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Kidsty Pike from Mardale Banks on our Mountain Leader course the other day.

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Learning a new-to-me song. The Ghost of Tom Joad by The Boss.

#music #learnguitar #beginnersinger #beginnermusician

Writing today. Always better with an eclectic soundtrack...

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We tend to not feed the birds during the summer, but as we head into the colder months there are roving flocks of delinquent juvenile birds moving around looking for something to eat. So, I've just filled a couple of seed feeders. Within two minutes....

Doesn't take them long.

Just in from a lovely day out on the fells, guiding long-time client and friend Richard, with Nick and Julia up Gowbarrow.

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#wainwrights
#lakedistrict

Clouds rolling over High Street yesterday.

#walkingthewainwrights #lakedistrict #fareasternfells

Well, that's another very successful day and night on the hill. We have a brand new Mountain Leader in our midst! A massive Congratulations to Ed for pulling it all together on his ML reassessment. A brilliant result.

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Hardly any breeze on the hill today, but the lovely aspen (Populus tremula - the 'tremulous poplar' or 'trembling poplar') just couldn't stop itself from having a little shimmy!

Lovely colours on the hill this afternoon. Nice to see a few yellows still hanging on with the flowers - yellow saxifrage, ladies mantle and bog asphodel, but the pink of the roseroot leaves and the quaking shimmery-ness of the aspen stole the show!

A couple of places have become available on our Mountain Leader assessment courses this autumn. These courses were full, and it would be great to get them full again. Please let your ML trainee friends know.

Thanks.

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Black grouse breed on North York Moors for first time since 1840s A special project involved relocating birds to be resettled in the area, where they have now nested.

BBC News - Black grouse breed on North York Moors for first time since 1840s - BBC News
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Our Mountain Leader availability for the rest of the year...

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Image of two Turtle Doves perching on branches over water, one leans down to take a drink. Wording to the left reads: Wild Bird Indicators. For populations in the UK and England, 1970 to 2024. Out now!

1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️

Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology

Storms clearing over Fairfield and St. Sunday Crag yesterday. #fairfield #wainwrights #lakedistrict

A lovely low rainbow after the deluge today below Boredale Hause.

#lakedistrict #wainwrights #wainwrightbagging #walkingthewainwrights #rainbow

Smiles and hugs in the rain today from our very happy candidate Ginette who got a well deserved Pass on her Hill and Moorland Leader. Massive congratulations Ginette from all the team at Graham Uney Mountaineering!

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Excellent. Me too.

A view from Sphinx Ridge on The Napes. Which Wainwrights do you recognise in this photo?

#walkingthewainwrights #wainwrights #walking #lakedistrict

And Sergeant Man!

That's good going! Does that include Scafell Pike just off to the right? And the one I'm standing on?

How many Wainwrights do you recognise in this photo from Great Gable, taken on our way down on Tuesday?

#walking #wainwrights #walkingthewainwrights

Good to be back working on Great Gable yesterday, guiding Alan and Sean on a link up of classic scrambles. Threading the Needle, Sphinx Ridge and Pinnacle Ridge. A brilliant day of mountaineering.

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#lakedistrict #mountaineering #scrambling #greatgable

Sadly, I've just deleted my 'beaver' post from France. I made a mistake in my enthusiasm. Turns out they were coypu. Sorry folks. But thanks to @ursus-spelaeus.bsky.social for correcting me.

Ah! Forgot all about coypu! DOH! I think you're right. Thanks! 😀

Les Diablerets today.

#suisse #switzerland #mountains

#fingerpostfriday A few from today's walk around the Tour de l'Argentine in Switzerland.

Before I start posting a load of dull landscape photos from the Tour de l'Argentine today 🤣🤣🤣 here are a few other beauties I saw today. One of them I'd never even heard of before today, and there were hundreds of them. Can you guess which?

Chalkhill Blue.
Damon Blue.
Clouded Yellow.
Wart-biter.

And another nice haul of Swiss flora and fauna today on Mont d'Or. Mountain Avens. False Medlar (aka Dwarf Whitebeam). Transalpine Burnet Moth on a Masterwort. Daphne berries.

#wildflowers #nature #flora #fauna #suisse #switzerland #vaud #prealpes