Scout Scar: mist and cloudscapes

Burnbarrow Scar, left. Morecambe Bay in the distance

A hard overnight frost lingered in frost-pockets during the early morning.  Skylark sang and  when I reached Scout Scar escarpment I saw billowing mist  down in the Lyth Valley.  Clouds of drifting mist, rising from the floodwaters,  wreathed into the woods and elusive, dispersing and thickening once again.  Fascinating to watch, whether it makes interesting  photographs is for you to consider. 

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Atmosphere was the motif of my day. The mist which hovered about the Lyth Valley at sea-level with Morecambe Bay not far off. And low cloud which hugs the distant fells, their micro-climate.   Overhead, blue sky and patterns of cumulus cloud.    An atmosphere volatile, mobile and beautiful. 

Hazel catkins full of pollen on Helsington Barrows. I searched for female flowers and could find none.  But what a show hazel catkins make on the last day of February when the trees are bare.
Scots pine dark in the bright sun. Last summer's cones showed well and I could make out the two needles which are definitive of Scots Pine. Last spring, there were no flowers on the larch trees.  The larch show no signs of spring, so far. 

1st March and  I saw a hare on Scout Scar. The first I've seen here for some time.  Skylark singing. And stonechat calling and  showing signs of breeding.  Another warm and bright day. Variations on a theme of mist: today, a diffuse mist which lingered. 
Ten seconds of hare sighting.  Time to get my binoculars on the creature.  I tried to fix what I'd seen in my mind's eye, rerun the video, freeze-frame it to be sure of identification.  Hare is rare here.  Could it have been a fox? So the next day I went online to watch videos of both creatures running.  Hare for sure, the jizz was definitive.  In running, their gait is different. 
Hare confirmed. I met Roger who has walked here since boyhood. He saw a hare in the same spot a couple of weeks ago.