![]() Another day of sunshine and torrential downpours. Spear Thistles growing at the edge of one of the fields of Barley between “The Travellers Rest” and Highfield Moss. |
![]() Young Meadow Grasshopper on Purple Moor Grass |
![]() Marsh Gentian protesting about the lack of sunshine. |
![]() The Liverpool – Manchester railway bisecting Highfield Moss. Hard to imagine that Stevenson’s Rocket travelled up and down here back in the 1830’s launching the era of the Steam Railways. |
![]() One of the 2 remaining pools of open water on Highfield Moss. In the foreground hopefully the carpet of Sphagnum Moss and Round-leaved Sundews can just about be made out. |
![]() One of the 150+ species of Sphagnum Moss. Probably Sphagnum recurvum |
![]() Round-leaved Sundew the most widespread of the 3 Sundews found in the UK |
![]() Cross leaved Heath |
![]() Field Pansy |