Lawyers Wig found in Dalton Crags
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
One Swan preening and one Swan asleep on Lancelot
One Swan is asleep whilst the other prunes herself
"He sleeps so deep!
She preens with care
and now their immortal in love"
I found these beauties at the top of Lancelot Clark Storth on 27th June 2012
Straightaway I noticed the one at the front was having a sleep, the profile of the head and neck look good to me.
At first I had not properly noticed the one at the rear was actually preening herself with her head bent over and tucked down between her feathers!
Its a lovely area just were they are and closeby to them I find the rare Carex ornithopodia (Birds Foot Sedge), and also several Epipactis atrorubens and E. helleborines.
Smoked sunbeams at Arnside Knott
Smoked Sunbeams at Arnside Knott
This photo which I use has my header for the "I Love Arnside and Silverdale" blogsite. It is also used on a feature poster for the Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre at Tullie House Museum at Carlisle for their mobile displays (see photo below).
By a stroke of luck one day whilst heading through Arnside Knott, I quickly became aware of foresters coppicing and burning wood, but the extroadinary thing was that the wind must have just been in the right place at the right time, subsequently bringing a horizontal flow of smoke which caught the sunbeams and gave them the blue haze which you see in the photo.
You would be surprised just how many folk have asked how did I get the sunbeams to show so prominently, when they have tried time and time again without any satisfied results, well you now know - you do need to have the magical ingredient falling into the sunbeam!!
You would be surprised just how many folk have asked how did I get the sunbeams to show so prominently, when they have tried time and time again without any satisfied results, well you now know - you do need to have the magical ingredient falling into the sunbeam!!
Banner for Cumbria biodiversity Data Centre
On show at the entrance to the Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
(Recorders conferance)
Cumbria's CBDC Banner
Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre
Cumbria CBDC stand at Westmorland Show Aug 15th 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2020
Elephantitus or Pigaroo
A lovely nobbly tree which lies within woodland on Lancelot Clark Storth. You notice it when you are particularly interested in finding the rare Polypodium cambricum (Southern Polypody)
"Elephantiatis or Piggaroo"
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