The Lake District, Day 7

Sadly our last morning, but, unusually for us, we were up and away early.  We normally find it difficult to drag ourselves away but today's plan was to drive over Tan Hill and Grinton Moor to photograph curlew and lapwings.  When Thomas and I had biked over here on the C2C I had been impressed with the numbers of birds displaying up here and had long harboured a wish to try to photograph them.  In the event I was delighted to capture images of golden plover and red grouse too.

When we had climbed high up onto Tan Hill, Heather took over the driving so that I could photograph from the co-pilot's seat.  The method is to drive as slowly as possible over the moors stopping when birds are spotted close enough for photography.  This works well as the birds do not recognise a car as threatening and it works well as a hide.  We were delighted too to see curlew, lapwing and red grouse with small chicks.  What a delight as was tea and stickies in Reeth.

What a great week.  Roll on June 10th.

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