Thread by @TLWforCumbria

Today started with a bang on the window.
Yellow feathers still looping & drifting in the air.
One of the fledglings I’ve enjoyed watching ‘learn the ropes’ this month. A goldfinch.
It flipped over & when I gathered it up, watched me with one eye.

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As it warmed up in my hands, and came round from being stunned, it calmly alternated between watching me and nodding off. I left it safe, warm, with food, water and a way back out if it felt better.

Then headed off to the meadows.

I’d meant to visit Hannah Hauxwell’s farm for years. Not sure I used official roads...got there in the end. Hannah who?
A farmer who farmed traditionally until the 1980s.
With no running water or mains electricity for most her life.
Her meadows are cared for by @durhamwildlife

Then to Bowlees where they kindly asks for donations for parking rather than the restrictive tenner asked for where I’m from.
Veteran Juniper, gatepost bilberries, stories in stone and Heartsease...

I kept thinking about the goldfinch though.

Exceptional flowers, wading birds, and one of the most diverse sets of visitors I’ve ever seen, walking to High Force in the rain. Young couples, all ages, many ethnicities. All smiling.

Interesting signs of our times.

Steamed the car up with our first fish & chips for 4 months

When we got home, I went to check...
The goldfinch’s den was undisturbed.
It had eaten well.
Left me something.
And gone.

Every little kindness helps.
Try your best for wildlife.
Involve others.
Who knows?
Might help.