Another DofE, gold in the Lake District, as predicted, the weather was appalling
but the girls were surprisingly stoical in spite of it all, and thoroughly deserved their final ice-cream. It's funny how everyone dreams of chips&burgers after 2 days on meagre dehydrated rations, even those who normally go for a healthy diet.
Highlights were the best sighting ever of a red squirrel (see haiku), sitting sheltering on a fence post on the way into a campsite, I was driving so didn't have my camera handy, huge clusters of orchids, I thought they were common spotted, but some may have been heath spotted, hard to tell as they hybridise a bit promiscuously and vary hugely.
The site and rather small leaves suggest the latter. Hybrids are often large, like this one with my camera case for scale.
There were of course masses of carnivorous sundew, always a pleasure to find them. It shows the area in unspoilt by pollution and "improvement" by drainage.
The feathery friends have long cottoned on to tourists, and lost their fear, much to my advantage.
This last one looked as though he's been DofEing too!
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old copper sunbeams
threatened anxioustwitch tuftears
proper red native
the middle bird looks like he had too many post d of e burgers!
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