Gauber
Inglebrough
Site Details
Recorders: George Porton, Mark Sayers Distance: 2744 Walk time: 1.25 hrs
A dry limestone grassalnd site on the north face of Inglebrough
Sections:
S1 starts at New Bridge off Gauber road
S2 joins the path to Colts Park
S3 At Colt park across new Close following the contour and favours Small heath
S4 Descends onto Gauber High Pasture and then follows the contour has teh highest count particularly Small Heath
S5 dscends down Fell Close Rocks and counts are low on all species dowmn to S7
S6 descends down Sleights Pasture Rocks
S7 decends at the north tip of Inglebrough off Low Sleights Road across Ashes Shaw
Results: 2023:
A better year of recording and results on a par with 2021 but with trends which follow the county trends. The big losers on dry sites like this are Green-viened White and Small Heath as can be seen. In addition Peacock and Small Tortoiseshell as countywide took heavy loses after the very hot summer of 2002. The winners were largely migrant Red Admiral and quadrupling in Meadow Brown cancelling out the loses.
2021 results
Small Heath is very much the dominant species on the fells along with Green viened Whites.