... while some on the higher ground were still feeding young in the nest ...
... and in those upland areas with no tree within several hundred meters a Willow Warbler sang and fed from the heather ...
... on Brown Fell a rocky hollow with scattered boulders amid the expanse of heather moorland provided nice habitat for Wheatears ...
... the Lapwings in a stony field on the flank of Byers Pike were alert as always to any passer by ...
... probably suffering from the dry baked ground ... but there are winners and losers from this unusually dry spring and the Common Gulls on the tarn have a safe nesting place ... as long as the water levels remain stable ( a rare event ! ) ...
... we built this island a few summers ago but much of the time there is nothing to see of it above the water surface ...
... the local Buzzards were looking unusually tatty ... but good to see them in numbers ...
... then heading along the Gairs Track towards Geltsdale proper a Grasshopper Warbler reeled from a bed of rushes ... a little further along past the Neuk Wall and as another one reeled, it was just visible on a distant fence post ...
... and then the first Whinchat song came from the same gully ... distant again as it perched on a section of wall ...
... a Pied Flycatcher sang from near the Gelt at Low Hynam and Wood Warblers were in full song as they flew and glided from perch to perch ...and then one of the many Cuckoos perched up in full view on a tree top ...
