African Savannah? No...over-grazed Hervey NNR!

This bare dry landscape would not be out of place in a drought stricken African plain.  However, it is a very over-grazed Hervey Reserve, part of the Whitbarrow NNR.  No place for creatures to hide, therefore very few creatures.  Well, the scrawny birch trees look picturesque?.....no, perhaps they just look scrawny.

4 km butterfly transect yielded 12 butterflies and one bumblebee.  Makes me wonder what wildlife is actually benefiting from the heavy grazing?  Ah yes, I remember... it is called a farmer!