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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.
You will see from the Home Page that I'm working on the theme of Islands and Coast.  At the moment, The Outer Hebrides which I visited in 2005, 2006 and in 2015.  I shall  present journals from all three trips, juxtaposing  specific locations and habitat. Photographs will all be from 2015.  Back in 2005 I was still taking prints. But I've kept journals for years, so I  have all those.  And I'm talking through the early trips with my companions, including my friend Nigel Maxwell. I'm grateful to him for the loan of his late wife Jane's diary.  In 2006 we watched red-necked phalarope which I've also seen in Shetland in 2011 with a trip to Fetlar and the Mires of Funzie but I have no images. I hope to review a disc of a trip to Svalbard in 2006 where we saw them well on tundra pools. Will there be images?
Journals are on the day and of the day. Written as soon as possible afterwards to capture immediacy and the essence of the experience.  At first, I write for myself- my own record. Returning to them, I hope to retain the original freshness  whilst giving information which clarifies and develops the themes of  natural history and agriculture of the Outer Hebrides, and their geography.
You'll find them by clicking on July 2015 in the archives to the right of this page.
Kendal Flood Risk Management Update from the Environment Agency.  18 February,  the EA are beside the RIver Kent meeting the public, with maps, leaflets and a team of specialists hoping to reassure us that their plan (if it is adopted in time to secure EU money) is essential to address flood risk but will seek to minimize impact on the River Kent SSSI.  I was told that where riverside trees are felled more will be replanted,  young trees but not whips - more trees than currently  so the transpiration effect of foliage will compensate in giving out oxygen- a vital role of trees.  And that they hope to plant native trees. 
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