Lintzgarth Fell

Beautiful display of cotton grass this year. After nesting season we completed several fence repairs and put markers on the new fencing to stop birds flying into top wire. The volunteer bird ringer from the BTO came over to ring the five young barn owls. All five had nearly adult faces and were in good health.

Maintenance work started on the bothy which hopefully will be finished in the autumn. Several new scrapes were dug to provide birds with water when the ground dries out. We monitored the reseeding site and found a good spread of reseeded heather growing, plenty with buds, together with bent grass, sphagnum moss and cotton grass, both narrow and broad leaved.

We found evidence of heather being eaten by either black or red grouse which is very encouraging. Lovely to hear and see curlew and lapwing with young, snipe, black grouse and grey partridge with young and plenty of oyster catcher. The skylark at Lintzgarth are very special.

2020-08-28