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Capturing the Lake District and beyond through the changing seasons.
📍Northern Lake District, Cumbria
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Heres some Alpine Bartsia (Bartsia alpina) from today too!
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Willow Warbler singing away this morning 😍🌞😍🌞
One of my favourite little birds and a real sign that spring is properly here!
(Photo of a Wood Anemone)
Our House Martins are back!!! 😍
Relief and delight.
Welcome home little friends
Lesser Celandines. Carpets of them!
A few Cowslips, Primula veris, now out in our meadow, right on time for this week's #wildflowerhour!
#LakeDistrict #Haymeadow
A couple of #tinyplants for this week's wildflower hour from yesterday's visit to Farleton Knott in South Cumbria...
Thyme-leaved Sandwort (Arenaria serpyllifolia) and Mountain Melick (Melica nutans)
#Wildflowerhour #Wildflowers #Botany
Oh. My. Word. WE HAVE DONE IT! 🥳🎉
In 2020 we worked with Natural England to carry out a green hay transfer from Sandybeck Meadow SSSI & SAC onto the Loweswater meadows, with an ultimate target being to get Greater Butterfly Orchid established.
Today, was the day I found the first one!!
Beautiful Early Marsh-orchids, Dactylorhoza incarnata, in all their glory in Upper Teesdale this afternoon.
Just perfect for this week's #WildFlowerHour #OrchidChallenge
Many of our hedgerow-verges are laden with Water Avens, Geum rivale in this part of the #LakeDistrict, which are just coming into flower now.
Here it is on our own little stretch of verge!
#WildflowerHour #HedgerowChallenge
Near-threatened in Britain (<15 sites), so buzzing to find bird’s-foot sedge (Carex ornithopoda) on this limestone pavement in Cumbria!
These pavements take 1000s of years to form as rain cuts deep cracks, creating niches for rare wildlife - this sedge being one of them 😍🌱
