put on my jacket and boots and walked down to the end of the lane to look over the fields and see if I could get some suitably wintry dusk photos. I’m quite pleased with the results below, showing how the increasing breeze was blowing the fog away…

New Year’s Day at the coast

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After a very windy and rainy night and morning we made our way down to the coast and the beach at Blegberry near Hartland, Devon.

With the tide out, the waves were distant from us as we stood overlooking the shoreline but they were still an impressive sight crashing onto the rocky beach.

I took the following photos standing on the low grassy cliff top above the beach, focusing on the stream that cascades down onto the rocks beneath. The water level had increased markedly following the hours of rainfall since the early hours of 2025…

New Year in Hartland

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We’re spending six nights in north-west Devon to mark the end of the year and the start of a new one. I’ve not been in the Hartland area before but it really is lovely. We’re staying in former farm buildings just back from the coast, which we can see from the lounge window. This location means we can walk the coast path almost directly. Below are just a few shots of the landscape around Hartland Point…

An atmospheric dusk…

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After completing our food prep for tomorrow, we went for a Christmas Eve wander around one of the nearby reservoirs. It has been a very gloomy day and the cloud was starting to form into a think mist above the trees and fields as we set off for an our walk.

At we made our way around the very muddy path, we stopped at some of the fishing platforms, which made for some very nice, atmospheric photos across the flat calm lake.

There were two wildlife sitings of note as we wandered. First, were an adult and juvenile white-fronted geese, our first siting of this species this year. Second was quite an odd view of a Daubenton’s bat flying low over the water. I haven’t seen one of these bats for a long time and to see one on Christmas Eve must be quite unusual – but given it was 10c, not as surprising as it seems.