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Snowy fields
A view looking westwards this morning towards Little Haldon. I probably wouldn’t have gone out if I’d realised how miserable the weather was – the thermometer was up to zero and the air was completely still, but despite being well wrapped up I wasn’t very warm. It was good to be out of doors though,…
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Success!
I fixed up this bird table outside my kitchen window several months ago but didn’t have a single visitor until today – now the blackbirds are fighting each other to feed on it.
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Hazel catkins
Catkins on the tree which I planted last year in my garden. Some of the ones in the hedgerows are at around the same stage as these, but I’ve also seen others that are a couple of inches long and starting to open.
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Albinistic blackbird
I caught sight of a blackbird like this one on several occasions last year, but it was down in the park. It’s just begun visiting our gardens and is around most days at the moment. The cold weather is making birdwatching from the window a lot more interesting: so far, in addition to the heron,…
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Viburnum berries
Taken in St Gregory’s churchyard – the bushes have been laden with fruits this year.
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New Year’s Day
Detail of C15 tower, St Gregory the Great, Dawlish. The present church is a bit of a patchwork – the sandstone tower probably dates from before 1438 but the limestone nave, chancel and transepts are the result of two C19 rebuilds.
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Christmas presence
I’ve been trying for a while to get some pictures of the heron and today I got lucky. Photos taken at 8.45 on Christmas morning.
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Tis the yeares midnight…
‘Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes, Lucies, who scarce seaven houres herself unmasks, The Sunne is spent, and now his flasks Send forth light squibs, no constant rayes; The worlds whole sap is shrunk…’ From A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day: being the shortest day, by John Donne – – – – …
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Kilsallagh group
Image number: FH9 Date: Unknown Location: Kilsallagh Description: Apart from Mary Carolan (Walsh), second from the left, I don’t have any other names yet. Photographer: Unknown ADDENDUM: 21 July 2012 John Carolan from the US has recently identified the man in the hat as Michael Anthony Walsh, brother of Mary Walsh Carolan, and is hoping…
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Mary Carolan
Image number: FH8 Date: Circa 1943 Location: Kilsallagh Description: Mary Carolan, wife of John (?) Carolan of Kilsallagh; my great grandmother. Her maiden name seems to have been Walsh or Walshe, and she was born circa 1851 – on the 1911 census her age is given as 60 years. She was the mother of eleven…