Across the River Breamish
The river moves, but it follows a path. When it tires of one journey, it rubs through some rock to forge a new way. Hard work, but that’s its nature.
Kekla Magoon
Cotton Grass
Cotton grass at Beanley Wood
I’d mentioned recently that the dominant yellows of early Spring were now being accompanied by reds, blues and whites in the valley. Well, other than the currently flowering hawthorn, if you want to see carpets of white you may need to climb a little higher and onto the heath land.
Stonechat
Stonechat at Harthope
Yipee! Since the UK Government’s easing of the ‘once-a-day exercise’ guidance I took the opportunity to make a visit to our sister valley: Harthope Valley. And, like the Breamish Valley, it currently looks stunning with the drifting mounds of yellow gorse:
The Red, White and Blue
Red, white and blue in the Dene
Early Spring in the Breamish Valley seems to be dominated by yellow: great stretches of coconut-smelling gorse follow the course of the River Breamish and now it’s showing up in the flower heads of the oil seed rape in the fields around us.
But other colours are now beginning to participate: reds, whites and blues in particular are now easy to spot.
County Councillor Report (May-Jun 2020)
County Councillor Report
May-June 2020
by Wendy Pattison
wendy.pattison@northumberland.gov.uk – Tel. 07779 983072
And now on Facebook: Cllr Wendy Pattison
All Pylon
Pylon works
Prior to Wednesday 13 May, when I was still doing my once-a-day exercise, I was still walking or cycling the same routes as I had the previous few weeks of the UK Lockdown. And, always attempting to see something new in the landscape to photograph – to offset that Groundhog Day feeling – I happened to see these chaps working on the pylons that pass through the Breamish Valley.
Some Little Birds
Little Birds in the Breamish Valley
Having been looking up and not failing to notice the larger long-legged herons and the bulky greylags flying over the Breamish Valley, I thought it was time to champion some little birds.
Artful Lamb
Artful lamb in the Breamish Valley
Stretch of the Imagination
Stretch of the imagination
idiom:
Enlarging one’s imagination, forcing oneself to conceive of something beyond normal limits.
Stretches of gorse along the Breamish
I Love Greylags, Me!
Greylags in the valley
Weighing in at 1.5 kg more than a grey heron, it’s the greylag. This bird is the largest goose native to the UK. They are a fairly common sight on the fields along the Breamish Valley and can be seen at both Branton Lakes Nature Reserve and the Hedgeley Lakes.