A walk on the Moor.
Writing tagged: ‘heather’
8 September 2020
Seabird tornado, lizards, porpoises, and house martins.
20 August 2020
A walk on the Moor during 'peak purple'.
3 September 2019
Guillemots and gulls in action, and my favourite Anglesey walk.
12 August 2019
Spotted on the Moor this Inglorious Twelfth: hen harriers (0); red grouse (0); gamekeepers (1).
Where has all the heather gone?
The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch
Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.
Pleasures of August
August on the Dee Marshes and the Pennine Moors, including encounters with a bolshie pheasant, a practising peregrine, and a flirty wheatear.
Seeing purple
The Moor is at peak-purple at this time of year, with the heather in full bloom.