It was a bit of a last minute decision to spend the night in Middleton in
Teesdale last night, which today allowed us to have one of our favourite walks
along the River Tees from Forest in Teesdale towards the waterfall at Cauldron
Snout.
Unfortunately I couldn't find any spring gentian, I guess the unusually dry
and warm spring has caused them to flower a little earlier this year, but
still a decent showing of birds-eye primrose and plenty of other flowers to keep us entertained. I heard that the gentians are still flowering at higher altitude on Cronkly Scar and Widdybank Fell, but we didn't go that high today.
Best bird of the day was a male black grouse which we flushed from the side of
the footpath. Plenty of other birds including a variety of waders plus dipper, grey wagtail and willow warblers.
Bird's-eye primrose.
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