Here's looking at you

A walk up the Dunsop Valley. Three farms ahead - all the land here is owned by United Utilities, as water is taken from the catchment for the benefit of Lancashire..

The sounds that accompany this picture - lambs bleating in the meadow below, curlews trilling, oystercatchers piping, and a meadow pipit's rise and fall song accompanying its rise and fall courtship flight. 

A good day - it began to feel like spring at last.

We saw our first swallow today. But as they say, one swallow does not make a .............