Encounters

It is heather season, both in its more natural heathland patchwork state like in this view, and in the grouse shooting monoculture of the higher moors on the horizon. 

I was working today, so just a short lunchtime walk along Moorside and through the Low Springs pastures. A few Wall  and a Common Blue were today’s butterfly highlights. A closish encounter with a hare, and a Sparrowhawk with what I took to be one fledged and one unfledged youngster were also nice encounters.