What we're waking up to in Upper Teesdale this morning.
We are viewing a house in the Eden Valley this afternoon so that means going up and over into Cumbria. Not leaving until noon, this is not forecast to last long, should be OK. #Snow #SemiAlpine #NPennines
I was dry stone walling for Neville yesterday. Not today, I'm going to Stanhope to show my DBS cert to NPNL so I can volunteer with the Young Archaeologists Club.
Following Saturday's info session, I'm hoping to get the area around here to survey breeding waders for the RSPB. I know the farmer's really well, it would be common sense. They have quite a few farms further away involved, near Dufton and in Allendale. Fingers crossed! #NPennines
On the way back from Marshes Gill, I counted about 70 Lapwing flying in the direction of Cow Green reservoir.
Eve heard a Curlew earlier in the day.
It's getting dark and, on my way to the byre, I've just heard a Snipe 'drumming' behind the house, then it went 'chip-er chip-er' a few times so I guess it could see me and was letting me know as it landed on the hill.
I'm taking this as a sign that the seasons are moving on and the dry stone walls are also calling to me. #Birds #NPennines
It's been grey here for (feels like) weeks now. There's a ferocious wind, with sleet. So bad, yesterday we went to Alston for some better weather!
These belties prove how useful a wall is up here.
Our search for a house includes Shropshire, there's a remote house there at less than half the altitude.
There's also a couple of abandoned lead mines close by, with a trust that needs people to look after them. Home from home. #NPennines #SemiAlpine
It's confirmed, we've had a white Xmas. So, not only Jersey then.
What I thought was frost is snow, as confirmed by remote cameras at Yad Moss, just over in Cumbria, which joins up with the fells here in Upper Teesdale. #SemiAlpine #NPennines
Good numbers (4) of black grouse hanging out here this morning. They've been grazing the shorter (sweeter?) grass and spent a lot of time just preening.
As boys do. #Birds #Teesdale #NPennines
Craig, nearest farmer neighbour, arrived in his tractor unannounced this morning and dropped this bag of logs into the yard, along with a Xmas card.
We just have the best neighbours here. #NPennines #grateful
It's quite still but cold so there's much low cloud and mist hanging in the valleys.
Cronkley Scar has 'rivers' of mist flowing from the top of the fell over into the Valley of the River Tees. Photo doesn't do the scene justice. #Teesdale #NPennines
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