Thursday 28th April 2011
The weather has been too good to stop at home so we've been out in our local countryside soaking up the Spring. Yesterday we spent sometime on the top of Pendle Hill looking for the Dotterels that drop in and feed on route to the Cairngorms in Scotland but saw nothing but there has been some filmed a few days previous.
Today we've walked the moors in Bronte country around Haworth, we heard our first Cuckoo of the year and saw dozens of Green Hairstreak Butterflies on the heather and billberry, the billberry is going to give a bumper crop this year.
Yesterday on Pendle Hill looking N.E. to the Yorkshire Dales
Downham one of Lancashires prettiest villages
Pennine countryside around Howorth
Flying the flag for tomorrows royal wedding
On route for Top Withens the farmhouse and tree on the skyline, this was the farmhouse associated with Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Top Withens amongst the moorland billberry
The young billberries, it's going to be a bumper crop this year
Top Withens
Green Hairstreak
Still a good show of Daffs because of the higher altitude
Bluebells and Pink Purslane down one of the many wooded cloughs
One of the many old bridges which straddle the steams
The weather has been too good to stop at home so we've been out in our local countryside soaking up the Spring. Yesterday we spent sometime on the top of Pendle Hill looking for the Dotterels that drop in and feed on route to the Cairngorms in Scotland but saw nothing but there has been some filmed a few days previous.
Today we've walked the moors in Bronte country around Haworth, we heard our first Cuckoo of the year and saw dozens of Green Hairstreak Butterflies on the heather and billberry, the billberry is going to give a bumper crop this year.
There seem to be a lot of Green Hairstreaks around this year...I think they must be enjoying the good weather too:)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs, David. I especially like the daffodils.
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