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Doctors Pond in the Snow
Black & White

Snow, Snow, Snow…

So it snowed all night in Dunmow and we all woke up to the first snow of the winter. Here’s how Doctors Pond looked like this morning

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Sunrise over Great Dunmow
Doctors Pond

Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow at Sunrise

Wow – what a day – very nearly missed posting today, what with getting home from work to find one of our cats was very poorly and having to take him first to our local vets in Dunmow and then to the emergency vet in Saffron Walden…then rushing back to

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Swans on Doctors Pond
Birds

Doctors Pond Swans

A family of swans is in residence on Doctors Pond in Dunmow at the moment. The adult and five signets are very tame and, as soon as they saw me, approached me to be fed…sadly for them I had nothing for them, it is clear though that they are being

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Duelling Geese on Doctors Pond in Great Dunmow
Birds

Canada Geese On Doctors Pond 2

You may recall our last post about the Canada Geese that frequent the Doctors Pond here in Dunmow, and I mentioned they liked to have a good go at each other. Well, here’s a good example taken earlier this year.

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Doctors Pond great Dunmow At Night
Doctors Pond

The Doctors Pond, Dunmow At Night

I drove out to the supermarket last night and on the way I noticed the setting moon which looked fantastic, so I rushed home, got the camera out, dashed out only to find it had set. Not to worry, I wandered around Doctors Pond as it got dark and gave

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Doctors Pond, Great Dunmow
Doctors Pond

Cat causes an early rise

Saturday night I joked with my wife that I really needed to be up at the crack of dawn to catch the sun rise, especially in view of the good weather we’re having, we agreed, there was no chance I’d get up at 5.00am to catch it…clearly the cat had

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.