2 amazing summer interns and 1 incredibly tenacious MSc student set out to survey 40 of the incredibly beautiful, bleak, remote Kielder Mires this summer. Bursaries from Natural England enabled this, and NE worked with us to try to establish a link between quality of the bogs as determined by the vegetation, with that derived using satellite image techniques. The interns found muscles they never knew existed as they plodged through the deep heather and bouncy Sphagnum. They were rewarded on their last day with the carnivorous plant, Drosera anglica (great sundew) – which we don’t see around these parts that much.  I only have a screenshot of it.