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Park End Moss and Scout Scar in record temperatures

24/2/2019

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PictureKendal Castle and mist over the river
After overnight rain the birch glistens as the early sun shimmers through rain drops.  The morning is still and bright.  Sunlit mist highlights the course of the River Kent.  We reckon there will be a temperature inversion over the Lyth Valley so we drive to Helsington Church in time to see Whitbarrow rising above the mist. South toward Morecambe Bay, a pall of sunlit mist.  How beautiful it is, and transient.  In the time it takes to put on our walking boots the white density of the mist is pierced by sunlight.


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Silver How and Loughrigg, signs of spring

21/2/2019

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PictureTarn at Loughrigg
The sound of beck and cascade in a Lake District landscape is a joy. Especially on a day after rain, when the sun shines. Today we had to wait until the afternoon but then the light was glorious.
Rain all day yesterday so the tarns were brim-full and overflowing, the pastures flooded at Pelter Bridge, Rydal.  A blustery wind, stony tracks awash, flowing like becks.   Silver How to Loughrigg, and then the sun shone forth.


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February nature notes

17/2/2019

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Aconites at Ingleborough Hall, Clapham
The display of snowdrops and aconites in the grounds of Ingleborough Hall, Clapham was stunning.  The day was a little hazy so photographs across limestone pavement were rather dark.  I heard my first skylark of the spring, and saw them - which was a delight. Skylark have not yet returned to Scout Scar, although Sunday morning was cold and blustery so it was hard to hear their tentative first song on arriving in their spring quarters.

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Leighton Moss robin and robin's pin cushion

6/2/2019

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Snipe well camouflaged at Leighton Moss, but  a helpful birder and his telescope discovered them for us.  Handsome as they come into breeding plumage.  Teal and tufted duck, marsh harrier beyond the reed beds.
Close and confiding, begging for food, a robin. 
Fringing the reed beds were alder trees heavy with catkins and a rose bush with several bedraggled clots of something fibrous that had been drenched, frozen and thawed through winter weather. What were they?


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