Dragonfly on the Muncaster Fell Round
So lucky again with the weather. We set off from Eskale Green Station, having waived to the passengers on the Eskdale miniature railway stream train - which passed as we were setting out.
What a beautiful walk this is - wooded plantations full of foxgloves and the wide green pastures of the Esk water-meadows lead to Muncaster Tarn - it looks to have been part of the Muncaster estate - and its beauty is just stunning - azure blue damsel flies with their almost translucent mates abound, the water is covered in a mass of water lilies - and then there’s the dragonflies - we sit on logs and eat our lunch while we watch these beauties, and the swallows circling and skimming the water.
I’ve identified this blip as a four spotted chaser, but if anyone knows any different I’d be glad to know. It also seems very ‘furry‘ - I’m wondering if that means it has just emerged, perhaps someone out there knows?
In the extra montage bottom right is a dragonfly exuvia on the bud of a water lily - I hadn’t seen it until looking at the photos, there’s also the damselflies, a grasshopper, a teeny tiny toad (I think), as well as the wild orchids.
On the return route we head up Muncaster Fell, summiting Hooker Crag at 757’ - it’s a tiddler compared to the Wainwrights but it has a glorious 360 view - of the coast, Eskdale, Miterdale and the Lakeland Fells - before meandering along the ridge then heading down.
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