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Shores of Derwentwater, south of Friars Crag,
4.15 pm |
 As
we near Shap, along the motorway, what appears to be
a huge bird of prey wheels over the hills. Its wings are slightly tilted
upwards in a very shallow 'V'. I'm driving, so I don't see much of it,
but Barbara says there are no wing patches and we wonder if it might be
an eagle rather than a buzzard.
 In
a rather waterlogged wood near the lakeshore at Derwentwater,
two shallow-rooted trees have been blown over to leave a depression which
has become a shallow, weedy pond. In a small patch of open water between
the pondweeds, whirligig beetles are zuzzing about like
high-speed ice hockey players. They live on the surface film - part of
the eye looking beneath water, part above. 
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk
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