Eco Lodges in Devon
Here are a few birdwatching ideas for people with very limited mobility who might be staying with us at Wheatland Farm’s eco lodges. Of course, there’s plenty to see from your veranda too – but sometimes we all like to go exploring.
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It’s not properly February until the frogspawn turns up in Wheatland Farm’s ponds. As normal, we’ve first spotted it in the lodge field pond – on the 5th, though it could have been laid earlier.
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We’re thrilled to find Wheatland Farm listed this morning in a Guardian Top Ten list of eco friendly places to stay in Europe.
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During the summer months, one of the nicest places to swim in Devon is Chagford’s Open Air Swimming Pool, on Dartmoor.
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Thanks to Wheatland Farm guest Nicola Clarke for sending us these lovely images of a fox cub that ‘came out to explore’ right outside Honeysuckle Lodge.
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#30DaysWild no 30. At Wheatland Farm we’ve been easing off the path mowing just for a week or so, and here’s the result – clover lawns around the eco lodges that the bees are loving.
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#30DaysWild no 29. The tree bumblebee nest at Beech Lodge is still going strong, with bees coming and going and doing their own thing.
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#30DaysWild no 28 Ian has been trimming the ivy cladding on the Otter Cottage.
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#30DaysWild no 27. We’re appreciating small beauties, like these rosy sycamore seeds, framing Beech Lodge in the background.
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#30DaysWild no. 26 Euan has been mowing at the Winkleigh community trees again.
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#30DaysWild no 25. We’re taking a moment to enjoy the view from Honeysuckle Eco Lodge while we get it ready for this weekend’s guests. And we’re enjoying the visitors to the bird feeder too.
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#30DaysWild no. 24: The frog / toad exodus from the Wheatland Farm wildlife pond is in full swing!
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#30DaysWild no 23: The sparrows are learning to hover so they can get at the suspended feeders at Wheatland Farm!
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#30DaysWild no 22. With the sunshine coming back at Wheatland Farm, so are the butterflies, like this Painted Lady.
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#30DaysWild no. 21. Ian joined the Okehampton Running Club’s solstice run, to see in the dawn.
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#30DaysWild no 20. At Wheatland Farm sometimes we don’t get around to weeding the patio…
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#30DaysWild no 19: We think of toads as living at the Wheatland Farm wildlife pond, but often we find them a long way from water.
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#30DaysWild no 18. The Great Spotted Woodpecker has brought its baby to the Wheatland Farm bird feeders. Here’s a clip of the adult collecting some food and taking it to feed the young bird waiting in the relative safety of the vegetation.
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#30DaysWild no 17: Our favourite Wheatland Farm robin seems to have finally raised a family.
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How exciting! #30DaysWild no 16, the Devon dragonfly recorder confirms that this beautiful beast, which we found yesterday, is a Scarce Chaser, and is the first record for the North Devon region.
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30DaysWild no 15: this Golden Ringed Dragonfly, resting in the turbine field at Wheatland Farm, let us get close enough to take pictures with a mobile phone.
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#30DaysWild no 14. Does checking on the cows by drone count?
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#30DaysWild no 13 this startlingly green spider was spotted on stonework as we hung up the acres of washing from our eco lodge ‘change over’ day. Small is beautiful – if a little creepy. Or at least creepy crawly.
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#30DaysWild no 12. Ian’s wild moment today was a fell run across the north moor above Meldon reservoir, Dartmoor.
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#30DaysWild no 11. Higher Punchardon Farm has brought us some cows to graze at Wheatland Farm for the summer. Here’s a clip of them coming out of the trailer to explore the meadow where the turbine is.
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#30DaysWild no 10. Today our moment of wildness fitted in with a covid jab. While waiting the obligatory 15 mins post jab, Maggie enjoyed the ‘weeds’ at Crediton leisure centre.
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#30DaysWild no. 9. This moth, which settled on the doorstep of Balebarn Eco Lodge, blends in almost perfectly with it’s surroundings, and looking it up is our ‘do something wild’ action for the day.
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#30DaysWild no. 8. We are delighted to have found a patch of southern marsh orchids in full bloom.
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#30DaysWild no 7. We’re taking a moment to stop and appreciate the yellow flag irises that are in full bloom at the wildlife pond below Balebarn Eco Lodge – and also the creatures that live among them….
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#30DaysWild No 6. We found this long horn beetle climbing up the window. So we looked it up before letting it fly off.
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