After a nice stroll about Yarner, we decided to do a little more the next day and take some supplies with us, to make more of an afternoon of it.
The forecast was less helpful, but after it was much sunnier than forecast the day before, you had to wonder...??
It - of course - decided to rain, drizzle, mizzle, and oh yes blow a bit too. Rather warm, very humid, the odd burst of brightness serving to lure you to take your coat off so the next rain band could have more chance of soggifying you...
Needless to say, this didn't stop us.
We're frickin' locals. Rain is the default weather setting and we expect nothing less. Especially during school holidays!
[It also works as handy grockle repellent.. :D ]
Proper Deb'n Summer!
We walked the White Wood loop, stopping at a nice point overlooking the Dart gorge for coffee and ginger cake :D
While we were sat there - enjoying being out of all but the odd drip - we were treated to parties of Swallows and House Martins - sometimes coming right under the canopy of the trees sheltering us - as well as a pleasingly large band of juvenile Siskin [8++] and a flyby juvie Mistle Thrush.
Speaking of birds, Summer migrants still in the area included Redstart, Garden and Willow Warblers, and Tree Pipit.
Dartmoor woodland..
:D
Few butterflies in evidence up high, but in shelter lots of assorted insects on the wing, sadly including a Horsefly.. Sadly for it, as it chose me for lunch and lost the ensuing single combat. RIP
Ahem.
Nothing like a little damp weather to help the fungi come out;
Slender Brittlegill
[plus very old Parasol sp.]
Dung Roundhead
[on deers' leavings]
Ashen Knight
Oilslick Brittlegill
[slightly munched!]
Up on the Moor proper;
Heathers :)
Very pretty.
Despite and indeed partially because of the weather, we had a lovely time.
Be Seeing You...
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