Trimming the Rhododendrons in my Keswick garden now the flowering season has passed. But as well as plenty of flowers there was plenty of growth, obscuring a bird feeder both aeronautically and visually.
Hand pruning doesn’t seem to upset the birds for long. The local tits were back on the feeder within half an hour and, due to the trimming, I could watch and hear them clearly while taking a break in the shed.
Midsummer sunset doesn’t come early in Cumbria, tonight’s was well past 2145, the sky will never be fully dark, then sunrise will be just after 0430. Binoculars showed there were people watching the sun set from the summits of Latrigg and Skiddaw.
Latrigg (368 m.)
Sunset over Bassenthwaite, Carl Side (746 m.) and slopes of Skiddaw (931 m.) on right