Far From the Madding Crowd: Portland Bill

Thursday, 9 October 2014

Portland Bill

Last week we took a trip to Portland Bill hoping to see Little Owls which we did not find but manage to get a picture of a Wheatear, my best picture of this bird so far and saw a Seal.

4 comments:

Roy Norris said...: Great shot of the Wheatear Lyn.; 9 October 2014 at 00:28
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Roy:-); 10 October 2014 at 23:03
Richard Pegler said...: Sorry to hear you didn't find the owls, Linda, but pleased that you got some nice images of seal and Wheatear as compensation. don't give up on those owls - they're out there!; 20 October 2014 at 08:49
Linda Yarrow said...: Thankyou Richard :-); 20 October 2014 at 15:34

My Blog

I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.