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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 22:58:03 JST Helen Clayton
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Rubbish phone pic but can just about make out the fox in the middle of the mire in first photo and also paw tracks on the boardwalk.
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1. Photo of a Dartmoor mire, long light golden brown grasses in the foreground. In the middle distance, just to the right of a wooden waymark post, stands a red fox side on to the camera but blurred at this distance. There is a gorse bush speckled with yellow blossom behind to the right, and behind that a sparse hedge indicates the route of a stream. In the background is the dark brown slope of a tor, scattered with granite boulders and gorse, and dusted with snow.
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2. View across the same mire where the fox has vanished into the long brown tussocky grass. Dark tors stand out on the skyline against a blue sky mostly covered in white cloud. In the foreground a narrow wooden boardwalk spans a particularly boggy area, green with grass. Snow lies on the boards, marked only by the fox’s paw prints.
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  Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 22:58:04 JST Helen Clayton
  
  I was headed out to do the food shopping earlier but saw there’d been another dusting of snow on the moor and I had boots in the car so…
  I passed the sledging hordes on Haytor and went to my happy place, the solitude of Emsworthy Mire nature reserve. Only a smattering of the white stuff but still pretty.
  Not having my camera I obviously had the most magical wildlife encounters. Treecreepers, goldcrests and a beautiful fox!
  Now to food shopping, in my muddy jeans.
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  1. Photo of a stone barn with a red iron roof nestled between stands of veteran deciduous trees (sycamore and oak I think). In the foreground is an enclosure which in spring is a carpet of bluebells but is now dusted with snow. A half buried granite boulder and other smaller boulders lie in the centre. Behind the barn the moorland rises up to a granite tor on the skyline, the rocky slopes also dusted in snow. The sky is bright blue with fluffy white clouds, thickening on the left.
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