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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2024 16:13:35 JST Helen Clayton

There haven’t been enough #SheepOfMastodon recently (imo) so here’s a pic from a walk the other week, while there were still a few chonky lambs about.
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1. A photo of sheep - two ewes each followed by a chonky lamb - walking in a crooked line away from the camera up a rough grassy slope. The sheep have long crinkly white fleeces and are probably rather hot in the summer sunshine. The sky up ahead, above the brow of the hill, is light and bright but with fluffy clouds.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 24-Jun-2024 06:26:02 JST Helen Clayton

Today I discovered that one of my robin frens is nesting in a bird box on the side of my garage, almost completely completely covered in honeysuckle. The box has been there 18 years and this is the first time it’s been used 🥹.

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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 07:04:19 JST Helen Clayton

And SHEEEPS, LAAAMBS! Some rather chonky lambs about now.
#SheepOfMastodon
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1. A photo of a ewe with her two chonky lambs. They’ve stopped in a line while clambering up a steep rock-strewn grass bank and mum and lamb number one are looking back at the camera. They have black faces (mum with a white blaze) and woolly white fleece. The sliver of sky above the bank is blue with a light veil of white cloud.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 16-Jun-2024 03:55:58 JST Helen Clayton

Meanwhile…back home with one of my robinfrens ❤️
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1. Photo of a European robin sitting on the toe of a grey trainer (attached to a bejeaned leg, only a bit of which is showing). The robin looks expectantly for non-existent mealworms. Overgrown shrubbery and the white-painted wall of a house in the background.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 00:22:24 JST Helen Clayton

#WaterfallWednesday
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1. Photo from a higher vantage point of a series of small waterfalls tumbling over granite boulders on a moorland stream. The lowest fall splits to flow over and around a large boulder. In high flows it probably spills over the full width. The falls end in a shallow pool, sheltered by a large willow tree. A lovely sun trap on a breezy day.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 06:26:18 JST Helen Clayton

It’s foal season on Dartmoor atm and they’re all adorable. I took many many photos!
#pony #DartmoorPonies
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1. A photo of two Dartmoor pony foals in the foreground and a mare further back. The foal nearest the camera is a glossy dark brown with black mane and tail. It has just got up from a rest and is having a stretch, one hind leg extended backwards as a ballet dancer doing an arabesque. The foal immediately behind it is tan and white with a dark mane and tail. Its head is pointed down to the ground. The mare grazing in the background is black and white. The moorland stretches on into the distance, bands of light and dark green as shadows of clouds play across it. The thin ribbon of sky across the top of the frame is a watery blue.
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2. Photo of the white and tan foal from previous photo, with the black and white mare still grazing behind. The foal is looking a little uncertainly towards the camera. Dark specks in the distance are cattle grazing the high moor.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:25:51 JST Helen Clayton

Just having our first proper dinner al fresco (beef fattoush) and Ned Flanders across the road gets out the petrol mower…at 6:50pm on a Sunday!!! 🤬

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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:24:41 JST Helen Clayton

I think this might be a small pearl-bordered fritillary.
It wasn’t going to let me get an open wing shot but the underwings are so pretty.
#butterflies #insects
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1. Photo of a small butterfly resting with wings closed, its feet gripping the stem of a grass. The underwings are like cloisonné - pale and dark orange, cream, and white panels outlined by dark veins. White ‘pearls’ border the edge of the hind wing showing. There are black dots within some of the orange panels. It has a furry orange-brown body and long, bobbly antennae. Blurred grass in the background.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 02:24:21 JST Helen Clayton

Bluebell season may be over but heath-spotted orchids are out at Emsworthy Mire.
#Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling
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1. Photo of a pale pink orchid flowering in a marsh, surrounded by grasses. The large lower lip of each flower (many flowers in a spike on a single stem) is freckled with darker pink/purple spots. The narrow, pointed green leaves at the base of the stem have dark spots on. The background is blurred. Cloudy skies over moorland marsh.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 02:24:02 JST Helen Clayton

Today’s walk from Comus to Montsegur was one of two halves.
The first was down and down through a valley, the sides gradually closing in as the path entered the Frau valley. It was bursting with birdsong and we bimbled along, soaking it in.
The second half was a brutal climb up through dense forest, slipping and sliding up paths slick with mud. It seemed to go on forever up. We were glad when Montsegur castle came into view.
#Walking #Occitanie
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Wednesday, 15-May-2024 18:24:45 JST Helen Clayton

From yesterday’s walk the biggest moth EVER! Ok the biggest moth in Europe maybe…the giant peacock moth. Difficult to get a clear photo without disturbing it - hand in one photo for scale!
#moth
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:11:43 JST Helen Clayton

A beautiful rose chafer beetle taking a moment to dry off after the rain.
#Insect #Beetle
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1. Photo of a large, iridescent emerald green and purple-bronze coloured beetle, resting on a dirty white painted wall. Fine hairs show around the edges of its wing cases. Bright leaves of marjoram creep over the top of the wall behind.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 25-Apr-2024 20:14:30 JST Helen Clayton
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@aliengasmask @trumpet this is my concern also.

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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 06:45:30 JST Helen Clayton
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- Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos
@JimsPhotos I love the song of a willow warbler. I know that better than a visual id. Beautiful photo.

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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 06:45:28 JST Helen Clayton
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- Jim Howard-Birt 🐦📸: Photos
@JimsPhotos the chiffchaff is like ‘SPRING’! And I absolutely love it for that. But after a while it’s just ‘oh another chiffchaff’. The willow warbler is much more musical. I’ve been listening out, but haven’t yet heard one this year.

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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 18:45:55 JST Helen Clayton

#SilentSunday
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1. A photo of a moorland landscape in changeable spring weather. Overlapping hillsides of rough grass in tones of green and brown stretch into the distance. Rain clouds are rolling in towards the camera, obscuring the far hills in a grey veil. The sun is just breaking through an opening in the clouds in the top right half of the frame, glinting off a small river that runs like a silver ribbon through the centre of the view. In the foreground, the land slopes gently down to the right to the valley bottom. Its uneven surface is a dense cover of fawn-brown tussocks, between which one could easily turn an ankle. An exposed grey granite boulder lies to the left. Beyond it the dark wobbly line of a drystone wall - the A-frame of a ladder stile halfway along - that demarcates greener, yet still rough, grazing scattered with darker green patches of heather and gorse. A cluster of trees is silhouetted against the skyline on the right, marking the site of a now ruined farmstead. The old stone clapper bridge leading to it crosses the river to the left of centre.
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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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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 Friday, 01-Mar-2024 06:36:09 JST Helen Clayton

Smarty pants squirrel 🐿️
The adjacent feeder can still hold onto its ‘squirrel-proof’ claim.
#NotABird
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1. Photo of a grey squirrel hanging upside down on a metal bird feeder pole, gripping a hook with one back foot and bracing another back foot against the pole. Possibly also using its tail for balance. It is reaching across to take sunflower seeds from a feeder. Another seed feeder next to it on the left is squirrel-proof with perches that drop under too much weight. There is a fat ball feeder on the right. Dark green conifer hedge behind and budding branches of a lilac tree.
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Helen Clayton (helenclayton@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Feb-2024 04:22:09 JST Helen Clayton

Came over in the great Twitter migration of November 2022 and have felt at home here ever since. A bit about me…
My work is in protecting and championing public rights of way and access for all to enjoy. An unusual fork in the path from a background in environmental science. Still passionate about both.
I love walking - exploring ancient ways and losing myself in nature.
Mainly sharing photos and musings about all these subjects, with maybe some home-baking thrown in.

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