The Golden Hour
A Walk in the Woods (PiPs)
Metal Heads HMHBM! (PiPs)
Deadwood Fence. HFF
Sunset Over The Bay
Make Me Smile! HFF!
Rope Walk (PiPs)
The Dead Cedar Tree
Hide
Tor View (4 PiPs) HFF!
Under the Ivy
Bandstand (PiP)
In the Spotlight! (Apologies for absence - I have…
Evening Dreams
Brimstone Butterfly (PiP)
Tortured Metal and Broken Beauty (PiP)
A Walk on the Quantock Hills
Wild and Free (PiP)
Funghi With Frills!
Reach for the Sky (PiP)
The Golden Ball (and PiP)
Bright Lights
A Joyous New Year
Walfords Gibbet
Sunshine on a Cloudy Day!
Minehead Harbour Walls
RNLI (PiPs x 2) HFF!
Peacock Bench!
I Love You With Wall Of My Heart!
Heroes and Villains (PiPs x 2)
Catching the Light
OOPS! Happy Firewood Fence Friday
Wood on Wood! HFF!
Albatross!! HFF!! {Pips}
Autumn at Halsway (PiP)
Halsway Manor - (PiP)
Rockpools and Ripples
Sunset and Swans HFF!
Warm Honey Sunset
Leave A Light On.. HFF!
Hedgerow HFF!
Combwich Wharf (PiP) HFF
Dreamer
Noah's Lake.
V
The Waiting Game
The Murmuration Begins - PiPs HFF!
March Hares!
Time and Tide (PiPs) HFF!
High and Dry at Low Tide. HFF!
The Tree
Call of the Wild - HFF!
Waiting for the Tide
The Pines - HFF!
Mossy - HFF!
Across the Vale - HFF!
Touches of Gold
Lydeard Hill (PiP) HFF!
Swing! HFF!
Wild Goose Chase!
Have a Gander at this!
A Walk in the Woods - (PiP) - HFF!
The Guards - HFF!
Greylake - HFF!
Divide and Conquer
Gibraltar Cottages - HFF!
Flying the Flag. HFF!
Golden Oldie - HFF!
Deer HFF!
Zoo(Zu)ccini Bake Anyone?
Saving our Heritage - HFF
Light and Shadow
Contours and Cavities
'Bell Ring
Kilve Beach and Bench
Just a Light Read
Wetlands
Sunset and Wet Sand
Low Tide and Winter Sunlight
Stories in Pictures (PiPs)
Holes
Golden Fries
Rock Pools and Fossils
Breezy Day
Show Me The Way
Water Tower
Vicar's Close.
Hallelujah!
Missed It!
Going With The Flow
Flying the Flag
On The Beach
Steam on the Coast
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Wandering Free
Quantock ponies at Dead Womans Ditch on the Quantock Hills. The ponies roam freely but are rounded up for health checks etc periodically. They are beautiful animals but you do have to remember they are basically wild animals. Visitors have been feeding them sweet treats but the horses have become aggressive in their hunt for sugar and have been known to bite people.
I have added a song by Dion called 'The Wanderer'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhWVdYpQKk
I have added a song by Dion called 'The Wanderer'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhWVdYpQKk
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Ecobird club has replied to Jeff FarleyUn beau partage bien accompagné musicalement.
Bonne et agréable semaine.
Ecobird club has replied to Malik Raoulda clubI am pleased you liked the link
Have a good week
Happy healthy week ahead.
Ecobird club has replied to Jaap van 't Veen clubEcobird club has replied to Roger (Grisly) clubThank you posting your image in the group
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Ecobird club has replied to Roger (Grisly) clubEcobird club has replied to jyryk58 clubI hope you are having a good week
Ecobird club has replied to Edward BowthorpeThey are beautiful.
Ecobird club has replied to J. Gafarot clubEcobird club has replied to LotharW clubThanks for the great link....they don't make them like that anymore!
Have a good week and keep cool!!
Ecobird club has replied to Rosalyn Hilborne clubI am pleased you liked the music.
I hope you are enjoying the sunshine - or staying out of the heat like us!!
I used Google to translate this to German, translated back to English, again to German and a second time to English and ended up with "dig up the dead woman" ;-))))
anyway, a beautiful picture.
Ecobird club has replied to Boarischa Krautmo clubHow did it come by the name. - you are not far wrong!
The story was that a local man named John Walford killed his wife of three weeks, Jane Walford, nee Shorney, and left her in this ditch covered by leaves and branches . . He was arrested and was hanged on Aug 30th 1789, his caged body left on a gibbet on Danesborough Hill near to where his wife was found where it remained until the cage disintegrated a year later.
It is said he loved and planned to marry Ann Rice from Nether Stowey but met Jane and when she became pregnant he was forced to marry her or provide upkeep for the child so they eventually married. By this time they she was expecting her second child. It was said Jane taunted him constantly about Ann and he snapped, beating her over the head and slitting her throat, leaving her body in Dead Woman's Ditch. A knife and bloody clothing were found at his cottage and he was arrested and sentenced to death. When they put him on the cart to take him to be hanged Ann went to him. She was also pregnant with his child but was not allowed to kiss him goodbye.
Taken from 'Dark Somerset'
This is the story of how Dead Woman's Ditch got it's name, although it is said that an earlier map of 1782 aready shows the name in use so there is some uncertainty.
Despite these events it seems he was always well thought of and was depicted as a pleasant young man!
I hope Google manages to translate this oroperly but in any case it is 'Dead Woman's Ditch' because a dead woman was left there!!
Hope you are ok and having a good week
Ecobird club has replied to Nicole Merdrignac clubHave a good week
Ecobird club has replied to Pat Del clubAdmired in: www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance
Ecobird club has replied to William Sutherland clubSOME HUMANS ARE SO DAMNED DESTRUCTIVE
Ecobird club has replied to Pam J clubYou are right of course. I guess they just don't see the full picture. They then wonder why the horse has bitten or kicked them.
I heard of a young girl who had befriended a young fox and was actually petting it. Once told how wrong that was she didn't know what to do!
Ecobird club has replied to Schussentäler clubEnjoy your week
Wonderful shot, Carol!
Ecobird club has replied to * ઇઉ * clubYes sadly people do not see the wider picture and then they get hurt.
Have a great week.
Ecobird club has replied to ╰☆☆June☆☆╮ clubYou, too have a lovely week
Ecobird club has replied to Joe, Son of the Rock clubHave a good week
Have a great week
Ecobird club has replied to Karen's Place clubThey have become addicted to the sugary treats.
Karen's Place club has replied to Ecobird clubhave a great day:)
Ecobird club has replied to Annemarie clubEnjoy the rest of your week
Ecobird club has replied to tiabunna clubI can remember when they used to round them up and sell them at the local fair many years ago!
I am pleased you liked the link.
All the best, Doug
Ecobird club has replied to Doug Shepherd clubBest wishes
Carol
Ecobird club has replied to Ulrich John clubHave a lovely evening
I like this picture very much, and remember the horses from Roger's gallery.!
They have some wild ponies near to me, and lots of notices explaing why it is bad to feed them.
Best Wishes,, a nice weekend, and stay safe!!
Peter
Wünsche noch einen schönen Abend,ganz liebe Grüße Güni:))
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