The stonechat parents are busy feeding their young on a glorious day in May. A cuckoo calls from across the Lyth Valley, but not on Scout Scar. Not today. He is guile and subterfuge.
Flowers come into bloom rapidly, yellow flowers. There's hoary rockrose, common rockrose, horse-shoe vetch and bird's-foot trefoil and a range of compositae with green beetles in the flower-head, as usual. The patterns of their petals, of stigma and stamens is fascinating, especially when sunlight pours through the flowers.
Flowers come into bloom rapidly, yellow flowers. There's hoary rockrose, common rockrose, horse-shoe vetch and bird's-foot trefoil and a range of compositae with green beetles in the flower-head, as usual. The patterns of their petals, of stigma and stamens is fascinating, especially when sunlight pours through the flowers.
Amongst the mature oak trees on Helsington Barrows there's one which spreads its boughs wide, giving a hiding place and a comfortable seat within. Supposing King Charles 11 were passing by. There are oak galls attached to its bark. Cumulus clouds shadow distant fells and echo the hawthorn blossom. Who needs to go abroad when we may come here, says someone walking her dog. The peace and beauty of the day is enough. Flying is for birds, avoid it and Save the Planet.
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