Wiltshire Winter Wonderland

By Charlie • January 7, 2010 • 3 comments

Photos of snow? Yes, I appreciate that many visitors to 10,000 Birds will also be shivering under a blanket of snow and freezing air, but I would guess that not so many are seeing the winter as it grips a beautiful English manor house and gardens. So especially for my American friends who would like to see the English countryside - especially from the comfort of their own home/office - here a few photos I took yesterday of the wonderful Great Chalfield (an estate that some of you will know I’m extremely fortunate to live on) before anyone else got up and the snow really was lying crisp and deep and even (in fact I chose to go out while it was still snowing to try and get the highly contrasting light effects in the finished images)…

The Manor House

Great Chalfield Manor House in the snow
The Church attached to the Manor

Great Chalfield Manor House in the snow
The Manor House Garden

Great Chalfield Manor House in the snow
‘The Mile’ - part of the quiet road leading up to the Manor

All photographs copyright Charlie Moores 2010

Tags: great chalfield, wiltshire

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Charlie

Charlie works for an airline and has birded all over the world for twenty years. He wants to be a writer, and thinks no-one would believe his life could be so charmed if he didn't take photos of as many of the birds he sees as possible. Blogging with 10,000 Birds fits his aims, needs, and insecurities perfectly. Really - do birders get much more fortunate than this?

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[...] Wiltshire Winter Wonderland 10000birds.com/wiltshire-winter-wonderland.htm – view page – cached Photos of snow? Yes, I appreciate that many visitors to 10,000 Birds will also be shivering under a blanket of snow and freezing air, but I would guess that not so many are seeing the winter as it grips a beautiful English manor house and gardens. So especially for my American friends who would like to see the English countryside - especially from the comfort of their own home/office - here a few… Read morePhotos of snow? Yes, I appreciate that many visitors to 10,000 Birds will also be shivering under a blanket of snow and freezing air, but I would guess that not so many are seeing the winter as it grips a beautiful English manor house and gardens. So especially for my American friends who would like to see the English countryside - especially from the comfort of their own home/office - here a few photos I took yesterday of the wonderful Great Chalfield (an estate that some of you will know I’m extremely fortunate to live on) before anyone else got up and the snow really was lying crisp and deep and even (in fact I chose to go out while it was still snowing to try and get the highly contrasting light effects in the finished images)… View page [...]
jason Jan 7th, 2010 at 9:26 am

Magical, Charlie. Just beautiful. There’s nothing quite like the world when it’s been transformed by snow.
Brenton Jan 8th, 2010 at 8:43 pm

Hi Charlie,
How do the resident birds cope and what can they find to eat under such weather conditions? Here in South Australia, we are having day temperatures above 40C at the moment. Such weather contrasts between hemispheres.
Tragic news yesterday from Western Australia, where is seems a large proportion of the rare Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo population have died from the extreme hot weather conditions.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/6655545/mass-bird-deaths-in-hopetoun/

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