New Year Ramble

Over the holiday I have managed to get out for a walk on a few days - always the same one though. It's a circular walk round from the village, through the farm on the hill and back into the village again. Most times I have done it recently I have seen the barn owl which is nesting at the farm; so one morning I took the camera. Although I saw the owl again it was too far away and too fast for me to get a picture. So I took some others instead, and thought I would share them here.

Here we go along the lane towards Little Barugh, pausing to look across towards the moors...

...then in through the farm gate. Today, the gate was open, but if it is closed you can always use the stile instead.
Through the gate you can turn and look across the field to Little Barugh.

Walking along the track you get a good view of the trees which line the ridge. The walk itself takes you up the hill and down the other side, and of course, back up again at the end.

Once past the trees you come to the farm yard proper, where the owl lives.

It had flown off around the corner, but was gone by the time I got there...

so I went back down the other side of the hill, looking towards Habton...

and glancing across to the rest of the tree line which marks the climb back up again on the road.


It's not a long walk - about 40 minutes - but very pretty. I hope you enjoyed it too. Because it was about 9 o'clock the sun was still fairly low, so that's why there are silhouettes everywhere.