PhotoDiary :: Editing diary entry 46

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Content Off to Charterhouse, not to take photos but to have a picnic and listen to the skylarks. Skylark numbers are declining in the UK but we know that there are several nesting pairs up at the very far edge of Charterhouse. It was a glorious day and the skylarks were singing their hearts out. This nearby spoil heap has been colonised by a very striking colony of biting stonecrop. The view is across the "gruffy ground" section of Charterhouse and shows how the old opencast mine workings have returned to nature. A hundred and fifty years ago, this would have been an industrial site, now it is busy with wildflowers and animals. The yellow flowers growing in the grass in the foreground are birdsfoot trefoil and yellow rock rose. A detailed photo of that area would also reveal the pinks and purples of thyme and marjoram and the blues of speedwell and milkwort. Between the rabbit warren in the gruffy ground and the rabbit warren in the far ridge is a level area of long grass where the skylarks sing and the rabbits play. Sounds too idyllic to be true but happily that's not the case. Enter the content of the posting
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Biting Stonecrop spoil heap

Gruffy ground