A Good Friday Visit to Ferne Animal Sanctuary
On Friday, as Ross went off to rehearse with his band, Grace and I decided to get out of the house and make the most of the weather. We drove through beautiful countryside to get to the lovely open space of Ferne Animal Sanctuary near Chard in Somerset.
Grace, armed with a pencil and map, and me, armed with my DSLR, spent a lovely couple of hours trekking round the sanctuary following the clues to form a final word to take to the craft room in order to collect Grace’s chocolate prize.
On the way round there were plenty of colourful sights and many of the animals were basking in the warm spring sunshine.
We stopped to share a cream tea and saw a swallows nest under the eaves of the roof of the tea shop. We were also joined by a cheeky chicken cleaning up the crumbs under our feet.
This looks like a wonderful day, and what great pictures you captured. Thanks for linking up to #PointShoot x
Thank you , we had a great time x
It looks like you had a great day. Your pictures are just stunning, I love the last one, with the water splashing
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We really did. Thank you so much Elena x
Amazing place, I love visiting animals so calming X #pointshoot
You are so right 🙂 x
What beautiful photos from a lovely looking farm (and I get to see Mr Fluffy Foot Cockerel again!) I am intrigued to know what bird is in the swallow’s nest as it isn’t a swallow – a quick Google search reveals that it might be a female house sparrow! Many thanks for joining in with #AnimalTales and also popping by from #pointshoot
Thank you Rosie. It is such a lovely place to go. I thought that might be the case – thank you for verifying it for me 🙂 A pleasure and thanks for hosting x
… and I saw my first swallows today 🙂
Lopve all your photos but that Bunny is the cutest! So fluffy. I want to take him home! #PointShoot
Thank you so much Merlinda. He is very cute 🙂
fluffy pigs, whatever next, looks like a wonderful place to spend the day with your daughter, i’d however be happy enough visiting on my own
I know! We were surprised when we saw them 🙂 I would definitely go back on my own 🙂 x
You’ve taken great action shots. #PointShoot
Thank you Helena 🙂
Looks like a nice place and a fun way to spend the day.
It is a beautiful place Jenny. We shall definitely go back 🙂
Some georgeous farm photos, you have a great knack of capturing the animals. the piggy one is fab.
Thank you so much Fiona 🙂 They are starting to become my favourite subject matter.
Lovely captures, especially of the two goats head butting each other 🙂 x #animaltales
Thank you Dean 🙂 x