A walk through a wide variety of habitats on a chilly spring afternoon.
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Wood Anemone |
From the church we first walked across the bridge to look at some unusual flowers in a flooded woodland.
The flowers turned out to be a species of Leucojum, probably Spring Snowflake - a garden escape.
Next we walked up the hill along the ancient green lane where we found a number of early spring flowers including some lovely Wood Anemones. |
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Reaching the top of the hill we had a quick look at the sarsen stone and then continued along the ridge through an area of heathland.
A male Stonechat appeared on some Gorse but its attendant Dartford Warbler was nowhere to be seen.
At the end of this track was a very strange sight - a mobile phone mast in the shape of a plastic tree! |
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The plastic tree |
| The last section of the walk took us through a very varied hillside woodland. One of the best sightings here was a Minotaur Beetle which had fallen down a Badger Hole! |