Cloud of Joy

Yellowhammer: Buttermere, Ashness. Nuthatch nest: Calfclose Bay. Ring Ouzel: Robinson, Blencathra. Woodcock: Latrigg. Bullfinch: Stable Hills. Buzzard: Brundholme, Great Wood. Golden Eagle: Haweswater. Swallows: Crosthwaite Church. Sand Martin and Oyster Catcher nests, River Derwent, Dancing Gate. Osprey: Dodd, Bassenthwaite Lake. Siskin: Whinlatter. Red Grouse with chicks: Great Calva. Skylark: (regularly) Back o’ Skidda. Pheasant: Lingholm. Short-eared Owl: St Margaret Church, Wythop Mill. Wheatear: everywhere. Blue Tit: nest box, Nora’s Nook, Keswick.

A memory cloud of joy.

In the twenty-first century we need to do more to protect them.