Sunlit grasshopper Cumbria Wildlife Trust reminds us that the stridulations of grasshoppers are the sound of summer. This one was silent as it settled in bright sunshine on a chunk of limestone.
I've noticed that there are days when few butterflies are on the wing but still the grasshopper chorus is loud in the grass. It's unusual to see one so well and the rock makes a perfect foil.
Beautiful weather for the Bank Holiday and the last days of August. So my theme is sunlight and shadow. Shadow-play over the fells to the west. The Langdale Pikes are always a focal point and all morning they are sunlit and shadowed, by turns.
I've noticed that there are days when few butterflies are on the wing but still the grasshopper chorus is loud in the grass. It's unusual to see one so well and the rock makes a perfect foil.
Beautiful weather for the Bank Holiday and the last days of August. So my theme is sunlight and shadow. Shadow-play over the fells to the west. The Langdale Pikes are always a focal point and all morning they are sunlit and shadowed, by turns.
30 August.
A flock of linnet in the top of an ash.
All morning, sunlight and shadows played over the fells.
I found a spot where I was surrounded by autumn gentians, mauve and white.
A flock of linnet in the top of an ash.
All morning, sunlight and shadows played over the fells.
I found a spot where I was surrounded by autumn gentians, mauve and white.
Tortoiseshell butterflies nectaring on hawkweed. Sloes ripening in the sun, on limestone clitter.
Fungi on tree roots.
Fungi on tree roots.
1st September. A beautiful day, warm and bright. Tortoiseshell butterflies. And a grasshopper posed on a sunlit rock.
Linnet and goldfinch flocks.
Linnet and goldfinch flocks.
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