Saturday 26 June 2010

Me and the family have just got back from a lovely 6 mile walk around Lower Swaledale outside Richmond underneath the Willances Leap monument stuck up on the valley top. We saw three buzzards soaring away and it looked like a parent buzzard and two young ones. When we went through the woods there were amazing amounts of fungi straddled along long logs right from little small fungi to the same type but much bigger. About a kilometre along the wood we saw what I thought at first was a well scavenged hare but my wife pointed out that it was a very young deer possibly only a few days old. It had been picked almost entirely clean and it is the first time I had ever seen a dead young deer in Swaledale in my life. A nice walk and I am also looking forward to Star Trek and some maths this evening.