The Lake District was beautiful and absolutely teeming with flora and fauna. The wildlife highlight was seeing 2 red squirrels very close. It was hard to get decent pictures but you can see what they are...
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| having a scratch! |
We heard and saw loads of birds and it was nice to hear so many skylarks up in the hills. We were even treated to a close up appearance by one:
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| Skylark |
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| Redstart |
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| Curlew |
I have yet to work through some of my flora pictures to identify them but did discover this cool moorland plant up in the hilltops that looked like cottonwool on stems:
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| Hare's-tail cottongrass |
This damselfly was cruising around Derwent Water and I believe it may be a female Common Blue Damsefly. I had hoped that it might be a more rare species but I dont think so. It's probably best as there is a small chance that I may have accidently sat on it.
And...the large mammal highlight of the week was definitely this...yummy!
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| Keswick Cow Pie |
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