Day: 16 September 2019
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White-throated dipper, Great Langdale Beck
Watched this little fellow for a while. Cinclus cinclus is its scientific name. Fairly common but elusive and delightful to see. A very busy bird, diving into the beck in search of invertebrate larvae and returning to the stone to eat. Open Space Web-Map builder Code
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Langdale Pikes
A view across Great Langdale to the Langdale Pikes. The tallest point on the Left is Pike of Stickle. Just to the right of this pike is a scree run at the top of which the archaeologists tell us was the site of the stone age Langdale axe industry. Axes of the Greenstone rock have…