Thank you! And it was a wonderful surprise to see the two so close by each other

The upland heather moors in this area are mainly a landscape monoculture for grouse shooting, although curlew and golden plover amongst other birds that can commonly be found in the valleys and rough upland pastures especially.

It had been a great 12 months of Barn & Short Eared Owls, and then through to May 2024, but sadly since then numbers are much less … due to bad weather, greater competition, & sadly even human predation.

Thank you!

Thank you very much, so pleased that I could share the pleasure of seeing & photographing these beautiful owls in lovely light.

Thank you

Vielen Dank, ich weiß das zu schätzen!

You’re right, my brain cells not thinking!! Thanks for putting me right, appreciated

Thank you again for your help in identifying, and in the hashtag link to use. Appreciated.

Cheers … and thank goodness for Bluesky replacing the best of what used to be Twitter for helpful advice & communities. I’ll hopefully post tomorrow some more lichens found on leadmining stone waste heaps nearby to this clump, not far from Garrigil, Alston

Thank you very much for your really helpful identification … I hadn’t felt confident with some info online as IDing is clearly quite ‘technical’, so I’m pleased that you note that there are several different varieties there - it was an eye catching large patch of them near leadmining waste & stream