This is one of many virtual tours of Cumbria Wildlife Trust nature reserves on which I have collaborated. An excellent way of exploring and interacting with a reserve. This can prepare you for visiting in person or replace the experience if it is not possible for you to visit. You can choose what order you wish to explore the points of interest. I get tremendous enjoyment from putting these tours together.
I believe this is the furthest I have travelled to create a virtual tour, driving right to the top of Cumbria to CWTt’s Drumburgh Moss Nature Reserve. I had not visited previously, unlike many of the others I have done, and so it was an exciting journey around the site and along the boardwalks, looking for the points of interest suitable to be included in the tour. The aerial view clearly shows how flat the landscape is in the part of the county. The mountains of the Lake District are far off in the distance to the South, and the Solway Firth not so far away to the North.
Luckily, the time of year was right for me to observe the star attraction at a secret location on the reserve – White-faced darter dragonflies. In fact, on the day I visited volunteers arrived to do the annual count to see how the species is fairing following its reintroduction. The hope is that at some point in the future they will be common across he whole site, and I can add them to this tour!