I took Suki round Ing Bridge yesterday for the first time for a while. Recently we’ve all been a bit pre-occupied with getting the new Lodge, Troutbeck View, up and running, so it was good to get out even though it was a bit overcast. The hedgerows seem to have erupted since I was last there and there was a profusion of foxgloves, red campion and dog roses. I came across these on the bridle path up to the A592.
Flowers in Troutbeck
On the same stretch of road there were several trees covered in ghostly looking cobwebs.
Ermine Moth Cobweb
Whilst the effect is quite pretty – somewhere between candyfloss and the Adams family – it seems that these webs are caused by caterpillars of the ermine moth and that whole trees and hedgerows get destroyed by the little rascals.
Perhaps the most noticeable thing on the walk though was the lack of water. One of the rills that runs into Troutbeck and where Suki normally cools off was totaly dry. Troutbeck itself is trickling down with more gravel than water in some places. I know our guests are enjoying the lovely weather we have had over the last two months but we do need rain before long. Who’d have thought we’d have been complaining of not geting enough rain in the Lake district?
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