Wildlife at West Withy Farm Lake. It has been an Exmoor winter’s day, today – sleety snow in the morning, then rain – cold and damp but with little wind. So not a great day outside for humans, really. But when I ventured out early afternoon, I was very well rewarded around our lake. The […]

Exmoor – mushrooms. So many mushrooms at our farm on Exmoor during autumn, this year. This is our seventh autumn at West Withy Farm and it has been by far the most prolific for mushrooms. The photo shows the largest that I have seen – about 12 centimeters across (5” in old money). It was […]

We have lots of signs of spring here at West Withy Farm – seasonal bulbs, of course and signs of catkins and pussy willow. Our lake is quite crowded with about 10 wild mallard in addition to the usual residents.  Four seem like our regular mallard couples and there is lively competition among the other to […]

These ducks have been seen on the lake at West Withy Farm for the last 10 days.  We see them swimming on our lake first thing in the morning.  They are easily spooked by the slightest noise – like the sound of a camera shutter – at 30 meters.  Each morning, there is just one opportunity […]

Lorena saw the kingfisher again today.  Soon, we will be able to claim it as the West Withy Farm kingfisher.  She was working down by the lake on a new lake-side planting scheme – and there it was.  When Lorena told me about her sighting, I said – ‘Did you take another photograph of the kingfisher?’  Lorena said […]

Both Lorena and I have now seen a Kingfisher at the West Withy Farm Lake in the grounds of our Exmoor, self catering cottages.  It has been at our lake for about 10 days now but so far we have seen just flashes of vivid blue.  We will try to be prepared with a camera for next time, but […]