Wildlife in June

We are very fortunate to live where we do, but we also do our utmost to live in harmony with the wildlife around us and create a space where they can flourish. They pay us back in bucketloads.

Tawny Owl

Tawny Owl

Checking out the Hedgehog feeder

Great Crested Newt

The underside (this is alive)

We have at least 3 regularly visiting Hedgehogs

Not a very good shot - I didn't have much warning - a weasel on the steps

Sunset on Bowscale

We are in the middle of a heatwave, with temperatures reaching over 30'c regularly. Far too hot to be on the fells in that heat, and far too hot to take a mad spaniel anywhere much. We think an evening walk seems like a plan and then we think about sunset

Spur of the minute when to go and where to go. We decide on Bowscale via Bullfell Beck and leave the car somewhere around 8:20pm

Lovely soft evening light

She's pleased to be out, it's been way too hot for dogs just lately

Someone's got a good evening for a ride. That's Great Dunn Fell with the golf ball, over on the Pennines

Nearing the top

Carrock Fell

We got to the top around 10-15 minutes before the sun was due to set. Needless to say we hadn't seen a soul

It was magical being up there and seeing the sun fall below the horizon, but made even more special when we started on our route back to the car

We hadn't planned this bit, but a full moon was rising ahead of us as we walked back down

The light is beginning to fade

It's nearly 11pm now. No need for the head torches we are carrying, it's a beautiful clear moonlit night.

That is one experience neither of us will forget. By pure luck we had picked a perfect evening.

Haweswater with Mum

There's a drought on, so like all good tourists we take Mum down to see the remnants of the village of Mardale which was flooded to make Haweswater.

So all that way down a one way road, and the very next vehicle to arrive is our friends Keith and Wendy. We couldn't have planned it but neither of us had a clue the others were going!

This should be properly under water

As should this

The old road

Looking up the old road

Zooming in on Keith and Wendy as they walk along the bottom of Kidsty Pike

Mum stands on the bed of Haweswater - it's been dry for long enough for vegetation to start to grow.

The Weeping Window

Mum is staying with us and this coincides with the WW1 Memorial poppies being at Carlisle Castle. A very moving tribute to the hundred's of thousands who lost their lives in the war.