Out & About …

… on the North York Moors, or wherever I happen to be.

  • Easby Moor

    Easby Moor

    Easby Moor and Captain Cook’s Monument viewed from Aireyholme lane. Ayton Banks Farm is in the foreground. The crags on the left are the disused sandstone quarry on Cockshaw Hill. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Fusedale

    Fusedale

    A new dale bagged. I’ve never been in Fusedale before, Not counting Howtown, of course, the hamlet at the foot of the dale on the shore of Ullswater. Fusedale’s sheep show no fear and never moved as I passed, just continued chewing, Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Angle Tarn Pikes

    Angle Tarn Pikes

    From Deepdale. The valley of Patterdale and the busy A592 hidden. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Greenside Mines

    Greenside Mines

    At Glenridding in the Lake District. A fine example of what man has done to the planet. Looking down Swart Beck through which would have stood the main mining complex. The green “field” on the left is the mining spoil, nicely reclaimed by still contaminated with arsenic and other heavy metals half a century after…

  • Standing stone in Bransdale

    Standing stone in Bransdale

    An isolated standing stone in the middle of a small field. Could quite well be the exact centre. Unmarked on the map. I don’t think it’s an old gatepost, quite wide with no holes or ironmongery. So a bit of a mystery. At High Lidmoor in Bransdale. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Husband and wife trees

    Husband and wife trees

    Thirteen years ago in February, we had snow and I was fascinated by a pair of intertwined beech saplings. Over the years one tree has dominated and has perhaps doubled in circumference whereas the subservient tree, if that is the right term, as hardly grown at all. The two trees have grafted together. The layers…

  • Spring lambs

    Spring lambs

    Rain, rain and more rain. So as it’s that time of the year I just had to resort to a photo cliché. Along the lane up from Fletcher’s Farm, Little Ayton. Open Space Web-Map builder Code

  • Eagle Owl

    Eagle Owl

    This beauty has been around since mid-February and has made one of the region’s major climbing crags its home. It is a Eurasian Eagle Owl and is normally resident in Scandinavia and Southern Europe although it is estimated that between 12 and 40 pairs nest in the UK. It feeds on small mammals and birds…

  • Bransdale

    Bransdale

    A pair of Scots Pines in Bransdale. Scots pines are the only truly native pines in Britain although the tree was believed to have become extinct in England about 300–400 years ago so these two are the result of re-introductions possibly self-seedlings from the nearby Barker Plantation on Groat Hill. It is only in Scotland,…

  • Nesting time on the moors again

    Nesting time on the moors again

    They are still burning on the moors. Several people have commented to me that they did not think burning was allowed at this time of the year. Surely it is nesting time? Well yes, burning can still take place, until the 15th April, and yes, it is nesting time. The normal time that burning in…

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