Hotter than July...

England lose in the World Cup, and temperatures start to soar...


Red deer hind and calf on the slopes of Dunkery.
The flies were bothering them a lot.
Exmoor pony stallion and mare.I think he was having a bad hair day.
Speckled wood butterfly
A glorious array of wild grasses on Selworthy common.
... they glistened in the sunlight.
A green hairstreak in contrast with the pink of Heather.
A roe-deer buck was the colour of Sorrel.
Someone made a noise and he shot off like an antelope on the veldt..
A grayling butterfly camouflaged on the scrub.
A foxglove surrounded by a spray of grasses
A view straight down the steep hillside to the sea.
The view across the Vale of Porlock.
A Dunnock with a beak full of insects.
A view down a combe across the vale of Porlock.
A Comma butterfly
The view from Selworthy towards the moor.
One of the lovely thatched cottages at Selworthy.