Day: 16 August 2018

Big skies and white clouds over Bridestones Moor, a unique area of heather moor. Unique in that it has not been intensively managed for the red grouse. Neither burnt nor grazed by voracious sheep. Mature ling dominates but in wetter patches, cross-leaved heath heather and, hare’s-tail and common cottongrasses thrive. On drier parts, bilberry, cowberry…