Typical examples of North Pennines Moorland Habitat where we find the Brackencock nesting #Scolopax24
(Not for the faint hearted 😁) 🥾🙂🎯🍀

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekP
Pylon on the Pennines

Clouds of the Pennines #yorkshire

Female Red Grouse, North Pennines.

The Curlew is never out of earshot up on the North Pennines

Common Redshank on its lookout post. Probable nest in the pasture opposite. Taken from the car in the North Pennines.

A bit of lenticular cloudporn looking west towards the pennines just now.

Enjoyed watching this Barn Owl out hunting over the moorland, in the North Pennines at the weekend.

Just enough room for two...
A Belter find & image
Up the North Pennines... who'd have guessed 😉 #Scolopax24

Morning
Looking forward to another day in the North Pennines. 🥾🙂

Around 5 pairs of these wild & wary Mountain Blackbirds watched today, sharing their North Pennines gulley with Woodcock Stonechat Kestrel Dunnock Seo Dipper StockDove

A Barn Owl out hunting on moorland, in the North Pennines.

Spent the morning doing surveys high in the Pennines and saw some of the last breeding Twite in England.

Blackcock in flight from the North Pennines. Fast and direct over the road.

Here is to being the wrong side of the Pennines 🍻

Trail Cam footage of one of our North Pennines “Brackencock” settling back on the nest South Shields Birder North East Breeding Birds Alan william Gregory Tony McGuire NestingUpNorth susie white #Scolopax24

One of the best parts of this image is that you can clearly tell how the Pennines becomes a rain shield for the east of England, and why Manchester gets so much rain

What a lovely day 😊

A walk to #Riddlehamhope beckons 👍

North Pennines AONB

Further Trail Cam images, day & night, in a North Pennines garden #Scolopax24

On this day 4 years ago: 28/04/2020

How things have changed in 4 years! 😮
SK68 LZN & YJ62 FYB still in service at Stotts.
SN69 ZGB now at Oldham in Bee Network yellow, and SN12 AGY now over the Pennines at Halifax.

Stotts Buses (Oldham) Stagecoach Manchester First Manchester