Gorse on Good Friday A hazy sunlight on Good Friday. Gorse where linnet nest is a blaze of colour. The birds often sing from slender trees in a thicket of gorse.
Redpoll fly over-head, calling. Meadow pipit in song flight will parachute down into the tussocks. Any time now the cuckoo should come, with luck.
Blue moor grass is in flower, around Easter time. A rare grass, i'ts prolific on Scout Scar limestone. Its flowers of purple- blue open fast in the warm weather.
Redpoll fly over-head, calling. Meadow pipit in song flight will parachute down into the tussocks. Any time now the cuckoo should come, with luck.
Blue moor grass is in flower, around Easter time. A rare grass, i'ts prolific on Scout Scar limestone. Its flowers of purple- blue open fast in the warm weather.
There are sprawling rafts of blackthorn and each comes into flower erratically,. On an exposed ridge some are in tight bud, another in full flower. Skylark are in full song and I follow their ascent into the haze until they are lost to sight, still singing. Once again, I hear lark-song that seems closer and I track the songster to a hawthorn. I reckon it's the same male I found singing in a tree two days ago.
For something wonderful whilst staying at home and protecting the NHS. Listen to the Dawn Chorus. This Easter week-end it has a quality you'll never hear again. Road traffic and air traffic is far quieter, so you hear the birds well. This morning, at 5.20 am there was a blackbird soloist and a chorus of small birds behind him. Like Edward Thomas' poem Adlestrop. His train pauses at a quiet station and he becomes aware of all the birds of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Retrospective note from 10 May. During lock-down, it is quieter, the air is cleaner. It is said pollution levels resemble those in the early 20th century. Road traffic levels are as in the 1950s but today's vehicle emissions are lower. We welcome cleaner air. Covid 19 meets Climate Change. The consequence of this pandemic make us see that lo we can meet Climate Chnage objectives- if we have the will.
On Scout Scar there is the sound of ambulances and each time we hear a siren we all wonder if it's a sufferer with Corona Virus being rushed to hospital. Looking out to Morecambe Bay, there's a wailing siren often heard. Lancaster Royal Infirmary is the hospital treating Covid 19 patients. You might think South Cumbria is relatively free of the infection. In fact, 10th May 2020, figures in The Guardian show that nationally figures here are high.
Retrospective note from 10 May. During lock-down, it is quieter, the air is cleaner. It is said pollution levels resemble those in the early 20th century. Road traffic levels are as in the 1950s but today's vehicle emissions are lower. We welcome cleaner air. Covid 19 meets Climate Change. The consequence of this pandemic make us see that lo we can meet Climate Chnage objectives- if we have the will.
On Scout Scar there is the sound of ambulances and each time we hear a siren we all wonder if it's a sufferer with Corona Virus being rushed to hospital. Looking out to Morecambe Bay, there's a wailing siren often heard. Lancaster Royal Infirmary is the hospital treating Covid 19 patients. You might think South Cumbria is relatively free of the infection. In fact, 10th May 2020, figures in The Guardian show that nationally figures here are high.
Blue Moor Grass is the earliest grass to flower. And huge bumble bees are attracted by high temperatures that release nectar and pollen. Blue Moor Grass tussocks show best against limestone, it's a short grass in April, its stems growing tall as the season advances. You'll find it growing in the anthills of the yellow meadow ant too. Skylark and blue moor grass: an Easter motif. I've spent many an hour sitting amongst the blue moor grass listening to skylark and scanning the blue to follow them in song flight.
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