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For as long as I can remember I've had a love of natural history, especially birds.
So many of the things we see, the experiences we taste, are but a fleeting moment, there to be treasured, but all too often flying away to rest only in our memories. I'm trying to improve my photography so that it too can try and capture some of those moments. As I look at the WAB gallery, I'll have to let my admiration lead to aspiration, not desparation. In the meantime, I can jot down a few experiences and thoughts by way of a blog - nothing too profound, just what it says on the tin... my miscellaneous musings. Thanks for taking the time to have a look and please feel free to leave any comments.
Jonners
So many of the things we see, the experiences we taste, are but a fleeting moment, there to be treasured, but all too often flying away to rest only in our memories. I'm trying to improve my photography so that it too can try and capture some of those moments. As I look at the WAB gallery, I'll have to let my admiration lead to aspiration, not desparation. In the meantime, I can jot down a few experiences and thoughts by way of a blog - nothing too profound, just what it says on the tin... my miscellaneous musings. Thanks for taking the time to have a look and please feel free to leave any comments.
Jonners
School Holidays 8 - Yorkshire day 6
Posted 14-09-2009 at 12:23 AM by Jonners
Thursday 13th
Michael recommended a lovely walk at Sandsend to us as we chatted with him in the morning, so we set off after lunch, again across the moors. We stopped on Beacon Hill, by Lealholm Moor, and soon found ourselves on a wild Grouse chase. There was a small party of Grouse which didn’t seem too bothered by us getting really quite close, literally almost on top of them on a couple of occasions.
After a while the Grouse lost us, but by then Aaron had found a beautiful green coloured lizard. It was in pristine condition with wonderful markings and colouration both above and below.
Next it was the turn of caterpillars to grab the attention, with three different sorts being found, including a couple of lovely Emperor Moth specimens.
A small Copper Butterfly put in a brief appearance along with some rather large Hover Flies and a Mid Day Fly, as well as one or two Small Heath Butterflies. We then headed on across Lealholm Moor along a very rough track, seeing plenty of Cotton Grass, and several more Grouse along the way, before eventually wending our way to Sandsend. The tea room was too busy to serve us a take away cup of tea, so we headed to the beach, but as the tide was already coming in we made our way round to the rocks at the foot of the cliffs. The boys spent a couple of hours happily searching for fossils, finding quite a few along the way, and also discovering some very large Woodlouse-like creatures secreted away in a damp crack in the cliffs. They were about an inch and a half long, but very quick and definitely not wanting to venture out. A few Fulmars would occasionally come and wheel about above our stretch of cliffs, appearing to try and dislodge the few pigeons that had installed themselves there.
A couple of Oystercatchers, several Black-headed Gulls and the usual Herring Gulls were the only other birds I saw. We were all hungry by the time we left and so we stopped at Cross Butts Restaurant just outside Whitby for a delicious, if rather expensive evening meal before heading on home.
Michael recommended a lovely walk at Sandsend to us as we chatted with him in the morning, so we set off after lunch, again across the moors. We stopped on Beacon Hill, by Lealholm Moor, and soon found ourselves on a wild Grouse chase. There was a small party of Grouse which didn’t seem too bothered by us getting really quite close, literally almost on top of them on a couple of occasions.
After a while the Grouse lost us, but by then Aaron had found a beautiful green coloured lizard. It was in pristine condition with wonderful markings and colouration both above and below.
Next it was the turn of caterpillars to grab the attention, with three different sorts being found, including a couple of lovely Emperor Moth specimens.
A small Copper Butterfly put in a brief appearance along with some rather large Hover Flies and a Mid Day Fly, as well as one or two Small Heath Butterflies. We then headed on across Lealholm Moor along a very rough track, seeing plenty of Cotton Grass, and several more Grouse along the way, before eventually wending our way to Sandsend. The tea room was too busy to serve us a take away cup of tea, so we headed to the beach, but as the tide was already coming in we made our way round to the rocks at the foot of the cliffs. The boys spent a couple of hours happily searching for fossils, finding quite a few along the way, and also discovering some very large Woodlouse-like creatures secreted away in a damp crack in the cliffs. They were about an inch and a half long, but very quick and definitely not wanting to venture out. A few Fulmars would occasionally come and wheel about above our stretch of cliffs, appearing to try and dislodge the few pigeons that had installed themselves there.
A couple of Oystercatchers, several Black-headed Gulls and the usual Herring Gulls were the only other birds I saw. We were all hungry by the time we left and so we stopped at Cross Butts Restaurant just outside Whitby for a delicious, if rather expensive evening meal before heading on home.
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