Ground very wet again but found some dry days. Everything looking very autumnal with beautiful bronzes and golds on the trees in the ghyl. The next 150 metre wall repair has been completed, a good job has been done.
The difference in ground level makes the wall lower on the top side where stock might gather. We can put some wall top wire on to reduce any damage to the new wall. Access track very churned up. Grazier has moved the cattle and most of the sheep and just put a few ewes out with a tup in the large section beyond the ruin for a few weeks.
Five bullfinches flighted over up the tree line. They are not common up here so it was good to see them. Saw woodcock, snipe, grouse and hares. A stonechat was down near the ghyl and a little owl at the ruin. Lots of snipe, twenty maybe, on one piece of wet. A large whisp must have dropped in to feed. Holly in the ghyl covered in berries, a good feed for fieldfares and other berry eaters when they find them.
2020-12-30