Skylarks

Up on the hills yesterday the skylarks were warming up - not quite at full throlttle yet, but definitely on their way. Much of the snow has cleared - although there are still some deep drifts.

I wondered, as they shot up singing into the sky, what did they do when everything was covered in a thick blanket of snow? Do they hide underneath it, cosy amongst the heather (which would be a bit like sitting underneath rhododendron bushes) or did they escape to the wooded areas nearby and sit in the bushes and the trees?

Anyone have any idea?

Winter weather on the Quantocks

Lots of snow and ice recently to remind us that spring really doesn't start in January - despite our annual attempts to delude ourselves.



This is one of the fine detail in the drift over the path I was walking along. It reminds me of finely bedded eroded sandstone. Which would probably remind me of drifted snow - but there you go.



Looking over Crowcombe. The road from the bottom of the hill was impassable in a vehicle from the west side - so this involved a fun trek up through a foot of snow. On top it had drifted and on the left of this picture you can see that the deep pathway has been completely filled.

I took this shortly before the snow arrived during a period of dense fog. Beautifully it was clear at the top of the hills for a while so I could capture this bank of cloud moving in.

I can't work out if it is better cropped a bit as it is in the photo below.