Hunting for heather

We arrived at the top of Claughton Moor, just as a huge rain shower approached, but the upside of this was an amazing rainbow (see extras). The morning was spent hunting for a suitable area of heather to be used as a seed source for a moorland restoration project, - it hardly felt like work in such beautiful surroundings (although I did moan a bit when one leg fell into a bog) with stunning views across to the Lake District.

In the afternoon we drove across to Birks Bank, on the edge of the Forest of Bowland, where we marvelled at the colourful swathes of heather and bilberry, a marriage of intense purple, vivid green and red, and I communed with a rather docile common lizard, who had found a sunny basking spot and wasn't going to vacate it even when a camera lens was thrust in her face (see extra).