A late afternoon walk through the gardens of Dartington Hall in Devon

An early morning walk at Dartington Hall

A short film about a coot on Slapton Ley

Mallards - a family of a mother and some of her ducklings

You will find these at http://www.rodneywillett.co.uk/page39.html

Normally I would not put up a sequence like this but would select one or, possibly, two which I considered to be the ones worth looking at. Although this is only about half the photographs that I took of this young family on Oare Water (made famous by Lorna Doone), I think it giives some idea of what was happening. Anyway, I hope you enjoy what you see.

Regarding one robin

This is not really a post at all in the usual sense. I took some video of a robin in the garden - see below - and wanted an expert opinion as to why it was behaving as it was and so on. Now my brother-in-law is just such an expert so I sent him an email with this clip as an attachment - only to discover that he was unable to open it.

So, yes you've guessed, I decided to attach it to a post here and just send him the link. Anyone else who has an opinion is more than welcome to pop their comments below.

Updates

The idea of a photo blog was probably not that clever. What do you do with a collection of about six thousand images garnered over fifty years and most of which are set in the west country?

Since there is no sensible answer to that question,. I am gradually putting some of them up on my website www.rodneywillett.co.uk where anyone sufficiently interested can browse. Quite a few pages still carry the message "under construction" but I hope that these will be fewer as time goes on. Meanwhile, I will note additions here.

Meanwhile I have been playing with video. On the stocks at the moment are:

• a short film about working and playing on Dartmoor with interviews with a thatcher, a National Park Ranger, a dry-stone waller on the work side with canoeists, skateboarders and tor climbers playing. 
• an investigation into the power that was taken from rivers and into how we could still use that power today
• a look at waterfalls - there are so many from tiny trickles dropping over a single stone to some quite terrifying cascades in some of our cleaves
• Avian Antics which is just a bit of fun with a few of our local birds as the stars.

Here is just one of the snippets from the last to whet your appetites - or bore you silly, one or the other.

Late afternoon

 At about 4.30 this afternoon, Marcia and I took Jossie (who, for those who have not met her is our very ancient terrier cross who spent the first fifteen years of her life with Marcia's best friend's mother and who came to us when she died) for a walk around the field.  The clouds looked fantastic and I was quite upset because, unusually, I did not have a camera in my pocket. By the time we were back in the house the light was completely different but I popped out onto the terrace and took these. They are unedited and unselected but I hope you will like them.