Ingleborough NNR

After Ling Gill we drove the short distance to Ingleborough NNR specifically to do the Ribblehead Quarry Walk. I was keen to see how a recently abandoned quarry was being recolonised.

The quarry bottom is being recolonised by plants and hollows have been created to collect water. I saw Oystercatcher and Redshank here. Ringed plover have also been recorded along with newts and dragonflies.

One of the pretty plants beginning to recolonise the quarry bottom. Don't know what it is.

And another one. I think this might be Birds-eye Primrose (Arrgh harrgh, Cap'n).

Now I know this one. It's Hart's-tongue Fern.

An arty shot of a weathered limestone clint. The fissures between the clints are known as grykes.