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Captured at last!! – a kingfisher photographed at West Withy Farm lake. It has been a bit of a ‘cat and mouse’ game to see and photograph the kingfisher sat on a branch with a fish in its mouth. It is not a great photograph – the skills (and also the equipment) of a sports […]
Read MoreSeb Jay of Dark Sky Telescope Hire and author of Exmoor Dark Skies gave a stargazing skytour for guests staying in the self-catering, holiday cottages at West Withy Farm on Exmoor last night. Guests began at 10pm. by viewing the moon though Seb’s telescope. This was followed by a tour of Saturn in the southwest sky using the telescope’s […]
Read MoreBoth 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 […]
Read MoreLorena decided, Sunday on a deep clean for the Upton Cottage oven – ‘there is just too short a time to do a deep oven clean on a Saturday changeover day’. Two hours later, the inside of the oven was looking – well, ‘sparkling’. With a smile of satisfaction at a job well done, Lorena […]
Read MoreThe West Withy Farm swallows have been very late arriving back from over-wintering in Africa this year. In 2014, our swallows returned in mid April. We had 15 breeding pairs return to West Withy Farm before our daffodils had come into flower – a very strange sight. This year, our swallow have returned much later […]
Read MoreWelcome to our new website which will go live towards the end of May 2015. A new booking section with online payment option will be introduced for this website shortly. Please bear with us while we finalise the new booking / payment section and sort out all the teething problems there are bound to be […]
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