Nice one. Yes, it's not particularly special. Good luck.Originally Posted by Masham Man
Nice one. Yes, it's not particularly special. Good luck.
Cuckoos! The other week whilst staying with my parents, I was out on a bike ride round Arran with my old man and we heard a Cuckoo. My old man told me a story about how they heard Cuckoos on the Isle of Man when they were kids, but hadn't heard them for the last 40 years or so. Then a couple of days later whilst running through the castle grounds on the Goatfell race I heard another. Today I was out for a run at home and heard one! Also watched the numpties flying radio controlled gliders which really upset the nesting Perigrines.
2 curlews having a good song and dance on the lower slopes of Kinder today.
Probably the same fox den that Wharfee has been taking pictures of. Two foxes were out to begin with but only one when I got close enough to take a picture.
Do we do flowers here? Anyway, last night's run from Taddington - loads of Cowslips, Mountain Pansies, Early Purple Orchids. Also found a Riggweltered ewe (on its back) near Chee Dale. We thought it was dead at first, as it wasn't moving, then it moved its head a little. I just rolled it over, it jumped up and trotted off with its lamb following after. It had a massively bloated stomach - presumably they can't fart when upside down?
we should have a Today's Flower/Flora thread....I saw loads of cloudberry plants (thanks to IDP for his facebk photos) on Bleaklow at the weekend but thought they were strawberries!! I'm now better educated. A thread to post photos of unknown plants/flowers would be lovely.
As initiator of this thread yonks ago, I am very happy for flora spottings to be included too
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fuzzy pic of the close up, same flower in shady, grassy river bank....any ideas?
campion?
Probably Field Mouse-ear. It doesn't look right for white campion to me, & it's definitely not bladder campion. They're all related (pink family).
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