A second visit to the valley of the bone caves brought more mountain avens in flower - although plenty of buds promised an even better show to come.
Greger was trying out the camera in his new smartphone.
Going back down, we were stopped in our tracks by the rapid bubbling call of a female cuckoo. We never located it, so perhaps it had been flying over. Two male cuckoos had been calling for much of our walk and one was seen flying above the bone caves. The "puddle" in the picture below was a dry hole full of tumbled boulders and sand on our last visit; but we've had an enormous amount of rain since then and a spring somewhere below has come to life and sent water surging down to join the stream to the left. Behind me, that stream dries up; so it's this spring and several others below it that supply the rushing river and waterfall seen lower down the valley.
Further on we spotted a dipper.
A male and a female grey wagtail were busy fly-catching over the water, and swallows and sand martins were swooping. Four ravens were mooching about, and we saw a meadow pipit and a wheatear. The rain kept off for our walk but it was still pretty windy and also fairly cold.
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