Spent Monday around Temple Sowerby in the Eden Valley. Birds around the village included House Martins, Swallows and Swifts all hawking in the air together. The Martins had three nests on one of the houses, and were feeding well-grown young. Swa a Buzzard glide overhead, plus assorted House Sparrows, Robins and other common garden birds. Visited Ullswater, and went down the lake for a couple of miles. Few birds about except for some motely Mallards and a flock of 30 or so Greylag Geese in a lakesdie field.
Plants around the area included a single roadside Honeysuckle, a small patch of Poppies (with a few plants of a large, dark red flowered variety) and lots of Mugwort (and the ubiquitous Rose bay Willow Herb). Most remarkable though were the Campanula flowers along almost every roadside. I only know Campanula as a garden plant at home, but it is obviously very well naturalised in North Cumbria.