On the moors, a few pics.

[dogs-n-natives 1,181]

Pic below, is looking down on Carlisle. And the solway firth.

Pic below is my dream home!!!!

Looking down to Alston

And today, SNOW!!

[Gooner 143]

Beautiful scenery and good photos mate.

Like the new house

[Les Becassines 0]

That is some beautiful country with the open rolling hills. Where I live it is heavily forested and considerably flatter. What all might you encounter while out in an area like that?

 

Skip

[scent 509]

lovely pictures pal is it just me or is that house lob sided

[dogs-n-natives 1,181]

That is some beautiful country with the open rolling hills. Where I live it is heavily forested and considerably flatter. What all might you encounter while out in an area like that?

 

Skip

Its nice when the weather is good, but can soon change into nasty stuff....

 

Heaps of grouse (red)!! Loads of rabbits around the moor, hares are in good numbers, and roe deer are also up there. Other game birds including golden plover, snipe, woodcock, black grouse, the odd pheasant and grey partridge.

[Les Becassines 0]

Thank you for that information. I believe the majority of our snipe live in wetter areas than they do there, and because of that it is unlikely that excluding waterfowl I will see any other legal game species while out hunting them. They claim that golden plover migrate through this area but if they do I have never seen one in thirty years of pounding these marshes. They haven't been legal game in the U.S. in nearly seventy years. We do have one member of the plover family that I see regularly, the killdeer, but as with all shorebirds other than snipe they are not legal game. I am looking forward to my first hunt of the year as my snipe season opens tomorrow. A tropical storm a couple of months ago dropped 26" of rain over a two day period and the mud flats that were prime habitat for the last four seasons are now under 4'-5' of water. Still, with perseverance I should be able to at least get a shot at a bird or two.

 

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[dogs-n-natives 1,181]

Thank you for that information. I believe the majority of our snipe live in wetter areas than they do there, and because of that it is unlikely that excluding waterfowl I will see any other legal game species while out hunting them. They claim that golden plover migrate through this area but if they do I have never seen one in thirty years of pounding these marshes. They haven't been legal game in the U.S. in nearly seventy years. We do have one member of the plover family that I see regularly, the killdeer, but as with all shorebirds other than snipe they are not legal game. I am looking forward to my first hunt of the year as my snipe season opens tomorrow. A tropical storm a couple of months ago dropped 26" of rain over a two day period and the mud flats that were prime habitat for the last four seasons are now under 4'-5' of water. Still, with perseverance I should be able to at least get a shot at a bird or two.

 

Skip

Trust me, those hills are wet! boggy ground all over the place! but yeah, snipe over here can be found in even the smallest of wet patches!

[lone wolf 0]

beautiful scenery great pictures mate well done.