
![]() A millennium ago, my parents and i were staying at a quiet farm in Seatoller and we walked to Watendlath. I was twelve and, in today’s hot sun, I wished I had the resilience of my girlhood self to slog up from Rosthwaite to Brund Fell and Joppelty How through high-summer bracken. One summer there was a drought and I remember our farmhouse garden looking distressed. But this was before the impact of Climate Change, we didn’t have the extreme heat of summer 2022 and when you’re twelve it’s fine.
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![]() Our hopes are high. The date is right and a warm and humid morning with blue sky and bright cloud should favour butterflies. Days of unsettled weather and intermittent showers see flowers tall and fresh. Here is a window of opportunity, with rain to return later in the day. There is rain all night and the next morning is wet and windy so butterflies will be unable to fly and feed. For a few fine hours they dance on the fringe of sunlit woodland glades, flickering against shadows. And seeking nectar from drifts of hemp agrimony and knapweed. |
AuthorJan Wiltshire is a nature writer living in Cumbria. She also explores islands and coast and the wildlife experience. (See Home and My Books.) Categories
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