Each Day Different

Farmland or moorland can't compete for diversity and daily interest with land going wild. There is rarely a day without a talking point. That's not the same as everything being just right with nothing to irritate and complain about. The midges, the wet bracken and the penetrating wind on the edge of the woods are all part of the mix. But when the accounts are drawn up at the end of any year the balance is indisputable. Today was not promising with a cold and unwelcoming feel to the weather and a typically August wet bracken experience.
To cheer us up was a family of swallows gathered on a small dead rowan.

And another view explaining why the secret places are so vital.

Once Blacka Moor was given to the people of Sheffield in 1933 it ceased to be managed as a grouse moor and management of vegetation became minimal or absent entirely:

AMONG THE SPIN-OFFS FROM THIS WERE

MORE TREES.
MORE DIVERSITY OF VIEWS
MORE MYSTERY
MANY SECRET PLACES
AUTUMN COLOURING PAR EXCELLENCE
EXUBERANT SPRING BLOSSOM

AN EXPLOSION OF SPRING BIRDSONG
A BETTER HOME FOR WILD MAMMALS
THE HAPPY RETURN OF WILD RED DEER
SURPRISE AND UNPREDICTABILITY
EACH DAY DIFFERENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
BETTER BILBERRIES etc.

UNLIKE A GROUSE MOOR