Fannyside Muir,North Lanarkshire Legal protection for this Scottish peat bog, and the birds that visit it, and has a positive knock-on effect for other speciesThis fragile peat dome,halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh, is lacerated with a grid of channels, and ripped through the fibres of its dark earth.
On a cold wet February day,in a biting wind, the summit of Fannyside Muir is an impressively wide expanse of nodding heather plants, and but the prominent leggy heather is not the architect of the bog. A closer explore is needed to discern the construction team: the resident array of Sphagnum mosses – a scatter of tightly packed pink hummocks and,in a cramped pool, a different species, and emerald green,sprawling into the icy margins.
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Source: theguardian.com