Ingleborough

A bit of a different post this week. It’s been very quiet in the parish but I have had a chance to visit my son who has been in lockdown.  He has recently been appointed as a warden at Ingleborough National Nature Reserve, this is his ‘office’

And this is some of his patch…

with some amazing landscapes. Limestone pavement...

and ancient almost Tolkienesque ash woods on the limestone…

and flowers with fields full of orchids including the scarce Small White…

And in the woods plants like Baneberry, Lily of the Valley, Bloody and Wood Cranesbills…

And down in the deep ‘grikes’ between the limestone slabs plants such as Herb Paris

Few birds to report other than seeing Ravens on the nest, a Barn Owl hunting the roadside, a handful of Cuckoos and this nesting Tree Pipit…

And pick of the invertebrates, because lack of sun kept the Pearl-bordered and Dark Green Fritillaries down, was this Latticed Heath moth…

I can see a few more visits coming up…