Sunday 14 May 2017

Hanging Shaw ....Falcon Clints ....Cauldron Snout and Cow Green round walk.

It's always hard picking the day to travel over to Teesdale to do this splendid walk - about 13 miles in total, Well today was the day and despite a keen breeze it was superb. The views splendid - the river Tees that beautiful bright blue and the flowers were all out: spring gentians; bird's-eye primrose and alpine bartsia. Peewits were displaying and protecting young as were the grouse. We had a lovely encounter with a female red grouse defending her chicks and spotted black grouse on the way home. A pint at the Langdon Beck Hotel once again completed a perfect day. I was so privileged, although it might not have felt it at the time, to have lived in Upper Teesdale for the couple of years that I did.

Cow Green - bottom left - in need of some rain! 

Black grouse bottom left - red grouse on the right. 

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