Ilfracombe

Saturday 17th August 2019

Combe Martin

I love all the rugged cliffs and inlets along the North Devon coast and how tiny hamlets, villages and towns make use of every precious piece of land, clinging to the cliffs. They all seem to have 'Combe' in their name as well: Woolacombe; Babbacombe; Ilfracombe and this one is Combe Martin.

I've noticed the crops appearing in this field for some days now and I was drawn by the shapes and lines they made. This evening the sun was catching the new growth giving it a real intensity.

Sloes and lichen

Parent bird leaving after a feed.

Mini Stress Test

An afternoon at Lee Bay

Wild foxgloves growing where the ground had been disturbed two years ago.

Moated rock.

The Bristol Channel coast near Lee Bay

The foster gander's new project: five wild mallard ducklings that I have been rearing!

Clovelly, Torridge. North Devon

Showing how the wind was blowing. Look at the pampas grass and Flossie's ears!

Don on Emily and his stall at the start of the day.

Seen in the Triangle field. I thought it might be a young sparrowhawk but I agree with the advice that it is probably a young kestrel.

Extracts from

a walk round the farm hedges...

An afternoon at Lee Bay

Broomhill Art Hotel Sculpture Garden. "Glass Mountain" by Antonia Spowers.

Ilfracombe sea views