Paying Court

There are, I suppose, really only two places on t'Moor I absolutely have to get to every year without fail.

And I've already been to Wild Tor.

There's a shanty of which I can only recall a brief section, but it always comes to mind when I'm heading that way.

Anyways, the Northwest passage is also a peat pass - probably the only even slightly famous one - and it does indeed go northwest, across Cut Hill, and you take it going from Postbridge to this place;

Fur Tor

All blue skies and green grass and so unlike that New Year's Eve..

:)

You know the way by now, so here are a few pics of this, that, and the other.

The waterfall

In laid-back

Summer mode

Enclosures of differing ages

Bronze Age burial

Spot the archaeology

;)

Flies! Flies!

Beautiful Demoiselle

Small Heath

Big caterpillar!

[Emperor Moth?]

Garden Chafer

Some beetle not in my books

Round-leaved Sundew

English Stonecrop

Wrong sort of Merlin

[dammit]

Oh, birds?

Ok.

Only Wheatear of the day

I blame to cold N wind.

Redpoll gathering wool!

with a friend.

Why do all my Mistle Thrush

photos suck so much?

I almost had the place to myself, too.

Be Seeing You...

Bitty Post

Right then, where to begin?

Oh yeah, clickbait;

"Drr yrr mhnnd??"

Not hiding well enough

Harpactea hombergi?

English Stonecrop

I'd taken an afternoon wander up to Buckland Beacon, which has a fair view, as you'd expect from the name.

Though the place is probably more famous for these;

I'd like to have seen 

Charleton Heston toting these.

The Ten Commandments Stone.

[Yes, your eyes do not deceive, there are two stones. No, it hasn't been split. Yes, that's the official name.]

Ahem.

Nearby, stones of a little more history,

Looking over a

newtake wall to

one a bit older,

Which itself may just

be a repurpose?

Hmm.

Not been there in an age, it was rather nice.

Be Seeing You...

Just Keep Scrolling...

Yep, another moth post, oh dear oh dear...

Lime-speck Pug

[Yup, it's literally-]

Green Pug

At least a nice photo

this time

Lozotaenia forsterana

Small Dusty Wave

First little wave of the year...

I'm blaming the cold nights. I hope.

Treble Brown Spot

[Yes, yes, I know]

A few of these about, and indeterminate pugs aside, the only moths on the wing in any numbers here. I found three in one morning.

Yeah.

Maybe they're saving up my moff points for a MDJ / CSP double for me?

Oh, stop laughing...

Be Seeing You...

More Kids.

The weather vexed me, but then I got a reward for staying in and doing nothing.

Behold and so on,

Hello there

"Now make sure you don't

peck the shiny bits"

Two juveniles!

"Right, I can do this"

Oi! Gerrof me herbs!

 

 Wing drying

 

Nape detail

"Blimmin' feeder hogs.."

"Tell me about it"

Yellow ones are the tastiest

Proper birding may follow.

Be Seeing You...