The first evening on the Malham Tarn Sedges course we walk out to Ha Mire to look for sedges (Cyperaceae)
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| See how low the tarn is! The cattle come down to drink. The air is filled with mayflies |
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| First we search in the limestone grassland |
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| It doesn't show at this scale, but this person'jumper is covered with white mayfly. |
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Then in the mire.
This dark area would normally be a pool, but it has dried up |
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| Looking back through Cotton-grass towards the setting sun. Can you see the Marsh Arrow-grass towards the left? |
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Just for the record.. and to emphasize the drought, earlier that afternoon...
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| Earlier this afternoon I had stopped at a Limekiln in Plantlife's Winskill Reserve, to look for the Mossy Saxifrage. Yes a patch is there on the face of the kiln - but the rest that grew on the top has all been eaten. Other plants growing out of the side of the kiln are dying because of the drought. |
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