Stonehenge EH; 26th February 2019

STONEHENGE

English Heritage

One of the best known heritage sites anywhere, always a pleasure to visit, especially on such a glorious day.

Access has been greatly changed since my previous visit many years ago, not only has the visitor centre and tunnel under the road from the centre to the stones gone, but the road has also gone. The new visitor centre was opened in 2012 and is 1.5 kilometres from the stones, giving the option of taking the shuttle bus or walking and taking in the whole Stonehenge landscape and getting a first view of the stones from above. Definitely worth the walk...

Stonehenge landscape with barrows

Fuirst views of the stones from the walk from visitor centre

Stonehenge

Some of the visitors

Time to leave....

Weymouth 24th February 2019

WEYMOUTH

24th February 2019

One of my favourite resorts, this trip was primarily for birdwatching, but you can'r resist a walk across the beach and along the river.

This page is in 3 sections... the first birds at Radipole Lake, which is basically in the centre of town, the middle set of shots are Weymouth seafront and beach, the River and Marina. The last shots are birds at the Lodmoor reserve a mile or two along the coast to the east of Radipole

RADIPOLE LAKE

Teal
(the "divider" here is a reed.. the birds would not move into a more convenient spot!)

Shoveller

Cormorant

Herring Gull

Tufted Duck

Coot

Moorhen

Wooded Path

Mallard

Buzzard

Marsh Harrier

Egret

Dunnock

WEYMOUTH

Carrion Crow

Herring Gull

LODMOOR

Lapwing

Ruff

Snipe

Mute Swan